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| Adopt an Acre of Rainforest Prep for Earth Day with this project-based activity in which students learn about the effects of deforestation and educate others in the community. Does your class want to adopt an acre? | (by 0 users) |
| Adopting Classroom Pets How classroom animals can make even reluctant students want to engage. | (by 0 users) |
| City Math While studying geometry, students create a three-dimensional model city. Students have specific design and planning responsibilities and are required to use geometric shapes and angles to build and describe their imaginary city. | (by 0 users) |
| Free Virtual Literature Circles Ms. Hunt recommends more than a half dozen free Web sites to use as the foundation for a project-based learning activity in which students collaborate to build their own Web sites. | (by 0 users) |
| Friends Around the World Ms. Anderson has a fun way to spend April in Paris with her first graders. She creates a Friends around the World unit in which they read a story set in Paris, create a paper doll character and plan what she should pack in her paper suitcase. | (by 0 users) |
| Plant Sale Project Ms. Graff’s project-based learning activity incorporates science, writing and math, as students grow varieties of plants from cuttings, seeds and bulbs. There are several payoffs, but a great Mother’s Day gift might be the best. | (by 0 users) |
| Spanish and Technology Ms. Neff-Encinas started offering a new one-semester elective to 8th graders. It combines Spanish with technology and by using four themes that kids love, she sees great results in collaboration, story-telling, and planning. | (by 0 users) |
| Students Prepare a Thanksgiving Feast for Their Parents Ms. Wilson’s project-based learning activity incorporates science, social studies and math activities, plus a field trip to the store. Kids have fun learning, and parents reap the rewards. | (by 0 users) |
