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- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students apply their knowledge of rectangles to discover the area formula for parallelograms. Full Review »
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- 6th
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Students visit a number of websites to study early Mexican history. They create a three-page PowerPoint presentation and use the title pages to design a timeline. Full Review »
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- 8th
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Students research the origins of African-American Christian denominations in the United States focusing on important historical leaders in the fight for religious freedom. They complete reports comparing two denominations. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students examine potential energy and kinetic energy as forms of mechanical energy. They observe a pendulum demonstration, calculate the potential energy of the pendulum, predict how fast it will travel, and measure the speed of the pendulum. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students identify relationships among the properties of a circle. In the pre-assessment, students individually demonstrate their background knowledge by drawing, labeling and describing the parts of a circle. They use colored yarn to discover relationships between the parts. Full Review »
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- 6th
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Students investigate contributions made by the African American community. They watch and discuss the video "Understanding the Civil Rights Movement," complete a WebQuest on African American history, conduct Internet research, and complete a report and create a monument for the person they researched. Full Review »
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- 5th - 6th
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Like all of the Problem Solving units, this one aims to introduce students to the underlying ideas of mathematics through a problem. The problem here requires a knowledge of arithmetic and the use of some algebra. In this unit we see how a mathematical theory might develop through experimentation, conjecturing, proving, generalising and extending. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students gather information to create a wall of fame. Using the internet, they evaluate and collect information from numerous websites. They identify the characteristics and actions that make people famous. Using a timeline, they discover wher these famous people fit into the history of the world and share their information with the class. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students engage in a lesson that is associated with the development of plastic over the past century. They conduct research using a variety of resources focusing upon the innovations that were made in the field of engineering plastics. Full Review »
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- 7th - 8th
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Students review and analyze major topics presented by President Bush during his 2007 State of the Union Address. They generate research questions surrounding the president's claims and calls to action. Students research information that either supports or refutes the president's statements through questions they have developed. Full Review »
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