Students use the internet to examine life in a castle. They examine pictures of castles and describe them. They write to someone close to them explaining their life in a castle.

Students examine the different theories on how our solar system was formed. They discover the order of the nine planets. They also identify the surface features of each planet.

Learners explained and demonstrated what the Internet is and the safety rules for using it. They navigate the Internet using search tools and the browser.

Young scholars examine charts to answer questions. They develop their own database.

Students study a portrait and connect its visual components with contemporary understandings of people and their attributes.

Third graders read several selections of Norse mythology and compare this mythology to others studied in the past. They are introduced to runes. They read poetry and compile a class book of favorite poems. They define idioms and cite...

Young scholars compare two objects at different distances. They explore the concept that distance affects how we perceive the size of objects.

Third graders define Keith's goal and strategy for his life as artist.

Third graders read Jacob Have I Loved and explore conflict/ resolution.

Third graders, in groups, debate Women's Rights and compare women of the past to the women of the present.

Young scholars sample a variety of apples and graph group results for the class favorites. They orally explain the graph.

Third graders use two days to create, collect, display and analyze data. Classroom activities and practice build greater understanding to a variety of forms used to display data.

Third graders illustrate a favorite poem with images, title, author's name and words of the poem on a clay pot.

Students explore Chinese emigration and answer comprehension questions from the reading; students conduct interview with someone who has immigrated to the United States.

Students listen to a story about Johnny Appleseed while learning about how Johnny contributed to history. Students brainstorm rhyming words and write a poem using those words.

Students construct clay boats and predict whether the boats will sink or float. Students will hypothesize what caused the boats to sink or float.

Students list the steps in the mediation process. They role play in various mediation situations.

Third graders discuss how their major life roles change as they get older and fill out a worksheet.

Third graders investigate the responsibilities related to various careers.

Students discover how questionnaires help communities to determine the needs of its citizens. They make an analogy between a survey of students about their school and a survey of citizens about their community.

Students identify and locate various Arkansas counties which surround their home, and research the various counties in order to create a group presentation.

Third graders read part of the story "Balto, the Dog Who Saved Nome". They make predictions about the story ending and identify the picture clues and textual information they used to form their predictions. They discuss the story's ending.

Students work together to draw or make a web for directional and locational words. They look through magazines or draw their own pictures to go with the word they wrote. They help each other and make sure each word is illustrated correctly.

Students discuss how their five senses help to identify objects. They select items from a mystery box and with their eyes closed they attempt to identify the object. They give answers in complete sentences.