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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.
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- 6th - 12th Grade
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.
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- 5th - 8th Grade
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.
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- Kindergarten Grade
Students recognize and read their birth date when it is written. They make a picture of a birthday soup bowl that includes the month, day and year of their birthday. Students memorize a poem.
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- 9th - 12th Grade
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.
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- 2nd Grade
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.
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- 6th - 12th Grade
Students consider significant events that shaped 2005 through The Learning Network's year-end news quiz, as well as through specific topic-based news quizzes. They make predictions for the beginning of 2006 and follow those news stories.
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- 6th - 12th Grade
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.
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- 8th Grade
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.
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- 4th Grade
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.
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