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Students scale the evolution of the universe to a one year calendar, with the Big Bang occuring on the first moment of January 1st. They estimate where on this one year time line significant events in Earth's history should be placed.
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- 8th Grade
Students research Civil War events occurring during one month of the year, recording specific events and the dates on which they occurred. They list each event by month, day, and year on a one-month calendar of their own creation.
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- 5th - 8th Grade
Students place events in chronological order and use vocabulary related to time and chronology. They create a calendar and/or timeline and communicate with others by drawing visual representations of events that occurred in the past during the month of March.
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Students participate with a fun mathematical puzzle to play with their friends.They take any calendar and tell their friend to choose 4 days that form a square like the four below.
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- 7th - 8th Grade
Students identify ways to manage everyday stress. They participate in a class discussion about sources of stress, develop a list of ways to reduce stress, and create a "Chill-Out" calendar with daily ways to relieve their stress.
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- 9th - 10th Grade
Students analyze weather patterns across a two week time period and communicate their findings. They calculate relative humidity, dew point, precipitation, cloud formations, barometric pressure and submit the calendars, graphs, data chart, and analysis.
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- 6th - 8th Grade
Students become "Everyday Explorers" as they dig in, get dirty and comprehend more about the physical and biological world around them. They become hands-on scientists on a local level as they explore their schoolyard.
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- 6th - 8th Grade
Students conduct research on artifacts from the ancient civilizations of the Mayas, the Aztecs, or the Incas using both print and non-print resources. They create two-dimensional or three-dimensional representations of their artifacts and present their artifact to the remainder of the class without sharing its identity. Classmates play "20 Questions" in order to identify each others artifacts.
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- 6th - 12th Grade
Students create brochures and postcards that might have been created by and for travelers to ancient Mayan cities. They read and discuss the Times article, 'In Maya Ruins, Scholars See Evidence of Urban Sprawl.'
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- 3rd - 5th Grade
Students model the motions of the Earth-Moon-Sun system to explain moon phases; examine the relationship between the movement of the Earth and the illumination of the Moon; and explore selected Web sites to research the Moon phases and the Moon.
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