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Health and Physical Education
Second graders read the story, Just a Minute. They create books with physical activities listed. They predict how many times they can perform that activity in one minute.
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The Art of Making Letters
Students explore letter formation through art. They analyze and discuss Jasper Johns letter paintings, and create the letter strokes using various colors and torn paper.
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Multiplication Movement
Third graders experience multiplication facts through movement and music. They view the Multiplication Rock video, choreograph a movement or dance to teach the multiplication facts of threes, and perform their dance.
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Family Activity-- Finding Areas of Triangles
In this math worksheet, students work at home with a family member to identify triangles and find the areas. Students find 3 triangles in tile patterns, wallpaper, paintings or anywhere in the home and answer 6 questions.
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Describing Situations Using Integers
In this math worksheet, students answer the eight questions that are focused upon using integers. The tasks are meant to be done at home with your family.
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Physical Differences
Students recognize that everyone is different. In this physical differences lesson, students participate in three activities highlighting differences among people. In activity one, students discover differently "abled" dolls and...
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Can You Do It? I Can Do It!
Students imitate the same movements that different animals would make.
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Continuation of the Revolution
Fourth graders research important inventions from the second half of the Industrial Revolution. They summarize their research and then write and publish a newspaper style article.
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Tallying Animals
Second graders draw a picture of a pond scene which includes various animals. They exchange pictures and tally the number of animals drawn. Then they record the number on a chart and write a story about their pictures.
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Mood In Art And Poetry
Seventh graders investigate the concept of mood and how it influences various types of art. They create an abstract painting and demonstrate how mood is present in the work. Also, 7th graders construct poems using word choices to set...
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Hyper for Expository Writing!
Fifth graders use the internet to research a plant or animal they read about in "The Talking Earth". Using notes, they develop a graphic organizer and use the main topics to create a HyperStudio stack. Using all of this information,...
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Destructive/Constructive Communication
Students are introduced to the characteristics of destructive and constructive communication. In groups, they send I-messages to other groups of examples of each. To end the lesson, they participate in role-play activities to practice...
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Chapter 11 What's Your Preference
In this math activity, students record the results of a survey taken from family members about relationships and activities.
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Food and Languages of the World
Students explore and notice how foods from different countries of the world are alike and different. In this food and languages of the world lesson, students examine fruit and bread from a variety of countries around the world. After...
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Math Review (Preparing for CST)
Students integrate Math and Music to practice the concept of adding and subtracting decimals. In this math review lesson plan, students explore music as a way to build math skills. Students listen to the "Decimal Song" and then write a...
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Minnesota Floor Map
Students examine the physical geography of Minnesota, work cooperatively to design a map of Minnesota and develop spatial and relative location of Minnesota landmarks and physical characteristics.
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What Interests You?
Fourth graders investigate math in the real world using internet search methods to locate career fields of interest. They select an occupation, and draft brief paragraphs that reflect insight as to why that occupation interests them.
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The Right Tool for the Job: Fishing Tools and Technology
Students use modern technology to research the history, design, and function of a specific tool or piece of fishing technology. They create a timeline and story about the evolution of the tool.
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Write All About It
Fourth graders use research skills and the writing process to create a newspaper. Although students work in groups to complete the final draft of the newspaper, each student is responsible for doing his or her own research and writing...
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Career Recruiter
High schoolers give a presentation explaining the career opportunities that exist within a hospital. They can present the information via a Powerpoint presentation, a puppet show, a one act play or a taped video. They focus on...
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I Heard It on the Radio
Students develop a portfolio of information of contemporary musicians or individuals from the music industry.
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Efficiency
Fourth graders work cooperatively to investigate the efficiency of various household appliances. They share their findings in three to five minute oral presentations.
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Va Va Va Zoooommm
Young scholars, in groups, measure a variety of physical components to several activities. They use both standard and non-standard forms of measurement and then develop conclusions about the use of units in measurement.
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The Dot and Dashy Language
Young scholars examine and discuss the Morse Code. In small groups they develop messages using Morse code and take turns decipering the messages.