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Beeswax Flower Candle
Pupils create "Beeswax flower candles" in this early-elementary classroom Art lesson plan. Materials needed include foam pieces, straw, a glue gun, clay pots, beeswax, and popsicle sticks. This activity is ideal for the students to...
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The Greatest Generation: Capturing Their Stories with Digital Images
Young scholars interview a family member of a different generation. After brainstorming story topic ideas, they choose a topic about which to write focused interview questions. Using their notes from the interviews, students write and...
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Marty and Me
Learners read 'Marty and Me' by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. They compare their lives with Marty's life, which in most cases, is very different. They find similarities and differences and create a montage. They include information about...
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Spring Harvest
Students engage in a lesson that is interested in the foods related to the season of Spring. They conduct research using a variety of resources while creating menus to match the regions of The United States. Students create food items...
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Family Picture Quilt
Students explore family backgrounds and traditions while discussing how memories are preserved. In this patchwork quilt lesson, students create a keepsake by compiling pictures, drawings, and magazine clippings of things that are...
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Picture the Future
Pupils create a digital portfolio about their activities for several school years. Students compile pictures and copies of their best work onto flash drives. Pupils combine the pictures and text each year to create a cumulative...
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Energy Efficient Homes
Students evaluate their home to see how energy-efficient it is. In this energy efficiency instructional activity students complete a worksheet and search the Internet to find ways of making their home more energy-efficient.
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City's 50th Anniversary: A Snap Shot in Time
Students watch a video on the history of the city they live in. Individually, they take pictures of their community and identify the reasoning behind the picture. To end the lesson, they vote on their classmates photographs to be...
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Colors, Colors What Do You See?
Students study their colors by reading a book Brown, Bear, Brown Bear and take pictures of colors. In this color recognition lesson, students read the book and sing a song about colors. Students then take pictures of various colors using...
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Beginning Sounds-What sound does each picture begin with?
Students view a multimedia presentation to identify beginning sounds. In this phonics lesson, students recognize beginning sounds. Students navigate a website for addition phonics sounds.
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Parabolas in Flight
Students utilize a trajectory formula in order to discover the physics of a thrown ball. In this physics lesson, students videotape the trajectory of a thrown ball or basketball shot and analyze the action by breaking the video...
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An Investigation Into Our Community
Students examine maps of Palmer, Massachusetts and practice giving directions. As a class, they discuss how it changed from a farming community to more industrial. To end the lesson, they take pictures of the community to show how it has...
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Revolutionary Idea
Students take a field trip to watch a reenactment of the Revolutionary War. In groups, they participate in the same daily chores as the soldiers and examine the contributions of the colonies. To end the lesson, they eat a typical...
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Bug Hunt
Students strengthen observational skills by searching for insects in their home and classroom. In this observation lesson, students use magnifying glasses to classify what kinds of bugs were found. Students then create a bar graph to...
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Who Am I and Who Are You?
Students document their unique characteristics through photography. In this self-discovery lesson, students take photographs of themselves and others. As a class, they discuss similarities and differences, and sort, graph, and find...
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Our Monster Travels...
Students write emails to their parents and locate specific places on a map. In this email lesson plan, students email their parents from the teacher's account and map locations of their parents.
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News Broadcasts
Students create a news broadcast after studying example broadcasts about disaster relief organizations. In this broadcast news lesson, students research disaster relief organizations and then write a news broadcast related to a disaster....
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A Snap at Geometry
Young scholars study geometric images and polyhedrons. In this geometry lesson, students complete several activities to learn about geometric shapes and classify polyhedrons from polygons. Young scholars watch a video, complete a...
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The Digital Cat-A Purrfect Solution!
Pupils explore anatomy through digital photography. In this digital art lesson, students create a portfolio of various animals and label the structures of each.
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Using technology to engage students in science through inquiry research
Students study animals and their behaviors. In this animal behavior lesson students divide into groups and collect data and research animal behaviors.
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Foam Trees/Ornaments
Students create foam ornaments and/or miniature trees using fun foam, glue, buttons, rick rack or pasta, and gold string in this early-elementary school Art activity. Suggested adaptations for younger and older students are provided.
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Memory Book - A Cooperative Learning Experience
Students document sections of their life through pictures, stories, and video to create an English "memory book". They use photographs, video and edited video which includes their history, includes calculated growth, and genetic...
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Trout Fishing in the Connoquenessing Watershed
Students create a tri-fold brochure to be used with their local Tourism Bureau that includes information and photos of local streams and lakes and trout fishing areas. Students write a description of the area and include a map of the...
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What Firemen Read
Students work in groups of three to five to conduct interview on members of the community. Once groups are formed, they draw an occupation from a hat and find a professional to interview from that occupation in their community. They...