Students have the opportunity to participate in the three basic economic systems, (market, command, and tradition).

Pupils bag trees to determine the mass of the water given off in the evapotranspiration process.

Students create paper by adding a few small scraps of paper into the blender pitcher and adding just enough water to thoroughly soak paper.

Students correctly match prefixes or suffixes with their appropriate meaning. Prefix-Suffix Concentration is a game that allow students to practice and review prefixes and suffixes and their meaning.

Students play a game after making digit cards.

Learners develop the different jumping patterns (hopping; jumping using 2 feet take-offs and landings; leaping; 1-to-2 foot jumps; 2-to-1 foot jumps)

This instructional activity will teach the students about how Mosaics are made and how they have been used in the past history and in modern times. Students will construct their own paper mosaics.

Fourth graders conduct an experiment to get them thinking about the invisibility of air, and to prove that air has weight.

Students conduct an experiment to evaluate the accuracy of their senses.

Seventh graders read Mania Magee as a shared literature experience. This lesson plan presents some ideas to use after certain chapters in the book as a way of supplementing student learning and involvement in the story.

Learners identify a key line from a Shakespearean play and create a poem based on the imagery evoked by the dialogue.

Second graders observe and describe the similarities and differences in the African Mask exhibit at the Ackland Art Museum. They use describing words to express the feelings of the masks.

Students discover how toys often illustrate fundamental physical principles. The toy drinking bird is an example. The challenge for you in the lab is to discover why the drinking bird functions.

Students explore how a surface can be described without seeing it.

Students participate in hands-on activities to explore their natural surroundings. They recognize that ponds and woods are ecosystems and compare differences between the two. They identify trees by their bark and leaves.

Students are introduced to remote sensing equipment used to gather information about the moon. They learn basic facts about the moon such as size, landforms, temperature and gravitational influence on the earth's tides.

Second graders design Egyptian style portraits. They use the correct proportions while drawing and painting the facial features.

Third graders use a plot map to study the plants and animals living in a small area of their environment.

Pupils create a 5 page My 5 Senses book. They type 1 sense on each page and select 4 corresponding pictures to go with the sense.

Students create a story and use a felt story board to build the story.

Students study the example of the spread of Buddhism in Southeast Asia, assess the possible meaning conveyed by Borobudur, explore how ideas travel and the process of syncretism, and appreciate how and why Salindra leaders in Java...

Students listen to information presented about clouds. Then students determine the three main types of clouds, and how they are alike and different. They draw cirrus, stratus and cumulus clouds.

Students perform 3 hands-on activities to help them explain the terms "crest" and "trough" as related to sound, water, and light waves. All three waves types have troughs and crests. The activities use toys to demonstrate the properties...

Seventh graders, after an explanation and demonstration compare how many different places there at Cocowalk.