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What's So Good About Popcorn?

For Teachers 1st
First graders use a thinking map to organize a paragraph. They write and edit their paragraph about popcorn and type the final copy on the computer.
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Raleigh Bound!! A Virtual Tour

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders navigate a DPI web site to answer questions as they preview the Capitol, Legislative Building, and Museum of Natural Sciences before an actual trip to Raleigh.
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Life and Death Situations in Swimming

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students practice what to do in the case of water emergencies. They experiment with using a pair of jeans to create a flotation device and learn to use a life preserver to pull others to safety.
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Using Scholastic News to Introduce the Net

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders log on to the net, type in the address for Scholastic and browse the subjects for the week. They select one area of interest and generate five interesting facts about the article.
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Cinderbank

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders identify major components of a "Cinderella" story in order to create a database.
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How Did the Immigrants Get to the United States?

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders search TDC database for images of immigration from other countries, maps, and diaries. They identify the challenges that immigrants had to endure to reach the United States.
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Show You Know It

For Teachers K - 5th
Students recall days activities and bring closure to an activity.
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Advertise With Geography...it's Free And It's Easy!!

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Learners establish awareness of how landforms/landmarks produce a visual image of a region and demonstrate how advertisers use the "positive geographical image" to sell their product by creating their own advertisements.
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Pokemon Tag

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Young scholars play Pokemon Tag to promote the improvement of chasing and fleeing skills.
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Finding Our Place in the Community

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders search TDC database for images of our hemisphere, continent, ocean, country, state, and city. They identify their place in the hemisphere, continent, ocean, country, state, and city.
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SLIME!

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students learn the effects of friction and examine how certain lubricants can only be used with certain materials.
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THE FLOW OF MUSIC AND POETRY

For Teachers K - 6th
Students describe their feelings through writing, art or music.
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A Blessing in Disguise

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Young scholars study the history of polio as well as a history of modern medicine, the history of alternative medicine and the role of the scientific method in each of these histories. They review the scientific method and research...
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Spaceship Commander Tag

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students participate in a gross motor and locomotor game of tag. A group of students, spaceship commanders, work together to capture all of the "aliens" in the class while wearing hula hoops and practicing a variety of locomotor movements.
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Pokemon Tag

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students play a tag variation game. Four different colored hula hoops are placed in the corners of the gym with a ball of the same color. Four students are selected to be the Pokemon taggers, they stand in their corresponding hula hoop....
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Teaching the Subjects You Never Liked

For Teachers 1st - 8th
Having to teach your least favorite subjects isn't always fun, but can be a learning experience for both teacher and student.
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Respiratory Attack Tag

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students play tag using science terms.
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Island Hopping

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students to use cooperation, communication, problem solving, and math skills.
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AIDS Fact Quilt

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students to gather facts and identify myths associated with the transmission of HIV/AIDS.
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Fitness Scavenger Hunt

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students elevate their heart rate and work together in groups.
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Mission "Possible" Fitness

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students elevate their heart rate and practice fitness skills. They work together to complete a list of exercises simultaneously.
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Animal Antics

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students start at a posted cone with the picture of an animal of your choice. They move as they perceive that animal to get to one of the other cones. Upon arriving at another cone they repeat the process until they have portrayed all...
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Why Recycle?

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Learners use Internet Research to list at least 10 ways to recycle resources at home, school and work. They divide into groups, pool their knowledge and prepare infomercials explaining their recycling strategies.
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Food Groups and the Food Guide Pyramid

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students read and explain food labels and decide in which part of the food guide pyramid selected food items belong.