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Discovering The Oasis
Students participate in a lesson that is concerned with the ecosystem of a local pond. The teacher makes arrangements for students to take a field trip. Time is spent in class for preparation and afterward for debriefing of lab...
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Building God's House
Students explore identifying some basic areas and items within the church and their importance. They participate in a church tour, building an interior and exterior model of a church with grounds (parking lot, cemetery, etc.), a church...
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Spin, Spin, Spin That Body!: Figure Skating, Physics, Science, Winter Sports, Olympics
Students learn the scientific principles of centripetal force through research and experimentation.
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Native American Cultures
Students investigate the Native American Heritage and explore their customs cultures. They discover characteristics of the Native Americans through the study of their art, artifacts, stories and symbols.
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A Change of Climate
Students research various sources to learn about global warming. They then create a multimedia presentation about global warming. They take a stance on the issue and present that as well.
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Choose Your Own Adventure
Students investigate the historical underground railroad. They also access technology to conduct research and write stories with the railroad as part of the historical fiction. The cumulative assessment is the creation of a book that...
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Egg Hatching into Sequencing
Students create an egg. For this language arts lesson, students create an egg and then take photographs as the egg is being hatched. Students write about the sequence of the hatching.
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What Is It; Whose Is It; Where Did It Come From?
High schoolers discover which elements are most threatening to outdoor sculptures. In groups, they determine the steps that are needed to preserve them. They locate and assess the condition of those sculptures in their local community....
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Can You Dig It?
Learners investigate a fossil site and diagram a site map. They role play as paleontologists.
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Immigration to the United States
Students work together as a class to create a videotape examining their different family histories. They interview their families about their experiences immigrating to America. They draw illustrations of their family to be included on...
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Lesson 9-Our Local Community
Second graders brainstorm and create a list of important features/characteristics that they would want to include in a community setting. They include physical features, economic activities, kinds of housing, etc. This lesson is a...
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Marty and Me
Students read 'Marty and Me' by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. They compare their lives with Marty's life, which in most cases, is very different. They find similarities and differences and create a montage. They include information about...
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Alex: Ambiguous Pictures/abstract Art
In this lesson students will use art, writing, and technology to explore abstract art. Students will use digital cameras to take extreme close up shots of objects that will resemble abstract art.
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Alex: What Is It?
Technology is incorporated into this "riddle" lesson as students select an image to capture using a digital camera. This is a fun lesson designed to introduce students to the use of digital cameras. After editing the picture, they...
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Alex: Soaring With Literary Elements and Devices
In this lesson, students will observe literary elements and devices in a variety of chapter books. Students will be paired with a partner and allowed to choose one book to identify literary elements. Using digital cameras and a computer,...
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Alex: On the Loose With Dr. Seuss
Learners will survey teachers in order to find out the titles of their favorite Dr. Seuss books. They will work in small groups and use digital cameras to take pictures of each teacher and his/her favorite book.
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Alex: Getting to Know You
The students will go on an in-school scavenger hunt to get to know the many kinds of people that make up an elementary school community. They will work in small groups and use digital cameras to take pictures of the workers they find. By...
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Alex: Leaders of Our School
In this lesson, students will interview administrators and faculty within the school in order to learn the importance of leadership and teamwork. Then students will create a slideshow using digital cameras and presentation software.
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Alex: Tech Tours Using Google Earth
Grab your passport and head around the world as K-2 students become reporters using Google Earth and podcasting to learn and share about maps, globes, people and places around the community, state and world. Tools featured include:...
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Alex: Photography: Past to Present
In the instructional activity, students will create and use a pinhole camera to take a picture and then develop the negative in a darkroom. They will use photo software to change their negative image into a positive one.
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Alex: Picturing Parts of Speech
For this lesson students use digital cameras to take pictures which illustrate various parts of speech, then insert the pictures into a digital slideshow presentation and write sentences about the pictures.
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Alex: Camp Add "Em Up Ii
At Camp Add 'Em Up it's time to or "2" find patterns in the environment. Students will work in pairs as they build understanding of how to count by 2's. Students will use digital cameras to capture "2's" in their classroom (2 shoes, 2...
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Alex: Angles in the Mix
In this lesson, students explore straight, acute, and obtuse angles in artwork. Then students will use digital cameras to take pictures of objects in their environment that demonstrate these types of angles. Students will use these...