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Librarian
Students read books, learn about the letter l, and eat pudding all to learn about how to act in a library. In this library lesson plan, students also practice tip toeing around the room.
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Family Time Posters
Students discuss the benefits of spending time with family members. Then they make posters to share their ideas with others.
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Body Outlines
Students trace their bodies onto butcherblock paper and then add clothes, hair, eyes, mouths, etc. They use them to identify their body parts.
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United States Regions
Fifth graders identify the regions of the United States. They gain general knowledge of Regions of the U.S., create a spreadsheet and use word processing to create a report.
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Oceanography Class Quilt
Students create and observe a collage of oceanography topics that be placed on quilt tiles in a culmination art project to represent information learned.
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Tissue Leaf Rubbings
Students use tissue paper to create the texture of a leaf. They use different colors of tissue paper to have leaves of different colors. They place the leaves on white construction paper for all classes to view.
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LESSON 5: Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Students explore Jackie Jooyner-Kersee and how she's a motivator for people both as an athlete and a philanthropist.
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Tessellations and T-Shirts
Young scholars combine the visual arts and technology with mathematics in the creation of these beautiful t-shirts. They view examples of the work of artist M.C. Escher.
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Measuring Mania
Middle schoolers rotate through stations in the classroom, completing different types of measurements. These measurements are placed into a spreadsheet, and a scatter plot is generated. They type an explanation of their results in...
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Personal Memories
Students create an artistic classroom memory place for objects that represent an important moment in their lives.
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Soil Conservation and the EU
Third graders examine how the European Union countries conserve their soil. In groups, they describe ways in which humans can destroy soil and create a plan in which they can be involved to conserve soil in their community. They make...
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What can American third graders learn about soil from the European Union
Third graders develop a list of ways humans destroy soil. In this soil conservation lesson, 3rd graders listen to a book on soil conservation and design posters about how to conserve soil. Students share their work orally with classmates...
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Nursery Rhymes
Students copy a memorized nursery rhyme on to writing paper. They illustrate their writing and the finished piece is posted for conferences or Back-to-School night.
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Amazon Alphabet
Young scholars create an alphabetic Amazon animal mural, illustrating the diversity of life in the tropical rain forest of the Amazon Basin.
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A Trip through the Panama Canal
Students explore the Panama Canal. They study its history, location, reasons for being built, ownership, and so forth. They create presentations that demonstrates what students learned through their research activities.
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Food Model Mobiles
Students create mobiles that represent a day's intake or other criterion, such as healthy snacks, Milk Group foods, breakfast foods, etc.
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Friendship Mobiles
Learners discuss how the sun, wind, clouds and other elements of nature can be their friends. They create mobile demonstrating this.
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How Big is a Blue?
Students determine the length of different whales using a rope marked off and color coded to each length. They create life-size scale drawings of whales on butcher paper.
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Tour of Our Century
Young scholars will research the politics, arts, social climate, technological and
scientific advances of the 1900s. They will work in cooperative groups to
identify the most significant advances of one decade then use a computer to...
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Peacemakers ABC Banner
Students research the life of a man killed by gangs. They discuss ways to solve problems in a peaceful manner. They create banners that show words of peace.
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Where in the World Am I?
Middle schoolers are introduced to geography skills. They answer questions on a worksheet using the internet and maps. They examine the area of Japan as well.
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Social Studies: Grab Day at the Pueblo
Students develop a cultural understanding of "Grab Day." Using magazines, they clip out pictures to make collages of items thrown down to people on this day. Students label the items in their collages.
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Snack Attack
Pupils choose healthy snacks. They are given a point for a snack that is low in fat and sugar. Students recieve a bag of apples or oranges once a week for the winning homeroom. They have a list of suggested snacks in each homeroom,...
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Poet for a Day
Fourth graders, while in the computer lab after reading the poem, "H is for Hoosier," create an acrostic poem about Indiana. They list words that are unique of Indiana and choose one of those words to create their acrostic poems to share...