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Clouds
Students observe and record different types of clouds. They use a cloud chart to discuss the three cloud types to see if students can identify the clouds they drew.
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Water on the Move
Young scholars play a "Water on the Move" game to deepen their understanding of the water cycle.
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Mineral Magic
Students classify rocks and minerals according to their characteristics, after finding the similarities and differences of school supplies and pasta.
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Quadrilaterals
Young scholars create, classify and sort quadrilaterals. They create several four-sided polygons, then choose their most unique quadrilateral to share with their group.
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Plant Puzzlers
Students determine how to sort data when presented with data cards about plants. This game requires students to make inferences about why plants might live in a particular environment and how physical characteristics influence survival...
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How Big is a Dinosaur?
Fourth graders create enlarged replica of a stegosaurus drawing, using a grid to practice coordinates.
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Investigation 3 - Terrariums / Aquariums
Third graders create aquariums or terrariums to explain how creatures depend on living and nonliving things.
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Song Writing
Students write an original song using music composition software such as Music Time. By doing this, students identify another use for the computer besides word processing and games.
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Account-Recording Adjusting/Close Entries(Service Bus.)
Students participate in a number of activities to learn how to adjust general ledger accounts and journal closing entries.
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Banking
Students examine how a checking account enables them to record spending and keep a budget in balance. They discover how to write a check and fill out a bank deposit slip, and then how to balance a bank statement with a check register.
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Tomb Robbers
Sixth graders examine benchmark angles embedded into a circle grid and examine how grid systems do not always have to be square. the game "Tomb Robbers" is used to develop strategies.
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Lemonade for Sale
Third graders engage in a read-aloud of the book, "Lemonade for Sale." They collect data from the story and turn the data into a mathematical graph. This lesson has a rubric for you and the students to follow-very creative lesson.
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Make a Refrigerator
Third graders explore the concept of heat transfer as experienced in wearing winter clothing and analyzing the refrigerator.
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Lifting the Load
Third graders analyze the pulley and demonstrate how forces cause changes in speed and direction of objects.
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Move It, Sir Isaac!
Third graders analyze the work of Sir Isaac Newton as they investigate the laws of motion and force. Inertia is observed through a lump of clay.
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Sliding Along
Third graders explore the concept of linear measurements and how they work. Coins are used to reinforce the process.
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Math Vocabulary
Fourth graders participate in a creative way to learn and remember important math vocabulary. This lesson incorporates music to help students remember the meaning of each math operation and the vocabulary associated with it. A very...
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Consumer Fraud
Students create consumer fraud reports from given topic list, including visuals and a song.
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Budgeting Your Financial Resources (The Mint)
Students plan and maintain balanced budgets.
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Financial Literacy - Careers and Income
Students practice filling out job applications, create resumes, simulate hiring process, discuss benefits offered to employees, hidden costs of a job, and the risks and rewards of being an entrepreneur or self-employed.
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Making Decisions
Students identify three decisions they are trying to make, and use decision-making process sheet to work through one of the decisions they have identified.
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Making Maps
First graders create a map of their classroom that can be used to find a hidden treasure. They examine two- and three-dimensional objects and discover characteristics.
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Tadpole Diary
Second graders examine the life cycle by observing tadpoles. After reading the book, Tadpole Diary, they draw the stages of tadpole development and write sentences about what they think is happening.