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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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Traveler's Trunk
Students analyze and interpret artifacts from the 1920s and explore the Great Migration. In this 1920s history lesson, students review background information about the Great Migration and use artifacts to study history of Chicago....
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Endocrine Excitement!
Students are divided into a group of hormones and a group of receptors. The hormones have to find their matching receptors, and the pair, once matched, perform a given action. This activity helps students examine the specificity of...
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Where Do I Fit?
Fourth graders complete activities to learn about career options and the role jobs have in community. In this career lesson, 4th graders complete a career exploration worksheet and study the local community jobs available. Students...
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Ceramic Rattles
Students create ceramic rattles using the pinch method of building with clay. They view a slide show of different types of rattles, draw designs of their rattles, and create them using clay and the pinch method. They create the rattles...
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What does it mean to be American?
Students create a mural depicting what it means to be an American. In this being American lesson plan, students pull out magazine ads that depict what it means to be an American, then they make a mural out of it, and finally they present...
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
In this famous leaders instructional activity, students read a passage about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and then complete a variety of in-class and homework activities to support comprehension, including partner interviews, spelling,...
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Sheikha Lubna
In this famous leaders worksheet, learners read a passage about Sheikha Lubna and then complete a variety of in-class and homework activities to support comprehension, including partner interviews, spelling, cloze, synonym...
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Frontier Life Story
Young scholars undertake a similar (but not quite as drastic) adventure as that of Frontier House as they explore the day-to-day realities of frontier life through a Laura Ingalls Wilder story, and reflect on which time period suits them...
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Internet Pen Pals
Students write letters to e-mail pals and respond to letters received. Students describe the geography of their community to their pals.
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Volatile Volcanoes
Young scholars have fun with graphics, graphs and money, simultaneously learning with up-to-the-minute information.
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Celestial Reflections: See Yourself in the Sky!
Learners create a mirror/mirror frame using glass mosaic tiles, grout, and various other mosaic supplies.
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Sir Tim Berners-Lee
In this famous person worksheet, students read a passage about Sir Tim Berners-Lee and then complete a variety of in-class and homework activities to support comprehension, including partner interviews, spelling, cloze, synonym matches,...
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Side By Side
Students produce elongated self-portraits on paper approximately 8 x 36 inches.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Science Fair Central: Choose a Science Fair Project Idea
Great science fair project ideas! Learn how to ask a testable question and choose from elementary, middle school, or high school science fair project ideas. View examples of testable questions, and see what is changed, what stays the...
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Science Fairs: Ideas for Elementary Projects: Grades 4 6
This Science Fairs website is a resource for a wide variety of science fair starter ideas. Use an idea from here and build your own project.
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Discovery Education: Science Fair Central: Choose a Project Type Inventions
Great ideas to get students started on an invention for a science fair. A list of ways students will design and engineer a solution to a problem will help students begin choosing a topic. Check out the list of general science topics,...
Science Struck
Science Struck: 4 Complex Rube Goldberg Ideas
An interesting approach to science projects where students are challenged to create complex machines that do very simple jobs, e.g., opening a door. Offers four ideas for projects.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Science Fair Central: Practice Investigation Virtual Labs
Two virtual labs offer practice for creating your own or science project: "How Does Your Garden Grow" and "Critters!" Learn how investigations are conducted from the first step to the finished product.
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Science Fairs: Ideas for Primary Projects: Grades 1 4
This resource from Science Fairs is a wonderful resource for a wide variety of science fair starter ideas. Use an idea from here and build your own project.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Simple Ideas for Your Kid's Solar System Project
Provides detailed instructions for how to help a student make a solar system model, and additional suggestions for making a constellation poster, making a model showing phases of the moon, and creating a solar system model to scale.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Science Fair Central: Choose a Project Type Investigation
Discover how to approach a scientific question, and learn eight steps students will perform in doing so. Offers suggestions on how to ask a testable question as well as several examples.
Science Struck
Science Struck: 5 Creative Solar System Project Ideas Kids Can Try
Detailed descriptions of five solar system science projects for students.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Last Minute Science Fair Projects
Presents five ideas for science projects that require simple materials and can be easily done in a short time.