Students learn about multicultural holidays celebrated in winter: Hanukkah, St. Lucia Day, Las Posadas, Kwanzaa, and Chinese New Year.
Students will create a paper face and a paper face book to recognize similarities and differences.
This activity focuses on being an individual and reminds students that it is okay to be different.
The student will be able to create a visual representation of the knowledge gained studying the American Indians of Utah.
The student will be able to write an essay using knowledge gained by studying the American Indians of Utah.
The student will be able to discern the correct answers to multiple choice questions based on comprehension of the materials presented on the American Indians of Utah.
This one-page article by the NRICH team reports on the history of the measuring of weight/mass. It is an attempt to provide material and ideas for lessons that address the disciplines of history and mathematics. Topics covered include weighing by comparison, the need for standard units, and weighing methods in various cultures. Questions and suggestions are provided for further research by students.
This activity will incrase students' knowledge of using maps and how it is important in their lives.
Animal shelters euthanize animals when no one adopts them. According to Joyce, the narrator of this segment, 26,000 dogs a year are picked up by Albuquerque Animal Services. To help find homes for the unwanted pets, Joyce, who is also a photographer, takes pictures of the dogs and posts the pictures on the Internet. She hopes when people see the dogs on the Internet they have an added incentive to come to the shelter to take them home. In this video segment from WILD TV, learn more about Joyce and her efforts to find homes for unwanted pets in Albuquerque. For more about animal shelters, see video segment "Animal Shelter".
This brief article sketches the contributions made by British mathematician Alan Turing to code breaking in World War II and to general computing science. There is a brief reference to his homosexuality and his resulting treatment and suicide.
This activity is designed to familiarize students with the cowboy culture of the Old West and its presence in our modern times.
This article provides links to interactive web sites and lesson plans for teaching about paleontology, dinosaurs, and archaeology in the elementary classroom.
Learn about new screencasting and recording tools available on Chromebooks.
Activities and a game help students compare rural, suburban, and urban communities.
Students will complete an art activity and a classroom graph that ties with the "Tacky the Penguin Series" by Helen Leste.
Explore the world with Google Ars and Culture's Hopper the Penguin.
Listen and respond to a Paiute story.
Explore art making, using chalk or crayons.
Create a project depicting one of the scenes in the book.
This lesson was written in partnership with Dorena Martineau, the Paiute Cultural Resource Director, and was approved by the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah’s Tribal Council. Before teaching this lesson, please explain to your students that there are many indigenous tribes in the United States and that this lesson Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah Seal focuses on the five bands of the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah and does not represent other Native American groups. It is the hope of the Paiutes that other native tribes will respect their choice to share this aspect of their culture.
This hyperdoc collects some great ways to engage our students in the Winter Olympic Games.
Share some great Google Drawing practices with your students through this amazing post from Control Alt Achieve.
This brief article summarizes the contributions of mathematicians Ada Lovelace and Mary Somerville and relates some of the societal obstacles they had to overcome. Caroline Herschel and Florence Nightingale are also featured.