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How Much Does it Cost to Light Your School?
Learners compute the cost of electricity used to light their classroom and their school for various lengths of time. They compute the amount of coal needed to produce the electricity used for one hour of light in their classroom. An...
Indiana University
World Literature: "One Evening in the Rainy Season" Shi Zhecun
Did you know that modern Chinese literature “grew from the psychoanalytical theory of Sigmund Freud”? Designed for a world literature class, seniors are introduced to “One Evening in the Rainy Season,” Shi Zhecun’s stream of...
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Community Helpers
First graders explore the different products and services provided by community helpers. In this community helpers instructional activity, learners participate in a role playing activity where the students transform into community...
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"how To Think Like an Archaeologist" Suggested Pre-visit Activity for Historic Jamestowne
Young scholars study grocery receipts to simulate the archaeological activity of classifying items. They discuss the receipts as if they were find lists.
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Hall Monitors
Students investigate the incidence of different types of violence that occurs in their schools through reading, discussion and interviews. They question local authorities about the best ways to reduce school violence.
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Reading A Historical Photograph
Students examine a historical photograph to gather information and draw conclusions.
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A Brightly Colored Past
Middle schoolers read A Brightly Colored Past, choose three things they found out about Middletown's African-American history that they didn't know before, and create slide using Kid Pix Studio Deluxe to be incorporated into classwide...
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Christmas Party Checklist And Negotiations
In this English worksheet, students, working with a partner, negotiate all the jobs that will be required to pull a Christmas party together for their friends.
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Digging Detectives
Students demonstrate basic procedures for archeological excavations. They explore an archeological site, students using various archeological methods and techniques to determine some of the aspects of past life and culture.
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The Pony Express
Fourth graders reasearch the history of the Pony Express on the internet or they can use books from the school or public library. They write a one-page story which incorporates their research. They share their stories with the class by...
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Protest Music of the 60's
Students demonstrate their knowlege about protest music of the late sixties by creating miniature protest signs.
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Commercials...What Are They Saying?
Students identify how culture and experiences influence people's perceptions of places and regions. They list and apply the generalizations pulled from these observations.
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Cookie Sharing
Pupils create a cookie that is inspired by their holidays. They write a paragraph explaining why the shape represents their holiday.
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Naming Roads
Young scholars investigate the aspects of a historic map of roads and trails in the Southeastern United States. They explore reasons for giving roads certain names and decide on names for other roads themselves.
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Great River Bend Adventure
Students use their imagination. They discuss the 4 C's of teamwork: Concentration, Communications, Coomperation, and Consideration. Students discuss the safety guidelines of the project. They complete a rope maze. The group walks...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Elem Math: Looking at the Clock and Telling the Time
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this learning module, students are asked to read the time on an analog clock, then answer questions using an interactive showing four world time zones. Includes...