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What Are You - Prime or Composite
Learners explore the concept of prime factorization. In this prime factorization instructional activity, students participate in an activity where they find the prime factorization and greatest common factor of a number derived from...
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It's Around There Somewhere! Perimeter, and Circumference
Explore the concept of building equations for perimeter and circumference. Learners use rulers to measure the perimeter of half a sheet of paper. Then fold the sheet of paper numerous times, each time measuring perimeter. ...
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Exploring Explorers
Young scholars gather information about a 15th to 17th century explorer and prepare a script in talk show format about the individual. Finally, students make a video following the script and present it to the class.
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The Grouchy Ladybug
Students listen to the book, "The Grouchy Ladybug" by Eric Carle and sequence the events in the story. Using a graph, they draw and color the animals that the ladybug meets next to the corresponding time from the story, and conduct...
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Getting Comfortable with the Internet & Geography
Students are introduced to the basic characteristics of Geography. Using maps, they practice identifying locations and other landmarks. They use the internet to explore websites with are geographically oriented.
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Explorer Trading Cards
Fourth graders make Explorer Trading Cards. They work with a partner and research information about the explorers.
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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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I'm so Crushed
As an experiment is demonstrated for them, learners write down their observations and brainstorm questions that can help them understand what they saw. After watching the experiment again—which demonstrates a soda can collapsing due to...
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Tracking a Hurricane
Students use knowledge of what satellite imagery tells to create a descriptive hypothesis of the ground phenomenon during a hurricane.
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Take a Technology Trek with Endangered Animals
Students identify endangered animals and research reasons why these animals may be going extinct. Using the internet, reference books and reference CDs, students explore an animal of their choice and write a report about the endangered...
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Annotating Change in Satellite Images
Students compare a series of satellite images taken 3-4 years apart to investigate the effects of human land use. They annotate the images using ImageJ software and use the annotated images to explain their findings.
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Graphs Abound
Students create a survey for their classmates to collect data on their favorite foods, eye color, pets or other categorical data. They compile the data from the survey in a table and then make a bar graph of each category using a web tool.
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Jan Brett Author Study
Students practice utilizing the internet to look up information on the author Jan Brett and the books she wrote. They visit a variety of websites to assess the biography of Jan Brett and retell a story that she wrote in their own words...
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Internet Project - Project Groundhog
Students share weather and community information with other students across the continents. In groups, students collect details, pictures, and drawings about their community, its weather patterns, and school. They predict if groundhog...
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It's a Party! Solving Multi-step Equations
Learners explore the concept of multi-step equations. In the multi-step equation lesson, students solve equations by the 'party method'. Learners make a flip book that shows the steps in solving multi-step equations.
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Writing Reports
Students critically examine the features of reports aimed at a young audience. Students discuss characteristics of a good report (who, what, where, when, why, how). They write their own report and include these characteristics in their...
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Exploring Length and Perimeter
Sixth graders determine the perimeter of geometric shapes with a grid at technology based resource. While looking at figures on an overhead, they determine how much border they would need to go around a figure. They also complete...
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What's The Solution With Technology
Students investigate the use of technology and how it could be used to solve problems. They conduct research using the resource links included in the lesson. The teacher chooses a problem for students to solve and leads them to the...
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Abiator's Interactive Mathematics Activities
Students use an internet resource to practice problem solving. They use the Abiator's Interactive Mathematics to complete the problem solving activities provided by the website. In addition, they write down their answers on a piece of...
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"Whales are Mammals" Idea Web
Third graders explore the characteristics of whales that defines them as mammals. Using the internet and Inspiration software, 3rd graders create and organize "idea bubbles" to organize facts about whales. They locate details to...
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From Home To School
Students locate and use internet maps to trace a route from their home to school. They calculate the distance of the route using the map legend then determine the distance they travel to school and back in a regular school week and over...
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Fly Away With Averages
Students discover the process of finding the mean, median, and mode. Through guided practice and problem solving activities, they use a computer program to input data and create a graph. Graph data is used to calculate the mean,...
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Using Categories With Keywords
Students practice choosing key words when searching for specific topics to start a research assignment or project. They select appropriate technology tools and resources to address a variety of tasks and problems. Each student assesses...
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Math - Design a Ship
Students design a ship. They calculate square footage and draw their ship to scale. They build models of their ships.