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Visual Messages: Creating a Photomontage
Learners create a photomontage. In this instructional activity on photography as a means of conveying emotion, students use images gathered from the Internet to create a photomontage comparing how water is used in Africa and the U.S.
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Strike Up the Band
Students create song lyrics celebrating the history of labor unions serving the entertainment industry, then create posters illustrating the importance of each union to the industry they represent.
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Earth Structure and Materials
High schoolers explain what is meant by term nuclear radiation, describe in detail electromagnetic spectrum, differentiate between ionizing and non-ionizing radiation, understand half-life of isotopes, differentiate between processes of...
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Effects of Environment on Memory
Students explore the effect that environment has on memory. They analyze their own study habits and draw conclusions about their work behaviors. Baseline capacity is established for the subjects' ability to memorize an increasing series...
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Water Fitness
Students participate in a series of aerobic exercises in water to help improve fitness.
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Festive Season
Students research various cultural and religious festivals celebrated and observed by Australians, describing common elements and identifying adaptations that have been made for life in Australia.
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Pulse of Life
Students calculate their pulse rate and explore how heart rate is affected by various activities.
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Lines and Shapes
First graders identify different kinds of lines found in common shapes. They discover ways in which an artist utilizes lines in a painting.
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M&M Math
Students plan and make the M&M cookies, tally M&M's by color while eating cookie, and completing worksheet using math skills.
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Incorporating Literature into Social Studies Teaching and Learning
Students engage in a study of incorporating literature into the Social Studies classroom. They review a variety of literature sources and then create a bulletin board with the information. Then students practice using the Reader's...
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M&M Math
Students research number values by participating in a candy exercise. In this math function lesson plan, students utilize baking ingredients to create cookies and multiply how many M&M's will go into the batch if you want a certain...
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History of World Religions
First graders listen to a variety of Noah's Ark, based on the story in the Old Testament. They hear another "flood story" for comparison.
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M&M Cookie Math
Pupils munch their way through a cookie keeping a tally of how many M&M's are found of each color.