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Transformations
Young scholars identify the types of transformations in their lives. As a class, they determine the ones they have control over and which ones they do not. They practice solving problems in math and oral communication that they are faced...
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Please Turn Up the Lights!
Eighth graders discuss series and parallel circuits and design an investigation to test a hypothesis on total resistance of series and parallel circuits in combination. After discussion, groups design their experiments, run tests, and...
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What's Your Design?
Sixth grade middle schoolers: design a stained glass window, submitting their initial plan detailing the measurements of all lines and angles. Seventh grade students: create a scale drawing of their own geometric family of four members.
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Macaroni Pattern Necklaces
Students create a macaroni necklace based on a pattern given them by the instructor. In this reinforcement lesson, students are given a complex pattern and using a letter key. They must recreate the patten using colored macaroni strung...
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Democracy…Not Yet!
Students analyze the concept of democracy. In this democratic values lesson, students analyze the lyrics of selected popular music that address issues that challenge the role of United States as a world leader. Students create exhibits...
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Pre-K Appetizer
Students understand there are healthy and not healthy food choices. In this food pyramid lesson, students learn to make healthy choices by playing a traffic light game. Students recognize raw foods from the farm may not be ready for...
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Ready, Set, Action
Students investigate parts of speech by analyzing action words in sentences. In this verb usage lesson, students read sentences to each other and identify the action words and verbs used. Students participate in a speed challenge in...
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What Is It?
Students explore the likelihood of events. In this logical thinking lesson, 3rd graders are given several scenarios and determine whether the possibility of the described event actually happening is likely, unlikely, or...
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Classroom Christmas Tree
Students practice their addition by participating in a Christmas Tree activity. In this holiday math lesson, students complete math problems at their desk and match their answers with ornaments on a tree. Students are given...
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Polynomials
Students add and subtract polynomials. In this polynomials assessment, students calculate ten questions using addition and subtraction. Students use Lego manipulatives to create their own worksheet on polynomials.
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Hammurabi's Code
Learners explore philosophy by analyzing a historic quote. In this fairness instructional activity, students read a quote by Hammurabi which discusses whether law is for punishing the bad or rewarding the good. Learners examine the Ten...
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Secant Line Approximation of the Tangent Line
Students perform operation with secant and tangent lines. In this calculus lesson plan, students find the derivative and relate it to the slope of a line. They differentiate between secant and tangent as they intersect a circle, using...
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Fractal Fern
Learners identify the location of coordinate pairs of an image. In this geometry lesson plan, students perform transformation and identify the image and pre-image point of location. They apply the concept of fractals to...
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On The Farm
Students identify animals found on farms. They create a farm picture using KidPix Software. They can combine their pictures to create a class book on farm animals. They can use graphic pictures from clipart to decorate the cover of the...
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Counting to 10
Students count to 10 by using cheerios as manipulatives, identify numbers 1-10 by sight, and go to a website by using the Internet and computer keyboard (numeric) to answer questions (with help of teacher).
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Insect Research Project
Third graders research information about their specific insect on the computer, and use the information that they have compiled about their insect to create a power point presentation.
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Black History Month
Students work in cooperative pairs to research information and give oral presentations about African American men and women who have made significant contributions to U.S. history.
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"Here Comes the Train"
Students read and explore the story, The Little Engine that Could, by Watter Piper.
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Pets: Oh Behave
Students develop an understanding of how innate and learned behaviors and the environment determine behavior.
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What Is a Business?
Students discover how to maintain successful businesses as they assume the roles of owners and drivers of their own ice cream trucks.
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Aerodynamics
Students discover the basic principles of aerodynamics, including the roles and identity of natural forces involved. They examine how the force of gravity is overcome by the curved shape of an airplane wing and air pressure.
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Egg Carton Math
Students recognize numbers 1-10 from a flash card held by the teacher and put the amount of beans in an egg cartoon that corresponds to the number the teacher holds up. After a lecture/demo, students play the game on their own.
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Ancient Refuge in the Holy Land - International Phonetic Alphabet
Students research the uses and symbols of the International Phonetic Alphabet. They complete a worksheet to translate and transcribe phrases of English into the International Phonetic Alphabet.
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Combining and Breaking Apart Numbers
First graders read Imogene's Antlers by David Small the create pipe cleaner antlers. Using these as a tool students combine and create number sentences. They continue to work through the framework of a software program.