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Four Corners Locomotion
Students participate in warm-up activities before physical education class. They read the activities from card that are set up in the four corners of the room.
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Testing Foods
Learners perform an experiment using brown paper bags to determine which foods have oil in them. This task assesses student's abilities to make simple observations and inferences from them.
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Mystery Boxes
Students make observations about Mystery Boxes that their teacher has made up and describes the motion of the object inside the box and hypothesizes it's shape based on their observations.
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How Many? How Far? How Thick?
Fifth graders examine the role of magnetism and electricity. In groups, they are given different types of magnets and discover how the magnetic force differs for each one. They measure the amount of distance a paper clip moves toward...
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Accounting -- The Ethics School: Getting Organized
Students work together in groups to participate in an ethics board. Individually, they are brought in front of the board to discuss their ethical behavior where technology and internet use are concerned. To end the lesson, they...
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Jump Rope For Health and Literature
Fifth graders practice memorizing a whole poem or an excerpt of it. Individually, they recite the poem to the class and then perform the poem while completing a jump rope routine. To end the lesson, they work with others to develop a...
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Variation in Human Skin Color
Students classify themselves according to the six skin types. In this biology lesson, students explore the causes of human skin variation. They present their findings in class.