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Rebus Writing Using Nursery Rhymes and a Book

Texas State Standards Addressed: TEKS 117.15 Music 4.1C - Identify music forms by listening; 4.2B - Sing songs of diverse cultures; 4.5A/B -Perform music diverse cultures.  Duration: 2-3 days

Digitizing History: Exploring moments in time through Web design

The World Wide Web was created at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland, in the 1980s. It was originally meant to facilitate efficient, “user-friendly” publishing and to search and retrieve CERN files, among other uses.

Fraction Pattern Blocks

Instructor: Miko Uhuru

The People Next Door

Throughout the years I have collected a good number of brochures and travel guides, which I take to school every now and then for different purposes. These materials are informative and colorful, so the kids enjoy using them...and they often learn a lot of interesting things too.

To Boldly Go Where No One Has Gone Before

Objective:
Students will identify various space vehicles, create models of a space vehicle, and then design their own space vehicle to take them to Mars.

A Round and A Round

Description:

Students will compose original lyrics for a "Round". They will develop a copyright, a recording company, and CD covers for their original pieces. Advanced and Honors students will compose their own original melody for this activity. The students will also teach these "rounds" to the students in their respective choral music classes.

Goals:

1. To provide students with a knowledge of the musical composition - the "round"

Passball

Equipment: 3 bases, home plate and a dodge ball

Setting up:

    Divide students into two teams. Rules are similar to Kickball. Catching a fly ball is out. (No bunt, no foul and no homerun rules apply in the gym.)

Playing the game:

Table This!

Table This! is a lesson that will teach students to set up a simple table in Microsoft Word. I introduce this lesson by comparing a table to a Bingo card. Each card is divided into Columns and Rows. The word BINGO is spelled out across the columns and a different number is in each row.

Once that connection is made, I tell the students that they are going to create their own BINGO card except their card will include vocabulary words related to computer hardware instead of numbers.

ABC Identification Freeze Tag

One or two children are given "Boffers" to use as safe taggers. When a child is tagged, they must freeze and can only become unfrozen when they tell the teacher who is circulating around, a word that begins with the letter that is agreed to at the beginning of the round. For instance, these taggers will freeze you and you must think of A words to become unfrozen. More teachers in the class help to keep things moving. Make sure to tell children they may only use a word one time. If larger area you can add more taggers.