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A Coloring Book From My Friends
First graders create a coloring book based on pictures they pick out. They use Microsoft Paint to create their illustrations. They write sentences at the bottom of each picture.
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Thank You... Thomas Edison!
Learners investigate the life of Thomas Edison. They research how he made a difference. They understand that accurate data collection is important for math. They create a chart using spreadsheet data.
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Egg Measurement
Students explore measurement and units. They measure eggs to determine their density, mass and percent composition. An inquiry approach is used for students to ascertain the mass.
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Team Handball
Students enter the gym and immediately stretch and perform warm up activities. They work in teams to play a game of handball. They practice to increase their competency in shooting the handball into the goal. Finally, they participate in...
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White Elephant Exercise Exchange
Students get moving in a fun holiday setting. They participate in a holiday tradition of exchanging gifts with the gift being an exercise to be completed. Exercises are written on small slips of paper and put into a small holiday gift bag.
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Movement Sequences
Learners participate in balancing and locomotor rolls. They work with a partner to see if their actions are smooth. They collaboratively create a new sequence as partners using the learned actions.
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North Carolina Textured Landscape
Fourth graders explore the artistic ideas of landscape, foreground, middle ground, and background through a creative painting project. While this is written for North Carolina, teacher may adapt for any state/region.
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Viruses and Host Evolution
Students research viruses and their effects on the evolution of a rabbit population. They complete a teacher created worksheet of questions on their research. They present their research to classmates.
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Media Center Scavenger Hunt
Students participate in a scavenger hunt to locate various sections and items in the library media center. Using a "Media Center Hunt" worksheet, they locate letters that correspond with items and sections in the library and match them...
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The Easter Celebration
Students read a short story about Easter. They recognize and point to pictures of the key words (egg, chicken, rabbit, basket, flower). They make an Easter basket and count how many chickens can fit inside. They also practice identifying...
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Faces, Places, and Traces of Wisconsin
Fourth graders view a teacher-created PowerPoint presentation. They read and conduct research, taking notes as they go. Students build a storyboard of their projected slide show. They create a PowerPoint show based on their storyboard....
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Preparing for Cake Sale
Students complete a series of lessons and plan recipes to make. They gather the necessary ingredients. Students follow safe procedures for food and safety hygiene to bake a cake for a cake sale. Students create posters to advertise the...
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Listening For Adjectives
Third graders review the concept of an adjective and how it is a word used to make a description. In this lesson they appreciate music for the purpose of finding an adjective to describe it. The skill of visualization is also used for...
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Designing, BUilding & Planting Appropriate Style Plantings in a Planter Box
Students explore designing and building a plant box. Based upon desired parameters, students create a set of plant box blueprints. Next, they choose the material and build the box. Agricultural teams select the soil mixture, fertilizer...
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Production and Manufacturing/ Interlocking Project Production
High schoolers plan and design their project idea and demonstrate what their product looks like. They make a set of instructions describing a process that could be used to manufacture this product in an industrial setting. Students are...
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"Fast and Slow"
Students find a partner, they think about their favorite TV sport that they might like to perform in an unusual dance. They practice their chosen sport and students see if they can make a litter repeating pattern of three or four parts...
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Physical Education: Tag - You're Wet!
Pupils play a version of water tag under close adult supervision. In waist high water, several students are "it" and the remaining class members have to get to the other side of the pool without being tagged. The first student to make...
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How Far Did It Travel?
Sixth graders read and discuss background and vocabulary. They use the background to develop a flow chart showing the movement of food from farm to table and work independently or in groups to complete an activity. They then use Internet...
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II Similar
Learners, through lecture and guided practice, discover the properties of similar triangles. They use given measurements of one triangle to find a missing measurement of a similar triangle. They apply this knowledge in real-life...
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PROPERTIES OF QUADRILATERALS
Students examine quadrilaterals including properties, definitions, and names. In this quadrilateral lesson students apply the correct property to the different kinds of quadrilateral.
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Four Corner Running-Baseball
Pupils complete a relay race. In this four bases running lesson, students form groups at each of four bases. Pupils tag a person as they touch each base.
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Modal Verbs Exercise 7
In this English grammar activity, 4th graders master the use of modal verbs. Students complete 20 fill in the blank questions and self check answers using the interactive button.
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Nuclear Chemistry
Students write and balance nuclear equations. In this chemistry instructional activity, students identify materials that block radiation using polymers. They collect and analyze data from the experiment.