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Mars Fraction Hunt
Pupils use fractions and words to find a coded message and the first student to solve the message wins a candy bar.
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Let's Go Shopping
Students explore how to become better observers, demonstrate point of view as a literary and human function, and learn an important lesson about how to explain differing perspectives in the same situation.
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Probability: The Study of Chance
Students conduct an experiment, determine if a game is fair, and collect data. They interpret data, then display line graph. They conduct analysis of game for probability.
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Highs And Lows
Learners experiment to examine high and low pressure areas. They investigate why a high pressure area seeks a low pressure area.
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Matter and Heat
Students examine how heating causes substances to expand, and cooling cause it to contract. They investigate the states of matter.
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Bringing the Solar System to Life
Students make models of the planets and use the models to show revolution of the planets around the sun. They explain the rotation of the planets after demonstrating with balloons.
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Structure of Matter
Fifth graders, in groups, distinguish between mixtures, solutions and suspensions.
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The Search for a Meaningful Dialectic
Students explore a framework of political and social values to evaluate the validity of any public policy debate, bill, or law. They participate in cooperative learning in terms of the group investigation model.
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To Be Or Not To Be Armed
Students assess the role of an armed security gaurd. They identify specific objections to the guard being armed. They formulate an argument to present to administration.
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"Hello, I Am Deborah Sampson"
Fifth graders learn the role played by individuals during the American Revolutionary War.
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Let's Tour the White House
Learners find pictures of the White House, then place them in individual classrooms..
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Sequencing of Events
Young scholars pick a time period and put events in chronological order using symbols.
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History Personified
Learners explore historical events by writing a research paper using personification.
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Bacteria
Students study the advantages and disadvantages of bacteria. In this bacteria lesson students draw and label the different types of bacteria.
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EINSTEIN CLUB
Sixth graders write sentences showing correct usage of each word for one point per word and define the words for tow points per word. There are thirty possible points. Each day I tally the points each day and keep a cumulative score for...
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Sunrise-Sunset
Learners gather data, make and share predictions about the time of sunrise ans sunset in their area. Patterns are analyzed and shared with students from other areas.
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Spaceship Earth
Students study the earth as a system, and the fragility of that system when population, and pollution, are considered as interactive parts of earth.
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The Cloud in the Bottle
Students observe a demonstration of how pressure and temperature affects cloud formation.
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Forest In A Jar
Students conduct an experiment using soil, water, seeds, a plant, and a jar; and then draw a poster to represent their observations and findings. They make a poster showing what happened to their aquatic environment.
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We Live in an International Community
Students locate the different countries from which their clothing originates. Using a blank map, they identify and color in those areas.
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Studying History through Journal Keeping
Young scholars read and write journals to relate to events of the past, in this case the Oregon Trail travels. They watch a video and read journal accounts dealing with the trip to the West as they attempt to keep a journal of what the...
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Developed or Undeveloped?
Students watch slides of other countries to identify and discuss factors that make a country developed or developing. They create a product that shows their view of developed and undeveloped.
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"Archeology Dig"
Learners simulate archaeologists as they dig through a bag with found items in order to arrive at conclusions about the people they are studying.