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Editorial Cartoon Lesson Plan
Students consider the role of editorial cartoons on American politics. In this editorial cartoons lesson, students discover the history of the cartoons in America, analyze some cartoons, and then draw their own cartoons that make social...
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Water Filtration Competition
Learners design water filtration systems. They draw sketches and write paragraphs about their systems. After presenting their systems to the class, each group then builds their system and determines its effectiveness for purifying...
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Volume of Rectangular Prisms: Algebra/Geometry Institute Summer 2009
Learners find the volume of rectangular prisms. In this volume lesson plan, students use a formula to find the volume of rectangular prisms. They discuss the definition of volume and draw rectangular prisms. Learners identify the...
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Coastal Landforms
Young scholars explore landforms. Using the internet, students research the main landforms. They define landforms and download images into a word document. Young scholars create their own picture-dictionary.
Yummy Math
How Much Wrapping Paper Can You Save?
Give the ultimate gift this holiday season: Christmas-themed math skills! Young gift givers calculate the amount of wrapping paper that should be used for a particular wrapping method.
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Don't Settle for a Byte... Get the Megabyte on Technology
Young scholars use word processing, presentation, and spreadsheet software. In this multi-day computer software usage lesson, students complete a research project that requires the use of a word processor, Excel, FrontPage, and...
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Cooperative Learning, Sci., Tech., Lang
Students research, write, edit, revise and present a paragraph, using word processor, about animal of their choice, including description, where animal lives, what it eats, its habits, e.g. is it endangered, migration, hibernation,...
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Data! Data! Graph that Data!
Fifth graders create data graphs using Microsoft Excel. In this data collection lesson plan, 5th graders create and conduct a survey, then use Excel to organize and graph their data.
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Measurement
Fifth graders measure specified distances when given perpendicular lines. In this measurement lesson plan, 5th graders draw the lines themselves.
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Investigating Crickets and Their Body Parts
Second graders investigate the body of a cricket. In this biology lesson students use tools to gain information about the insect the cricket. Students observe and identify features and describe how these features help the cricket live in...
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Fall Similes and Metaphors
Students interpret what a similies and metaphors are. They give examples of similies and metaphors. Pupils write different similies and metaphors using fall or autumn descriptive words. Students base their comparisons on facts, once they...
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Half Flower Diagram
In this half flower diagram worksheet, students label flower parts on a "half flower" diagram, use a dictionary/research tool to write definitions for 2 given words, and draw a picture of a flower they find.
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China CultureQuest
Students use the internet and other tools to examine the culture of China. In groups, they brainstorm a list of topics they want to know more about and practice writing Chinese letters. They create a collage to show the class what...
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Introduction to Time
Young scholars explore the concept of time. Through discussion and artistic projects, they define time in their own words and tell how it is used to represent the seasons. Students draw a picture to portray time as it elapses during...
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Observation Skills
First graders observe a spider and write sentences about what they see the spider doing. For this writing lesson plan, 1st graders draw what they see, then make an edible spider out of marshmallows and twizzlers. A fun, delicious lesson...
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I'm Nobody Bio Poem
Eighth graders analyze Emily Dickinson's poem, I'm Nobody. After discussing it, they create their own bio poem. They draw and label mandalas and display them in class.
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Prime and Composite Numbers
Fifth graders use prime factorization to identify prime and composite numbers. They use cubes to find factors. In groups, 5th graders draw rectangular arrays to discover prime numbers under 100.
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Snell's Law (And Then Some)
Young scholars conduct an experiment to test Snell's Law using a block of lucite and a ray box. They measure the light rays as they impinge upon the block. Students are also asked to draw the situation of the lab or create a model of the...
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How Do You Measure...
In this measurement math/language worksheet, students see and study labeled picture, 5 in a vertical row. Students draw a line to match the object with the appropriate measuring tool.
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Perimeter
Fifth graders create math word problems. For this geometry lesson, 5th graders define perimeter and discover how to find the perimeter of a rectangle, a square and a regular polygon. Students write word problems on finding the perimeter,...
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Storytelling: Carnival Crime
Students participate in the storytelling process. In this language arts lesson, students listen to a story and retell the story using pictures. Students draw pictures of a carnival costume.
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Rivers that Flow from the Continental Divide: The Journey of Two Rivers
Students explore river routes. In this social studies lesson, students trace the route of a river from its source and discuss the Continental Divide. Students draw the route the river takes and name the states it flows through. Students...
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Mapping Roxaboxen
Fourth graders read Roxaboxen and draw a map of the Roxaboxen community. In this language arts and geography lesson plan, 4th graders use specifications given, adding features to the map as described in the book and creating a legend.
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Four Armed Men From the Renaissance!
Students study the Renaissance and the important art from the period. In this Renaissance lesson, students discuss the black plague and religion during the Renaissance. Students read the Renaissance worksheet and learn vocabulary words...