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Indian Village ( Totem Poles)
Students become familiar with Indian culture and why they built totem poles. For this totem pole lesson, students understand that totem were built to keep away evil spirits. Students create totem pole.
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Habitat, What is That?
Students explore animal habitats. In this environmental stewardship lesson, students match animals to their habitats in a classroom activity. Students also observe a firefly habitat and read Fireflies. Students create bulletin boards...
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Yellow Days: Studying Vincent van Gogh's Painting
Students revisit the color yellow and are introduced to van Gogh, the painter. In this visual arts activity, students study Vincent van Gogh's painting "Sunflowers" and identify the color yellow. Students create their own interpretation...
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The Keith Haring Car
Students examine Keith Haring's artwork. In this art lesson, students paint a car using his style of art known as Pop Art.
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Botany Basics
Students survey plants. In this plant identification lesson, students explore the difference in plants to aid identification. Students determine which plants may be used for medicinal reasons.
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Compass Designs
Students investigate the properties of two and three dimensional objects. In this geometry lesson, students differentiate polygons based on similarity and congruence. They make observation and interpret the data.
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Tet, the Vietnamese New Year
Students identify the similarities and differences between traditions in the Vietnamese New Year, TET, with the traditions of several holidays celebrated in America.
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What's Your Favorite? Survey And Graphing Project
Sixth graders create and edit spreadsheet documents using all data types, formulas and functions, and chart information. They collect and organize data that be portrayed in a graph that they create using EXCEL.
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Plants and Animals: Partners in Pollination
Students identify the plant parts and bee structures that are involved in pollination. They simulate pollination in a group activity and process the information.
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T-shirt Chromatography
Students explore chromatography, a process used to separate mixtures. They create a colorful T-shirt design.
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Deerfield Debates Its Future: What Constitutes Progress?
Students explore the many resources that one can use to explore a community, the Colonial Revival movement, and how the industry and technology reshaped life in Deerfield the Connecticut River Valley.
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Macroinvertebrate Sampling
Learners identify macroinvertebrate species to investigate ecological systems and the relationship between humans and the environment.
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Matisse Cut and Paste
Fifth graders use cut and paste paper composition inspired by the work of Henri Matisse and his book called "Jazz." After composition is completed, 5th graders select 2 shapes to reproduce in minitaure for border.
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Faberge Easter Egg
Students examine the Russian culture under the Czars and how there was a demand for intricate and beautiful objects. They attempt to create a "jewel-like" object out of an egg using a Spring template supplied by the teacher.
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Map Making/Floor Plans/Map Reading
Young scholars apply their knowledge of scale when mapping the classroom. They determine the use of a map legend and orient a map using a compass. They create the classroom maps using transfer graph paper.
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Label Your Body
Students assimilate the names of the parts of the body. They practice spelling body part words using a worksheet. They trace the outline of their bodies, add features and label the body parts from the vocabulary list.
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Clothespin Magnets
Students decorate letter, clothespin magnets using basic art supplies in this Art lesson for the elementary classroom. Teacher preparation should include cutting out letter shapes for each student and connecting clothespins prior to the...
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Texture And The World Around You
Students discover different textures used in art by exploring objects, creating magazine montages, and printing collagraphs. The instructional activity spans three days and includes three different activities to aid in the learning...
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A New Approach to Developing Images on Clay
Young scholars make story telling plates or tiles based on David Stabely's technique. They are shown slides of original work contemporary artists who are using nontraditional approaches to the clay surface. Students are shown work that...
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Planting Seeds
In this literacy learning exercise, students use a word bank to create a story about planting seeds.
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Sonoran Desert
In this Sonoran Desert worksheet, students read and analyze a letter that Jeremy wrote to his grandmother and then complete the picture that follows using information about the desert they learned from the letter.
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Looking for Minibeasts
In this minibeasts worksheet, students participate in a "minibeasts safari" where they collect a variety of different types of bugs in a jar, examine them and then return them to their original inhabitants.
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Valentine's Day - February 14th
In this Valentine's Day themed worksheet, students will solve a 13 question crossword puzzle with clues related to Valentine's Day words.
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Counting: The Number 7
In this counting worksheet, students work toward mastery of the number 7. Students practice writing the number on the lines provided and color 5 sets of seven pictures.