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The Touch N Feel Box
Students discover the characteristics of living and non living objects without the use of sight. In this sense of touch lesson, students touch items put in a shoe box and must identify whether the item was once living or not by...
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"Board" Games
Sixth graders practice using adjectives in writing. In this grammar lesson, 6th graders take pictures of items they can describe. Students write sentences with adjectives to describe the item in the photo.
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My Favorite Things
Students identify "masterpieces" and mass-produced objects. They explain why they value a given object and determine what physical materials were used to create the objects. They create a class book featuring objects that they value.
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Speaking and Listening
In this speaking and listening learning exercise, students give a two-minute talk about a picture or object. Students read a list of questions that help them get started.
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Magnify That
Pupils observe many different objects using a magnifying lens. In this magnification lesson plan, students learn that scientists use different tools, and they use the tool to magnify objects in the classroom to see objects in better detail.
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Blow and Go
Students discover how air can move things by using their breath. For this physics lesson, students hypothesize then attempt to move a pencil 1 meter using nothing but their breath. Students record data from their experiment including...
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Getting Started With Java-Background
Students study the history of computers including hardware and software, binary representation of data and examine the beginnings of programming languages. They investigate the development of software and the fundamentals of...
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Incomplete Plans
Students practice constructing a building utilizing snap cubes and an incomplete building plan and draw the missing view. They identify and compare relationships in two and three-dimensional representations/objects. Each student explains...
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The Toilet Paper Solar System
Students classify the planets in the solar system, study planetary objects, and measure the relative distance between planets. In this solar system lesson, students use toilet paper to complete a scale model of the distance between the...
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Guess My Shape
Young scholars describe shapes to other students who have to guess that shape. In this shape lesson plan, young scholars describe shape attributes to other students. Then those other young scholars have to guess the shape that is being...
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Right Angles
For this math worksheet, students learn to recognize a right angle. Students study the picture of the right angle and are asked to draw 3 examples. Students then find and draw 9 examples of right angles in objects around them.
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And Then What Happened?
Students analyze paintings by using verbs, adjectives, and nouns. In this visual arts activity, students view a painting of a storm and a calm sky. Students use various verbs and adjectives to discuss the characteristics of each...
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Making Pictures from Smaller Shapes
Students investigate shapes. In this dimension and orientation of shapes instructional activity, students identify and color shapes, use shape stamps to form animals, glue shapes together to make other objects and describe how...
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Touch N' Feel Box
Young scholars are encouraged to use senses other than sight to record observations. They explore scientific questioning, observations and human senses (touch, hearing and sight). Students describe objects using their sense of touch and...
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It Counts
Young scholars explore how numbers can identify objects. In this math instructional activity, students determine how numbers are used to describe objects used in quantitative data collection.
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Color the Trucks
Students become familiar with the jobs of different types of trucks. In this color of trucks lesson, students decorate trucks with decorations based on the job of the truck. Students describe the trucks they've colored.
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Investigating the Types of Energy in Different Objects
Students investigate forms of energy. In this physical science energy lesson, students work with a partner classifying household items according to the type of energy they have. Students complete a related worksheet.
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Slides, Flips. Turns......It's All On A Memory Book Page
Fourth graders use tangram sets to investigate the congruence of shapes. They use congruent shapes to demonstrate the properties of slides, flips, and turns. They complete a math journal entry that describes and illustrates each concept.
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Spanish Superlatives
Write sentences containing superlatives in Spanish about objects in the classroom. Read aloud the sentence, then post it on the object for everyone in the classroom to see.
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Objects Vibrate
Students strike a tuning fork and dip it in water. They sprinkle cereal flakes on a drum, than tap the top of the drum. Students stretch a rubber band between two fingers and pluck it; stretch the elastic farther and pluck it again. Then...
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Hidden Objects
Fourth graders feel objects hidden in paper bag, and describe how they feel, smell, sound and/or taste.
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Describe Comoon Objects and Actions in both General and Specific Language
Students are told that they are going to describe the noun and verb in a simple sentence to make the sentence more detailed. They are told that a noun is a person, place or thing. Students are taught that a verb is an action word. They...
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Chemical Composition of Everyday Objects
High schoolers relate chemistry to an object they use everyday. They research information related to chemistry and create their own webpage. They are to keep their page up to date as new observations are taken.
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Adjectives
In this adjectives ESL worksheet, students analyze 7 pictures that compare 2 different objects. One of the objects has an arrow pointing to it. Students match the picture with the adjective that best describes the indicated object.