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Leaping!
Learners properly leap and measure their distance. In this leaping lesson, students practice leaping for accuracy and proper form. Learners estimate their leaps and measure with rulers. Students determine distance covered by the entire...
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Surfing Safely on the Internet
Students explained and demonstrated what the Internet is and the safety rules for using it. They navigate the Internet using search tools and the browser.
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Surfing for ABC's
Students explore how to use the Internet and how it can be a learning tool and a safe, informative place for them.
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Give a Cookie
Young scholars discover the importance of sharing. In this philanthropy lesson plan, students read the book The Doorbell Rang and discuss how the character practiced sharing in the story. Young scholars make cookies and practice the...
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The Way Animals Move: Fly, Crawl, or Swim?
Students use "Kid Pix" to stamp and sort animals in groups to show the way animals move: fly, walk-slither-slide-crawl, or swim. They need to have knowledge of a variety of animals and how they move from one place to another.
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Robotic Muscles
Students investigate how adding more pulleys affect the pulling power. In this physics lesson, students explain how pulleys work. They compare the work done by robots with and without pulleys.
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Spaces and Places
Students identify three-dimensional forms in various buildings and construct three-dimensional paper forms.
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What’s That, I Can’t Hear You?
Young scholars investigate forms of energy as well as light and sound. For this science lesson, students participate in hands-on activities that require them to evaluate how sound affects astronauts in flight. A video of this lesson...
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Cause and effect Relationship
Students examine folk’s tales for Cause and Effect. In this literature lesson, students read "The Origin of Fire" and "The Origin of Medicine” and look for cause and effect. They use a TI Navigator to write down their findings.
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Global Water Cycle & Heat Flow
Learners experiment to discover how different variables affect the water cycle. They do hat flow experiments and construct a computer heat flow model.
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Geometry House!
Fourth graders use computer drawing tools to create a house of geometric shapes.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Manipulation Central
Not everyone solves a problem in the same way. Reinforcing that different strategies can be used effectively is the goal of this lesson.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Distributive Property, Day 1
Children need to move from the manipulative expressions of the distributive property into the mathematical equations eventually. This lesson is the first step in leading them to that goal.
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Alex: Battle to the Death: Adding Integers
The goal of this lesson is for learners to use manipulatives to add integers, creating concepts rather than memorizing rules. This lesson will be related to the 300 Spartans who battled the invading Persians at the Battle of Thermopylae,...