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A Christmas Project

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders publish a letter and spreadsheet using the computer. They build a three-dimesnsional object with construction paper and develop a Christmas object using coordinates on a graph. Students compose a response in their journals.
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European Explorer's Photo Journal

For Teachers 6th - 11th
Pupils study early European explorers. They choose one to research and complete a photo journal of his explorations, which includes maps, articles, etc.
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Ancient Greece Across the Curriculum

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders explore Ancient Greece using resources in literature, math, social studies, and science.
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Waterfalls

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders practice identifying the main idea and supporting details when reading informational text. They read text related to waterfalls and practice note taking skills to identify critical details. Students use their notes to...
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Create Your Own Tornado

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders identify key concepts and definitions about tornados. They work in small groups of three to four to create mini-tornados. After reading Tornado Alert as a class, 3rd graders discuss tornados and fill out a KWL chart.
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Seasons

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders draw a picture. In this seasons lesson, 3rd graders name the seasons of the year, discuss what happens during each season, read a poem for each season and draw a picture for each season.
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Kwanzaa

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students explore African American holiday of Kwanzaa, orally share ideas about whom they want to invite to classroom Kwanzaa celebration, create and print invitation to Kwanzaa using Publisher or Print Shop, and share completed...
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Wild Animal Science

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Learners discover how environmental factors impact the survival of a population. In this landscape design lesson, students create a new animal and discuss the relationship between the animal and its environment before creating a habitat...
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Who Wants to be a Millionaire?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine wealth including analyzing and interpreting the sources of it.  In this social responsibility lesson students create their own political cartoon.
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A House for Hermit Crab

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Engage young marine biologists in a reading of Eric Carle's A House for Hermit Crab with a fun hands-on activity. Given a set of clipart images of the different aquatic animals that appear in the book, children identify each one...
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Personal / Group Magazine

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders complete the magazine template in the Macmillan "Writer's Journal" available through the basic skills department using word processing, spreadsheet, graphic, and electronic resource (i.e.-Internet) skills
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Ducks

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students explore and learn about the habitats, diets, and specific attributes of various species of ducks. Students know the names of at least seven species of ducks and at least five criteria for identifying species of ducks.
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Funky Illuminated Fairy Tales

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create a nameplate and an original fairy tale book using an illuminated manuscript format. They create a personal nameplate using a decorated or historiated initial, a border, and illuminations.
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To Go Where No Student Has Gone Before

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders participate in interactive video teleconference with employees of NASA Johnson Space Center. Students visit inside of space station module, take video tour of Russian-built Service Module by Astronaut Bill Shepherd, visit...
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What is American Culture

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Learners create what they feel is American Culture using a video camera and capturing 5 frames. They are animating parts of a poem in small groups. They decide the set up, create movable figures, and have a music section. Each person...
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Castle Blue Eagle

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders read the legend of King Arthur. They complete comprehension activities and research life in the Middle Ages. In groups, 6th graders complete several projects including making shields, crowns, and stained glass art designs.
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Color Wheel Project

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students review the relationship between primary and secondary colors. As a class, they are introduced to the tertiary colors and use photographs to show them in a room design. To end the lesson, they create a new color wheel with...
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Rhyme at Circle Time

For Teachers K
Students study the importance of clean hands and practice the literacy skills of listening, matching, auditory discrimination, vocabulary, and rhyming. They illustrate their rhyme chart with drawings or photos taken doing the different...
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Caching in Pine's Treasures

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students compile image information about the Junior High School using a digital camera. They survey the area making observations and recording them with the help of portable technology and transferring the data to a spreadsheet and...
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Travel By Design Brochure Creation

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders create a travel brochure using computer software and the Internet.  In this foreign country instructional activity, 12th graders create a travel brochure as a marketing tool in order to attract potential clients and...
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The Art of Construction

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students research the architecture. in this architecture lesson, students examine buildings from the point of view of the architect or builder. They draw their own building and have a classmate build it. 
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Sharks

For Teachers 1st - 8th
Students research sharks, the food chain, and the water habitat shared by humans and sharks.
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Birds of a Feather

For Teachers K
Students investigate birds and complete a variety of bird-themed activities. They read books and observe birds noting their physical characteristics, development and life cycle stages.
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Introduction to Biomes

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders use scientific skills and processes to recognize how living things depend on one another and on the environment for survival and the human use of natural resources impacts the environment. Explain how Earth's surface...