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Someone Is In The Kitchen
Students investigate the lifestyles of the Native Americans and look at a recipe found on a website. They read the recipe and pay attention to the measurements. They differentiate between the various measures in order to apply them to...
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Henry Ford and Assembly Line Production
Pupils study Henry Ford and the imprtance of the history of automotives. They participate in learning stations to assemble diagrams simulating an assembly line. They produce pictures at each station and pass the picture on to the next...
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Workshop 6: Improving the Community
Students participate in a service learning project to improve their community. They work together to decide on a project and how to implement it. They propose solutions to problems the community is facing as well.
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In The Eye Of The Beholder
Students, in groups, research Rembrandt's life and works. They find critiques of his work, as well. Each group reports their findings back to the rest of the class. Finally, they create abstract drawings and write interpretations about...
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Developing Cause & Effect Understanding in Severely Multiply
Students with severe multiple impairments determine ways to use a single access switch to create sounds and images on the computer screen. They follow a variety of teacher cues to access the sound card and images until they reach an...
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Term Deposits: Worth the Wait?
Students study term deposits and the attributes of long and short-term savings. They examine their spending habits while looking at how different types of accounts meet different economic goals. They complete worksheets that are provided...
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Orientation of the Earth in Space
Students hypothesize the location of the sun in the sky at diferent times of day and at different latitudes. They perform several experiments to provide evidence for their hypothesis. Experiments including observing the sun's position at...
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The Sleeping Beauty: Key Stage Two
Students partner work exploring turn taking and gestures. They access to stop when the music stops and listen to the leader's instruction. Students/teams meet at opposite sides of the room and decide their character. They practice moving...
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Scooter Boats
Learners use arm muscle strength to perform a partner activity. For this strength building activity, students work with a partner to create a "boat" with mats and a scooter. Partners take turns being pulled or pulling the scooter boat.
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Historical Heroes and Today's Heroes
Middle schoolers identity characteristics of a hero. In this heroes lesson, students discuss what it means to be a hero and work in small groups to find characteristics of a hero and people they consider heroes. Middle...
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Hackenbush: Math Game
In this math worksheet, learners collaborate with classmates to play a group problem solving game called Hackenbush. The directions for the game are somewhat confusing.
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Turkey Hunt
Students roll a ball at a stationary target and protect their turkey from getting hit with a ball.
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Take Three Or Less
Fourth graders play a game clarifying when a game is "fair". They play in pairs stressing that the idea that they work out a winning strategy for the first player. They look for patterns to suggest that they start with a smaller number...
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Introduction to Organizing and Implementing Centers
Students explore the steps a teacher goes through to plan, organize and implement centers in the classroom. They observe a video of classroom management using centers and computer technology. Strategies for managing students who are...
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"pH and the Environment"
Eighth graders experiment and study about acids and bases by becoming involved in direct hands-on learning experiences and then relate those experiences to their own lives. They experience the Ohio River and what can be done to help...
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Creating a School Web Site
Students create websites for their school. They work in groups as a web team and devise a self-management plan. As they work on projects reflecting school life, the team edits what may appear online as the school's web site. Writing...
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Musical Line Movements
Students work on balance by traveling along lines on the floor; and by starting and stopping a variety of locomotor movements with control.
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Visual Art: Primary Colors
First graders identify primary colors and consider their use in works by Henri Mattise and Mary Cassatt. They conduct an experiment with food coloring and then draw a color tree differentiating between warm and cool colors.
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Watershed Investigations
Students find maps of the region to show rock formations and soil types and use GIS to compare radon levels. They describe three types of radioactive decay, interpret graphs, and follow steps to develop a nuclear bomb or energy.
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Converting fraactions and percents
Sixth graders practice the conversion of percents and fractions. They focus on the fact of both fractions and percents are part of a whole. In the independent practice the students also work with solving proportions.
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Alphabetizing Words Beginning with A and B
Young scholars listen to explanation of how to put words beginning with "A" and "B" in alphabetical order observing examples. They then complete the worksheet to work on the skill independently.
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Alphabetizing Words Beginning with C and D
Students listen to the explanation of how to put words in alphabetical order; in this case beginning with "C" and "D". They then work independently using the worksheet provided to alphabetize words beginning with "C" and "D".
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Inclined Planes
Young scholars break into small groups with each group using 3 books, a board with pulleys attached at both ends, a toy cart, a small paper cup with a long piece of string attached the end and some pennies. They test their guesses to see...
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The Milkman
Students practice speaking and listening in the context of an improvised mini-play. They play the role of a milkman. He stops and rings the imaginary doorbell of one of the pupils. A conversation follows, for example: "What will it be...