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Air Pressure is Powerful
Students make a barometer and write a paragraph describing how they did it.
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1st Grade - Act. 11: Fairy Tale Riddles & Puppet Shows
First graders put on puppet show and retell fairy tales.
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1st Grade - Act. 19: Will it Float?
First graders drop items into water, and discuss why some things float and others sink.
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Learning About Maps
Students take a "field trip" with the teacher through the school then draw a diagram of what they saw. They bring the maps to the computer lab where they create electronic maps using the software program Neighborhood Map Machine.
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Meiosis and Sexual Reproduction
Eighth graders are able to define meiosis. They are able to compare and contrast meiosis and mitosis. Students are able to state the phases of meiosis. They complete a K-W-L chart on meiosis and mitosis. Students talk about meiosis...
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Scientist Tracking Network
Young scholars correlate surface radiation with mean surface temperature of several geographic regions. They observe how these parameters change with latitude and construct an understanding of the relationship of solar radiation to...
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Tiger Math Graphing
Learners practice various skills using the book Tiger Math: Learning to Graph from a Baby Tiger. After listening to the story, they create a pictograph using data collected from the text. They also color a picture of a tiger,...
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The Battle of Brandywine
Students explore the Battle of Brandywine, how to analyze maps, and construct a model of a battlefield.
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Just Say It
Learners explore the initial Supreme Court decision to regulate commercial speech, and then analyze the legal precedents and principles underlying a recent case contesting this regulation.
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Does Cloud Type Affect Rainfall?
Student uses MY NASA DATA to obtain precipitation and cloud type data. They create graphs of data within MY NASA DATA. They compare different cloud types as well as precipitation types. They describe graphs of the precipitation and cloud...
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Loss of Wetlands: Subsidence
Students observe subsidence and the effect it has on wetlands with a classroom demonstration. They think about the impact of global warming and the sea level and how it affects the marsh.
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Huck Finn Chapter Questions
Learners answer chapter questions to evaluate the novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
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Adding Snap to Language Arts
Students take photographs of themselves, animals, and objects and used these photos as springboards for writing stories, plays, photo captions, comic strips, ads for products, and greeting card messages.
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Lizards
Fourth graders recall lizards from the text and report their important traits. The teacher adds the information to the map. They watch the map expand while it organizes all of the lizards and their characteristics.
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1st Grade - Act. 07: Seven Fat Cats
First graders listen to story Seven Fat Cats and match the sounds (rhyming, beginning, ending, and vowel).
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To Walt Whitman
Students examine the poem To Walt Whitman by Angela de Hoyos. They divide into groups. Each group creates a poem written from one of two perspectives: to Walt Whitman or to de Hoyos from Whitman.
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2nd Grade - Act. 01: Exploration Tubs
Second graders communicate ideas, information, and feelings.
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Character Education-Honesty
First graders learn the importance of honesty as they practice problem solving, listening, and sequencing skills. The lesson uses the story, " Too Many Tamales."
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The Life and Times of Robert Frost
Students explore the life and times of Robert Frost. Using a fact worksheet imbedded students access websites to gather information about the life and writings of Robert Frost.
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1st Grade - Act. 06: Beep, Beep, Vroom, Vroom
First graders identify, create, and label simple patterns.
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Fairy Tale Riddles & Puppet Shows
First graders put on a puppet show and retell fairy tales.
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What Is a Business?
Learners discover how to maintain successful businesses as they assume the roles of owners and drivers of their own ice cream trucks.