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What do Plants Need?
Students plant seeds and watch them sprout. Once growing plants are placed in different conditions and students record data about their growth. They graph the data.
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Seasons
Young scholars identify and define the vocabulary words: summer, spring, fall, and rotation. They describe how the earth's rotation affects the seasons. Students match appropriate clothing with each season. They discuss why a...
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I Will Survive
Young scholars explore animal adaptations. In this animal science instructional activity, students watch the video "Kratt's Kreatures" and work in groups to complete a worksheet about animal adaptations.
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Environmental Scrapbook and Podcast
High schoolers collect newspaper and magazine articles about the environment and construct a scrapbook using construction paper, glue, and scissors. To make it even more environmentally friendly, groups can create an online...
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Pizza! Pizza! Pizza!
Fifth graders practice using money in everyday situations. They use their addition and subtraction skills as they work in cooperative groups to solve problems involving decimals.
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Tornadoes
Students research tornadoes. For this weather lesson, students construct a KWL chart on tornadoes and view the video National Geographic-Tornadoes. Students discuss the facts they learned from the film and complete the KWL chart.
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Casting Light On The Dark Ages
Young scholars write a 250-word report on their findings, comparing life in the Middle Ages to what they already know about life today. They explore a website imbedded in this plan to do their research.
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Botany Scavenger Hunt Where's the Ginkgo?
Learners use a science journal to log plants that are native to Alabama. In this plant lesson plan, students identify characteristics, describe environments, and classify the plants that they find.
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Dig It!
Second graders complete various activities about dinosaurs and fossils. They conduct Internet research, participate in a sandbox dinosaur fossil dig, and create a computer slideshow presentation using information they found on various...
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Word Processing Tutorial
Students use a website to show them how to perform certain tasks on the computer. They access the tutorial by opening the website link and read the directions aloud. They then practice the steps indicated on the tutorial, repeating steps...
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Exploring the Internet for Information
Students identify and use the internet as a resource for information. They integrate the writing process and create a multimedia project using the information from an internet research. Projects can be created from Microsoft Word,...
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Computers: What's a Mouse?
Fourth graders discover vocabulary terms associated with computer literacy. The lesson is divided into two segments - a lab session and classroom follow-up discussion. During a teacher-prepared Powerpoint presentation, 4th graders...
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Opening And Closing Software
Learners review computer vocabulary from the classroom word wall before determining how to open and close software properly during a teacher demonstration. Next, they make a poster the shows the steps to open and close the software, and...
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Evaluating and Identifying Strategies for Safely Using Email and IM
Students listen as the teacher introduces Email and Instant Messaging. They use the Cybersmart curriculum materials to explore junk mail and how to handle email. Students complete two worksheets and the follow up questions from the...
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What is a file?
Learners demonstrate procedures for opening and closing files. They write a story using Microsoft Word and practice opening, closing and saving the file.
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Creating a multimedia showcase
Students create a multimedia project using PowerPoint. They retell factual information and create a report using PowerPoint. Afterward, they invite parents and other classes in for a PowerPoint theater.
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Research and Report
Students research topics from their social studies or science curriculum. Working in groups, they use the writing process to communicate what they discovered from Internet resources. Research is then presented using PowerPoint,...
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Exploring the Planets
Students research a planet and write a research report about a planet they choose. They import a graphic and add Word Art. They type a paragraph with a topic sentence and at least 3 supporting sentences using a word processing program.
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Clues to Climate Change
Eighth graders study topics related to global weather patterns and their local effects. They hone their research and presentation skills using online resources content specific tools, and graphing data. They create simple PowerPoint...
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Making It All Add Up!
Students use technology resources for problem solving. They complete math problems or integrated science problems dealing with math concepts using an online calculator.
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Freeform Texas Map
For this Texas map worksheet, students research, label and discuss the most important cities in Texas, its physical attributes and the states that surround Texas.
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Freeform Pennsylvania Map
In this Pennsylvania map worksheet, students research, study and label twenty important cities, physical attributes and the neighbors that surround Pennsylvania on a Pennsylvania map.
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Rocks and Minerals
Students research a rock or mineral on the Internet. They perform the research with a partner to find out properties such as, color, hardness, and opacity. They look for pictures on the Internet in order to prepare for their slideshow...
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Care For Your Classroom Computer
Students discover the proper way to care for their computers at school. As a class, they use the Internet to view a website on how to care for pets and relate it to their classroom computer. To end the instructional activity, they are...