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A look at leadership. This Internet focused unit examines how people become leaders of groups, and how they exercise that leadership. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students read "Poppy" by Avi and then dissect an owl pellet. They complete a KWL chart and play vocabulary games to prepare for the dissection. They examine what the pellet can tell us about the owl's life. Full Review »
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- 2nd - 4th
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Students discuss what it means to be a veteran, general history of Memorial Day and why poppies are associated with remembering soldiers who died for America. They create red poppies as pencil toppers. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten
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Students participate in a variety of activities such as reading related literature, identifying symbols, and examining flags in order to reinforce the importance of patriotic symbols and how they represent our country or states. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students examine the inspiration for the John Mc Crae's poem, In Flanders Field. They study sonnets and the use of tetrameter before discussing is considered to be a sonnet although it does not follow the pattern. They discuss the meaning of poppies to VFW volunteers and why they give them out when they receive a donation. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students research the lives of two families living in Muncie, Indiana during the progressive era at turn of the 20th Century. Student areas of research include: changes in technology, various forms of leisure activities and recration and the work of several artists from the area. They will use their information to create a fictional story from the point of view of a child living during this era. Students will also create a watercolor painting in the style of the era. Full Review »
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- 8th
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Students find connections between numbers in a table; use Pythagoras' theorem in a general algebraic form; and measure accurately from a scale drawing to find a method that might enable the helicopter to land inside a rectangular region. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students decide on which approach to take to the presentation of a new language. They simply put the structure on the board and explain it. They create a situation and elicit the language when the need arises within the situation. They relate approaches to real life situations. Full Review »
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- 1st - 2nd
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Students engage in a lesson of emerging literacy that focuses on phonemic awareness. The phoneme for the letter "p" is chosen for the lesson and students must acquire the skill of letter recognition also. Full Review »
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- 5th - 10th
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Students develop a sense of the scale of our solar system by creating a one to ten billion scale model. They calculate the relative sizes and distances for the planets and asteroid belt using a guiding worksheet. To create the model they place traffic cones at the appropriate distances on a field or sidewalk and use food items such as poppy seeds and gum balls to represent each planet. Full Review »