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Homemade Etch-a-sketch
Students explore a homemade etch-a-sketch. In this hands-on experience, students benefit from the directions on how to create a homemade etch-a-sketch. This lesson is intended more as a how-to for the teacher of a younger child.
University of Minnesota
Try Angle
Does practice make perfect or just improvement? Scholars practice drawing a triangle on an Etch-A-Sketch. They learn about the part of the brain that controls sensory-motor integration and apply that to an analysis question.
Dick Blick Art Materials
Ball Point Engravings
Turn simple pencil sketches into colorful engravings. After first creating hand-drawn pictures, young artists then trace over them will ball point pens, etching the images into cold press illustration boards, before rubbing crayons over...
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Quick-Sketch Artist Tips on Mind Mapping the Urban Landscape
Students interpret maps. They also create mental maps of regions in which they are studying. Students then explain the historical or cultural significance of map features orally or in written form. Students take a walking field trip...
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Painting on Foil
Students choose a torn out coloring page and place it on top of the foil. They hold the page in place and retrace the drawing with a pencil pressing down hard enough to etch the drawing into the foil.
Teach Engineering
Visualizing Magnetic Field Lines
Magnetic fields might not be a field of dreams but they are useful. Class members observe the reactions of magnetic fields using a compass, iron filings in a paper container, and iron filings suspended in mineral oil.
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The Ozone
Students engage in lesson concerned with the concept of the ozone layer. They write a reflective journal using prior knowledge. Students read sources of information about the existence of a hole in the ozone layer. Finally they create...
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Inventor's Challenge Review
In this science worksheet, students match each invention or device to its inventor listed on the right. There are 32 inventors listed and some may be used twice. Then they order the items in each group from oldest to newest and state the...
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Are We Sure They Are Parallel?
Fourth graders explore the definition and properties of parallel lines. This high level lesson has students calculate the slope of the two parallel lines, and draw the lines on a Caretsian coordinate system.
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Fingerprinting
Students create a fingerprint card of each of their fingers using a pencil, special paper and tape. A comparison is made with their fingerprints to that of their classmates. They have to analyze how the prints are similar and different.