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Wellness Wonders

Students incorporate listening skills, expository writing, graphing skills, and surveys to learn about wellness strategies and health information. Students then use what they have learned to create individual action plans and record progress towards personal goals.

Found in: 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, All Year Long, Health, Language Arts, Mathematics

Weather Trackers

This is a second grade unit on weather called Weather Trackers. Students experience fun, fascinating facts about weather through hands-on activities about the rain cycle, measuring rain with a rain gauge, conducting experiments with temperature and making a cloud booklet.

Found in: 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, All Year Long, Kindergarten, Mathematics, Science

We the People

What are the rights and responsibilities of citizenship? Who are your state and local elected officials? Which officials can you turn to for help? This integrated unit uses reading strategies, reflection activities, graphic organizers, and technology tools to teach the rights and responsibilities of citizens. The United States and Florida constitutions are examined to document the purpose, structure, and responsibilities of the branches of government and those elected officials who serve in them.

Found in: 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, All Year Long, Language Arts, Mathematics, Social Studies

Wanted Dead or Alive

This is a real-world, problem solving activity of math. In the occupation of forestry land management, decisions that are not based on accurate resource measurements may lead to serious errors, misjudgments or financial losses to the parties involved. This unit shows students how to measure the diameter, height, and volume of a tree in order to predict the merchantability of the tree. Though the focus is math, correlation of science standards dealing with ecology can provide excellent, hands-on, real world activities for high school or middle school students in the life sciences. Please note that only the measurements of length, height, volume, and diameter are taught and assessed in this unit.

Found in: 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, All Year Long, Mathematics

Twin Traits

Explore the Nature vs. Nurture controversy. Participate in hands-on activities to discover how variation in species is due to exchange and interaction of genetic information from parent to offspring. An experimental design on identical twins concludes the lesson. This unit can be used as a stand-alone unit or in conjunction with its companion language art unit, Jacob I Have Loved-A Novel Study, and social studies unit, Announcing World War II.

Found in: 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, All Year Long, Language Arts, Science