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- 1st - 2nd
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Students perform a play about the early explorers to America. Full Review »
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- 5th - 6th
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Students use Microsoft Encarta and Web sites on the World Wide Web to research Ferdinand Magellan. They create a timeline of Magellan's voyages and life. They write sequential paragraphs based on the information included in the group timeline. Full Review »
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- 5th - 6th
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Students create a timeline of Magellan's life and voyages. They write paragraphs based on the timeline events. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students complete a unit on early explorers. They develop a timeline, sing a Viking song, watch a video, compile a checklist of supplies needed for an expedition, participate in a scavenger hunt, write a letter from Christopher Columbus, and create a brochure. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students create a PowerPoint presentation using computer technology from written reports they have completed about the impact slavery had on people of North America. Detailed instruction for building the PowerPoint are included in the lesson. Full Review »
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- 9th - 11th
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Students explore and produce notes for extemporaneous speeches and develop arguments. They research an explorer and develop and present an argument to include the explorer in a museum. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students describe that Earth is approximately spherical in shape. They also research Ferdinand Magellan's voyage around the world and describe how Magellan concluded that the Earth was not flat. Full Review »
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- 6th
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Students examine oral history traditions. They interview family members about their childhoods and compare them to their own. Students use the collected information to make posters, letters, essays, or poems about their research. Full Review »
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- 3rd
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This lesson would be an appropriate way to introduce students to a variety of explorers, create a reference (database) for future study, and at the same time allow them to practice research skills with a particular explorer. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students simulate galaxies by creating galaxy spinners. In their journals, they define terms and identify the three types of galaxies including names and diagrams. Once their spinners are completed, students darken the room and shine flashlights through the holes to observe a facsimile of the galaxies. Full Review »
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