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OLYMPIC SHADOW BOXES

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students acquaint themselves with little-used library resources/reference materials and create shadow boxes to be displayed in the Media Center based on the research they've done regarding the Winter Olympics.
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How Sweat Glands Cool Your Body

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students use water and rubbing alcohol to explain how sweat cools mammals' bodies. They write their findings in a journal. After a lecture/demo, students perform a simple experiment that demonstrates this phenomenae.
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Tessel Your Way to Nagano!: Olympics, Winter Sports, Snowboarding, Graphic Design, Geometry, Math, M.C. Escher, Tessellations

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students create Post-It note fundamental regions to tesselate. They make tesselations using computer software or websites. They create a jacket design with tesselation and determine the cost of production.
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The Peppermint Beetle

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students describe various ways insects use their sense of smell, and examine why some insects use scent marking. They conduct a scent hunt, searching for a particular scent on the trees on school grounds.
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Rainbow Book

For Teachers K
Students examine the different types of weather. They create illustrations of the type of weather to go into a class book. They are encouraged to examine the weather each day,
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Y is for Yarn

For Teachers All
Pupils practice saying the sounds of the letter Y. They create a poster of the letter made out of yarn. They identify the shape and identify other words that start with Y.
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Flour Art

For Teachers All
Students create pictures using white and whole wheat flour, oatmeal, and cornmeal while learning the different types of grains used to make breads.
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Investigation 2 - Greenhouses

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders set up a miniature greenhouse to help them explain how nonliving things affect the growth of living things.
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Can You Tell By Touch?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students feel inside a bag and use only their sense of touch to describe and identify one of the objects that is inside the bag.
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Clouds

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explore how to identify cloud types by observing clouds. They record data and have fun by applying newly acquired knowledge throughout the curriculum.
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TEDDY BEAR REDWORK

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students study the basics of redwork embroidery, and begin a picture.
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Trail of the Cougar

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students examine cougar behavior, habitat, social organization, efforts to support their survival and the threats to it. They create posters to present information about cougars.
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Exploring Commerce and the High Seas in the 1700s

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders develop an understanding of the importance of the shipping industry in commerce in the late 1700s.
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How Do Words Feel? (Individually)

For Teachers 1st
First graders used textured print to discover how spoken words feel.
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Can Bacteria Arise from Non-living Things?

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders, in groups, determine whether bacteria arises from non-living things,
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Make a Leaf Banner

For Teachers K
Students create an leaf print banner, and classify, sort and find patterns in the leaves as they work.
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The Impact of the Dust Bowl as Shown Through Photography

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders examine and discuss photographs and paintings of the Dust Bowl era. They write a journal entry describing what it would be like if they stepped into one of the photographs, and create a Powerpoint presentation on the Dust...
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The Impact of the Great Depression on Texas

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders examine and discuss photographs taken during the Great Depression and the impact of the Great Depression on the U.S. They write research reports and create a mural depicting the lives of rural and urban families in the...
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Lesson Plan on the Civil War

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders identify events leading to the Civil War and explain the impact the events had on northern and southern societies.
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Cloudy With a Chance of...

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students listen to the story, "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs". Then the class creates their own version of the story with a theme of their choice. In small groups, they write and illustrate a paragraph for the class book.
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What is a Cloud?

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders identify a cloud and explore how they form. They create an acrostic poem about clouds.
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Handmade Paper from Plants

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students make paper from plant fibers and recycled paper.
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Arkansas Regions As They Relate To Slave Population

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders evaluate how the characteristics of Arkansas' regions affect the slave population.
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Think Before You Toss

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars sort a variety of trash items and determine thier sorting decisions.

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