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SOME BASIC LESSON PRESENTATION ELEMENTS
Students review the Madeline Hunter Direct Instruction Model. They incorporate objectives, standards, anticipatory set and modeling. Students use guided practice/monitoring and closure daily.
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Echo Location
Students participate in a role-playing activity that demonstrates how whales use sound as an adaptation to their environment.
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How Do You Know Where You Are?
Seventh graders are introduced to geographic thinking, setting the stage for the creation of a map showing distance, direction, location and symbols from their residences to school.
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The Fugitive Slave Law and Migration
Students examine the Fugitive Slave Law as a motivating factor for slaves to emigrate outside the United States. After discussing the relationships between fugitive slaves and North American and Caribbean countries, they write essays...
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City Upon a Hill: Urban Centers and African-American Migrants
Students examine why fugitive slaves migrated to cities and towns rather than rural areas. In this lesson, students consider the social, economic, and political benefits provided by cities and towns in comparison to rural areas.
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Discovering the Mathematics of Sound
Students study the basic skills of algebraic manipulations. They practice the application of basic mathematics in science and determine the nature of good acoustics. They develop proposals for providing good acoustics and identify...
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Mystery Card 3
Students will make a circuit on a mystery card. They will connect wires, bulbs, and battery to form an electrical tester. After students learn how to make one following the directions, they can create their own mystery card by...
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SIRS Discover: Native American Biographies
Fourth graders work in cooperative groups to select and evaluate appropriate magazine articles on Native Americans. They view the program SIRS Discoverer, complete activity sheets then perform oral presentations.
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Scientific Images & Animations
Students view a variety of scientific images and animations. They explore the world of science and visual art. Students enrich their knowledge through animation examinations of thoughts and feelings and awesome color rainbows of...
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Inventions 2: The Impact
Students research inventors and inventions and their impacts. In this invention instructional activity, students research inventions and their affects in good and bad ways.
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Simple Circuits
Students investigate how series and parallel circuits work. In this physics lesson, students build their own simple circuits and compare their characteristics. They explain the importance of circuit breakers in household circuits.
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Sound Stretching
In this basic vowel and consonant blending lesson, young learners are shown how to "blend" the sounds of different letters together in order to make a word. Simple words such as, "sun," "moon," and, "ant," are used in a whole-class setting.