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Pieces of Mind: What's In A Dream?
Students explore the five stages of sleep. They view video footage of sleep labs and discuss the findings. Students conduct experiments by keeping a sleep journal to track their sleep and dream activity. They find examples of ways...
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Number Lines and Bead Strings
Students solve addition and subtraction problems using strings of beads and number lines. They mentally perform addition and subtraction problems, and write and solve story problems involving whole numbers.
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Light and Our World
In this science worksheet, students solve a variety of curriculum related puzzles. They also practice basic mental math skills using four operations. The concept of light and color are explored and how it interacts with different objects.
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From a Distance
Students think about their neighborhood and get a mental picture of their community. They then interpret aerial photography, learning how to use shapes and patterns to describe urban, suburban and rural communities.
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The Dark Is Rising: Guided Imagery
To launch a reading of The Dark is Rising, the second novel in Susan Cooper's award winning contemporary fantasy novel sequence for young adults, class members engage in a guided imagery exercise that asks them to visualize the...
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Fitting In and Setting Healthy Boundaries
Saying "No" isn't easy. Setting healthy boundaries and sticking to them takes practice. A series of exercises enables sophomores to practice these skills and reflect on the difference between fitting in and belonging.
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Reading to Learn
Third graders visualize while reading the chapter book Charlotte's Web. When they get to the end of chapter two, they will draw a picture of what they just read. Then then share their images with the class.
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Frogs in Ponds
First graders determine how numbers are made up of other smaller numbers before examining addition and subtraction. They determine the number pairs that make up a given number and determine when no other pairs can be found. They use frog...
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Visions of Pigs
Learners examine the importance of silent reading before practicing the technique of visualization. They listen while the teacher leads they through a visualization exercise in which they imagine they are at the beach. Next, they...
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Turn Reading into Watching a Movie!
Students practice visualization by imagining what their favorite person looks like, what they are wearing and doing. They share their imaginings with a partner. Next, listen to a poem while visualizing. Finally, they read along as the...
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Visualize It, Understand It, Remember It!
Young scholars observe and demonstrate visualization exercises to improve their reading comprehension. They discuss how to visualize images, then draw pictures for sentences written on the board. Students read the poem Gumeye Ball by...
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What in the World..?!?
Students photograph mystery images. In this observation skills lesson, students gather everyday objects and place them under a digital microscope. They magnify the image and take a photograph of it. The image is then displayed on the...
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From Above
Students use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire and report information from a spacial perspective.
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I Have to Change!? The Role of the Adolescent in the Family
Sixth graders examine the changes occuring during adolescents using children's literature. As a class, they brainstorm a list of the various roles they play in their family. In groups, they use excerpts of plays from Shakespeare to...
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The Relative Location of Relatives
Students map the distribution of their family members within the town, state, country, or world using their own personal knowledge and information from interviews. They create a mental map of family members, and develop a sketch map...
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How to See with your Eyes Closed
Students close their eyes and practice visualizing different images as the teacher makes different topical suggestions. They listen to the poem, "Daddy Fell Into the Pond" and visualize what is happening and thinking about the characters...
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Advertise With Geography...it's Free And It's Easy!!
Students establish awareness of how landforms/landmarks produce a visual image of a region and demonstrate how advertisers use the "positive geographical image" to sell their product by creating their own advertisements.
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Picture This...
Students explore the concept of visualization as a means of comprehending what they read. Through modeling, they discover how to create mental pictures of what they read from both poems and books. As a class, they create a story quilt...
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Paint a Picture
Students participate in a visualization exercise. Then listen to an excerpt from a story and discuss what they 'see.' Finally, they read silently and draw a picture of what they visualized in their heads. They explain their pictures,...
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Non-Objective Constructed Sculpture
Learners begin their examination of non-objective artwork. Individually, they participate in activities in which they take designs within other images and use them for their focus in their art. They create a sculpture with the new...
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Geoboard Squares
Students create squares of different sizes on a geoboard. They find and describe a pattern. Students use the pattern to determine the number of squares possible on a 10-by-10 geoboard. They create squares with a horizontal base (and...
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Journeys to Self Discovery
Students explore both physical and mental journies that result in a change or self-discovery. They write poems that symbolize a personal journey that forever changed them. They understand the importance of a central image or metaphor in...
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Initial Fraction Ideas Lesson 10: Overview
Third graders use strips of paper to find equivalent fractions. They will fold paper into thirds and shade 2/3 of the paper. Then fold the same paper in six parts and predict how many parts will be shaded. They will repeat again folding...
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Investigating Nets and Polyhedra
Fifth graders create a net for a given polyhedron. They determine the corresponding polyhedron for a given net. Students investigate several polyhedra (cube, tetrahedron, and one of their choosing) and their corresponding nets. They...
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