It’s Your Birthday – 4152
Summary Integrating reading, writing and math through party planning is a fun-filled way for fifth graders to apply what they have learned while learning new …
CategoryComm/Collab – Target
Eradicating Differences
Summary The lesson was designed to have students use research and collaboration to connect themes and ideas from literature, history, and their present day experiences …
Rock the Ages: The Journey – 5078
Summary Rock the Ages: The Journey is a creative, open-ended, collaborative project that challenged students with conceptualizing “the journey” of a rock travelling through …
What is a fairy tale? – 4150
Summary After hearing many fairy tales in class and in the library, the class examined these stories and identified the elements of a fairy tale …
Math, Community and Persuasion: Blending student-centered and problem based learning – 5378 and 6304
Submitted by: Emily Roberts, Abby Hughes and Corbin Wright Collaborators: Joy McDonald, ITRT School: Hungary Creek Middle Summary Many schools in the New York/New Jersey …
We Rock! A Sedimentary Design Brief- 4159
Summary As a way for students to deepen their knowledge and understanding for the concepts of earth’s structure and sedimentary rocks, students were required to …
Shape Monsters in Fairy Tales! – 4155
Summary Students develop English language skills and vocabulary by exploring and naming shapes, colors, body parts and numbers by collaboratively creating Shape Monsters, recreating fairy …
Black Out!
Summary After completing a unit on electricity, students experimented with a kit called Enviro Battery by Green Science to make lemon batteries, a potato-powered clock, …
Did You Chihuly?
Summary In this lesson, the students began with Virginia Museum of Fine Arts’ Dale Chihuly exhibition as their inspiration. Students learned about the artist and …
The Starbucks Experience: Does the Starbucks Image Match Reality?- 6202
Summary Summary: This project has students analyzing the Starbucks products, advertising, and experience. Does the Starbucks reality match-up with the Starbucks image? Students will be …