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Printing and Colors
In this printing readiness worksheet, students use colors to draw along the dotted zig zag lines. Students trace 4 lines using the color that is shown for each.
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DNA Fingerprinting for High School Biology
Students work with tools and techniques used in genetic engineering. They dissect a sample into fragments of DNA using restriction enzymes, sometimes called "molecular scissors". They sort these fragments, measure and analyze them according
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Using HyperStudio to present a biography
Students read a biography, present the six focus statements (areas of information) onto a 3-D box, photograph their box with a digital camera, and create a HyperStudio card with voice and text.
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"Use an Anemometer," said the Meteorologist
Students participate in an hands-on construction of an instrument to measure wind speed.
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Using the Variation Approach
Students explore and explain geometrical applications, and how to apply these applications to real life.
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Problem Solving Door
Students demonstrate several problem solving techniques. They get through their problem by talking it out using the I message with one another. "Rock, paper, scissors" method is the most popular used by the students to solve a problem....
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Simple Machines
First graders study and describe simple machines such as the hammer, screwdriver, nutcracker, bottle opener and scissors and select the appropriate tool for a particular type of work.
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Mental Math and Money Problems
For this European money worksheet, students add the total cost of items using European money. Students complete 12 problems total.
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Measure Me!
Third graders use nonstandard concrete methods to estimate and record measurements of their body.
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Chinese Puzzle Story
Learners study the Chinese form of tangrams. They read the story, "Grandfather Tang's Story," by Ann Tompert and discuss how tangrams are used to tell the story. Using paper and scissors, they create animal tangrams and write stories...
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Frame It!
Students make decorative picture frames for holiday gifts and use creative thinking skills to decorate frame patterns. They demonstrate ability in following directions.
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Fast, Fun & Easy Fabric Vases
Students construct a fabric vase as shown in the book, "Fast, Fun & Easy Fabric Vases" by Linda Johansen. They cut fabric and appliques using plastic templates then iron on fusible interface. Pieces of the vase are then sewn...
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Sonar Mapping
Students use a shoe box to create a seafloor model and use cardboard for layering inside of the shoe box to simulate the ocean floor. They probe the ocean floor to simulate sonar echoes. Finally, students graph their data to get a...
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Lace Pictures
Students create Valentine's Day gifts. In this visual arts lesson plan, students create a Valentine's Day project using paper doilies pasted onto construction paper. Students frame their art with brown construction paper and give their...
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Mental Math and Money Problems
In this cost worksheet, students add the total cost of buying items using British money. Students complete 12 problems on this worksheet.
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Mental Math and Money Problems
For this money worksheet, learners find the total cost of buying items by adding European money using mental math. Students complete 12 problems.
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Printing Border Patterns
Students design printing blocks with patterns cut with scissors and/or Speedball Linozip Cutters. They print colorful repeating, alternating or tessellating pattern designs of difficulty appropriate for their age level.
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Folding Fractions
Learners create a set of fraction circles using a paper folding technique. They fold 10 inch circles of paper into the indicated fractions, identify the fractions, and use them to show equivalency.
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Discovering Physical Changes
Fourth graders determine what is meant by a physical change, and they demonstrate how they can make physical changes. They complete activities at stations that entail changes in color, size, texture, hardness, or state of matter. Using...
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The Calculus Whiz Who Owned a Box Company
Students use the relationship between volume and surface area to construct a box out of a piece of paper that maximizes volume using a table and by using graphing and calculus techniques.
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Counting Money
Students read, write, and identify different coin combinations and use this information in real-world situations.
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Measurement Mania
First graders measure 10 different objects found in the classroom, including their own hands and feet, then record their findings. This is a fun instructional activity for students to experience measurement using a ruler and unifix cubes.
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Finding The Circumference Given The Radius
Students develop an understanding of pi and the relationship between the diameter, radius and circumference. After a lecture/demo, students use construction paper and a compass to solve problems using diameter, radius and circumference.
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Learning about Shapes with Tangrams and the Net
Pupils use tangrams, student literature, and Websites to explore shapes.