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animal families/ categories |
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Science,Arts,English Language Arts,English Language Development |
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After a trip to the Alum Rock Park (or other presentation). Students will write an expository paragraph about one of the animal types they saw and the features and habitat of this animal. Students will also creat a diorama or picture depicting their animal in its habitat. Students will then share their knowledge with the class.... |
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Biomes and a voki video |
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Science,Arts,English Language Arts |
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2,3 |
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Description: |
The students will research one biome (either ocean, rainforest, desert, or forest). They will fill out a fact sheet that they will later use to create a paragraph. Then, they will use voki.com to create an avatar and video about their biome. Lastly, the students will do an art project based on their biome and the animals that live in it.... |
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Sustainable Community 1 of 20 |
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Mathematics,Science,Arts,English Language Arts,History-Social Science |
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5,6,7,8 |
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Description: |
This is a 20 day, integrated, STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) unit focused on teaching middle school students the importance of creating sustainable communities and how to do so. The students will be able to demonstrate their understanding of the persuasive writing genre by by using technology to create online posters, brochures, videos, essays and websites.... |
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Seasons For Kindergartners |
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Science,Arts,English Language Arts,Interdisciplinary |
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K |
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Description: |
It is hard for most of us to remember how confusing time was for us when we were young. Why is it snowing now? Why is it sunny today? It's not even dark yet, why do I have to go to bed? Why is the tree in my front yard always changing? These are just a few questions that run through a kindergartener's head. This activity can be used throughout the year in many subjects, Art, Science, Reading/Language Arts, and Music. ... |
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Focus on Sequencing Skills |
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Science,Arts,English Language Arts,History-Social Science,Interdisciplinary |
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K,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 |
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Description: |
Putting ideas in sequence can be difficult for children. Much time is spent working on beginning, middle, and end of a story in the early grades because the logical order of events or ideas is not always equally evident to every child. Sequencing must be practiced often and in many contexts before it becomes automatic for children. The following activities suggest teaching sequencing in several subject context.... |
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Assorted Creative Thinking Activities |
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Science,Arts,English Language Arts,History-Social Science,Interdisciplinary |
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1,2,3,4,5,6 |
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Description: |
Design, invent, and build something new, useful, or decorative, using any combination of the items listed below. Try to make something that no one else will think of. You may use tape, glue, string, paint, paper clips, and pins in the construction of your project. It will be displayed in the auditorium. Do all the work yourself.
Items you may use:
* 2-liter Plastic Pop Bottles
* Egg Cartons (1 dozen size)
* Cardboard T.P. or Towel Rolls
* Wire Coat Hangers
* Plastic Gallon Milk Jugs
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Apples |
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Mathematics,Science,Arts,English Language Arts,History-Social Science,Interdisciplinary |
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Grade: |
1,2,3,4,5,6 |
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Description: |
This is an across the curriculum (thematic) unit I have used with second graders. I begin the study near the end of September or the beginning of October to coincide with John Chapman's birthday or National Apple Month. ... |
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Title: |
Alaskan Unit on Moose |
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Mathematics,Science,Arts,English Language Arts,History-Social Science,Interdisciplinary |
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3,4,5,6 |
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Description: |
Student performance improves when teachers, administrators, parents, community members, and children work as a team. The following lesson/unit encourages interaction and open communication among students, local wildlife agency game biologists, Athabascan Indian elders, parents, and teachers. The lesson integrates math, science, reading, language arts, social studies, art, and cooking as part of an Alaskan unit on moose. ... |
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Title: |
Comparing Peanuts |
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Science,Arts,English Language Arts |
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2 |
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Description: |
In this activity, students compare and contrast the characteristics of various peanuts. This lesson could be used as part of a unit on peanuts or as part of a unit about foods that come from plants.... |
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Title: |
Types of Simple Machines |
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Science,Arts,English Language Arts |
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Grade: |
4,5 |
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Description: |
Students will learn that simple machines are tools with only one or two parts that make it easier to do a job by making the force you apply on the object stronger, change its direction, or change its speed. The force you put into a simple machine is called applied force. Students will learn the different types of simple machines, be shown many examples, and be asked to apply this knowledge in order to give more examples not given in class.... |
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Title: |
What Is ECOgraphy? |
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Science,Arts,English Language Arts |
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Grade: |
7,8,9,10,11,12 |
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Members of the ECOnauts Club are engaged in the interdisciplinary study of natural ecosystems and built (human-made) environments. In this activity, students use graphic media devices to record field-based data. Cameras provide an alternative medium of communication for artistic creativity and visual "self-expression" -- across the curriculum.... |
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Title: |
Fly It Wright! |
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Mathematics,Science,Arts,English Language Arts,information Literacy |
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Grade: |
5,6,7,8 |
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Student groups of four will research flight before the Wright Brothers, the life of the Wright Brothers, the flight of the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk, and how an airplane flies. Each student will choose a paper airplane model from a variety of websites and create the model plane, which will be flight tested. ... |
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