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Take a Plane or a Train
Students listen to the song, The Wheels on the Bus. Instead of a bus, students attempt to sing the song using a different mode of transportation.
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Headin' West! The Life of a Pioneer
Students explore the life of a pioneer and the relationship between the concept of Manifest Destiny and pioneering. Students complete activities, maps, writing and reading to experience pioneer life. Handouts and worksheets are included...
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4 and 5 Digit Dividends
In this dividend worksheet, learners divide to solve 6 word problems. All problems have 4 or 5 digit dividends. Problems 1 and 2 have been started for students.
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Heritage: Packing Your Handcart
Fourth graders pack their imaginary handcart with the necessary items and take into account the bulk and weight of it. They discuss what would happen if one ran out of a certain material.
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How Do You Get to School?
Students, through a literature based assignment, explore basic modes of transportation and examine how different things move at different speeds.
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Go Far in a Car
Students listen to the song, The Wheels on the Bus. They are shown the book, This is the Way We Go to School. Afterward, they learn the phonetic principle of rhyming words.
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How Does It Move?
Students listen to the song, The Wheels on the Bus. They attempt to sing the song again, but change it for a tractor. They watch the book, A Visit With Grandma, through a projector, LCD panel, or big screen television and develop their...
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Jobs, Jobs, Jobs
Students explore transportation and transportation related jobs as they improve their vocabulary.
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Are We There Yet?
Students continue to study rhyming words. They use words and illustrations to help develop their vocabulary.
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Toy Store Math
In this math learning exercise, students solve the problems using the operation of multiplication to determine the prices for the items bought at the toy store.
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Pilots, Drivers, and Captains
Students listen to the song, The Wheels on the Bus, then change the words for a boat.
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Serc: Westward Ho! How Far Is Yonder Mountain
In this lesson quantitative skills in geologic context are reinforced. Students create a spreadsheet to calculate the distance of a peak using vertical angles sighted from a wagon train heading directly for the peak. The spreadsheet also...