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Creative Writing Story Boards
Students design their own memorable three-D book with rubbings for illustrations. They draft and edit an original story and then choose which characters or scenes they want to illustrate. Each student also shares their art and writing...
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Count the Stars
Students research information about China and its languages and counting systems. They identify Chinese characters for numeral from one to ten and then create a counting tool to assess Chinese numerals and represent the Chinese culture.
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Bugs Every Which Way
Students, after gathering information about insects through observation and the internet, explore and examine tiny insects that crawl through a magnifying glass and then draw their favorite bugs from different angles. They create a...
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Buckle Up! Bumper Stickers
Students, after researching information about their state's child safety laws, advocate passenger safety recommendations by creating original bumper stickers designs. They create bumper stickers to publicize how to reduce the risk of...
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British Christmas Crackers
Students, after researching the history and tradition of the British Christmas Crackers, other cultural traditions and Tom Smith, create a replica of the cracker. They also write a holiday message to include inside and share it with...
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Brilliant Peacock Plumage
Students discover how a peacock struts with its multicolored plumage. They view a variety of examples with various colors and then make a hand print peacock on a piece of construction paper and color each of its feathers with a variety...
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Bright Holiday Ornaments
Students, after researching what symbols are used at various holidays around the world, turn recycled CDs into breathtaking holiday ornaments. They create family keepsakes that will last for generations to come as well as give as gifts...
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Brazilian Oval House
Young scholars, after researching the history about Brazil's people, climate, vegetation and natural resources, build a replica of a house utilizing the local materials and construction methods of Brazil. They discover the people and...
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Book Banners
Students practice sequential story retellings with colorful, collaged book banners. They listen to a story that contains a clear sequence of events and in groups choose a scene from the story to depict in a collage. Each group visually...
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Bold & Bright in Harlem
Learners research and explore the Harlem Renaissance and its rich history to create a bold, bright drawing illustrating everyday stories of people in their community. They research William H. Johnson, Romare Bearden and Jacob Lawrence.
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Blast Off Into Space
Students explore the vastness of the universe and identify terms used to describe solar systems. They take a tour of our sun and its neighbors and discover how spacecrafts can fly and then use their imaginations to draw and color a...
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Big-Teeth Carnivorous Creatures
Students, after researching the survival skills of carnivorous animals with large teeth, build a realistic model of a carnivorous creature. They compare and contrast how their carnivorous creatures grow, survive, move and behave to those...
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Big Foot Bar Graph
Learners explore all the different sizes of feet within their age range while exercising their graphing skills. They work in teams to survey children in their grade to gather data about the different range of shoe sizes. Each group then...
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Bengali Scroll Paintings
Students, after researching diverse cultures, art forms, and celebrations around the world, explore and study India's Hindu population that celebrates Diwali with colorful scrolls. They make similar paintings and assess this cultural art...
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Begin With a Buffalo
Students research native people living on the Great Plains and how they depended on the buffalo for survival and discover the many uses for their hides and other parts. They create a detailed display to show several items that were made...
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Celestial Characters
Students read myths and legends about celestial bodies, compare cultural perceptions of celestial personalities, represent "character" of sun, moon, clouds, or stars, and invent their own stories about their chosen celestial characters.
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The Leaf Cafe
Pupils explore, research and study about the common local insects that eat leaves. They demonstrate their assessment of plant-eating insects by creating a Leaf Cafe. Each student also makes a chart showing which insects eat other insects...
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The Land of Pebbles
Students, after researching and comparing a variety of ecosystems and environments on the earth, create a unique landscape scene of an imaginary environment depicting pebbles. They then write about their imagined environment and its...
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The Breads We Eat
Students explore, research and study about the breads people traditionally bake and eat. They choose several countries to research and then create a graph with a pictograph bulletin board that illustrates the results of their findings.
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Metric Me!
Students experience measuring things without the system of inches or millimeters. They utilize a ruler to measure or a body part to measure at least three body parts such as your ear height, finger length of foot width. Students...
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Merry Math Patterns
Pupils explore and examine the pages of a picture book to locate patterns in its illustrations and borders. They reproduce simple patterns with their bodies. They also produce color, letter and shape patterns from around their classroom...
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Maps From Here to There
Learners explore and analyze how to interpret a map by plotting a trip. They include landmarks, routes and directions along with the beginning and ending destinations. Each student pairs up to see if they can figure out where their...
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Magnetic Mazes
Students experience, experiment and observe the pulling power of magnets by making their own magnet amazing maze on recycled file folders or a poster board. They utilize magnets to guide figures around turns, into dead ends and to the...
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Magic Hat How-To
Young scholars research and investigate photographs of various environmental conditions of a desert, rain forest or high mountain peak and then design and decorate a magic camouflage hat especially for that region. They also determine...