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How Many Pennies?
Students estimate the number of pennies it takes to fill outlines of various basic shapes.
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Creating a "Concrete" Spreadsheet
Students create a spreadsheet that calculate the amount of concrete needed to pour various concrete forms.
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Cut Up Painting
Students work on color planning and painting skills and reinforce principles of design. They alter a work of art to create a low relief assemblage.
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Do You Like to Spend or Save?
Students, after briefly discussing spending and saving habits, take a poll to see how their peers like to manage money. Then students graph their findings and discuss the survey results.
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Turkeys or Eagles?
Students discuss how Benjamin Franklin wanted the wild turkey (not the bald eagle) to be our national bird and then graph their preferences and discuss the survey results.
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House Dimensions
Fourth graders measure the perimeters of several different rooms. They convert the measurements using ratios that allow them to draw the rooms to scale on paper. They draw the dimensions of a house to scale. They measure length to the...
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Eating Up Energy
Students will compare and contrast amount of energy consumption and CO2 emissions among the top ten user countries to understand global effects of emissions. They also map the global impact of energy consumption and CO2 emissions.
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The Mathematics of Space and Place
Pupils investigate the measurements and geometry of the school grounds. They conduct inquiry while measuring the campus and some of the city blocks. Then students draw a map to scale and categorize property types using a pie graph.
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Jelly Critters
Students compare and contrast three different organisms that are considered gelatinous zooplankton. They describe how they fit into marine food webs.
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Three Cold Realms
Students identify organisms within the realms of pelagic, benthic and sea ice. They explain how these three interact with each other.
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Burp Under the Ice
Students examine the impact of climate warming on Arctic methane deposits. They identify natural methane processes and describe how this contributes to species extinction. They write reports on their findings.
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Understanding Fractions
Students add and subtract fractions and multiply and divide fractions using pattern blocks.
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Honoring Leaders
Students design and compare monuments that honor an imaginary Roman emperor and a future American president. They explain how the monuments reflect the attributes of the person being honored.
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Every Breath You Take
Students explore the nature of the air we breathe by observing petri dishes that have accumulated particulate matter from the atmosphere. Students make mathematical calculations and inferences about the effect of this matter on...