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Fish Tank Optics- Learning How Light Travels
Young scholars explore light waves, refraction, and reflection. In this light lesson, students observe how light moves by using a flashlight. Young scholars observe refraction and reflection.
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Basketball: Purposeful and Fun Fitness Activities
Studnets practice basketball skills. They combine cardiovascular endurance, flexibility, and strength fitness activities with skill practice and review of previously learned skills in the fitness development part of a basketball...
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Lower Grade Basketball Activities
Students demonstrate basic knowledge about how to use a basketball properly. The teaching of the lesson is done through modeling and students assessment is done with drilling and practice with the basketball activities.
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How Does Light Move?
Second graders investigate how light passes through objects, is blocked, bounces off of things, and bends. They discuss how light moves in different ways, and with a partner walk around the room with a flashlight, shining the light on...
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Fish Tank Optics: Learning How Light Travels
Learners examine light waves and see how they travel. They explain that light moves in waves, which can bounce off of or go through materials. They use a flashlight to shine on a variety of objects.
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Put Me in Order
Sorting fractions, integers, decimals and square roots into sequential order is an active process when you use a gym as your setting. After your class is divided into two groups and provided with number cards, they compete to see who can...
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Where Will It Go?
Students predict the path of a ball bouncing off an object. In this physics lesson, students conduct the rolling ball experiment to test their prediction. They perform several trials for accuracy.
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Ghostbuster Dribble
Students practice dribbling and passing fundamentals using the appropriate cues.
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6-8 Meter Madness
Students identify time signatures, the down beat, and begin to understand conducting patterns. In this meter patterns lesson, students identify the signs for 2/4, 3/4, and 4/4 and play an excerpt from a song. Students use tennis balls to...
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Macarena Basketball Review
Middle schoolers review the basketball skills learned in class and are challenged to perform specific skills to the beat of the music.
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Plus One Volleyball
Students move towards the ball while maintaining a body position that permits them to pass the ball to their team mates.
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Enlightening Explorations, Part II
Sixth graders review their results from the previous experiments. After viewing a kaleidoscope, they make their own pattern on paper and describe the role of light. To end the lesson, they examine light being relfected and refracted and...
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Sports and Science
Using footballs, basketballs, tennis balls, and more, learners conduct experiments to illustrate Newton's Laws of Motion. The experiments are conducted outside, and require them to throw, kick, and hit a variety of balls. Your class...
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Alphabetizing Words Beginning with A and B
Students listen to explanation of how to put words beginning with "A" and "B" in alphabetical order observing examples. They then complete the worksheet to work on the skill independently.
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Understanding the Key Points for Basketball Skills
Students work in pairs to help each other explain the purpose of the key points of basketball.
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Group Initiatives
Students explore the names and qualities about members in the group. They each say their name and something about themselves. Students gather around in a circle. They listen to the teacher as he or she says the name of someone and throws...
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Macarena Basketball Review
Students review basketball skills and are challenged to perform specific shills to the beat of music.
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Exploring the Night Sky: Summer
Young scholars explain how moon phases occur. They describe and explain at least two common misconceptions that people have about the moon. Students explain what a star is. They explain 3 ways that the night sky has been used throughout...
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Exploring the Night Sky: Fall/Winter
Learners explain how moon phases occur. They explain three ways that the night sky has been used through history. Students locate some of the constellations in the night sky. They discuss stories and myths surrounding stars.
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Volleyball Work It Out
High schoolers practice volleyball skill-related activities while working on cardiovascular and muscular endurance.
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Light Is Amazing
Young scholars investigate light and its energy. They discuss the properties of light, research how much light the moon absorbed on their birthday on a website, complete a graphic organizer, and create a kaleidoscope.
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Zoo Parade Days
Students practice proper throwing and catching activities, different locomotor activities and cooperative activities.
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Bubbly Bs and Dull Ds
Students practice discerning between the letters D and B. Through hands on activities, they recognize the difference between the commonly confused letters B and D. They practice writing both letters and correcting common mistakes and...