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Mysterious Monsters
People have reported seeing all kinds of mysterious monsters. But are they real or just a figment of people's imaginations? In this activity, students will delve into these mysteries and present their findings as if they were the...
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Message to the Future
Designing a monument can be fun. It is a way to learn about the ideas and planning that go into the creation of a monument. Future archaeologists may learn a lot about our culture from the monuments we leave behind.
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Sampling Snoops
Students practice formulating a hypothesis and designing an experiment to test the hypothesis. They identify several sampling techniques they can use to test their hypotheses.
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Review Poetry and the Simile and the Metaphor
Students compile a list of the things they look for in a friend. Then they use that information to create a simple poem. Later they illustrate and display their poems.
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Making a Speech
Fourth graders make a five minute speech on the life of a famous person.
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Classification And Identification
Students explore diagrammatic and taxonomic keys and their application in the marine sciences. They sort and classify objects and organisms based on visual attributes.
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Lesson One: The Historian's Craft
Students examine a fairy tale villain (such as the wolf from the Three Little Pigs or the Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard of Oz). Next, they complete a worksheet considering the challenges presented by historical resources.
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Introducing Tolkien and His Words
Learners identify and describe the types of narratives that made Tolkien the writer he was. In groups, they examine different myths and folktale motifs. They discuss what Tolkien meant by "faerie" and "eucatastrophe." As a class, they...
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Tolkien's Moral Universe
Young scholars analyze the landscape used in Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings". In groups, they discuss how Tolkien developed Elrond's promise and develop a case assuming Tolkien rejected "Manichaean dualism". They also compare and...
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One Ring to Rule Them All
Students continue to read Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. In groups, they analyze the different metaphysical aspects of the ring and discuss the characters use of power in the story. As a class, they examine Frodo's reasoning for wanting...
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Alike and Different
Second graders listen to a book about how farms feed the world. They discuss elements of rural life. They listen to a story about the suburbs and discuss elements specific to a suburban community. They listen to a story about city...
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I See A Bee
Young scholars create a drawing of a word containing the sound /ee/. They are introduced to the /ee/ vowel pattern that comprise the long /ee/ vowel sound. They practice listening for and reading a variety of words containing the long...
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Environmental Risk Management
Students are engaged in cooperative learning strategies and critical thinking activities to introduce topics of analysis, probability, assessment, and management as they apply to environmental risk. They choose a risk from the class...
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Let's Build
Students observe and discuss a picture of Curious George building a bridge and discuss what it means to build, plan and design a project. As a class, they list things they need to do in oder to build something and explore how a compass...
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Pentagonal Prism Net
In this math worksheet, students create a geometric model by cutting, folding and pasting the tabs on this pentagonal prism net. There is no picture of what it should look like when finished.
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Triangular-prism Net
In this math activity, students create a model of a triangular prism by cutting the pattern and folding on the lines. There is no picture of the finished product.
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Number Lines
In this number lines worksheet, student study and analyze the patterns of the first five number lines and then follow the same pattern on the remaining three number lines.
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Identify Outcomes Chart
In this math worksheet, learners take turns rolling two dice. After each roll, students mark a graph that records the occurrences of each sum.
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Identify Outcomes Spinner
For this math worksheet, students explore a math spinner. The spinner is divided into four sections: red, blue, green, and red.
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Grid Paper
In this math worksheet, students create a bar graph using a ten by ten grid paper. Students can also create shapes using the grid paper.
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Double Bar Graph Grid
In this math worksheet, students use this blank double bar graph grid as a tool for any graphing problem. There is a space for the title, labels for each axis and a spot for the key.
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How Do People Use Rocks And Minerals?
In this rock and mineral activity, middle schoolers will graphically organize the main idea of what a rock is and then add details on how people use rocks by filling in the seven blanks.
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What Lives in the Deserts?
In this desert instructional activity, students will investigate the factors that make a desert by completing four different desert fact questions.