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What is Poetry?

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders are introduced to the poetic process. They onnect poetry to life in a meaningful way become more careful readers of poetry. They listen to a variety of poems, then write responses at the end of each adventure.
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Orienteering

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers acquaint with co-participants and identify the practice basic compass functions and orienteering procedures. They also work together to solve a small challenge. Students then identify how the challenge of orienteering...
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Water Strider Maze

For Students 4th - 7th
In this mazes learning exercise, students examine the best way to help a water strider find the mosquito larvae through an adventurous maze.
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Getting Here from There

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars role-play early 20th century immigrants on their way to Indiana. They consider the methods of travel available to them and write a letter to a friend outlining their travel plans and adventures during the trip.
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Friendly Dragon-Flies

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students listen to a story about, and visualize, fanciful dragons with wings. They create imaginative paper dragons that can fly. Students write fictional stories about the adventures of their flying dragons. They imagine if dragons...
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The Sea Wolf

For Students 7th - 8th
After reading the 1904 psychological adventure The Sea Wolf, have pupils take this short quiz to test their reading comprehension, or take specific questions from the quiz and create a more comprehensive assessment.
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The Adventure of Echo the Bat

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students compare different habitats based on satellite imagery. They identify land features in the satellite imagery.
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Graph and Compare the Adventure's Temperature Vs. Local Temperature

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students explore the concept graphing data. In this graphing data lesson, students use weather data from their local weather and some other city and graph them. Students plot the local weather vs. another city. Students record...
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THE TRAVELS OF BABAR: An Adventure in Scale :Interpreting the music of Raphael Mostel's Dance/Movement exercise

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore how dance/movement tell a story. They analyze the elements of dance through interpretation of the story. Students exercise how the feelings and moods of the music suggest certain body movements and actions.
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Environmental Monitoring Adventure

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students research to identify a serious problem.
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THE TRAVELS OF BABAR: An Adventure in Scale : The Instruments of the Orchestra

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students classify the classes of instruments of the orchestra: strings, brass, woodwinds and percussion. They aurally and visually identify the instruments of the orchestra. Students become actively engaged in live performances by...
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Great River Bend Adventure

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students use their imagination. They discuss the 4 C's of teamwork: Concentration, Communications, Coomperation, and Consideration. Students discuss the safety guidelines of the project. They complete a rope maze. The group walks...
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Christmas Fitness Adventure

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students complete a fitness challenge over the holiday break. In this physical fitness lesson, students receive a worksheet to track their physical activity while they are away from school.
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THE TRAVELS OF BABAR: An Adventure in Scale :Building a Model Hot Air Balloon

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students encounter basic facts about helium and hot air. They compare the weight and size of different materials. Students work collaboratively in teams. They create their own model balloon.
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THE TRAVELS OF BABAR: An Adventure in Scale : Integrating Visual Art and Social Studies

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Pupils comprehend how the use of color impacts a work of art. They research how a theme can be rendered in a variety of ways (words, music, visuals). Students analyze how an artist's choices affect the aesthetic quality of artwork.
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THE ORPHAN OF ELLIS ISLAND: A TIME TRAVEL ADVENTURE

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders read the book together and imagine what it was like to come through Ellis Island as an immigrant to the United States. They write a story describing the process at Ellis Island from a first person perspective. They share...
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Adventures in Alice

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learners produce a development project with characters.  For this investigative lesson students use a program to understand its basic features and how to create and insert characters. 
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Adventures in Alice

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders complete a computer program where they learn about different methods.  In this computer lesson students see the differences between a world and character method and learn what they do. 
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Adventures in Microworld

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders journey through Microworld where they and their partner create a report on the symptons of their friend's disease, the cause of disease (virus or baceterium), the scientific name for the disease and how the disease is...
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Adventure To the Unknown----Shark Beneath the Reef

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students use the internet to access background information for their slide presentation based on the story- Shark Beneath the Reef.
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Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners examine the physical changes of freezing water. They locate the continent of Antarctica. They finally describe the characteristics of someone who volunteers.
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Carbon Adventures Game

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders examine the processes and transformations that occur in carbon pools. They play a game to identify paths taken by carbon through the environment.
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Museum Adventure WebQuest

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students discover the background and properties of minerals. They examine fluorite and record data after testing it. They use the internet to help them discover information about minerals.
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Web Trails: An Online Adventure

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students work together to complete a WebQuest. They research Iowa's parks and trails. They write a story about hiking through the parks. They share their story with the class.

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