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Iowa - Here We Come
Students practice their geography skills. In this geography instructional activity, students plan a trip in their state that includes calculating mileage, time, and other costs. Students also submit a written trip itinerary.
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Factors That Affect Climate
Fifth graders use captured portions of the Internet ("mininets") to perform research into climate. They create graphs of the data recorded using latitude as the independent variable and temperature as the dependent variable.
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Weather Reporter
Fourth graders generate an oral presentation on the weather. In this weather lesson plan, 4th graders watch the weather for a week and record the data on a chart. Students give a weather report at the end of the week.
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Explore Three-Dimensional Shapes
Students are assigned to shape groups and explore three-dimensional shapes. They review math skills and two-dimensional shapes.
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Learn the Shapes
Students examine and identify the similarities and differences of two-dimensional shapes. They play an I-Spy shape game, participate in a classroom Shape Search, and create illustrations of shapes for a shape collage.
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I'm Out of Here
Young scholars create a travel budget. In this budget lesson, students research vacation destinations. Working independently, young scholars research destinations on the Internet and construct a budget for the vacation. Resources provided.
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4th Grade Math Quiz
In this grade 4 math quiz activity, 4th graders complete a 15 question multiple choice quiz covering a variety of grade 4 concepts.
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An American Spy with Money To Spend
Sixth graders use their imagination, math, reading, computer, geography, and social studies skills in this unique, innovative, and fun lesson where students pretend to be international spies!
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Chemical Changes by Gems
Seventh graders observe that heat is produced when two substances are combined. They brainstorm how, and then experiment to find out which of two chemicals created the heat.