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How Things Fly
Students, by drawing on their own experiences, discuss and examine the basic physics of flight. They participate in a variety of activities regarding flight.
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Stories of the Wrights' Flight
Students examine and compare primary and secondary source accounts of the Wright brothers' first flights on December 17, 1903.
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Paragraph Development In News Journalism
Students identify the qualities of a new paragraph. They develop news paragraphs. They gain an introduction to appropriate paragraph development in news journalism using professional models as a guide.
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Cosmic Ray Momentum
Students describe how cosmic rays achieve high kinetic energy via conservation of momentum.
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Enduring Understandings: Alaska's Culture
Learners predict how people lived in Northwest Alaska before the arrival of the Europeans. They read an online selection to give them the answers.
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Money Talks
Students move from fact finding to interpretation as they examine paper money from the time of the American Revolution. In the final exercise, they use the issue dates of the bills to construct a chronology of political changes during...
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Pictures Telling Stories
Students see the importance of primary sources in the study of history, but also the limitations of relying only on primary sources of taking the money, as it were, at face value.
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Musical Chairs Topic Critique
Young scholars create topics for other students to write about in the computer lab.
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Ready, Set, Grow
Create a class butterfly garden, then write journal entries with illustrations of the garden.
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Selling, Spending, or Saving
Students examine and discuss vocabulary dealing with finances. They write and develop commercials promoting savings practices and spending habits that incorporate emotional appeals.
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The Rain Game
Students simulate the precipitation process by playing a game. They simulate the behavior of actual cloud drops and rain drops.
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Storytelling and Drawing
Students orally retell the Yosemite Miwok legends and design accompanying artistic depictions. They discover the various storytelling elements, such as plot and theme.
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Students For Political Action
Learners that are interested in political action are called together for a meeting and explore how the understanding among each other on issues is important and explore how they can change the world.
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Infusing Equity By Gender Into the Classroom:
Students analyze personal perception of gender role assignments. They complete their "personal" point of view, then complete the "societal" view as a group.
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See What I Hear
Middle schoolers investigate the link between music and visual art by applying principles of design to convey the emotions/expressions in different types of music.
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Japanese Noh Masks
Learners examine Japanese theatre and create their own face masks which display certain emotions, props, costumes and perform in improvisational theatrical games.
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House Builders
Students name the workers involved in building a house. They label tools used by different workers and the parts of the house that the workers are responsible for.
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Warm and Cold Air
Young scholars examine what happens to air when it is heated or cooled. They conduct an experiment using bottles and balloons, record and discuss their observations, and write a hypothesis.
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Air Pressure
Fourth graders observe a demonstration experiment showing air pressure. They explain air pressure by completing the worksheet.
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Wind
Fourth graders watch an experiment that demonstrates the causes of wind. They design and make an original weather craft.
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Cloud Shadows
Students classify clouds as transparent, translucent or opaque. They conduct an experiment to determine the visual opacity of several classroom objects and then conduct further observations of clouds.
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Spy on a Spider
Students view slides or live specimens to name and describe the distinguishing features of groups of arthropods, especially spiders and insects. They complete worksheets, observe webs and then search for and record where spiders can be...
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Creatures from Planet X: Spiders
Young scholars are given a description of some fascinating animals from "Planet X". They follow the descriptions given to illustrate one of these animals paying careful attention to introduced vocabulary such as 'appendages',...