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Simulated Underground Railroad Experience - Part B
Third graders travel throughout many stations learning about the Underground Railroad.
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Cooperation
Students, in groups, "Build An Animal where they need to cooperate in order to be successful and then make a storyboard for a Powerpoint presentation.
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Food Webs
Students produce a newspaper covering topics related to food webs. They use print and electronic sources to gather information about specific animals. They share their information with the class.
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Interactive Journeys
Students investigate environments and animals through the use of technology while on class field trips. The instructional activity is highly adaptable and can work with any field trip in many subject areas.
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Sensory Details
Students observe their environment and write detailed, sensory-specific sentences about that environment. This activity can be extended to include the creation of a personalized story or movie of the experience (student examples are...
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Royal Russian Time Machine
Students describe the reign of the last Russian Czar, Nicolas Romanov and his family. They then become familiar with the family's dynasty by researching the Internet and looking through primary documents and pictures.
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You Are Here
Students determine the relative size and distance of the planets in the solar system. They use ratios in their mathematical calculations to make models of the planets after discussing the relative sizes of the planets. They keep a...
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Author Study (Chris Van Allsburg)
Third graders study a list of books written and illustrated by the author. They examine facts about the author's life. They take a survey of Allsburg's books read by the students using the Excel spreadsheet.
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Students watch the video Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. They participate in daily lecture, and create vocabulary cards. Students participate in oral reading evaluation, and complete a writing assignment:Do things like those that...
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1950's Rock and Roll
Students complete an Individual Artist Information Sheet on famous 1950's Rock and Roll musician. They read one of the chapeters on "Elvis Pressley, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Rockabilly, Jerry Lee Lewis, The Everly Brothers, or...
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Digestion
Fourth graders answer the question what happens to the food you eat? They complete a worksheet about the food you eat. They discuss the different types of teeth that we have. Students complete digestion poster in which they color and...
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Dinosaur Traces
Young scholars identify and interpret the type of evidence found at a typical dinosaur dig and mimic a paleontologist by taking crayon rubbings of simulated bone impressions. After the rubbings are taken, the students reconstruct the...
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R Blends
In this blends worksheet, students complete 7 sentences by choosing from 12 words given. Students find the 7 words in a word search. Students also unscramble 3 words.
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Water Web
In this water web learning exercise, students explore, analyze and discuss how weather stations interact with maintaining weather conditions and answer two essay questions and ten multiple choice questions.
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Mother Goose Caboose
In this Mother Goose worksheet, learners color the nine different shapes one color, cut each piece out and glue them together on a separate sheet of paper. Students follow each direction as they piece together their trains.
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Give Thanks
In this giving thanks worksheet, students search up, down, backwards, forwards, and diagonally for names of things they should be thankful for and then list things they are personally thankful for in their lives. Students find...
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Word Search: African Animals
In this African animals word search learning exercise, students use the word bank to determine the names of the animals and look for answers horizontally, vertically, and diagonally. Students find 17 words.
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Writing Numbers Exercise
In this number writing exercise, students are given twelve sentences containing numbers and asked to correct how the number is written.
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Multiply One-Digits
In this finding the products worksheet, students multiply one-digit times one-digit numbers to solve. Students solve 35 problems.
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The Big Bang-Hubble's Law
For this Hubble's law worksheet, learners use data for galaxies which include their distance and speed. Students make a graph to show the distance to each galaxy and the speed of each galaxy. They use their graph to answer 4 questions...
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Rainbow Magic Wordsearch
In this Rainbow Fairy activity, students complete a wordsearch that contains Rainbow Fairy names in it. Students look for 7 names.
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Stars and Stripes Forever: Researching Veteran's Day and Historical Events
Sixth graders research Veteran's Day and wars that affected the United States. In this research lesson plan, 6th graders work in small groups to create an oral presentation based on Internet and conventional research. They complete...
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Little Words Within Bigger Words
In this spelling words word search worksheet, 4th graders complete a word search and write the spelling words in which the list of little words can be seen. Students write 20 answers.
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December Celebrations
Students study customs of various winter holidays. In this holiday lesson, students read the book The Reasons for the Seasons and complete a winter glyph. Students use graphing software to create a chart of the holidays that are celebrated.