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Personal Economics
Students explain the role of government in protecting consumer rights and the role of private organizations in protecting consumer rights.
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Read All About It! Supreme Court Case Makes Headlines!
Students are assigned a landmark Supreme Court case to research. They construct a one-page newsletter on the case which include a summary of the case, two pictures and a short biography on one of the justices on the Court at that time.
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Look at me!
Third graders write an autobiography and use pictures of themselves from past and present to illustrate it. They take pictures with a digital camera, scan pictures, and add them to a document.
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Welcome to our Classroom
Second graders create a classroom resource book for substitutes to help them feel more comfortable and familiar with faces and procedures in our classroom and school. They develop skill in using a digital camera and computer technology.
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Learning About Colonial Life
High schoolers use predictions to explore the lifestyle of American colonists. They draw conclusions about the culture of colonial America based on items used in daily life.
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Learning About Our Government
learners about the organization of our nation's government. They are introduced to the three branches of American government and the responsibilities of each. They discuss the requirements for becoming President.
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Water Cycle Animation (A lesson involving handheld computer/Palm Pilots)
Fifth graders animate the Water Cycle using Sketchy on the handheld computers. They write an expository paragraph about the stages of the water cycle using "Word-to-Go" on the Handheld computers.
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Simple Machines Webquest
Middle schoolers explore simple machines through a Webquest with Internet resources provided for research of simple machines. They create a report, with pictures, in Word, and finally, invent their own simple machine for presentation.
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Planetary Cereal Project
Sixth graders decorate an empty cereal box with information and games showing their comprehension of factual information about an assigned planet. This is a nice, creative lesson about the solar system.
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Peeking At Pumpkins
Students listen to a read aloud about the life cycle of the pumpkin and discuss the process. They complete a life cycle booklet.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. for Early Elementary
Students study the accomplishments of Martin Luther, Jr. and investigate how he worked to further tolerance and respect for others.
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Once Upon A Bear
Young scholars study the characteristics and habitats of a variety of bears in this series of cross-curricular lessons.
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Nouns, Verbs, and Describing Words
Second graders photograph items in their school and write a sentence that describes the items. They use different colored fonts when word processing the sentence to highlight nouns, verbs, and adjectives.
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Forces that Change the Land
Students conduct Internet research find information about the following landforms: mountains, canyons, and valleys. They create travel brochures of their findings.
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Leo Lionni’s Little Blue and Little Yellow
Students use the Internet to research the author Leo Lionni, then rewrite and illustrate one of his stories.
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Money Management
Students discuss the differences between needs and wants, practice budgeting resources and investigate the workings of a capitalist society, by creating a mock store.
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Looks Like Snow
Students listen to the teacher read the book, The Jacket I Wear in the Snow, and create vocabulary and graphic cards from the story.
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Word a Day
Students create a word bank of sight words. Each student creates his/her own personal word bank, and creates pictures to illustrate the word.
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Our World is Like a Rainbow
Learners create a Venn diagram of people's similarities and differences. They investigate why people relocate to different geographic regions after investigating the positives and negatives of different states.
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Energy
Pupils, using the Internet to research the different types of energy that people use, prepare a slideshow presentation with their research.
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Very Busy Spiders
Students identify spider parts, and distiguish between web building and wandering spiders. They complete a spider webquest.
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What do Plants Need?
Students plant seeds and watch them sprout. Once growing plants are placed in different conditions and students record data about their growth. They graph the data.