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Introduction to Beginning Quilting
Students explore quilting. They describe what a quilt is and discover the importance of accuracy in quilting. Students examine beginning quilt blocks. Students identify eight different quilt blocks.
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Tool Time - Quilting
Students explore quilting. They recognize what tools and equipment is necessary for successful quilting. Students demonstrate how to use quilting tools. They recognize terms in quilt making.
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Desktop Pub. - Quark XPress 1: Quotation
This project is for beginning users of QuarkXPress. Students will create a new document, add a poem in a text box, add a title and a rule, change font formats, and add a photo and set its runaround.
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Desktop Pub. - Quark XPress 2: Business Cards
Students explore computer publishing software. They layout guidelines for a business card, import background and logo graphics and create and format text. Students duplicate the card.
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Desktop Pub. - Quark XPress 4: Video Box
This lesson is the fourth in a series of six that teaches basic Desktop Publishing skills with QuarkXPress. Other DTP software can also be used. In this lesson, students will lay out an over-sized document (tabloid size) and irregularly...
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Desktop Pub. - Quark XPress 5: Brochure
Learners explore publishing software. They create a multi-fold brochure. Students recognize common folds. They demonstrate correctly placed text boxes, bullets and graphics. Learners develop a resume to be used for future employment.
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Consumerism - Brand Comparison Lab
The student will have an opportunity for themselves to determine which brand they prefer by comparing national and store brands by their appearance, cost and flavor. They will be looking for the best economical value.
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Ground Beef Lab - Open-Faced Tacos
Learners will use ingredients and read a recipe to create open faced tacos. The emphasis of the lesson is the kind of preparation that is needed to cook ground beef correctly to avoid diseases associated with improper preparation...
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Science: Spider Models
First graders create spider models to discover its anatomy. They use construction paper and sequins to make their spiders and use pictures as examples for their models. As an alternative, 1st graders make posters of the spider's parts....
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Wild Or Domestic?
Students discuss differences between wild and domestic animals. They list animals on chart paper, and then cut out pictures from magazines to create large collage showing wild and domestic animals.
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Hawks Migrate
Young scholars examine the types of hawks found in Illinois and compile a list of them. Using different species of hawks, they compare and contrast their characteristics. They work together to create their own hawk model for the...
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Reservoir Activity
Students research the economic importance of the major reservoirs in Illinois. In groups, they manage a budget for one of the lakes to promote tourism in the area. They also work together to create advertisements.
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The Power of Petitions
Students discuss the power of using petitions to show support for a specific action. In groups, they create a petition for an issue of interest to them related to human rights following specific steps. They can take their petition...
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Writing in Math Class
Students brainstorm and discuss ways math is all around them, explain in writing how they solve math problems, describe mathematical ideas in writing, and create original story problems.
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A Stately Comparison
Fifth graders research two United States. They draw each state and contact state tourism departments for travel brochures and guides. They create a graph of where people live and why and a letter explaining why they would move to one...
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Thunderstorms: A Recipe
Students discover the "recipe" for a thunderstorm. they discuss the "ingrediants" needed to create a thunderstorm and then research a related topic (radar, convection, etc.) and create a webpage about that topic.
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Painting a Rainbow
First graders discuss the story of Noah an the Rainbow. They then open Appleworks 5 to select painting and pencil and practice drawing lines to make a rainbow. They use pencil to print their name and type or print a promise on the page...
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Recycling Copy Paper Scraps
Pupils discover why recycling is important to Earth. They consider the multiple ways to recycle copy paper. Students transform scrap copy paper with printing on one side into practical classroom tools; an envelope and a drinking cup.
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Mental Map Postcard
Pupils visit an outdoor setting and make a mental map of what they observe. They return to the classroom and create a postcard with specified elements such as a description of the land and the ecosystem. Students illustrate the postcard.
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The Walking Purchase of 1737
Students review the main points of the Walking Purchase of 1737. In groups, they describe how the Iroquois, Minisink, and Delaware Indians felt about the purchase and compare and contrast the different views. They write and perform a...
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Applying Abstraction: Creating Five Sense Poems
Students in a dance class practice performing abstract movements. Using their five senses, they write a poem about one type of abstraction and perform it in front of their classmates. To end the lesson, they compare and contrast each...
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President Internet Project
Students utilize search engines to locate information on one of the first five Presidents of the United States. Students utilize various technological skills that incorporate higher level thinking, analysis, and summarization. Students...
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Selecting a Harbor: Oceanography and the Impact of Oil Spills
Students work together to determine a new site for a harbor. Using the Internet, they research the impact of an oil spill on the oceans and wildlife. They present their findings to the class and a solution to the problem.
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Number Push-ups
First graders integrate math with an upper body movement exercise. Students practice the proper push-up position. The teacher spreads paper numbers in front of the students. (Begin with the numbers 1-9.) Students must "walk" in a push-up...
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