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- Grade Range
- 3rd - 12th
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Students use Internet and library resources to compose a telling time timeline -- a visual history of time. They develop research skills, gain perspective about telling time by discovering the history of clocks and time. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students replicate some of the trailblazing methods of Lewis and Clark on a fifteen-minute "writing journey" through the school or neighborhood. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 4th
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Students explore the evolution of time measurement, and explain the relationship of sunrise/sunset to length of daylight. They collect data and calculations to determine length of daylight during a given day. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th - 10th
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Students investigate time, how people measure it, and how it influences our lives. They complete an online Webquest, analyze various calendars, answer discussion questions, and identify references to time in a newspaper article. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students work together to estimate time while using a global positioning system. They discover how time is converted into distance. They examine the role of electrical and compuer engineers. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th - 8th
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Students research historic designs for keeping daily time, and brainstorm the design flaw of applying the motions in the Earth and Sun to use the sky as a clock. After research and discussion, students design, build, and test a sundial which can mark daily time accurately. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students research the use of time pieces through the ages. They design a timeline that shows the development of clocks for time telling. They work in small groups to develop a slide for a presentation which includes a graphics from a website. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th
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Students compare and contrast an informational article with a fictional story. They read the story "The Contest" as a class, and discuss the different types of literature genres. Next, they complete a vocabulary worksheet and a Venn diagram, and answer story comprehension questions. Full Review »
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- 6th
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Students compare and contrast a nonfiction article with a fictional story. They read and discuss the passages and complete a worksheet about occupations using information from the story. Students then complete a Venn diagram and write a paragraph comparing two characters. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students write a personal reflection. They explore how people from different times and different countries play. Students write in their journals about a time when they played a new game. They work in teams and each are given role in the team. Students brainstorm games that they could play. Full Review »
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