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Learning How to Send Messages in Code
Learning about the use of secret codes can help students practice important skills.
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Pumpkin Patch Pie
Students discuss the harvesting and production of pumpkins. Ingredients for creating a pumpkin pie are divided into 4 or 5 groups. Students follow the directions to make a pumpkin pie. Additional ideas for making a Pumpkin Ag Bag are...
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The Opposable Thumb
Learners explore the physical importance of the opposable thumb among primates. They discover which of their simplest daily activities are possible only because of their opposable thumbs.
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Halloween Stations
Students rotate through Halloween named stations in the gym using their throwing and striking skills.
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Creating your Frog's Environment
Students discuss where frogs can live. After the discussion, they create an environment for a frog using items of their choice. Some may include: construction paper, paint, magazines. The environment could even be 3-D. The key to this...
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Gingerbread Baby v. Gingerbread Boy #7
Young scholars read two stories. In this comparison lesson plan, students read "The Gingerbread Baby," by Jan Brett and the original "Gingerbread Boy." Young scholars use a Venn Diagram to compare and contrast the two stories.
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Carnival Stations
Students practice tossing, catching, and balancing in a fun, theme-based setting.
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Paper Making and Stories
Pupils create a handmade paper using pre-soaked paper pulp and a screen. They then decorate the paper using water color paint and brushes in a style that expresses ideas from a reading of, "Miss Rumphius" by Barbara Cooney.
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Jumping Frogs
Students create a jumping frog out of construction paper, close pins and pipe cleaners. They predict how far they think their frog jump and then test it out to see how close or far away they were from their prediction.
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CSI Investigation
Students solve real life situation using the Pythagorean Theorem. For this geometry lesson, students calculate the length, midpoint and slope of segments. They solve word problems using properties of square roots.
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Transformations-Shapes on the Move
Young scholars examine transformations. In this math lesson, students view and describe flips, slides, and turns. Young scholars practice making transformations with shapes.
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Make a Design by Plotting Points
Students plot points on graph paper to make designs. They color their designs.
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The Launch Board Catch
Students develop catching skills using a launch board and a small ball, beanbag, or Koosh ball.
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Excuses, Excuses - Stay Physically Fit
Learners explore reasons to stay physically fit. They participate in activities that address excuses people use for not being active. Students discuss benefits of exercise. Learners write personal goals for physical fitness and share...
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Graphing Inequalities
Students graph linear equations and then find the person in class whose linear equation graph is perpendicular to theirs. In this graphing inequalities lesson plan, students graph their perpendicular slopes and then once their find their...
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Measure Up!
Students examine parallax and angular measurements. In this investigative instructional activity students calculate distances of objects and map their results.
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Reflection
Students examine how some transformations, such as reflections and rotations, do not change the figure itself, only its position or orientation.
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Planning a Party
Young scholars, in groups, plan a theme party. They design their own invitations, budget materials needed and demonstrate good use of time, money, and resources.
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Using Chopsticks
Students students practice using chopsticks and play a game to improve skills. They discuss what they experience.
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Jumping Rope
Fourth graders jump rope for five jumps in a row while swinging the rope forward and jumping on both feet, swinging the rope forward and jumping on one foot, to build locomotor skills with a manipulative. They also listen for the...
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Field Trip Preparation
Students make a contingency plan in case of unexpected events such as bad weather. They discuss safety and appropriate conduct.They map out a schedule to ensure that sufficient time is allotted for all activities.
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Plant Roots
Students discover the purpose of plant roots and how they move water through a vascular system. They conduct an experiment using colored water to observe the movement of water through the roots and stem of a plant in a controlled...
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Create a Hundred Dollar Bill
Students create a $100 bill. In this bills lesson plan, students draw and create their own version of a $100 bill, and call it a "fundred" dollar bill. They fill in a worksheet that has blanks where they can fill in what the bill...