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Homeschooling Chronicles - Insects
The world of bugs may be small, but they can have a big impact on the lives of nature explorers like my children.
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Learning Festival ~ Book Buddies Visit High School
Young scholars work together to develop a festival for book lovers. High schoolers work with young children and practice their reading. Traveling between reading stations, they focus on different reading standards. They act as...
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Household ProductsPast to Future
Third graders research and explore the development of household inventions. Groups create timelines which must display the date of each contribution, the inventor or inventors of each contribution, and the cultural background of each...
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Postcards from the Net
Students take a closer examine the world just outside their doors and share their experiences with their classmates, near and far. They create postcards of their community and email them to pen pals in other school districts.
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Xeriscaping In Your Community
Fourth graders participate in a service-learning project to design landscaping that maximizes water use and utilizes indigenous plant species.
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Science: Putting Down Roots
Fourth graders, in small groups, observe plants and note their characteristics. After drawing pictures of the plants, including their roots systems, they hypothesize in which environments the plants would best thrive. Finally, 4th...
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Lithography Techniques/Making a Printed Circuit Board
Students create an electronic schematic on their PCB. In this physics instructional activity, students solder and assemble electronic components. They research the function of these components and share their findings in a group.