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Music Technology Programs
Students are introduced to the music technology programs for the next school year. They practice reading notes and playing piano. They use the internet to research careers in music.
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Personalized Postcards
Students create and send postcards to friends and family members. Using actual photographs, they write a rough draft and final draft of a paragraph and print it out to glue onto a postcard template to mail to their friend or family member.
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Parts of a Story
Learners read a short fiction book and demostrate comprehension by identifying the main characters, setting, conflict, theme, and summarizing the main points. They organize the information in Inspiration and create a powerpoint to show...
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Tasty Tech Activity With Excel
Students are introduce to basic Excel skills, rank their opinions of menu items from fast food restaurants, add their answers to the spreadsheet, and then create a simple graph of the results.
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Inching Our Way through Measurement
Students review how to use an inch ruler and listen to the story, Inch by Inch by Leo Lionni. In this measuring lesson plan, students work in small groups to create an Inch Poster. Students then use an inch ruler to measure different...
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Designing a Travel Brochure
Students discuss a story they had read earlier about a girl moving from China to New York. Using the internet, they research a country other than their own and take notes on the information they collect. They create a travel brochure...
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Should Humans Be Cloned?
Students explore links on the Internet to collect facts about cloning then prepare an essay on their findings. In this research writing instructional activity students examine how to include their opinions on what they have found in...
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Dewey and Chemistry: The Water Cycle Revisited
Students undertake a series of experiments related to the water cycle. All experiments use John Dewey's experiential philosophy as their bases. Each instructional activity is clearly based on philosophy and attempts to be relevant.
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Have You Ever Seen a Sea Monkey?
Fourth graders observe brine shrimp over several days. They create drawings showing the growth and development of the shrimp. They research web sites to find out where brine shrimp fit on the food chain and what makes the shrimp unique.
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What's the Chance?
Students conduct probability experiments with dice and coins. They watch a video for a variety of situations where calculating the probability is complicated by total number of possibilities. They solve problems presented in the video.
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Investigating the Earth-Moon-Sun System
Eighth graders research Native American legends involving the sun, moon, and stars and compare them to the origin of present day knowledge. They create a written report and make an oral presentation of their findings to the class.
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Testing Battery Combinations
Fourth graders examine the required combinations of plates and predict which combination will generate the most and least current and voltage. They use an ammeter and experiment with combinations of their own testing and record each...
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Tiling a Patio
Fifth graders practice, with spreadsheets, to demonstrate how to determine the number of tiles needed to create a patio. They use pictures and gathered data to determine a pattern that can be used to solve problems. Students create a...
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Berlitz Spanish
Students use a CD-ROM that offers a combination of listening, reading, writing, and speaking activities for the beginner Spanish student using a repertory of learning strategies.
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You Are What You Eat!
Students calculate the calories in food samples and plan a meal based on the calorie amount. In this calories lesson plan, students also devise a work out program to burn off the calories.
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Let Us Grow Lettuce!
Learners identify the stages of plant growth. In this plant lesson, students plant lettuce seed and take photos of the growth throughout a two week period.
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Apple Blossoms and Pollination
Students explore the concept of pollination. In this pollination lesson, students examine the parts of an apple blossom and then compare and contrast pollination and cross-pollination.
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Anatomy of the Heart
Tenth graders examine the different parts of the heart. In this biology lesson, 10th graders perform dissection of the fetal pig. They explain how the heart maintains homeostasis.
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Waves
Students identify the different parts of a wave. In this physics lesson, students explain how animals communicate using sound waves. They discuss the effect of Navy's sonar on dolphins and whales.
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Ball Toss Activity
Pupils collect data from tossing a ball into the air. Using a data collection device, they graph the data, set a window, and analyze the height of the toss, how long the ball was in the air, etc. They then find an equation that models...
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Isosceles Triangles
Students identify the properties of an isosceles triangle. In this geometry lesson, students find the midpoint, median and angle bisector of a triangle. They construct angle bisectors and measure missing angles.
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Secant Line Approximation of the Tangent Line
Young scholars perform operation with secant and tangent lines. For this calculus lesson, students find the derivative and relate it to the slope of a line. They differentiate between secant and tangent as they intersect a circle, using...
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Investigating Trigonometric Ratios Through Similar Right Triangles.
49Students investigate the properties of right triangles. In this geometry lesson plan, students differentiate between similar and congruent triangles. They use the Pythagorean Theorem to find the missing angles and sides.