Students will use their bodies to act out the motions of Earth by exploring orbits, rotations, and the turning of the earth as it revolves around the sun. Doing research to find correct answers to their questions will help them act out the movements correctly.
Slavery has occurred in many forms throughout the world, but the Atlantic slave trade -- which forcibly brought more than 10 million Africans to the Americas -- stands out for both its global scale and its lasting legacy. Anthony Hazard discusses the historical, economic and personal impact of this massive historical injustice. Has questions for comprehension and discussion
A Powerpoint guided lesson about atmospheres (April Mitchell)
Students will use what they know about atoms & molecules to decide whether an example is an atom or a molecule.
Students will be able to use Audioboom podcasting app to record their daily eating choices for our Nutrition Unit.
Science Phenomena: 2nd grade - A Changing Earth
Augmented reality (AR) allows students to learn about the world by enhancing how they can relate to, contextualize, and interact with it through movement and active exploration.With iPad, students can use AR to explore outer esace, immerse themselves in the wonders of the world, and examine art and historical artifacts from national museums—in any learning environment. They can visualize experiences that would be impossible to see otherwise.Whether you want to extend an existing lesson or inesire new ones, you can use and apply AR in math and science, language arts, history, and social studies to elevate engagement, deepen understanding, and make learning more personal and meaningful for students of all ages.
Patricia Polacco's family stories provide an interesting and neutral way to begin discussions about families. Students can make connections from their own family experiences to some of her family experiences.
Power Point presentation of "Journey of a Carbon Atom."
A story with all action and not enough reflection sounds childish and lacks depth. But a story that is all reflective thoughts and emotions can bore a reader and run the risk of not teling a story at all. Today’s mini move will help us think about the see-sawing effect of balancing actions with thoughts and emotions so that our story has the perfect amount of both!
The Big6 is a six-stage model to help anyone solve problems or make decisions by using information. Students can use this model to guide them through the research process. This resource describes a Big6 lesson focused on research that follows the Big6 model.
This lesson promotes an understanding of why a diverse collection is required in school and public libraries. It will be acknowledged that individual reading choices are widely differentiated. Methods on making personal reading choices will be explored. Ideally this lesson would be used the fourth week of September, in conjunction with Banned Book Week
A video by Math Songs by NUMBEROCK that teaches all about picture graphs and bar graphs including the vocabulary words in fun song.
A Powerpoint guided lesson about the bark beetle in Utah (April Mitchell)
I use this resources as a basic introduction to the concepts of trade a bartering. It does a fantastic job of giving a basic history from trading individual items to shells and coins and paper money until today when kids still might trade or barter.
This is an introduction to the base 10 system for whole numbers. Numbers are explained and built using blocks to represent place value. This video is targeted for grade 2 and 3 math studies.
Students will learn to create the basic shapes to use in drawings.
In this keyboarding lesson, students use Typesy to practice typing the following basic symbols: !@#$%. Students set a goal and consider the importance of keyboarding. Then, students will record their WPM.
Functions and sources of vitamins and their roles regarding maintenance of optimum health.
This curriculum unit of three lessons examines the social, political and economic conditions of the southern states in the aftermath of the Civil War and shows how these factors helped to shape the Reconstruction debate as well as the subsequent history of American race relations.