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Exploring Force: The Nutcracker
Students explore basic dance element of force, compare and contrast the use of force as it distinguishes the expressive qualities of a given dance, and explore the use of force in several of its many expressions.
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No bones About It -A Mosasaur
Learners model a paleontologist's activities. They identify dinosaur bones and reassemble them into a skeleton of an extinct reptile.
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Elected Officials in Illinois
Young scholars create a flow chart explaining the duties of the elected officials of the state of Illinois. They use quantum learning activities to remember specifics.
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Fractions Made Visible
Young scholars practice using fractions "on the job." They explain the importance of fractions.
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Wheelchair Obstacle Course
Students complete an obstacle course while in a wheelchair in order to increase disabilities awareness.
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Haunted Stations
Students practice throwing overhand, underhand, and backhand at several stations with Halloween themes.
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NUTRITION STATION CIRCUIT
Students learn various fitness concepts along with various basketball skills. Ten stations incorporate nutrition and basketball skills while
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SPACE CITY
Students learn the components of personal space by using hula hoops and role playing fire engines, police cars, taxi cabs, and cars.
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Burning Washington: Dolley Madison's Historical Letter
Students review and discuss War of 1812, analyze the taking of Washington and the personal feelings of Dolley Madison by reading and discussing her famous letter to her sister, and respond to Dolley Madison in a one or more page letter...
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Eye Spy!
Students explore using descriptive words by playing a What Do You See? game, describing items in a Mystery Bag, and using Eye-Spy binoculars on an on-campus field trip. They read the book, I Went Walking, and write descriptions of a...
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Reading Restaurant
Third graders complete book reports. They are given the following jobs; chef, who organizes them into genres; maître d', who calls students to share the menu; and waiters/waitresses, who take orders for books from customers, pass out...
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Cars on the Curve
Second graders, using two dice, participate in a car race game called Cars on the Curve. They predict which car wins the game and records it in their Data Diary.
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Drawing Bugs Game
Second graders explore probability by playing a drawing game with dice. After they roll a die, they draw a tree diagram to illustrate each of the possible outcomes.
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Water Bucket Relay
Third graders, in teams, play a subtraction game called Water Bucket Relay.
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Coordinate Crunch
Students identify plots on a graph while playing a game on a large coordinate grid and then on smaller grids.
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Let's Make Fudge
Students make fudge after reading fractional values in recipes and finding equivalent fractions to those presented in the recipes. They study measurement abbreviations.
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Common Sense Cookie Shop
First graders shop for a bag of cookies using toy money. In teams, they choose which variety to buy and decides which bills and coins are necessary to buy the bag of cookies and a cashier makes change. They tally the cookies purchased...
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What Did You Say?
Second graders role-play various situations in which they use verbal and non-verbal communication.
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What's Your Temperature?
First graders calm down after losing their temper and keep from getting "boiling mad" by counting to 10. Also, they can take a deep breath to help them relax when they are angry.
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Are You Listening to Me?
First graders explore listening and non-listening skills and how good listening skills are vital when trying to solve conflicts. Ultiimately, they role-play using listening skills to resolve conflicts.
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Growing Old
Third graders participate in a simulation in which they experience problems elderly people face on a daily basis.
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Around the World in 5 Days
Students explore continents, draw map, discuss cultures, use research to learn geography, and investigate cultures.
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Boston Spies' Report on the Redcoats
Students collect information about British actions in Boston and send it by secret message to leaders in Philadelphia.
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Christmas Shopping
Learners pretend to buy age/gender appropriate Christmas presents using a given budget for a specified number of people.