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Keypals
Students discover how to write and send e-mail messages/letters. They correspond with other students of same age level in another geographic area on a social level.
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The Butter Battle
Students complete activities with The Butter Battle Book by Dr. Seuss. In this literature activity, students read this story and make their own butter. They come up with a solution to the problem in the story by working in...
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Grandfather's Journey
Third graders explore world cultures by reading a children's story in class. In this Japanese heritage lesson, 3rd graders read the book Grandfather's Journey and identify the characters, setting and plot that takes place. Students...
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Chris' Culture Club Cruise
Third graders ride the virtual highway on a field trip to museums, cultural centers, and exhibition spaces to discover exciting roles of public and private facilities.They follow various links on a cultural cruise of new knowledge and...
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Citing Sources
Students cite information for reports or projects when conducting research on the internet. They collect information by using a citation worksheet and complete a form for citing sources and/or use a citation website.
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New Words
In this spelling worksheet, students look up words that were new in the dictionary in 1990 and tell where it came from and spell it again. Students complete this for 8 words and add 5 on their own.
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Closer To the Ground Lesson 1: Sharing the Wealth
Students examine the meaning of philanthropy. They look at specific needs and determine the process of requesting grants from various foundations. They determine a need within the school community and write a grant application or...
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Preparing to Cook
Students explore cooking. They follow safe procedures for food safety hygiene. Students discuss their experiences of cooking at home and school. They discuss what they did to prepare to cook. Students view a video. They create a poster...
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Internet: Writing Friendly Letters Via Email
Students view a Powerpoint presentation on writing and sending email. After examining a Website about the parts of a friendly letter, they compose and send their own letters via email. Teachers set up an email/pen pal account so...
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What's the Story
Students create a narrative story from an image taken by a classmate. Each student takes and downloads a digital picture containing some sort of interesting action. They print and exchange photographs without discussing the photos....
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Word Choice
In these word choices worksheets, students read the sentences and complete the sentences with the correct word from the choices of lose and loose.
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Family History
Learners create photographic family histories. In this technology skills lesson, students create family trees with digital photographs that they take of the family members.
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School Announcement Blog
Students become bloggers. In this technology lesson, students use video and image editing to add to an online school announcement blog that they maintain.
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Famous Americans
Students investigate famous Americans. In this American history and research lesson, students choose a famous American to research, collect information from a variety of sources, and create a related PowerPoint presentation.
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Let Your Voice Be Heard
Students explore new ways to communicate through technology by utilizing an internet program. For this reading comprehension lesson, students utilize the website voicethread.com to share their thoughts and notes about reading...
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Complete the Squiggle Lesson Plan
Students finish several squiggles. For this Microsoft Paint lesson, students use the pen tool to draw squiggle lines and then take turn adding to one another's squiggles to create something.
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Alliteration
Students write and illustrate a sentence which names a letter of the alphabet. The sentence should have subject, verb, describing words, and incorporate alliterative techniques.
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Newsmakers
Learners create a newsletter that tells others about themselves and their family. They use publishing software to create their newsletters.
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Publishing an Alphabet Book
Young scholars research, write and publish an A,B,C book based on research of their own.
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Crazy Critters Creative Writing
Students brainstorm animals with unusual characteristics such as a giraffe with a short neck or a zebra without stripes. They write paragraphs about their animals and work in peer editing groups to refine their stories.
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Blindfolded Building
Young scholars build a Lego design and then work with a partner to reproduce that design. They guide the building of the reproduction by description only and then check their work.
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Genre Study
Third graders develop an understanding of genre by participating in small- and whole-group activities. In addition, they practice presentation and specific listening skills. This lesson assumes students have been regularly exposed to a...
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Poetry Creations
Students produce iMovies to share their thoughts of friendship along with poetry creations in this technology-based lesson for the upper-elementary classroom. The lesson includes a link to a "create a poem" site and requires computers...
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Online Words
Students use an online dictionary to discover the meaning of vocabulary words. The use of the internet is a skill that is developed for the integration of technology into the curriculum.