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Animal Encounters
Students use their visualizing and interpreting skills to produce original writings and artwork.
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How Things Fly
Students observe photographs of selected twentieth-century aircraft at the National Air and Space Museum and note differences in the design of aircraft wings, fuselages, and engines.
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How Things Fly
Students, by drawing on their own experiences, discuss and examine the basic physics of flight. They participate in a variety of activities regarding flight.
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Stories of the Wrights' Flight
Pupils examine and compare primary and secondary source accounts of the Wright brothers' first flights on December 17, 1903.
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Cinderbank
Fourth graders identify major components of a "Cinderella" story in order to create a database.
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Money Talks
Students move from fact finding to interpretation as they examine paper money from the time of the American Revolution. In the final exercise, they use the issue dates of the bills to construct a chronology of political changes during...
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Pictures Telling Stories
Students see the importance of primary sources in the study of history, but also the limitations of relying only on primary sources of taking the money, as it were, at face value.
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Geo Jammin' By DeSign - Day 3, Lesson 12: Jammin
Students review definitions of word wall words using songs, movement and sharing.
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Geo Jammin' By DeSign - Day 6, Lesson 32: Appliqué-tion of Learning
Second graders hand stitch three different appliqué stitches using triangles as a motif.
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Presenting... the Prime Ministers of Canada
Students access the First Among Equals website and research Canadian Prime Ministers.
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Spy on a Spider
Students view slides or live specimens to name and describe the distinguishing features of groups of arthropods, especially spiders and insects. They complete worksheets, observe webs and then search for and record where spiders can be...
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Letters from the Japanese American Internment
Young scholars make deductions about life in an internment camp by reading and comparing letters written to Clara Breed. Along the way, they consider the advantages of looking at a historical event from the multiple points of view of...
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Keys To Our House-the White House
Young scholars explore the history of the White House from four different perspectives: as a symbol, a public and private place, technological advances, and changing needs. They take a virtual tour of the White House and explore its...
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The Family
Young scholars investigate family organization and create a family unit. They decide the relationships, make ID's, and makes a family tree. They introduce their family units to the others in the class while the teacher takes family...
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Research North Carolina Symbols for a North Carolina Symbols Scrapbook
Fourth graders research North Carolina Symbols in a social studies textbook. They choose one to research in the computer lab for a scrapbook.
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Geo Jammin' By DeSign - Day 2, Lesson 11: A Stitch in Time
Students investigate the culturally artistic value of quilts, the importance of trade in meeting basic needs, and the conservation of natural resources.
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Geo Jammin' By DeSign - Day 4, Lesson 22: Authentic Design
Students explore the complexity of handmade quilts and their designs by looking a real life samples.
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Geo Jammin' By DeSign - Day 5, Lesson 28: The Mo-tea-if
Second graders explore tea dyeing cloth.
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Flying Geese
Students examine the Flying Geese quilt pattern, and discuss and identify the pattern. They write a paragraph titled, My Quilt Report, summarizing the information discussed about the quilt patterns.
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Geo Jammin' By DeSign - Day 7, Lesson 36: DeSign Sampler
Second graders, in groups, write quilt reports.
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Geo Jammin' By DeSign - Day 7, Lesson 37: Summarizing for the Summative
Students listen for specific information during summary presentations. They practice giving feedback on given topic according to a set of standards. The speaker reports to the rest of class from a report and listeners determine if...
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The Matrix
Second graders compare and contrast groups of Native Americans and culture groups from different regions and times.
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Discovering the History of Our Community
Fourth graders explore the history of the Richfield Springs area through a guest speaker, historical pictures and postcards, and narratives from various histories of the area.
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Crazy Quilts
Students research women's roles in agriculture's history and how they have changed. They create a paper "crazy quilt" using a variety of colors and pattersn to help them explain the role of quilts in women's history.