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Eat Right!
Students discuss the food pyramid. They create healthy meals using the food pyramid.
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Deconstructing, Decomposition and Compost
Students create and tend to an outdoor compost pile. They research about decomposition and composting. They create two activities for their peers to complete.
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Rice Plantation
Eighth graders study the importance of rice as a cash crop and the crop's dependency on slave labor during the settlement of coastal South Carolina. They explain the importance of the rice plantations to South Carolina's colonial economy.
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Parallax
Students discover how astronomers used the diameter of the Earth's orbit around the Sun as a baseline for estimating the distance of some stars, and the meaning of "Parsec" and "light year."
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High School Mathematics Problems from Alaska: Azimuth and Arc Length
Students track the Azimuth sunrise and sunset over time by creating a chart.
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Valentine Hearts
Students sort candy Valentine hearts into groups and create individual graphs.
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Colonial Williamsburg
Fifth graders study about Colonial Williamsburg and become "experts" in one aspect of that period. They will actively seek and share their knowledge via the internet.
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Songs That Bring Us Together
Students listen to the song, Get Together, and discuss the theme. They list topics that bring people together, write the lyrics to and sing a class song, and write a paragraph about message songs.
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Structural Comparisons
Students study structural elements of a picture's composition. They scan images and compare the structural elements of the images.
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Hop to It
First graders play a game of hopscotch, but hop to the answer of the addition or subtraction fact the teacher calls out.
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Class Directory
Students create a class directory of stories written by students about other students in the class. They conduct interviews with classmates in order to write stories titled "Important Things to Know About...".
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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.
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Welcome to Leonard Bernstein's New York
Students study the life and musical work of Leonard Bernstein. They examine the history of New York City using three Broadway musicals in a web based instructional activity. They create a portrayal of their own town in this...
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Saturn Flip
Learners work together to create a presentation on Saturn. They use the internet to gather information and must include illustrations. They create an assessment to give to their classmates after their presentation.
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The Americas: A Picture Diagram In Inspiration
Students take notes on the history of Native Americans and arrange those notes using the Inspiration program to create a diagrm showing the three main areas where Native Americans lived in this interactive computer-based activity for the...
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Upside-Down Books
Students read various examples of literature. In groups, they brainstorm a list of views that go against what was in one of the stories. They illustrate the opposite ideas and compile them into a class book. They use each other to...
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Reading Comprehension
First graders listen and read along as a story is read to them. They discuss what they read when finished with the text. Students discuss the story vocabulary and the word meanings. They practice decoding unknown words and complete a...
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Communicate Effectively on Health and Nutrition Topics
Students review vocabulary of common illness necessary to request medical attention. They work in groups to play pictionary using related vocabulary wordsassociated with their health.
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Down the Drain
Students examine the following concepts: If water supplies contain materials which rot or decompose, oxygen is used. Decay and decomposition require vast supplies of oxygen. The use of oxygen for decay of wastes may be a life or death...
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Active Reading: Finding a Conversation Voice
Students practice reading for comprehension and understanding. In groups, students read, out loud, using a conversation voice. They predict and discuss the story as it unfolds.
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Using The Calculator
First graders explore a calculator and practice using its basic functions. Students use the calculator to check math problems they complete. They will use a colored crayon to correct wrong answers.
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Travel Buddies
A travel buddy is some sort of animal or stuffed character that is transported from one school to another and another. A journal accompanies the buddies and the pupils make journal entries as if they were written by the buddy at each...
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Monkeys
Learners recognize the phoneme /m/. Through matching activities, students discriminate the phoneme /m/ from other letters and phonemes. They associate the phoneme with its letter representation and identify the phoneme in various words...