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4-H
in the Classroom Projects
The Incredible
Egg
Eggzactly how
does an egg become a chick? Students can learn by exercise or
observation
with this popular theaching package. Designed to be used independently
or sequentially, the four lessons in the curriculum also address the
parts
of an egg and its nutritive value, all in fun-filled lessons that
incorporate
science, language arts and math skills. Among the activites:
Locating the parts of a raw egg
Testing the strength of an egg shell
Observing the stages of a developing embryo
Watching a fertilized egg hatch
The teacher
manual includes lesson plans, camera-ready student handouts, and
information
on additional resources. The curricilum was developed with assistance
from
the American Egg Board.
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GO
Plants!
The GO Plants!
- Growing Opportunites with Plants program engages third -and
fourth-grade
students in the exploration of plant-science topics through a variety
of
science skill-building sctivities. THe teachinhg strategy reflected in
this unit encourages inquiry-based learning, the active use of creative
and critical thinking skills. This includes planting, growing and
maintaining
plant materials in the classroom under grow-lights or in a window
garden
situation.
GO Plants! activities
are designed with the busy teacher in mind. This five-week, five-lesson
unit focuses on a specific part of the plant each week - seeds, roots,
stems, leaves, flowers. Lessons are designed to be taught in 60 minute
intervals, with the potential to expand to 120 minutes if optional
Digging
Deeper and Going Beyond activities are conducted . The book includes
student-ready
worksheets and facts sheets to enrich the classroom experience. These
materials
were developed with a range of reading abilities in mind; however, the
content and the activities contained within are appropriate for the
third-and
fourth-grades levels.
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Breads
of Harvest
What sustained
the Pilgrims during their long ocean voyage to the New World? What did
they eat to celebrate their first harvest in the American wilderness?
What
European delicacies did they learn to adapt to their new homeland?
Breads.
THis three-unit curriculum integrates science, language arts, and math
concepts in a study of the role of breadsin shaping the history of this
nation. Among the activities:
Demonstrating the difficulty of grinding grains into flour
Comparing the properties of different leavening agents
Analyzing dietary needs
Testing and tasting various bread recipes
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information
on additional resources.
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Rockets
Away! -
4th -6th grades
Blast off for an
action-packed adventure
in math, engineering, aerospace, and physics with this three-unit study
of rocketry science. Lessons in motion gravity, and aerodynamics send
students
interest soaring. All lead up to the ultimate thrill - building and
launching
their own rockets. Among the activities: understanding & applying
Newton’s
three Laws of Motion; observing the relationship between force and
mass;
testing turbulence; exploring stability and motion; and constructing
and
launching a 2-liter bottle rocket.
The teacher manual comes
complete with
lesson plans. An optional IBM-compatible computer diskette presents
problem
simulations and design and flight configurations for 2-liter bottle
rockets.
Also included is a program for recording and analyzing launch data.
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Fishy
Science
- 3rd - 5th grades
Water, water everywhere -
and yet fish
get thirsty. Why? Through observation and experimentation, student
learn
the answers to that question and many others in this four lesson
curriculum
on how fish swim and breathe, their sensory features, and their
adaptation
to water. Units can stand alone or work as a progression. Among the
activities:
identifying body parts of fish; adapting a quarter to enable it to
float;
detecting carbon dioxide in exhaled air; exploring breathing mechanism
of fish; and observing fish for color vision. The teacher manual
includes
lesson plans, camera-ready student handouts, and information on
additional
resources.
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Beans
About
Water - 5th - 7th grades
From condiments to
cooking oil, cosmetics
to chocolate bars, baby formula to bubble soap, soy products abound in
the products we use every day. In this four-lesson curriculum,
students,
like working scientists, use the plentiful soybean as a tool to study
the
properties of water and changes in matter. Among the activities:
testing
surface tension; measuring density; dissolving solids into solutions,
changing
liquids to solids. Lessons can be used in sequence or on a stand-alone
basis. The teacher manual includes lesson plans and camera-ready
student
handouts.
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Weather
Together
- 3rd - 5th grades
The 4-H Weather Together
project engages
learners in the exploration of weather through a variety of
classroom-based
and self-guided activities. The teaching strategy reflected in this
unit
encourages inquiry-based learning, the active use of science skills,
and
the use of creative and critical-thinking skills. Students will explore
the influence of sunlight, gravity, and moisture in the atmosphere, and
the interaction of these influences which creates weather. Students
will
learn to predict the level and intensity of these interaction on local
weather conditions.
Weather Together activities
are designed
with the busy teacher in mind. This five-week, five-lesson unit is
designed
to be taught in 60-minute intervals, with the potential to expand to
120
minutes if optional Digging Deeper and Going Beyond Activities are
conducted.
The book includes photo-ready transparencies, cut and assemble teaching
posters, end-of-lesson review tests, read and do worksheets, a glossary
of weather-related terms, a shopping list of equipment and consumables,
and web page support for predicting local weather conditions
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