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"Leap, plashless": Emily Dickinson & Poetic Imagination

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine different poems from Emily Dickinson. They practice listening for meter in the poems and make connections between the texts. They also practice their own creative writing skills.
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Modeling an Active (!!) Explosive Volcano

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students examine how gas pressure causes eruptions of explosive volcanoes, and demonstrate how the build-up of gas from dissolving alka seltzer causes the lid of a film canister to blow off. They compare/contrast between the model and...
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Look for Patterns: Quilts in Two Faith Ringgold Stories

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Author Faith Ringgold uses quilts to illustrate her books Tar Beach and Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad. In this integrated trio of activities, young scholars read stories, identify and create patterns, and design quilt squares of...
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Arranging Numbers from 1 to 5

For Teachers K - 1st
Kindergarteners arrange manipulatives or everyday objects in groups of one through five. They identify groups seen in pictures of nature and compare same numbers of different objects.
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You Can't Go Wrong with a Right Triangle 1

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Fourth and fifth graders study the Pythagorean Theorem and apply it to find the missing side of a right triangle.
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Hide and Seek Vocabulary!

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders practice word recognition and vocabulary building. They find word cards in the classroom. Then they practice reading the words and using them in sentences. Additional practice is gained by writing the words and using them...
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Dreams, Stars, and Beaches

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Compare and contrast ideas, hopes and dreams with those of Cassie in Faith Ringgold's, Tar Beach. your students can entries in their journals expressing their ideas.
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Air Pressure is Powerful

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students make a barometer and write a paragraph describing how they did it.
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Animals in Art

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders demonstrate visual awareness by listing seven to nine types of animals shown in the artwork on the tour. They draw three types of textured lines or patterns shown in the tour artwork and model an imaginary animal using clay.
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Crashed on the Moon

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students compare and contrast the environments of the moon and the earth. They discover how the differences might change one's daily activities.
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Pop-it...Stop-it

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Learners observe how certain geometric shapes can be used to make some structures rigid and others flexible. The activity involves construction of a 30-60 right triangle, folding while following directions, and identifying polygons.
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Introduction to Set File and Microsoft Word

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students are introduced to Microsoft Word.
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Window-Eyes More About the Global Menu: Menu Verbosity Settings

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students practice accessing the Window-Eyes control panel and defining what items in the dialog box.
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Editing a Document in Microsoft Word

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Pupils explore how to edit a document in Microsoft Word.
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Getting Started with Internet Explorer

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students learn the basics of Internet Explorer.
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Searching the Internet with WebFerret

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students explore how to search the Internet with WebFerret.
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Conserving Chemical Resources

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students balance chemical equations and solve for gram to mole ratios.
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"Data Dabble"

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students engage in a lesson which facilitates their use of web sites to find data, graph it, and interpret it, thus scaffolding graphing skills to prepare students for their 8th grade I-search exit project.
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Flood Control: Environmental History

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the painting, Spring on the Missouri. They role-play and discuss floods and flood control from the views of an environmental lobbyist and a farmer.
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Exploring a Teaching Career Through an Energy Lesson

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students design their own energy conservation lesson plan to teach elementary school students. They use this lesson to determine if they would like to pursue a teaching career
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Class of Gold

For Teachers 6th - 9th
How can you see a number in nature? Here, learners discover both Fibonacci numbers and the golden ratio by exploring a number of different resources.  Note: Some of the resources are older and may be missing some of the links, but the...
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Mythical Monsters

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students design mythical creatures and write poems about them. They take digital pictures of their artwork and create a digital picture book. They record their readings of the poetry to be added a class recording.
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Idioms in Everyday Language

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create an iPhoto book exhibiting a variety of idioms that describe feelings. They take photos using a digital camera that show students exhibiting the feelings explained by the idioms.
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Extemporaneous Speeches

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students perform the six steps of writing an extemporaneous speech including, choosing a topic, researching, writing, practicing delivering and processing.

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