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Mean, Median, and Mode
Students find the mean, median, and mode for a set of data. They define terms and find examples, as well as complete practice exercises. They work cooperatively to analyze real data from a variety of websites provided. To...
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Happy Food Song
Students learn a song. For this food lesson, students learn the Happy Food Song. Students are given a food model and identify their food. Students sing the song with motions.
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Determining the Age of Fossils
High schoolers examine the concept of radioactive dating. In this radioactive dating instructional activity, students investigate how to determine the ages of fossils and rocks as they learn about half-life radioactive decay.
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What Foods Contain Products from the Ocean
Fifth graders learn about foods from the ocean. In this ocean products lesson, 5th graders brainstorm what foods come from the ocean, fill in a Venn Diagram comparing alginates, carrageenans and beta carotenes. Students make a list of...
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Shoot the Garbage
Students participate in a game that focuses on the proper way to shoot a basketball. For this basketball lesson, students are divided into two groups and use foam balls and beanbags to score points. The winner is the team with the most...
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Environmental Action
Students investigate an environmental problem in order to find and propose possible solutions. The problem is real to add to the engagement of the lesson. This is found through conducting research and then brainstorming is done in small...
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Shooting for the Stars in Presidential Fitness
Students identify and explore how to set goals for their individual fitness tests, as well as to practice a positive work ethic towards completing those goals. They identify what the Presidential and National test scores are for their...
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Four Famished Foxes and Fosdyke; The Letter F
Young scholars listen to the story of the four famished foxes and practice writing the letter F. In this letter F lesson, students work with their teacher to find F words in the story and make a list on the board. Young scholars then...
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Boolean Operators
Students practice using Boolean operators "AND", "OR" and "NOT" in online searching to either narrow or expand the results.
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Ocean Vocabulary Word Scramble
Students visit a puzzle maker website and follow a list of instructions, creating a word scramble using sea animal vocabulary. They copy and paste graphics at the bottom of their puzzle, and print them out for other students to solve.
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You Can't Always Get What You Want!
Students examine the concepts of supply and demand. They watch a video, research and identify the effect of fads, and complete the worksheet, Fads of the Last 100 Years.
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Science Show
Learners create a physics science show. In this science show activity, students research, design, and complete a physics activity to share during a science show for younger learners.
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Summarizing
Pupils use their note-taking skills to write summaries of information. In this writing skills lesson, students use the notes they have taken in another lesson to write adventure stories by implementing the Rule-Based strategy.
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Parts of Speech Poetry
Learners replace nouns, verbs, pronouns, and adjectives in a poem. They identify the parts of speech, and rewrite the poem using their own selection of parts of speech.
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What Bah¿¿'¿¿ are Doing Around the World
Students investigate the goodness of God according to the Bahai Faith and establish his goodness for all mankind. They define how Bahaullah was a teacher who came as an example of performing good deeds for God, and his intention was to...
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The Impact of War on Children
Students discover how students are affected by wars in their country. After reading a UNISEF report, they work together to summarize the article and answer comprehension questions. They examine the short- and long-term affects of...
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Recycling Bottles
Students learn how to sort #1 and #2 plastics and how to weigh and read a digital scale. The bags are then collected and weighed on a digital scale and the information is used to make bar graphs. They also write in their journal about...
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Tortured Beauty
Learners compare and contrast two fundamentally different treatments of women, one Chinese and one Japanese, and to examine how this reflects on the culture that produced them.