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Draw the Hands
A set of analog clock-faces (sans the hands) give learners nine opportunities to practice telling time. They draw in the minute and hour hands based on times written below each clock face. Times are either on the hour or the half-hour....
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Bridging Communication
Students investigate how to create drawings using a word processing program. They examine the use of draw tools in Microsoft Word. They combine drawing with the patterns they made for a truss bridge projects. They follow the teacher's...
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Photoshop for Fifth Graders: the Basics
Learners review the basic tools for Adobe Photoshop. In this Photoshop lesson, students choose a picture and discuss its properties. Learners use tools to see how pictures are altered. Students use layers to change their pictures.
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Big Green Monster
Students listen for the purpose of following directions and use the strategy of drawing to comprehend a story read aloud.
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Business Cards
Students follow step-by-step instructions to create a business card. They experiment with a variety of fonts and word processing features to create a business card and then design and produce an original business card.
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Table Mazes Using Microsoft Word
Learners create a table and use word processing functions to design a maze. They use the table feature of Microsoft Word to construct a solvable maze and incorporate clip art and Word Art into their mazes. They use Word Art to add a...
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Word Meaning Using Prefixes
Fifth graders use structural analysis to identify root words with prefixes such as dis, sub, re, and pre.
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Slavery in America at the Time of the Civil War: Navigating a Website
Learners discover how to navigate websites. In this Civil War lesson, students conduct research on slavery as they visit a website to experience oral, written, and digital texts and performances by slaves from the Civil War era.
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The Hawaiian Islands
Fourth graders present information of people, places, and environments. They collect, organize, and analyze date to use with these representations.