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Fun with Bernoulli
Reduce the pressure in the classroom. The second instructional activity in an Airplanes unit of 22 introduces the class to Bernoulli's Principle. Pupils demonstrate the principle by blowing between different objects causing a reduction...
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Come On Over Rover
Introduce your class to the steps that occur in the manufacturing of parts, the assembly, and the testing of a Mars rover. Pupils learn about fabrication techniques and tolerances in the manufacturing process.
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Seeing All Sides: Orthographic Drawing
How can your draw three-dimensional figures on paper? The lesson shows pupils how to draw orthographic projections of three-dimensional figures composed of cubes. After viewing a PowerPoint presentation, they practice this skill with...
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Planning a Trip
Students plan a trip to from 3 to 5 cities of their choice. They design a brochure to travel to the chosen cities. It should be of a quality that it could be used by a customer to decide if they would like to take this trip.
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Cooking Up Fractions
Students study fractions through recipes. They rewrite recipes multiplying and changing numbers. They research the Internet for recipes and rewrite fractions to indicate a particular serving. They rewrite directions to change the numbers...
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Child Soldiers
Students investigate the military recruitment that exists in many foreign countries. They research the occurrence of using children in the military and its social implications. For research the activity contains a great variety of...
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Cancer in My Classroom I
Student explore cancer, its causes, and various types. Students research compare/contrast a health cell to a cancer cell. They compare treatments available for childhood cancers.
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Olympic Snowboarding Village
Students adopt a country to research and tour the country online. They plan a trip from Nagano back home to their country.
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The Impact That Women Have Made in America
Students research women that have made an impact in America. They create a front page article sharing the information they have collected. They also can create other articles for the newspaper relating to the time period.
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Geometric Art In Our World
Students explore ways art and math can be blended together in world around them. They recognizes geometric shapes and designs in artwork, and create their own artwork blending the two concepts.
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Here Ye! Here Ye! Read All About It!
Fourth graders explore the internet to find articles to read. In this reading comprehension lesson, 4th graders take notes on articles found on the internet. Students use the writing process to summarize the selected articles.
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Larry Page
In this famous people worksheet, students read a selection about Larry Page and complete a variety of comprehension activities including but not limited to a synonym match, spelling, writing and sequencing activities.
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Box Plots on the TI-83 Calculator
Eighth graders research box plots on the Internet. They gather real life statistics and analyze the collected statistics by making multiple box plots on the TI-83 calculator.
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Evaluating Web Sites
Students determine how to critically evaluate visual and medias aspects of web sites. They examine the purpose of assigned web sites.
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Express Yourself
Sixth graders write to Key pals. In this description lesson, 6th graders describe a place to their key pals and the pal has to draw a pictures based off their description. They also create a Fun Facts Worksheet about their...
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Sergey Brin
In this famous person instructional activity, students read a passage about Sergey Brin and then complete a variety of in-class and homework activities to support comprehension, including partner interviews, spelling, cloze,...
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Understanding and Using Boolean Operators
Students identify and define Boolean operators. They differentiate between operators and their intended uses. They use the operators AND, OR, NOT, parenthesis, and NEAR in Internet searches and analyze search results. They use...
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Internet Vocabulary
In this Internet vocabulary activity, 3rd graders match up twelve Internet terms to their appropriate definitions in order to enhance their English terminology.
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Naming Traditions
Students get to know each other better and research their family and community history. After students research their own and their parents' names, they notice names in literature, history, and other studies and know more about these names.
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South American Gauchos
Fourth graders explore the culture and background of the South American Pampas and Gauchos. Through reading and discussion activities, 4th graders gather information about the Gauchos. To conclude the instructional activity, students...
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Quilting Our Communities
High schoolers share personal artifacts and use them to make a classroom community quilt.
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WebQuest on Chester Himes
Learners perform a WebQuest to find out why Chester Hime's detective books were so popular. Small groups perform the research together then report to the class.
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WebQuest on 1940/1950 Harlem
Students perform a WebQuest to fin out why Harlem was an attractive place for African Americans to live. Small groups perform the research together, and report to the class.