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LEGO Mini-Golf
Young scholars work together in teams to build a LEGO golf course. They build holes with sensors on them for the golf balls. They answer questions about their project to end the lesson.
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Music Box
Students work together to build a music box. They create figures that move when a song plays. They answer discussion questions to complete the lesson.
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Things that Go Bump, Bump, Bump
Young scholars program previously constructed bumper cars to keep bumping and reversing indefinitely. They use touch sensors attached to separate ports and complete a worksheet.
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The Voting Booth
Pupils construct a "voting booth" to gather data using RCX programmable brick and touch sensors. They identify a survey question, construct the booth, and analyze the results by uploading data.
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Noncombatancy and the Seventh day Adventist Church
Upper graders investigate how the Seventh Day Adventists are objectors to the practice of war. The lesson covers the Civil War and examines the church's position about the practice of war. The research extends to modern wars and learners...
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Sampling Variability in the Sample Proportion (part 2)
Increase your sample and increase your accuracy! Scholars complete an activity that compares sample size to variability in results. Learners realize that the greater the sample size, the smaller the range in the distribution of sample...
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Select a Sound: RCX Programming
Students program an RCX to play one sound if a touch sensor is pressed down and another if it is not pressed. They write the program to repeat twenty times and incorporate the use of both a fork and a loop.
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Enigmas
Students research various "mysterious" elements of literature, math, science, technology and life itself.
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Engineering: Lego Cars and Light Sensors
Young scholars build Lego cars with attached light sensors. They program the car to enter a tunnel and reverse out when it records a darker light reading.
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BEAN and SEED MOSAIC
To gain the students' attention pose the following question: How many of you know what Cinco de Mayo is and who it is important to? After some discussions on the students' responses explain to them exactly what Cinco de Mayo is and its...
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Ceramics: A Vessel into History
High schoolers produce a ceramic vessel based on elements derived from historical examples.
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Scrapbook
Learners, using photos as their inspiration, develop six personal narratives, then edit and revise them.
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The Light Inside the Tunnel
Students work to improve their programming skills by programming model cars to drive through a tunnel, turn on its headlights and then extinguish the lights as the car exits the tunnel.
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Then And Now - Internet Research
Students use the Internet as an information resource to locate information for selected topics. They explore how to cite Internet references and resources used in a project.
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Planet/Constellation Mobile
Pupils, through small group discussion, identify and share a rationale for shapes and patterns in the construction of a mobile that represents the solar system that makes them think of the creation of our solar system.
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Paper Structures
Students demonstrate that material strength varies with shape and arrangement.
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The Challenge of Ice and Water
Students work in teams to solve a variety of challenges involving water. They move an ice cube from one glass to another without touching the ice or the glass. They move water from one glass to another and they estimate the number of...
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Sherlock Shell and the Case of the Missing Chicken
Learners read and discuss literature in class. They produce a script based upon the model shared during reading and discussion. Students shoot scenes for a final video project.
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Sandpaper Drawings
Students examine sand art pictures from different cultures. They create their own examples of sand art.
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Capturing the Wind
Students collect and analyze data about wind speed. They build a Lego wind sail and measure the wind speed with a rotation sensor. They use software to analyze the data.
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A World without Color and a World with Color
Visual arts instructional activity involving the creation of a black and white picture followed by a re-creation of the same picture using color with an emphasis on contrast, depth, and mood.
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The Crowd
Students compose and illustrate a scene in which a crowd of some kind, (people, animals, monsters, etc.), is reacting to some event happening out of the field of vision of the viewer.
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Moose Traveler
Students collaborate and write a story about a Moose that travels across country. The adventure would take place in their state and each chapter would include information about the state. Other schools across the states could participate...
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Tell Me a Story
Tenth graders read short story, "The Storyteller" by Saki, and expand on concept of stories for students by reading and evaluating several popular students's stories as well as writing their own original students's stories.