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A Closer Look at Wood
Pupils examine forests as a renewable resource and conservation practices. In this conifers lesson plan students complete a lab activity on the different types of wood.
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Integrating Anime and Manga into an Art of Motion Picture Course
Students examine the art of Anime and note its characteristics. Using scenes, they identify the plots, characters and themes trying to be portrayed. In groups, they compare and contrast the animation in America to that of Anime and...
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Making Math Meaningful in March Madness
Students examine the statistics of March Madness, the college basketball tournament. They watch videotaped basketball games to collect data for further analysis using Word and Excel. They analyze the data in a variety of activities...
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Respiratory System
Students identify the parts of the respiratory system and how they interact. They define vocabulary words and draw an outline of themselves and label the parts of the respiratory system. They distinguish between healthy and unhealthy...
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The Microscope
Pupils investigate the parts and functions of a compound microscope. They explore various websites, label the parts of a microscope on a worksheet, view prepared slides, and create drawings of the prepared slides.
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Estimation Lesson Plan
Students use four different computer estimation applets with several classroom estimation activities.
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Round to the Nearest Whole $
In this rounding money instructional activity, students identify the money amounts in each examples and round to the nearest dollar for the 10 examples.
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Can You Give Me Directions To the Game?
Students become familiar with the use and capabilities of GIS and use it for research and mapping purposes. They heighten their ability to estimate travel times by incorporating distance, mode of travel and urban congestion into the...
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Art Reflects Life
Fifth graders use the Internet to view collections of famous artists throughout the eighteenth century America. Using the artwork, they identify the themes that portrayed America as the land of opportunity. They record their findings...
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To Whom It May Concern
Fourth graders produce and peer edit typed rough drafts of the business letters following the guidelines illustrated in the Eight Essential Parts of a business letter and save to disks. They complete the Where's the Math? scavenger hunt...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Descriptive Writing
This is a comprehensive article about what descriptive writing including what it is, why to teach it and strategies to teach it. It also features two videos Five Senses Graphic Organizer and Writing Poems as well as an annotated list of...
McGraw Hill
Mc Graw Hill Education: Bioscience: Sensory System [Pdf]
A 22-page textbook chapter identifying sensory systems of animals and humans for those studying how the various senses assist adaptation to environments. Investigates classes of environmental stimuli as well as gives an in-depth...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: 'Nuts' About Peanuts!! (Writing)
This lesson will be implemented as part of a unit about plants. The young scholars will describe the characteristics of a peanut and peanut butter (using their five senses) and record their observations/descriptions on a graphic...
Other
Grade 1 Informative Writing Lessons
Authored by the Tsehai Russell and Della Wright, CLR fellows, this resource provides a 5-day unit of informative writing lessons. Focus lessons related to facts and opinions and paragraph writing. This series is supported by the Academic...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Molecular Genetics and Microbiology of Zaire Ebolavirus
Read this passage and study the graphics to complete a five-question quiz related to the Ebola virus life cycle.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Elements of Literature: Imagery Chart [Pdf]
A short graphic organizer for students in studying the literary element of imagery. Includes a definition and chart with five sections with examples, one for each of the senses.