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Art Across the Planet
Students create drawings of their own homes and those that they imagine might be found in a foreign country, conduct research on that particular foreign country using exchange artwork and questions with another group of students in that...
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Letters to Local and State Legislators
Students locate their local or state legislator's address. They write and send letters to their local and state legislators critiquing their voting record on environmental issues and sharing their own views on these issues.
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What Makes a Healthy Plant?
Learners predict the effects of water, light, and soil on the development of a plant and then design an experiment to test their predictions.
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Virtual Ellis Island Museum Unit: Final Reports
Students write reports of their research findings to be shared with friends and families. They develop their reports into web pages for publication on the Internet.
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Graph It!
First graders use organized data to construct real object graphs, picture graphs, and bar-type graphs.
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Fast Food Survey Using Bar Graphs
Second graders conduct survey and sort data according to categories, construct bar graph with intervals of 1, and write a few sentences about their graphs.
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Immigration Explorations
Learners visit John Schick's Virtual Ellis Island Museum in order to complete research and evaluate how students created their site, how they structured the site, and what sort of information and graphics they included. This list is...
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Animal Book
Learners explore habitats and the needs of living things. They research a selected animal. Students use KidPix and create a variety of animal riddles. They combine their riddles with those of classmates to create their animal books.
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How to Choose Articles
In this language arts worksheet, students read detailed information that helps students choose correct articles in their writing. Students learn about nouns that refer to one unique thing, countable nouns, uncountable nouns, proper nouns...
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Balanced Meal Planner
Students use an online website to select foods and put them onto a plate to see if they have made healthy and balanced meals. In this healthy meals lesson plan, students review the food pyramid before this activity.
Learn My Way
Learn My Way: Using a Mouse
In this online course, students will learn how to use and click a computer mouse, how to hold a mouse, and how to use it to get around your computer.
ABCya
Ab Cya: Computer Game: Create a Car
Kids will enjoy practice manipulating the computer mouse while building a cool car.
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Ab Cya: Take a Trip: A Journey Through Familiar Places
Using the computer mouse, children carefully move a car through a map of a town while trying to avoid going off of the path. They pass different landmarks and are introduced to them one at a time. The activity provides good hand-eye...
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Thirteen Productions: Space Racers: Space Collector
An interactive game dodging asteroids and collecting objects in space. Students will practice hand-eye coordinated mouse skills while flying through space.
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Naeyc: Help Your Child Build Fine Motor Skills
There are lots of activities that can increase muscle strength and coordination, preparing children for more advanced skills, from writing with a pencil, using a computer mouse, or playing a musical instrument. Help your child build fine...
ABCya
Ab Cya: Make a Gingerbread House
Make a Gingerbread House is a holiday computer activity for early elementary age children. Kids learn and practice valuable mouse manipulation techniques while clicking and dragging. Students will also exercise visual spatial skills...
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Ab Cya: Make a Cake
Make a Cake is a fun computer activity for kids to learn mouse manipulation skills, letters and numbers one to ten! First, children select a cake to decorate. Next, they add different color frosting, designs, letters and numbers!...
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Ab Cya: Click and Drag Make a Snowman
Practice basic mouse manipulation techniques using this interactive lesson. Using the mouse, learners move the shapes to create a colorful snowman. Immediate feedback given.
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Ab Cya: Make a Pizza
Kids click and drag the different toppings to make a pizza! Students learn and practice valuable mouse manipulation techniques while clicking and dragging. Fun for children of all ages.
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Ab Cya: Make a Pumpkin
Click and drag the different shapes to make a pumpkin. Students learn and practice valuable mouse manipulation techniques while clicking and dragging. Students may also create faces depicting different emotions. Have fun with this...
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Ab Cya: Christmas Lights
It's time to put up the Christmas lights! Click and drag the mouse to hang lights on the house. A fun Christmas computer activity for children and students of all ages.
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Ab Cya: Click and Drag to Make a Face
Practice basic mouse manipulation skills using this interactive lesson. Using the mouse, learners move the shapes to create a colorful and funny face. Immediate feedback given.
Ministerio de Educación (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion: Manejo Del Raton
These are simple games to introduce preschool children to use the mouse. There are many activities that match each of the mouse functions such as paths and trails, coloring, puzzles or creating faces.