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Stories Behind Pacific Northwest First Nations' Images
Students investigate Canadian culture by examining mascots of the 2010 Olympics. Â In this Canadian history lesson, students read a Vancouver Olympics guide to identify three Canadian mascots and their importance to the First Nations...
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Homeschooling
In this homeschooling website, parents have access to a variety of topics and lessons. Parents can browse topics, print worksheets, and read about homeschool methods and current issues.
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Making a Mountain Out of a Snow Hill: Skiing, Winter Sports, Economics, Business, Problem Solving
Learners explore how to select among choices of variables and analyze the cost-benefit ratio of their short and long term planning in a team activity as they consider the planning and operation of a ski slope.
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Olympic Games Snowboard Design
Students find travel destinations and information on countries around the world, and use their knowledge to create a snowboard design that represent the country they pick. They explore maps, weather, geography, languages, in their quest.
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Olympic Games Snowboard Design: Winter Sports, Snowboarding, Graphic Arts, Global Cultures
Students gather information about a country and work as a team. They use their knowledge to create a snowboard design that represents the country they pick. They explore locations, languages, flags, and emblems for various countries.
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Tessel Your Way to Nagano!: Olympics, Winter Sports, Snowboarding, Graphic Design, Geometry, Math, M.C. Escher, Tessellations
Students create Post-It note fundamental regions to tesselate. They make tesselations using computer software or websites. They create a jacket design with tesselation and determine the cost of production.
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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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You Be The Judge: Olympics, Winter Sports, Figure Skating, Math, Statistics, Technology
Students design a score sheet for use when watching a figure skating performance. They use spreadsheet software and research information obtained on the Internet to create their score sheets.
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"He Shoots, He Scores": Alcohol Advertising and Sports
Students explore the ways that companies use sporting events to sell products. They show and tell to share what they love about sports. They discuss how advertisers, particulary alcohol advertisers, feature sports figures.
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Let It Snow!
In this let it snow worksheet, students, with a partner, read and discuss nine questions about sports to start a conversation and then fill in ten blanks in ten sentences associated with snow phrases.
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What in the World Is Snowboarding?
Students research the sport of snowboarding in-depth, and divide into small groups to create an entertaining, multimedia newsletter on the sport.
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Fisheries And Songs
Students view examples of songs that have the ocean and its life as their themes. After hearing and reading them, students write their own, having done research on the social and political issues of the ocean's environment.
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Vowels
Students discover that every word needs a vowel. They solve word puzzles using vowels. They complete worksheet by replacing the vowels in well-known proverbs. They create their own puzzles by removing vowels from selcted proverbs and...
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Line Graphs: Gone Graphing
Practice graphing and interpreting data on line graphs with 36 pages of math activities. With rationale, worksheets, and assessment suggestions, the resource is a great addition to any graphing unit.
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Scavenger Hunt Through Figure Skating History
Students research the pioneers of figure skating and write a feature story for a Web publication. They write articles investigating "The Story Behind a Gold Medal" and graph the medals won by different countries between 1976-1996.
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Heros and Heroines
Sixth graders will explore why: today children are faced with an increasingly fractured world where a variety of forces work to shape their final character. Positive role models like parents, teachers, and athletes are important for...
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History and Culture of Russia
The history and culture of Russia is one of the most complex in Europe, and can provide interesting learning opportunities.
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Commemorative Coin Poetry
Students discuss and research an individual or event that has been memorialized on a commemorative coin. They use the information they found to write acrostics, creating stand-up accordion books to display the poems.
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Divide 3 and 4 Digit Numbers
In this division learning exercise, students solve 6 word problems in which they divide three and four digit numbers. They describe where the mistake is in one of the problems.