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Spark Activity: Parachute Switcheroo
Students move from one parachute to another, based on a color called out by the teacher. Students attempt to move before the teacher counts to five. Students discuss direction and moving in clockwise and counter clockwise directions.
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Tissue Paper Flowers For Valentines Day
Students make a Valentine's Day gift. In this gift giving lesson, students make a bouquet of flowers out of tissue paper to give to a love one.
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Comparing Plant and Animal Cells
In this comparing plant cells and animal cells activity, students view cells from their cheeks and cells from elodea. A Venn diagram reveals similarities and differences between the cells.
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Firefighters: Community Helpers
Students, after reading the book, The Fire Station Book, discuss how a firefighter helps people in a community. They also participate in songs and games about firefighting.
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Saving Money Through Mathematics
Third graders discuss light sources and collect data about energy sources. They compare data and create a multiple line graph showing energy used by light sources for each student in the group. They present their graphs and write a...
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Soccer
Fifth graders examine and practice the proper techniques for dribbling a soccer ball around four cones. They show both speed proficiency and ball control. They complete a warm up activity before becoming active in the soccer activities....
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Mystery or Hogwash?
Eighth graders choose topics of interest, and select books from the library about them. They utilize a worksheet embedded in the text which has the students rate the text they've read based on it's "believability factor." An interesting...
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Hula Hoop Hoopla!
Students develop spatial awareness through "movement" using hula hoops as the personal parameter.
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Treasure Hunt
Students dribble a ball while moving. In this dribbling lesson, students participate in a game in which they dribble from "poly spot" to "poly spot" gathering basic shapes identified as 'treasure".
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Crime School Investigations
Young scholars solve a mystery at their school. In this classifying instructional activity, students find suspects who committed the crime. Young scholars categorize them into race, sex, and fingerprint type. Students show their results...
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Thunderstorms
Fourth graders examine the attraction between two different charges to investigate lightning in a thunderstorm. They complete an experiment and a worksheet.
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Lichens as Air Quality Indicators: A beginning lichen identification study (2003
Learners use GPS and trees to explore lichens and air quality.
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Math: Arcs and Chords
Learners draw diagrams demonstrating how it is possible to two central angles to be congruent and their minor arcs are not congruent. In groups, they illustrate theorems with their constructed circles, create diameters of circles that...
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Dependent Clauses
In this dependent clause worksheet, learners highlight dependent clauses, circle relative pronouns and subordinate conjunctions and add missing commas in a paragraph.
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Lesson 6 - Our Important Wetlands and Uplands
Students examine the benefits wetlands provide to man and nature. They compare types of wetlands in northeast or east-central Florida. They discover ways that uplands affect wetlands and water bodies.
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Jail House Rock
Students with disabilities are provided with a dance experience. This could be done as an inclusion activity. They dance to Jail House Rock by Elvis Presley.
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A4 Containers
Fifth graders determine which container made from a single sheet of paper has the greatest volume. They look the solutions made by three different students before working on their own examples.
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Gold Mine
Students view and discuss a demonstration of how gold is mined and panned. They design and create a tunnel that has reinforcements to withstand collapse.
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My Name is.....
Students utilize available technology to create, produce, and publish an alphabet pattern book. Students use publishing, multimedia and word processing for their writing. They create their own A My Name is Alice Class book based off the...
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Who says I can't be Sherlock Holmes?
Students create a "crime scene" in their classroom and have to tell what's out of place. The class is given a set of cards that are all face down and have to play concentration. If they get a matched pair, they get both cards. Whoever...
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Predators & Prey
Students discuss what predators and prey are. Students participate in a playground game aimed at simulating predators and prey.
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Helen Keller: Word Search
in this Helen Keller word search worksheet, students find 7 words from Helen Keller's speech in a word search puzzle. Words are hidden horizontally, vertically and diagonally. Speech is not given as part of worksheet.
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Ecosystems
In this ecosystems worksheet, students define the components that make up an ecosystem. Students focus on the forests found in Ireland. This worksheet has 30 fill in the blank and 7 short answer questions.
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Make Your Own Shape Puzzles
Pupils create their own shape puzzles. They practice putting puzzle pieces together so they fit correctly. They classify and sort the different shapes as they finish the puzzle.