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  The Cracked Crust How has the earth changed over time? What are the major tectonic plates and where are they located in the world? How are earthquakes located and measured? Why or why not is an earthquake likely to occur where we live? What do we need to know to protect ourselves from earthquakes and their aftermath?
  Student-made Web Pages...Show Off Their Work! Designed to teach students how to create a web page using Netscape Communicator's Composer and can be used by students in grades 3-12 to present their projects or research on their school's web page. Designed to be taught in a lab setting and will be used by the technology teacher in coordination with the classroom teacher.
  Speak To Me Integrating presentation software into Middle School Science.
  Inching Our Way Into the Metric System Students will understand mathematics and become mathematically confident by communicating and reasoning mathematically, by applying mathematics in real-world settings, and by solving problems through the integrated study of number systems, algebra, data analysis, probability, and trigonometry.
  The World Beyond My Back Yard To broaden the student's general global knowledge to the fact that a whole world exists outside their door -- not just their immediate community or country.
  Librarian Who Measured the Circumference of Earth Develop mathematical power, through knowledge gained about angles and triangles to further discover the circumference of the earth.
  Amazon Rainforest Essential Questions: What defines a rainforest? What are the layers of the rainforest and how are they unique? Why are the rainforests important?
  May The Fastest Toy Win This learning experience best fits into the intermediate level physical science course.
  What’s This Solar System All About? Learning unit dealing with the solar system
  Nine Planets WebQuest This part of a larger unit which deals with the solar system. Students use websites to research background info on each planet.
  Is there a correlation? This unit has come out of frustration due to the fact that I could not find a math series that introduced graphing in a way that I felt the students would get anything meaningful out of it. This is a lengthy unit and takes up quite a bit of time but is well worth the time and effort. First, students review types of graphs: circle, line, bar, and pictographs. A sample is constructed in class and then students complete one for homework.
  Is There a Correlation? A Graphing Unit Student research: Is there a correlation between the amount of time a student spends watching TV, playing video games, doing homework and student success in school (i.e. grades)?
  Cooperative Learning How well can First and Sixth Graders work cooperatively to collaborate on reading, writing and art-related activities? How can Sixth Graders self-esteem be improved? How well can Sixth Graders recognize and appreciate differences in First Graders?
  So You Think You Got A Problem Students engaging in problem-solving process.
  Geometry in the Real World Geometry is a difficult unit for grades 6-8. This unit is designed to make the concepts easier to understand and tie in real life examples.
  Astronomy Challenge Understanding the solar system through astronomy concepts.
  A New Age in Europe This is an intermediate social studies unit on the Renaissance and the Reformation. The unit will take approximately four weeks to complete. The students will understand the meaning of key terms, events and ideas. They will also meet the important figures of this time period. They will use technology to explore and discover these items as well as to create a news broadcast on the important figures
  Building Bridges In grades 5-8, the mathematics curriculum should include extensive concrete experience using measurement so that students can- Estimate, make, and use measurements to describe and compare phenomena; Extend understanding of the concepts of weight and mass.
  Hot Topic Hot Topic is a learning experience where students focus on a topic, in this case an environmental issue, and utilize Hyper Studio, a dynamic and exciting multimedia software program, to create a presentation that supports their point of view.
  Medieval Times Reading Unit This unit presents students with a view of life in the Middle Ages through novels, poems and shortstories. In addition to reading, students will be completing activities such as accessing the internet for information, creating a new book cover, creating a crowwsword puzzle, and working with vocabulary words.
  Survival of the Fittest How well suited are various organisms to their environment? What happens to organisms when their surroundings change? Can they survive? In what ways can humans help or hinder organism’s survival?
  Inventions: Natural & Man-made What is evolution? How did Native Americans use legends to explain natural discoveries/adaptations? How did inventions/inventors in Industrial Age impact on the growth/development of the US? Are processes/procedures that can contribute to creation of an invention? What is the Information Age? What invention(s) have been critical to arrival of the Information Age? How do you imagine it will impact on the growth and development of the US? Can the computer assist with inventive processes?
  Weather Essential Questions: How can I predict the weather accurately? What information plays a part in predicting the weather?
  The Geometry of Sports Students will pick a sport and show how all of the terms and ideas are represented in that sport. Students will display their findings in a book, presentation software, a series of poster, a video, etc.
  Writing Stories Writing Stories is a unit on developing students to become better writers, listeners,and story tellers.
  Women in the Civil War Grade 5-8 ELA women of the Civil War
  How to DO Just About Anything This unit will incorporate technology and ELA in various subject areas on writing "How To's", and then presenting the finished product. The lesson will be first done with a small group of Consultant Students, who will then become group leaders to the full classroom.
  Solar Unit 299. This unit incorporates many curricula areas, by joining them with a common theme, solar energy. Each aspect of the lessons is designed to use the students' own knowledge and then explore beyond it. The unit uses both individual and team building lessons. The students learn from these experiences their strengths and weaknesses within themselves. This in turn can also direct a student to different career choices.
  Food Pyramid The lesson was developed for the learning standards because of the need to integrate as many curricula areas as possible for both academic and motivational rigor. I learned a great deal in preparing this unit.
  Healthy Eating Students will evaluate their own diets and electronically log their daily entries. During daily lessons students will learn about the food pyramid and different types of diets and how they relate to long term health. Students will research various diets and report out both verbally and in writing. Power Point will be used as a way for students to demonstrate their knowledge of what constitutes a proper diet.
  Amortization Table: How and Why This learning experience will connect the areas of mathematics, technology, occupational studies and social studies (economics). Students will learn why they should use an amortization table, and how to apply the information to make informed decisions when applying for loans.
  Cinderella Really Gets Around! Create meaningful lessons for Upper Elementary students that integrate Language Arts lessons with lessons in world geography and culture. Some of the 3000 + variants of the Cinderella stories that exist from around the world provide an interesting way to teach language arts skills, as well as world geography and culture. Activities will be interactive and student centered where the students will have opportunities to apply their knowledge in a variety of interdisciplinary tasks that are appealing and definitive.
  Polygon Search What is geometry? How does geometry affect our everyday life? How are geometric figures classified in our world? What are the characteristics of a geometric figure? "Children who develop a strong sense of spatial relationships and who master the concepts of language and geometry are better prepared to learn number and measurement ideas, as well as other advanced mathematical topics." (NCTM 1989a, P.48)
  The War With Grandpa: Solutions to Family Problem This unit is based on the book The War With Grandpa by Robert Kimmell Smith. The activities correlate closely with the New York State ELA 4th grade test and the standards.
  The Ten Towns Students explore and write about local history, landmarks, landforms, and localities.
  Info Access in the Library for Electronic Resource Library Reference, Research: Information technology is used to retrieve, process, and communicate information and as a tool to enhance learning.
  The Lemonade Stand Students will complete The Lemonade Stand worksheet in the classroom which introduces them to the interactive game:The Lemonade Stand. Different vocabulary terms, such as producer, operating expenses, and profit will be explained. Two different charts will also be displayed and explained. The students will have to make some decisions and answer some questions using the Weather Forecast and Financial Information Chart and A Daily Report Chart.
  History: Fact or Fiction? The students will use the online public access library catalog (Mandarin) to find an historical novel. The teachers and librarian will limit the novel to pre-1865. Students will distinguish between fiction and nonfiction books using the online public access catalog. They will practice looking up books using the three subjects given to them by their Social Studies teacher.
  All The Water In The World And Not A Drop To Drink This is a unit that focuses on water and the need to recycle and reuse it in a responsible manner. Students initially learn the distribution of water throughout the world and the finite amount of freshwater available for human use. They then learn and investigate threats to our water supply. As a culminating activity, students are asked to make decisions about the use of the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River basin waters.
  What Should We Do With This Land? This unit challenges students to think about the pros and cons of land use and development. Students also learn about the introduction of non-native species and the havoc they can produce. As a culminating project, students become civil engineers and design a town including a modified Environmental Impact Statement. . Students then present their town to their class and guests.
  Presto! Poetry This four-week unit incorporates web page design into a unique poetry unit. Students will be exposed to twenty different types of poems, required to create a poetry anthology and participate in a poetry reading. Students will learn about alliteration, simile and metaphor, personification and descriptive language.
  Real Life 101 Real Life 101 is an interdisciplinary unit that will take approximately four weeks to complete. This unit introduces elementary students to real life situations, such as applying for jobs, and buying cars. Students are put into situations where they must make decisions and follow through with their choices. This unit is both challenging and exciting but allows all students to succeed.
  Tell Me How This mini-unit will allow children to explore the genre of nonfiction. Students will read a variety of texts and then publish their own How-To Power Point Presentation. Students will be invited to listen to a variety of community members and parents share something that they know how to do, and use this as a basis for their own oral presentation.
  The Blood Flow through the Heart and Body Initiate prior knowledge by having an open ended discussion about the importance of the circulatory system and how things we put into our body, such as drugs and alcohol, can affect our body's performance and function
  Circulation and Respiration of the Human Body Essential Questions: How does your knowledge of systems relate to the human body? How does your daily lifestyle effect your bodily systems? How do the body's systems relate to one another?
  Birds of the Northeast - An Environmental Unit Learning about the environment is paramount if mankind is to survive on the planet earth. The efficient use of resources and the ability to co exist with the other inhabitants of the planet is essential. The effects of human existence on other species, such as birds often indicate how well we are doing. We must all discover what each of us can do to become part of the evolution of humankind and the evolution of the planet. What will we leave behind? A major theme behind this unit is the understanding and appreciation of the other species of plants and animals that we share this planet with. This is done in an effort to help us, and students, better understand ourselves, themselves, and therefor live a happy and fulfilling life. The only thing we really have is time.
  The Write Byte The Write Byte is part of a writing workshop unit, which is an in-depth plan that teaches students the writing process. The purpose of the Write Byte is to get students excited about writing, learn about authors they have read, and become familiar with the writing process.
  Environmental Awareness The purpose of this unit is to educate students about the environment. The focus is on science, technology and english language arts.
  Walk a Mile In My Shoes The Iditarod, One’s Will to Survive fits into a sixth grade English Language Arts curriculum, in February and March, when covering reading and writing for information, critical analysis, literary response, and social interaction. It also incorporates the Social Studies curriculum of having students demonstrating their understanding of the geography of the world including the elements of the environment.
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  Charged Up About Magnetism and Electricity Essential Questions: Why is magnetism important to us? Why is electricity important to us? How does an electromagnet work? What impact does an electromagnet have on our lives?
  Let Go of My legos! Essential Questions: How do simple machines effect our lives? How have people used simple machines? How does gravity influence the way we live?
  SHAKE, RATTLE, AND ROLL The topic of this unit is the movement of the earth's crust as it relates to earthquakes and volcanoes. It encompasses the layers of the earth, plate tectonics, as well as earthquakes and volcanoes. Students will explore the relationships between these concepts and will understand how and why earthquakes and volcanoes occur.
  Immigration: Why Did They Come? Students will analyze immigration trends / waves by entering data in a spreadsheet, creating bar and pie graphs, determining the time period of greatest immigration for a given nationality.
  No, Dorothy, this isn't Kansas! Students will learn about hurricanes and tornadoes and read the novel Night of the Twisters. They will make journal entries and write a research report to follow up.
  Heroes of Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow Heroes are not born; they are people who are shaped by experiences in their lives. This unit will provide students with an opportunity to reflect on what makes a hero. It will also provide students with an opportunity to research heroes of yesterday and today, as well as encourage them to think about heroes for tomorrow.
  In a Family Way Essential Questions: What adaptations would a hedgehog make if it became an egg layer? What is the advantage of egg over live birth and vs. versa? What is the advantage of producing young in litters vs. single infants? What technological advances have been developed to manipulate reproduction? What role will zoos play in the reproduction and preservation of endangered species? Can you think of a better method of reproduction that may be the standard after another million years of evolution?
  Graphing Made Easy This experience is set up to help students learn the appropriate way to construct and analyze bar, line, and circle graphs. They will also learn to set up frequency tables and perform some statistical analysis (mean, median, and mode) on their data.
  Recycling Recycling: Is our present recycling process as effective as it could be? How can we use graphing techniques to analyze both present recycling in our elementary school and recycling after our class information sessions? How can we promote better recycling in our school? How can we reduce, reuse, and recycle paper products in our classroom?
  A Weather Related Challenge "Where in the World is Cynthia San Francisco" is an Internet based collaborative project sponsored by the New Jersey Networking Infrastructure in Education (NJNIE) project which is located at Stevens Institute of Technology, Center for Improved Education and Science Education, Hoboken, New Jersey. We wish to give full credit to NJNIE, without whom, this unit would not have been possible.
  Spreadsheet & Graphing: A Picture is Worth a Thous The unit was designed within a 20-week course titled Computer Applications – Grade Seven. Students need little if any computer knowledge to complete the unit. The instructor needs thorough knowledge of word processing, spreadsheet, and graphing software. Specific computer activities were co-developed with core area team teachers. Although schools may not have a specific computer course, many of the included learning experiences could be used within specific curricular subject i.e. math (This may be the "preferred" mode of delivery).
  Let's Learn About Ancient Egypt! The students were introduced to some of the history of ancient Egypt in their social studies classes. Now, in their library class, students will expand their knowledge of one aspect of Egyptian culture.
  Hope for the Hard Times This unit is based on the Newbery award-winning novel, Bud, Not Buddy. Integrating both social studies and English content, the unit will enable students to begin to understand the underlying causes and profound effects of the Great Depression on American history, and especially its effects on individuals. Analyzing first person narratives and primary source material will guide students to an awareness of how much we can learn from the stories of the past. In the fictional story, the setting, the conflicts the main character faced, and the decisions he made can teach students important lessons for their own lives.
  HOLES Students will develop an understanding of how the author Louis Sachar uses setting to reveal character through the reading of the novel HOLES.
  Wild, Wild Weather This learning unit is designed to give students a deeper understanding of weather concepts, components and how weather interacts with our everyday lives. Through the course of this unit, students will work cooperatively to gain weather information through Internet use, written expression and graphic organizers. Students will work cooperatively to compile information to create a final PowerPoint presentation demonstrating their newly acquired knowledge from this learning unit.
  The Middle Ages This is a unit on the Middle Ages for sixth graders. The unit will cover what life was like for the different groups of people during 500 - 1500 AD. This unit takes about 3 weeks to complete. Students will be given a teacher created booklet that will be used throughout the unit. Booklet is available upon request.
  Creating Pie Graphs Using Percents After the class has had instruction in fractions, percents, and how to convert one to the other they will then create a pie graph using Micro-Soft Works. The graph will show the percent of the day spent doing various activities. ( i.e. eat, sleep, play, school, etc.)
  Integer's Brochure Create a brochure about integers using Microsoft Publisher. You and your partner need to write a learning brochure that will help others in the study of integers
  Ratio, Proportion, Scale This is a 6th grade math unit that is designed for all ability groups. It should take three to four weeks. During this unit the students will participate in various activities to reinforce the concepts of ratio, proportion, scale and how they are connected. Activities will be structured so that the students discover the connection.
  Data Days Covers collecting, organizing and displaying data.
  Plugging Into PowerPoint Introduction to teaching PowerPoint to elementary students. Students will learn the components of the software so they may use the program to demonstrate learning and for classroom instruction.
  All About Ice Cream This unit is a fun way to reinforce concepts and skills taught in regular classes. Some topics include; writing from an outline to a paragraph, using Inspiration to create an outline, historical researching, letter writing, real world math problem solving, analyzing and writing short anecdotes, creating a persuasive poster, and answering questions in complete sentences using supporting details from a variety of sources
  Creating a Geometry Resource Booklet Creating a resource booklet for basic definitions and diagrams of angles and triangles.
  My Personal Stock Portfolio The student will read and write for information and understanding (Language Arts #1) students will access, generate, and transfer information using appropriate technology. (Math, Science, & Technology #2) The students will understand mathematics and become mathematically confident by communicating and reasoning mathematically, by applying mathematics in a real world settings, and by solving problems through integrated study of number systems and data analysis. (Math, Science, & Technology #3)





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