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Communication
Students identify good listening and talking skills and discuss verbal, written, and non-verbal communication. They create collages of magazine pictures demonstrating non-verbal communication.
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Clue In On Color
Students consider the effects of color on moods and feelings. They participate in a variety of demonstrations to explore the role of illusion and suggestion in human perception. They consider which color best represents their personality.
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Sequential Still Life
Sixth graders identify and use the concepts of shading, outline, and watercolor wash. They design a unique sequential still life painting with pencils and watercolors.
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Parts of a Plant Lesson
Young scholars, after reading about the parts of a plant, identify each part and describe its function.
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Math Skills for Everyday: Filling Out Income Tax Forms
Students accurately assess their own income taxes using actual tax forms. They read and fill out the proper forms.
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Classification 2: A Touch of Class
Students examine how many kinds of living things (e.g. plants and animals) can be sorted into groups in many ways using various features to decide which things belong to which group and that classification schemes vary with purpose.
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Keeping a Daily Weather Log
Students create their own daily log books for recording and keeping track of the weather.
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Electricity 5
Fifth graders demonstrate their understanding of circuits by working in small groups to create a flashlight using a limited number of supplies.
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Oral History
Students explore cultural diversity, the difficulties of immigration, and lost cultures. They study historical events such as the Holocaust.
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Analogies in Foreign Language Classes
Second graders create analogies in the target language.
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WHY THE WEST IS BURNING
Students use the Internet to access a passage and identify cause-and-effect relationships. This activity provides practice for the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT).
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Synonymous Sharks
Students locate and read an Internet article on sharks. They write a summary of the article, and complete a Concept of Definition Map using information from the article.
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Let's Watch a Story
Fourth graders watch a silent movie and identify the elements of a story. They complete a worksheet attached to the lesson and discuss their answers.
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Owls and Raptors
Young scholars dissect an owl pellet and identify its contents, after watching the teacher demonstrate the dissection process. Students record their findings on a graph.
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Puzzle Rectangles
Students work in small groups to complete a rectangle puzzle without any verbal communication or hand signals.
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Natural Dyeing with Plants - Scientific Method
Students study the components of scientific investigation by planning and carrying out an experiment in natural dyeing, seeing if different kinds of metal dye pots affect the color one gets from the same plant material.