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- Grade Range
- 6th - 12th
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Students explore Web sites dedicated to Leap Day and leap years, create a checklist for reviewing Web sites, and write reviews of Leap Day and leap year Web sites. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students engage in an overview of solar and lunar calendars, their history and lore. Also, of the day and the month, and their relations to the rotation period of the Earth and the orbital period of the Moon. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students listen to an overview of solar and lunar calendars, their history and lore. They also discuss the history of days and months, and their relations to the rotation period of the Earth and the orbital period of the Moon. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students use a claendar to measure time. They are asked: What are some of the things they need to know to make a calendar? Students name the months of the year in order. They discuss how February has 28 days. Students put in peoples' birthdays for the month of February. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 8th
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Students investigate the regular motions of the sun, Earth and the moon and explain how these are related to days, years, seasons, eclipses, tides and moon cycles. They participate in an exercise where they explore the similarities and differences of these predictable motions. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 12th
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Students identify significant events that helped shaped 2006. Completing a news quiz, they discuss the importance and impact of each event mentioned. They create their own news quizzes to be used as a class. They create a poster predicting how an event may unfold throughout 2007. They write an essay at the end of the year noting the accuracy of their prediction. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 2nd
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Students examine the correct punctuation associated with writing dates. They discuss calendar dates that are important to them, and identify what needs to be capitalized. Next, they correct a list of dates, then explore a knuckle system for identifying which months have thirty-one days in them. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 12th
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Students brainstorm important scientific advancements of the twentieth century. They examine the implications of the completion of the first rough draft of the human genome on society. They research a selected scientific advancement of the past one hundred years to contribute to a class book and assemble individual and group research efforts into a complete and published chapter. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th - 8th
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Students examine a typical monthly calendar and learn the following facts: there are always 7 days in a week, several months have 30 days, several months have 31, and February has 28 exceprt during a leap year. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th - 8th
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Students research leap year being the unusual day that happens only once every 4 years. They answer twelve questions about leap year. Students set up their own imaginary leap year. Full Review »
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