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Estimation Task
Upper graders practice their estimation skills by observing different objects then making their best guess without using measuring instruments. Students are asked to estimate mass, length, volume, and area.
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Introduction to the Food Pyramid
Students review information on the food pyramid, either in printed works or on the Internet, to research healthy eating habits.
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Exploring Impressionist Landscapes
Students visit an on-line art museum in Paris, analyze several landscapes, and explore the painting techniques. They become familiar with distinctive aspects of classical Impressionist landscape paintings.
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Art Across the Planet: Exchanging Art
Students explore art when it is used as a source of information about society and material culture. They communicate with students in a foreign country, and share ideas and experiences in order to create drawings of their homes to exchange.
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SEVERE WEATHER UNIT
Learners conduct research on specific severe weather patterns of interest and collect data to be shared with other students on these phenomona. They write (or review) a severe weather action plan for the school and presents their findings.
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CLIMATE AND WEATHER UNIT
Students locate on-line weather source, gathers and interprets weather data, work collaboratively on-line with other schools to collect weather data, and write about the cause of temperature inconsistencies in various locations.
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GROWING PLANTS UNIT
Students predict outcomes of scientific experiment,.conduct a scientific experiment with control groups, and plant seeds to observe, measure, and compare growth across groups. They gather, record, analyze, and share data with other...
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MAPPING YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD
Students uses atlases, maps, and Web resources to generate and examine maps of their own neighborhoods. This activity serve as background for the map-reading tasks in the next lessons.
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Exploring Space Fact
Students visit web sites to gather information about space and space exploration.
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Global Weather and the Greenhouse Effect
Students discuss how local weather patterns effect or relate to global weather and environmental changes, explore connected nature of our planet, and examine global weather patterns, their changes, and their possible connection to global...
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Severe Weather Action Plan
Learners obtain and review copies of school's severe weather action plan (if one exists) and discuss how plan can be used in an actual severe weather emergency; if no plan exists, students develop, write, edit, and present one to school...
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Writing and Editing a Research Report
Students research report on their severe weather pattern for presentation to the class.
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Research a Severe Weather Pattern of Interest
Students select a severe weather pattern of interest (tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, lightning, hail, and thunderstorms) and research these patterns to collect data for a report they write in the next lesson.
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Introduction to Severe Weather Patterns
Students review basic weather concepts and terminology, and explore weather modeling tools.
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Internet Research
Students research and gather information on immigration, synthesizing the data they find.
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Creative Writing/Historical Journals
Young scholars write series of journal entries, from the perspective of an immigrant traveling to America via Ellis Island.
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Reading and Sketching Graphs
In this graphs worksheet, students answer 15 multistep questions about graphs. Students determine distance traveled, time, velocity, and create scenarios to fit the graph.
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The Geometry of Circles
Students review the parts of a circle, calculate the circumference and area of a circle, and create student-made tests on the geometry of circles using educational software.
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Word Problems-No Problem!
Third graders create and solve story problems using drawing and presentation software. Working in small groups, 3rd graders create illustrated presentation slides using multiplication facts. As a class, all group multiplication problems...
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Rain Forest Reporters
Students research and write articles for an imaginary scientific magazine about rain forests. For this rain forest lesson, students research both ecosystems and magazine writing styles. They act as reporters and editors of their own...
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Eruption!
Learners role-play as villagers, the governor, volcanologists, or the press in a simulation about the possible threat of a nearby volcanic eruption.
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Modern Marco Polos: Searching for China
Students conduct Internet research to determine information about China's laws, government, philosophy, architecture, inventions, calendar and language. Students create a web site about ancient China and how it has influenced world history.
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Vowels Short And Long: Farmer Pete
Second graders study short and long vowel sounds. They hear each word or picture by clicking on it to hear each rhyme. There is also the option of letting some students type their own rhyming sentence in this program. They complete a...
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Acceleration, Drag, Gravity, Motion, Forces, and Friction
Eighth graders build and run mousetrap cars in order to measure distance, time, and mass for their cars. They use these measurements to calculate average speed and kinetic energy, then create a slide show to visually explain how the car...
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