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Rain Dance
Students identify part of the Native American culture and perform a "rain dance".
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Soil and Agriculture:Lesson 3 - Soil Erosion
Learners reseach the different types of soil erosion and ways to control it in this series of activities.
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Adventures With Super-Absorbers and Substance Solubility
Students understand the concepts of absorption, swellability and solubility and recognize that science is all around us in our everyday lives and is fun to explore.
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Using Sterile Techniques as a Tool in Studying Plant Diseases
Seventh graders examine the concept of sterile techniques. They realize that plant diseases can be identified and classified in various way. Students identify some of the diseases that attack the garden plants.
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Reflections of a Different Time; Pilgrim Children
Pupils create a reflective journal entry on the lives of Pilgrim Students.
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Philanthropy in History Lesson 3: Self-sufficiency And the Community
Young scholars study the characteristic of self-sufficiency in people that lived during Colonial times. They investigate the contemporary movement of Habitat for Humanity. They listen to the story of Donald Hall's, The Oxcart Man and...
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Farming: Seasons on a Wheat Farm (Lesson 4)
Students explain the seasons on a wheat farm. They identify the uses of a grain elevator as well. They use a dry erase board to illustrate the seasons and the grain elevator in operation.
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Little Me in a Big World: Ants
First graders predict, observe and record strategies to overcome them using discussions, role play, and charts. Over a three or four day period, they examine obstacles that humans and insects encounter.
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Decomposition, Soil, and Life Cycle Research
Students conduct background research on the decomposition process, soil composition, and the life cycle using the resources provided for Internet searches. They work in collaborative groups to research topics as a particular plant, soil...
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Beneficial Bug Scavenger Hunt
Students identify several beneficial insects and spiders, including predators and pollinators. They search an outdoor environment and record numbers and types of beneficial insects and spiders that they discover.
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Life in Sahara
Students explore the geography of the Sahara region of Africa and identify characteristics of a desert habitat. They explore the culture of the people living there and how it has adapted to desert life.
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Feudal Japan: S.P.A.M. (Samurai, Peasants, Artisans, Merchants)
Ninth graders participate in a role play activity to explain the hierarchy of society in feudal Japan. They investigate the rice growing system in place.
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Great Barrier Reef
Ninth graders read text imbedded in this plan and find the answers to 3 questions: Why is the Great Barrier Reef one of the natural wonders of the world? What value does the reef offer Australia's economy? How is the reef being damaged?
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Planning A School Garden
Students discover how to plan a vegetable garden. Each student take responsibility for growing one vegetable from seed, to transplanting the seedling into the soil, and providing the plant with light, moisture, temperature and healthy soil.
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Painting with and Learning From Art History - Extend the Composition
Young scholars create a painting based on an artist from a chosen period in history. They research a modern artist and write a critique.
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Uncle Sam is Rich Enough to Give Us All a Farm:
Young scholars examine websites and video clips to become familiar with tenets of the Homestead Act, challenges faced by settlers and misconceptions about settlers. They role-play colonists on the Planet XR-38 and make choices similar to...
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Smokey's Message
Learners list and discuss positive and negative effects of wildland fire. They discuss relationships among ecosystems and fire. They participate in role-playing activities related to wildland fire management.
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Leaf - It's What's for Dinner
Students discover correlations in food preferences of invertebrates, and assess stream health through use of kicknets, invertebrate keys, CBL systems and probes.
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What is Popular? Self Portraits in the Style of Roy Lichtenstein
Students examine and discuss art by Roy Lichtenstein and the Pop art movement. They discuss the phenomenon of popularity, list what is popular today, and create a piece of art using professional looking graphic design style.
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What a Garden Can Teach
Students read about land and gardening and create found poems from the text. They use the poems to design interpretation quilts of communal text.
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When Rice Was King
Students examine the origins of rice production in the South. They identify the steps involved in rice cultivation, examine photos of plantation life, conduct interviews, and research the economic base of their own community.
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Graphin' and Glyphin' Utah Weather
Fourth graders use glyphs as a way to visually represent information about Utah weather. These nonverbal representations help students collect and interpret data in a visual format.
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Scavenger Hunt
Students summarize the "Tri-County Project" section of the nebraskastudies.org web site using a scavenger hunt.
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