Multiplication Chart	Ant Farm Fun	Virtual Sojourner	Expanding on Ice	Traffic Jam
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Multiplication Chart Using Microsoft Excel
Subject Area: Math
Grade Level: 5-7	Top

Component by which lesson plans were reviewed.	Yes	No
Hands-on experience / Active learning	X
Different Learning Levels / Styles	X
Collaboration	X
Clear expectations	X
Uses prior knowledge	X
Incorporates electronic technology	X
Intrinsically motivating	X

Summary

These plans lay out clear and concise directions that enables the student to create a multiplication table using Microsoft Excel. Once the student has become successful they are challenged to manipulate the data to produce more intricate spreadsheets. A rubric is provided to assist the teacher in assessment.

Ant Farm Fun
Subject Area: Math & Science
Grade Level: 4-6	Top

 

Component by which lesson plans were reviewed.	Yes	No
Hands-on experience / Active learning	X
Different Learning Levels / Styles	X
Collaboration	X
Clear expectations	X
Uses prior knowledge	X
Incorporates electronic technology		X
Intrinsically motivating	X

Summary

This site is provided by Texas A&M University. In order to get to the chooden lesson plan you must search lesson plans by grade level 4-6. Some of the activities are definatly for the younger grades but, students will identify congruent shapes; create and identify symmetry. Students not only become observers of insect behavior but they are asked to participate in moddeling and hypothisizing the pourpose of the behavior. This would be a fun investigation to do and includes both math and science standerds.

Driving Blind Virtual Sojourner
Subject Area: Science
Grade Level: 4-12	Top

 

Component by which lesson plans were reviewed.	Yes	No
Hands-on experience / Active learning	X
Different Learning Levels / Styles	X
Collaboration	X
Clear expectations	X
Uses prior knowledge	X
Incorporates electronic technology	X
Intrinsically motivating	X

Summary

This activity is one of three. This is a simulation of the Mars rover mission. The mission is to verbally command your "rover" to move to a specific location. Its job at this location would be to perform an experiment and record data. This would be a good experiment for different age groups depending on the number of obsticals in the rovers path. This looks like it would be a lot of fun and easily modified.

Expanding on Ice
Subject Area: Science
Grade Level: 6-8	Top

 

Component by which lesson plans were reviewed.	Yes	No
Hands-on experience / Active learning	X
Different Learning Levels / Styles	X
Collaboration	X
Clear expectations	X
Uses prior knowledge		X
Incorporates electronic technology		X
Intrinsically motivating	X

Summary

This lesson would require a freezer in the school or most of the hands on work to be done at home. The plans have the student make a table to record the results of water as it freezes and melts.

Traffic Jam
Subject Area: Math
Grade Level: 6-8	Top

 

Component by which lesson plans were reviewed.	Yes	No
Hands-on experience / Active learning	X
Different Learning Levels / Styles	X
Collaboration	X
Clear expectations	X
Uses prior knowledge	X
Incorporates electronic technology	X
Intrinsically motivating	X

Summary

This is a puzzle played out with life size players. A game like the one were you have to get a group of people across a river with certain restrictions as to who can ride with who. After working out the logic its time to play the interactive version of Traffic Jam online.

Should Orca Whales be kept in captivity?
Subject Area: Science
Grade Level: 5-7	Top

 

Component by which lesson plans were reviewed.	Yes	No
Hands-on experience / Active learning	X
Different Learning Levels / Styles	X
Collaboration	X
Clear expectations	X
Uses prior knowledge	X
Incorporates electronic technology	X
Intrinsically motivating	X

Summary

This is more of an interactive web site then a lesson plan. This site is about killer whales geared towards elementary aged children. This site uses innovative story telling techniques, testing and simulation games on the killer whale theme,and provides the opportunity for kids to gather research for a major online debate on the controversial issue of whales in captivity.

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