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Tracking Weather |
Discuss weather forecasting terms, vocabulary, and
concepts of movement. If possible invite a local weatherman to visit
your classroom. Students then choose or are assigned a city and state
to research. They may use an electronic encyclopedia or the
Weather Channel site (http://www.weather.com).
At the Weather Channel site students will click the Weather Current
Conditions and go to the Current Conditions and Five-Day Forecasts for
over 1, 2000 cities. Click on the first letter of the state chosen or
click on the state map. Students may share their findings by creating a
bulletin board displaying their research. Older students can create
graphs with their results.
American Weather Stats,
Interactive Weather Information Network
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The Solar System |
This group activity provides students an opportunity to
explore and research the planets. Each group will select one of the
nine planets. During lab time students will research their planets.
Each group will then use their research findings to create one slide in
a PowerPoint presentation entitled, Our Nine Planets. The
presentation should begin with a title slide and a contents slide.
Using the Action Settings feature each slide should have a link back to
the Contents slide. Information could also be included in a Word
document which could be published as a class book on the solar system.
(Resources:
The Earth
and Its Place in the Universe)
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Systems of the Body |
Students can work in groups to create a PowerPoint slide to describe a
specific system of the body. Each group will select or be assigned one
of the following systems:
Nervous System, Circulatory System, Muscular System,
Digestive System, Respiratory System, and Skeletal
System. Information and graphics about these systems can be found
at the following web sites:
Human Anatomy Online ,
Inner Learning Online
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Look Inside the Human Body
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Track Your Pulse |
Students can take their pulse using a blood pressure
machine and record their findings on a class bar graph that the teacher
can create using Excel. Web sites that will provide more information
for students on blood pressure are:
Taking Blood Pressure
http://madsci.wustl.edu/experiments/archive/859422898.Bi.html
Encyclopedia.com http://aj.encyclopedia.com/articles/01581.html
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Animal Classification |
Students select a classification of animal to research and create a Word
document or PowerPoint to publish information learned.
The
Animal Kingdom
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