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The Great Scientists
Learners discuss the characteristics of competent scientists. By researching selected scientists on the Internet, they gather and organize collected information into a cohesive paper.
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"Christmas Comes to Moccasin Flat"
Students discuss the life of the author of "Christmas Comes to Moccasin Flat". They also discuss the piece of literature and what Christmas means to them. In groups, they discuss how the novel ends.
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Social Studies: In Search of Al Qaeda
Students discuss the themes in the documentary In Search of Al Qaeda. following a class discussion, they write responses to the statement, Information about Al Qaeda will never be completely accurate.
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Colin Powell, a New Adlai Stevenson?: The Cuban Missile Crisis
Learners compare and contrast a speech given to the United Nations by Colin Powell and a speech given to the UN by Adlai Stevenson. Clearifying the objective of each, they evaluate their proposals to the United Nations. In groups, they...
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Art History and Technique
Students conduct research, using a variety of resources, about their favorite painter and painting. They critique the famous painters work and write a multimedia presentation that showcases his/her work. They paint an original work of...
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Global Review/World Leaders
Students are given a world leader to research a week before participating in a class game. Using the internet, they discover their major contribution to history and the time period and location in which they lived. They present their...
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Romare Bearden and the Face Collage
Fourth graders create a collage from magazines and newspapers to create a face. After finishing the face, they use mixed media to complete the background. They write their own description and examine the life and works of Romare Beardon.
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Fitness
Fourth graders determine how to design regular and semi-regular tessellations of the plane. They develop the ability to demonstrate why a tessellation covers the plane in this series of lessons.
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Women and Religion
Students discuss the ways in which women influenced religion in ancient Rome. They research about the various gods and goddesses of the Romans and women in religion. Students access the differences of legal rights between vestal virgins...
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An Arctic Expedition
Young scholars become familiar with the Arctic region and the difficulties of scientific research by designing and developing an expedition to an "unknown" place. They use the library and the Internet in order to do their research. ...
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Disease and Epidemics
Students explore how disease and epidemics have the potential to shape communities. They examine their impact on culture and specifically the literature of the time. Students investigate how trade routes accelerated the movement of...
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Science: Discovering Earth's Air Prressure
Fourth graders discover earth's air pressure through observation of several experiments. In the "Experiment of the Leaky Bottle," they observe how air pressure forces water out of the lowest hole farther than the holes above it. In...
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Biology: Howler Monkeys Tell All
Learners examine a PBS special about howler monkeys as an introduction to scientific forensic investigative methods. In groups, they conduct a host of experiments containing clues which point to discovery. By challenging assumptions,...
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Mahler: Ruckert Lieder: ‘Urn Mitternacht’ [1905]
In this music learning exercise, student analyze an extract of the given piece of music by answering a series of 11 questions about the music in general. They then answer 16 questions about the structure of the two specified sections of...
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Dollar Value and Fast-Food Nutrition
Students examine how they can make changes to form healthy eating habits. In this investigative lesson students examine food guidelines and the food pyramid.
OpenStax
Open Stax: Physics: Accuracy, Precision, and Significant Figures
This interactive site helps students determine the appropriate number of significant figures in both addition and subtraction, as well as multiplication and division calculations. They also calculate the percent uncertainty of a...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Significant Figures
Given quantitative data, students will express and manipulate quantities using the correct number of significant figures.
Simon Fraser University
Chem1 Virtual Textbook: Significant Figures and Rounding Off
As part of a larger site called "Getting started in Chemistry," this site examines significant figures and claims to teach the user "how to avoid telling lies with numbers."
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Ap Physics: 1.3 Accuracy, Precision, and Significant Figures
By the end of this section, you will be able to do the following: Determine the appropriate number of significant figures in both addition and subtraction, as well as multiplication and division calculations and Calculate the percent...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Significant Figures
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Determining significant figures and rounding.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Chemistry: Significant Figures
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Provides a definition of significant figures and lists rules for proper designation of values.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Introduction to Significant Figures
A slideshow lesson reviewing the basics of significant figures. Understand how to determine the number of certainty in a a measurement by using significant figures with this slideshow.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Multiplying With Significant Figures
View this tutorial which demonstrates how to determine the appropriate amount of significant digits in multiplication.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Multiplying With Significant Figures
A short lesson describing how to determine the appropriate amount of significant figures when multiplying.