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Find the Winter Words
In this winter word search learning exercise, students locate the 6 winter words, found at the bottom of the page, in the word search. When they find the word, they circle it.
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Great Online Art Sites
Students complete an online study of art websites. In this art and technology lesson, students explore the links and try the activities to learn about art online.
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Don't Print Homework-Email It!
Students practice emailing their homework. In this technology lesson plan, students review how to type an email address correctly and how to send it to the correct address. Students complete their homework and send it to their teacher.
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Exploring our Community
Students research the geography and history of Los Angeles and its surrounding communities.
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Cars: Math, Research, Economics, Loans
Students investigate what the purchasing of a car entails. They explore car criteria and financing options.
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Bringing Young Architects to Surface
Students work in pairs to design a building. In this architecture lesson, students take on the role of head architect to design and construct a 3-D scale model a building for a client. Students' goal is to meet the needs of their client...
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Collisions Lesson
Tenth graders explore the role that collisions and near collisions of galaxies play in determining the shape of galaxies. They model the collision of disk shaped and spherically shaped galaxies.
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What Do Plants Need to Grow?
Fourth graders control variables to determine the effect on plant growth. They collect information by observing and measuring and construct simple graphs, tables, maps and charts to organize, examine and evaluate information.
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Understanding Cloud Formation
Students explore air and clouds by watching demonstration. They perform an experiment to measure air pressure changes.
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Tell Me a Story
Tenth graders read short story, "The Storyteller" by Saki, and expand on concept of stories for students by reading and evaluating several popular students's stories as well as writing their own original students's stories.
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Chart the Weather for Cities Around the World
Students orally describe Northern and Southern hemispheres, identify 7 continents, and point out specific countries and cities. They locate and record weather information.
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Get Your Butt off the Beach!
Learners participate in a Beach Field Study in which the analyze the affect pollution is having on beaches and the animals that live there. Students focus specifically on the damage cigarette butts are causing on the environment.
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Graph our Litter
Eighth graders examine their schoolyard for litter and graph its spread. In this Math lesson, 8th graders present their graphs to other students. Students determine what might be the causes for any differences that they have.
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Reaching the Solar System
Students sing the Rap of the Solar System, view pictures of the planets, and calculate their weights and ages on all the planets and the sun. They create a presentation comparing themselves with a planet or object in the solar system.
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Reality Bites
Students select a career or occupation to study. Students research their career preferences and annual living expenses compared to the estimations they may before conducting research.
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Cloud Databases
Students complete a unit on clouds and a report about one type of cloud. They collect data through observation about different types of cloud cover and then create a spreadsheet to reflect their observations over a 2 week period.
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Weather Systems
Fourth graders research weather phenomenon in groups on the Internet and create a slide for the class power point presentation. They include 5 key points (temperature, air pressure, and fronts and descriptions for each type of cloud or...
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A Teeny Tiny Book: My Friends
In this mini book learning exercise, students cut apart and complete a teeny tiny book with names of friends and their phone numbers.
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Visit My Class Wikis
Learners visit the links on the blog site to learn about class wikis. In this technology integration lesson plan, students visit the links to view class wikis.