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Benjamin Franklin and Electricity
Second graders study Benjamin Franklin and participate in simple experiments in electricity.
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Five Little Monkeys
Learners listen to story Five Little Monkeys Jumping On The Bed, and act out subtraction situations.
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Beat the Wheel
Students recall basic multiplication facts by writing answers on a wheel form, competing against other teams to finish the wheels. They review multiplication facts on a Spinning Wheels Web Lesson.
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What's For Lunch? A Combination Sensation!
Young scholars combine different foods to make possible lunches and determine the specific combinations of lunches that can be made from a finite set of foods.
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Just Bee-Tween Flowers!
Learners examine the major plant and bee parts and the interdependency between bees and fast plants. They observe and record the stages of growth of fast plants, take photos of the plant's life cycle, and cross-pollinate plants.
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Flowers, Pods, and Seeds
Students gain an understanding of living organisms. the complete a plant growth data log to chart plant growth and to make observations, predictions, and personal reflections.
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Lewis and Clark: Reliving the Journey
Second graders explore Meriweather Lewis and iam Clark. They explore their contributions to history, and what their significance is in a timeline of Vermillion, South Dakota history.
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Piggies
First graders listen to the book, Piggies, and act out the events of the story with premade puffball pigs.
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Walking With a Line
Students create various design drawings using parallel, oblique, and divergent lines and the medium of black paper and colored gel pens.
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Having Fun with Primary Sources
Students analyze primary sources to determine the effects of the Great Depression on American society. They evaluate how government expanded during this time period because of New Deal legislation.
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What To Do After The Hands-Are-On
Students perform various demonstrations for each of Newton's Laws, collect data, and write a conclusion for each.
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Animal Babies on the Farm
Learners observe pictures of farm animals and name the animals. They match the animals to their offspring in a number of matching activities.
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The Water Cycle
Seventh graders discover how water circulates through the earth and its atmosphere while determine how much of the Earth's water is suitable for drinking. They discover the meaning of evaporation, transpiration, and precipitation and...
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Ecology: Factors Influencing Animal Populations
Students assess the factors affecting animal populations. Working in groups they define specific vocabulary terms and complete several activities from "Project Wild."
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Music Technology
Students use their practice book to complete their piano lessons. They examine the history of music and complete pages in a workbook. They create their own music by using the computer.
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"Who Done It?" Analysis of Molecular Fingerprints Left At the Scene of the Crime
Learners examine different types of DNA fragments. They record and analyze their results. They determine who is the criminal in the story.
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Discovering Pi
Students investigate the math concept of Pi (specifically, what pi is, the significance and how it is used in the real world). This is a hands on lesson in which the students actively participate with their investigations.
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Terrific Tessellations
Pupils explore tessellations that are found in nature and everyday objects. They observe the works of M.C. Escher. Students create their own tessellations using pencil and paper.
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Scale Me Down
Students create scale drawings, and ultimately scale models, of real-world objects in this Math lesson about ratios, proportion, scaling factors, and cross products. The lesson includes ideas for cross-curricular extensions and is...
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The Death Penalty
Eleventh graders perform a study of the rights guaranteed by the Bill of Rights and focus on the protection against cruel and unusual punishment in the Eighth Amendment as it relates to the death penalty. Prior to formulating a...
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Learning to Weave
Second graders discuss clothing and its relationship to weaving. They discuss changes in shopping since pioneer days. Students listen to a story about a mother and how she made clothes for her family. They create a weaving project.
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Peer Pressure Response
Learners come up with different ways to respond to their peers asking them to drink alcohol or to try or do drugs. They write what they would do (if it were them) in that type of situation and list all the possibilities they can think of.
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Geography Action! Rivers 2001- Stream Table
Students use a stream table to simulate river and watershed systems. The affect of gradient on stream flow as well as erosion and deposition are two items that students examine.