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Be a Detective - Is it a Letter or a Word?
Students identify and differentiate letters and words.
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Author Study of Patricia Polacco's Family Stories
Students describe factors that influence relationships with family and friends.
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Teaching Marketing Through Auctioning
Students explore the marketing concepts of product, price, promotion and place through the auction activity.
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Introducing Colon and Forward Slash: Keyboarding
Students key in the "http://" needed for using the web.
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Keyboarding - Numeric Practice
Pupils complete a worksheet to gain practice keyboarding numbers. They focus on accuracy, correct posture and hand placement for keyboarding.
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Keyboarding - Keying by Letter
Students play a keyboarding game to increase accuracy. They are given a letter of the alphabet. They type as many words as they can using that letter. Each time they use that letter it is worth one point.
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Keyboarding - Encoding the Keys
Young scholars write an encoded message. They write a short message and encode it by describing each letter's location on the keyboard. They decipher each other's messages.
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Keyboarding - Correct the Story
Students read a story that has several blank words and letters. They proofread, edit and type the story filling in the blanks with logical answers.
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Keyboarding - Composing with Themes
Students read a short list of words and type it. Based on the list, students identify and type the theme the words represent. They underline the theme and add bullets to the list.
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Keyboarding - Complete the Paragraphs
Students read a paragraph that is missing vowels and contains other errors as well. They proofread, fill in vowels, type, edit and print the corrected paragraph.
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Free Enterprise--Product Cost
Students apply basic math skills in computing a product cost.
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Anne Frank: Turning Pages - Journal Writing
Sixth graders review a variety of journals including Anne Frank's. They create a school journal including individual entries, a dedication, pagination and illustrations.
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Picture This: Visualization
Sixth graders practice visualizing and understanding that visualization is an important comprehension strategy. They share their visualization of the story, "All the Places to Love", through original artwork.
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Birthstone Project With a Multimedia Twist
Students research and discover their birthstones, studying the stones within the context of earth science. They examine the mineral industry, their own birthstones, and create multimedia presentations.
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Western Expansion and Native Americans
Fifth graders research the Oregon, Old Spanish, California, and Mormon trails, and the impact western expansion had on the Native Americans living on those lands.
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Nutrition and Exercise During Pregnacy
Young scholars study healthy eating habits for life long health and parenthood.
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AIH-15: Colony Settlement & American Indian Involvement
Students examine American Indian individuals and tribes involved in the settlement of English colonies.
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Bird Watching 101
Fourth graders examine the basics of bird watching, finding and interpreting bird clues and attracting birds to a particular location or habitat. They go on a birding hike after a lecture on what to look and listen for in the woods.
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Investigation 6 - Dinosaur Extinction
Fourth graders research and analyze theories on why dinosaurs became extinct. They need to find clues as to what the cause may have been. They record the evidence that they find to support their theory on the Dinosaur Extinction Theory...
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Investigation 1 - Intro: Living & Nonliving
Third graders distinguish between living and nonliving things.
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Upper Grade Basketball Activities
Third graders practice basketball skills with a variety of skills and games.
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Design Your Own Cereal Box
Students explore the ways in which media messages work and the ways in which consumers are targeted.
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Citizenship
Fifth graders read the preamble of the U.S. and Florida Constitutions. They discuss vocabulary definitions surrounding the concept of citizenship. They discuss and write about the rights and responsibilities of citizens and apply their...