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Story Assignments
Students choose their beats and decide what areas of school and community news they cover.
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Virtual Ellis Island Museum Unit: Final Reports
Students write reports of their research findings to be shared with friends and families. They develop their reports into web pages for publication on the Internet.
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Virtual Ellis Island Museum Unit:
Students conduct secondary source research using the internet and library resources to research the backgrounds of their family's cultural and ethnic heritages.
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Virtual Ellis Island Museum Unit: Oral Histories
Pupils conduct oral histories of family members to explore their cultural and ethnic heritage after developing a set of research questions.
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Essay Exchange Unit: Response to Essays
High schoolers receive and read electronic reviews of their essays.
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Essay Exchange Unit: Thesis Development
Young scholars identify areas of interest and conduct preliminary research using on-line and library resources to develop their thesis statements.
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Global Warming: The Greenhouse Effect Visualizer
Students work in small groups to study the various aspects of global weather and discuss the possibility of a Greenhouse Effect.
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Immigration Explorations, Part I
Students visit a number of web sites on immigration created by other Students, evaluate types of research used, structure of sites, and what types of information were included.
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Pictograph to Bar Graph
Second graders explore organizing data to make it useful for interpreting picture graphs and bar graphs. They use Graphers software to create a pictograph and a bar graph.
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Home on the Biome
Fifth graders study six major biomes, graph temperature and rainfall, and present their findings to the class.
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Build and Test
Students display what they have learned about bridges as they construct their bridge. They present their projects to the rest of the class. They compare and contrast the construction of the bridges.
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Survey Savvy
Third graders design appropriate questions for a survey, survey classmates, create a pictograph to represent the results, and explain the survey results.
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Mobile-ize
Second graders, using a minimum of four space figures, create a mobile. They use a "Draw" program to first plan out their figure.
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The Very Hungry Kindergartner
Young scholars create The Very Hungry Kindergartner books. In the books, students will write in and illustrate a page for each month they are in school.
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Clouds and Solar Radiation
Students use satellite imaging and Mesonet solar radiation maps to answer questions given to them by the teacher and look for differences and similiarities in the data.
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Glacial Change
Students research the ways in which scientists study glaciers and glacial change. They interpret real time data and calculate the estimated global sea level rise potential. A very good lesson to illustrate global warming.
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From Automobiles to Cars
Students research important inventions from the last two hundred years. They explore how one invention relates to another and summarize their research in a written report and visual presentation.
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Adaptable Animals
Pupils examine the types of adaptations that animals use to survive. They research the animals and report their findings to the class.
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Fast Food Survey Using Bar Graphs
Second graders conduct survey and sort data according to categories, construct bar graph with intervals of 1, and write a few sentences about their graphs.
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Healthy People 2010
Ninth graders log on to the attached website. They use the "Online Slide Show" and think about the questions in the guide. They complete the slide show and guide, then and share their suggestions with the class.
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Who or What is Un-American?
Students explore concepts about civil liberties, research the history of sedition-related legislation in the U.S. and create a position paper on the topic.
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Let's Paint!
Students read Jonah Winter's book, Frida, and Thomas Locker's, Miranda's Smile, and talk about the artists' styles. They practice their own painting styles.
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Caesar II
Pupils create virtual Roman Empire by playing Caesar II CD-ROM game to support class reading of Julius Caesar.
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A Number a Day
Students explore the calendar including sequence of the days of the week, and the numbers associated with each day. They conduct research about each number and share what they find with the class.