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Electricity
Students examine basic electrical components. They build a simple electrical circuit which rings a buzzer. They experiment with conducting and nonconducting materials.
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Rocks
Young scholars use their five senses to experience different types of rocks. In groups, they compare and contrast the information they collected. They observe rocks in their local community and describe their uses to the class.
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Bulbs & Batteries Side by Side
Students build parallel circuits, exploring how they function and looking at their unique features. They describe how current changes when batteries are added in parallel or removed from a parallel arrangement, demonstrate the process of...
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TE Activity: Choosing a Pyramid Site
Students determine how engineers decide on choices for final designs and sites for construction. They look at a surveyor's report while they evaluate sites where a pyramid could be build. They consider the distance the pyramid would be...
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Tracking Olympic Gold!
Students use print or online resources to track the results of the Olympic Games, record daily results on graphs, use graphs to collect information.
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What Temperature Is It?
Students use the internet to research information on the average maximum and minimum temperature for a city in their state. They create spreadsheets and enter data to analyze the information, focusing on averages, maximums, minimums and...
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The Greatest Survival Story of All Time
Learners use the Internet to read about an explorer's survival in the Antarctic. They try to find a better route for him to have taken.
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Help! I Need Five Minutes
Students practice ways to better manage their time. They keep track of their current use of time. Students prioritize and schedule events and use a daily planning calendar to schedule their time.
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Measuring Ourselves
Fifth graders conduct various measurement activities on themselves and a partner. They measure their height, weight, thumb-to-pinky span, and body temperature, recording the information in the form of an Excel spreadsheet.
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20 Field Day Activities Any Kid Can Do (And Do Well!)
Students participate in activities in which they practice their physical skills. They work together on some of the activities to practice mental skills as well. They show their team spirit as the winners are announced.
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Tasty Tech Activity With Excel
Students are introduce to basic Excel skills, rank their opinions of menu items from fast food restaurants, add their answers to the spreadsheet, and then create a simple graph of the results.
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Olympic Metrics
Students study metric measurements related to Winter Olympic events are converted to their U.S. equivalents. (Younger students use an online metric converter; older students use a formula to calculate the measurements.) Work sheets are...
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Altimetry
Fifth graders accurately measure the distance to eight points on an uneven surface by conducting a simulation of sattelite altimetry. They create a two-dimensional model of the simulated ocean surface by graphing data from the Radar Run...
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Mobile vs. Money
Pupils research the internet and use the information they find to plot straight line graphs. They use graphs to make comparisons of the various packages offered. Students interpret graphs and solve problems based on varying parameters.
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It All Adds Up -- Puzzle Matrix #9
In this addition puzzle worksheet, students find the 7 missing numbers that make all of the rows, columns, and diagonals add up to the given numbers.
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It All Adds Up -- Puzzle #30
In this addition matrix puzzle worksheet, students insert 8 numbers that make the puzzle add up horizontally, vertically, and diagonally.
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It All Adds Up -- Puzzle #15
In this addition matrix puzzle worksheet, students insert 8 numbers into the matrix so the numbers add up diagonally, vertically, and horizontally.
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It All Adds Up -- Puzzle #14
In this addition puzzle matrix worksheet, students insert 8 numbers in the puzzle to make the rows, columns, and diagonals add up to the proper numbers.
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It All Adds Up -- Puzzle #16
In this addition matrix puzzle, students insert the proper numbers to make the rows, columns, and diagonals add up to the proper numbers.
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It All Adds Up -- Puzzle #18
In this addition matrix puzzle worksheet, students insert 8 numbers into the matrix so that the numbers add up vertically, horizontally, and diagonally.
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It All Adds Up Puzzle #13
In this addition puzzle worksheet, students complete a 24 square puzzle in which all rows, columns and diagonals must add up to be the sums provided at the end of each.
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Campaign 2000
Students research newspapers and the Internet to learn about the election. Students work in groups and choose a state that they want to compare to Florida. Students organize the data they have found into a graph labeling an "x" and "y"...
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Com-Post With Us? Learn About Recycling While Having Fun
Students examine the importance of recycling to help the environment. In groups, they make a compost bin on the school grounds recording how the material changes from week to week. They collect other materials for recycling like cell...
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Geometric Figures
Students identify two and three dimensional shapes and use appropriate geometric vocabulary to write a description of the figure by taking pictures of geometric figures in their own environment.