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Cartoon Challenge
Students practice locomotor movements and space awareness while reinforcing knowledge of living and non-living things learned from the classroom.
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Seashore Limitations
Students demonstrate the movements and behaviors of creatures from different parts of the ocean.
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Don't Dent The Car
Students explore self space while learning how to interact with others. They walk around the room, then sto on the freeze signal.
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Oscar's Garbage Can
Students are arranged in a circle with two students inside the circle. They try to clean out Oscar's garbage can while the ones outside the circle try to throw the objects back in.
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Shadow Dances
Students explore the physical phenomenon of shadows through movement improvisation and dance. They create an original dance phrase based on this imagery. All students then reproduce accurately the movement choices of another dancer.
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My Dream Home
Students investigate the concept of a dream home and create an architectural drawing of it. They design the home with a projected budget of $500,000. They research different designs with the intent of pulling ideas for their design....
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The constitution and The Bill of Rights
Learners explore an Internet site that introduces the Framers, court cases, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and even games and quizzes.
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The Water Dance
Students act like the changes in the four seasons by moving like water in each season.
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Recycling Relay
Students improve their locomotor skills and their knowledge of recycling. They participate in a relay as they recycle different objects into their proper containers.
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Science: Spider Models
First graders create spider models to discover its anatomy. They use construction paper and sequins to make their spiders and use pictures as examples for their models. As an alternative, 1st graders make posters of the spider's parts....
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The Milkman
Students practice speaking and listening in the context of an improvised mini-play. They play the role of a milkman. He stops and rings the imaginary doorbell of one of the pupils. A conversation follows, for example: "What will it be...
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"Ball Bounce" Quadratic Functions
Young scholars manipulate a ball and explore quadratic functions. In this algebra instructional activity, students analyze the graph of a quadratic function. They identify quadratic properties.
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Shape Shifters
Students recognize different shapes and colors. When the music stops students should move to and stand on a shape. Ask students "who is standing by a square, circle," etc., and ask what color they are standing on.
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Frogz
Students perform jumps and leaps from one lily pad to another to add to a study of frogs.
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Jumping Explorations
Students work with a partner to follow the pathway-jumping in the different suggested ways. They listen to music to rotate from station to station. Students their favorite stations and levels of difficulty. They discuss the use of...
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Block & Tackle
Students participate in a lab experiment in which they discover the need for so many blocks and tackles on sailing ships. In groups, they make and test their predictions and practice measuring objects in various units. They record and...
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Animal Kingdom: Phylum Chordata
Learners use a dichotomous key to classify various vertebrate jar speciments into classes. They examine the speciments for general characteristics of each class and fill in a corresponding chart and then complete a few final assessment...
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The Ringer
Young scholars discover what a ringer is and make different alterations to it. In this aircraft lesson students determine the best design for accurate, long distance flight.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: An Exploration of Direct Variation and Linear Regression
Students will use this activity for the following Algebra concepts: Review of Direct Variation; Properties of direct variations; Finding the constant of variations from data sets; Find missing values in data sets both numerically and...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Homework Help Independent Practice: Direct Variation
Get independent practice working with direct variation. Each incorrect response gets a text box explanation and another try. Correct responses are confirmed.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Direct, Inverse, and Joint Variation
This set of questions pertains to direct, inverse, and joint variation. Students are asked to recognize equations of each type and to solve applications problems. Solutions and explanations are included.
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Texas Instruments: Direct Variation With Powers: Surface Area and Volume
Students find the approximate surface area and volume of an apple, measuring circumference 3 ways, using the mean of the measurements to find the radius. Each students enters the results in a Table on the board.
University of Georgia
University of Georgia: Investigating Direct & Inverse Variation Telescope Act.
A lesson plan to investigate direct and inverse variation through a telescope activity. Good graphical illustrations provided.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Selection Direction
In this activity you will produce histograms using the Data Graphs Wizard and learn about the concept of biological variance.