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May '05 – New Content On TeacherVision*

Check out the latest resources that will make your teaching life a little bit easier! This month we focused on Science, Science & Language Arts, Science & Social Studies, Science, Technology, & Society, Creative Writing, and Government & Religion.
*Posted May 26, 2005

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April 05

Science


Changing Variables
Classifying Blocks
Classifying Buttons
Classifying Coins
Classifying Leaves
Classifying Living and Nonliving
Things

Classifying Minerals
Collecting and Interpreting Data
Collecting and Interpreting Data
Using Charts and Graphs

Collecting Data
Communicating
Communicating Data
Communicating with Descriptive
Words

Communicating with Drawings and
Words

Communicating with Pictures
Comparing Expansion and
Contraction

Controlling Variables
Defining a Sound-Making Object
Describing Rocks
Estimating and Measuring Objects
Estimating and Measuring Objects
in Centimeters

Estimating and Measuring Volume
Estimating and Measuring with
Cereal and Raisins

Estimating and Measuring with
Paper Clips

Estimating and Measuring with
Snap Cubes

Experiment with Plants
Experiment with Sight
Experimenting with Acids
and Bases

Experimenting with Balloon
Rockets

Experimenting with Color
Experimenting with Crystal
Formation

Experimenting with Erosion
Control

Experimenting with Magnets
Experimenting with Membranes
Experimenting with Oil and
Water

Experimenting with Salt and
Sand

Experimenting with Shadows
Exploring a Model of the
Earth's Layers

Exploring a Water Ecosystem
Exploring Acceleration
Exploring Cells
Exploring Dissolving
Exploring Elements
Exploring Feeding Adaptations
Exploring Healthful Habits
Exploring Light Rays
Exploring Lunar Eclipses
Exploring Motion
Exploring Parts of Soil
Exploring Protective Coloring
Exploring Reaction Time
Exploring Recycling
Exploring Temperature Scales
Exploring the Earth's Resources
Exploring Variation in Species
Exploring Weather Patterns
Formulating and Testing
Hypotheses

Formulating Questions and
Hypotheses

Guess What Is in the Bag
Healthful Foods Bingo
Heart Rate and Exercise
How Can Matter Be Mixed?
How Can You Make a Model of
a Butterfly Life Cycle?

How Can You Make Sounds?
How Can You Measure Your Body?
How Does a Plant Grow
and Change?

How Does Light Move?
How Fast Can You Melt an
Ice Cube?

How Have You Grown?
How Long Can You Blow Bubbles?
How Many Paper Clips Will
a Magnet Pick Up?

How Much Exercise Do You Get?
Identifying and Controlling
Variables

Inferring Advertisements
Inferring Amounts
Inferring with Shadows
Investigating a Chemical
Change

Investigating Action
and Reaction

Investigating Air Pollution
Investigating Cells
Investigating DNA
Investigating Dominant and
Recessive Traits

Investigating Eggshells
Investigating Force Used
to Move Objects

Investigating Friction
Investigating Friction
and Motion

Investigating How a
Greenhouse Works

Investigating How Plants
React to Light

Investigating Lenses
Investigating Moving
Continents

Investigating Owl Pellets
Investigating Pigments
Investigating Potential Energy
Investigating Soils
Investigating Solutions
Investigating Sound Insulation
Investigating Sunlight and
the Earth's Tilt

Investigating Variations
in Seedlings

Investigating Vision
Investigating Weathering
Is It Easier to Balance with
Eyes Open or Closed?

Keeping Ice Frozen
Make a Frog Print
Make a Healthy Lunch
Make a Mixture
Make a Model of a Butterfly
Making a Hypothesis
Making a Model of an Animal
Making a Model of the
Solar System

Making and Using a Model Car
Making and Using a Model
Food Chain

Making and Using
Model Telephones

Making and Using Molecule Models
Making Definitions
Making Operational Definitions
Making Patterns with Snap Cubes
Measuring Relative Humidity
Modeling Roller Coaster Motion
Night and Day Game
Observing a Bell
Observing a Bottle Ecosystem
Observing a Pencil
Observing Growth of Fungi
Observing Objects
Observing the Effects of Salt
Water on Cells

Observing Trees
Observing Walnuts
Predicting a Bouncing Ball
Predicting and Observing
Predicting Drops of Water
Predicting Gravity
Predicting Patterns
Predicting with Marbles
Protect the Earth
Purifying Water
Recording the Phases of
the Moon

Scavenger Hunt
Sink or Float
Solids and Liquids
Stars
Structure and Function of Cells:
Family Activity

Science, Continued


Structure and Function of Cells:
Vocabulary

Sunrise and Sunset
Surveying Inherited Traits
Technology and Weather:
Family Activity

Technology and Weather:
Vocabulary

Testing Electrical Conductivity
Testing Temperature Sensors
Things We Can Move
Things We Observe
Two Habitats
Using a Balance
What Are Some Features
of the Earth?

What Are Some Kinds of Animals?
What Are Some Kinds of Plants?
What Can a Magnet Attract?
What Can You Tell About
the Weather?

What Coverings Do Animals Have?
What Do Animals Eat?
What Do the Roots and Stems Do?
What Do You Know About
the Moon?

What Does a Magnet Attract?
What Does a Plant Need to Grow?
What Happens When Water
Evaporates?

What Is a Habitat?
What Is a Magnet?
What Is Gravity?
What Is in Soil?
What Is Inside a Seed?
What Is the Temperature Outside?
What Is Your Favorite Season?
What Kinds of Animals Are There?
What Kinds of Soil Are There?
What Kinds of Sounds Are There?
What Makes Objects Move?
What Parts of Plants Do You Eat?
What Senses Do We Use to Learn
About Things?

What Sounds Do You Hear?
What Star Picture Can You Make?
What We Know About Our Teeth
What's Hot?
What's in It?
What's Wrong with This Picture?
Which Container Will Warm
Up Fastest?

Which Foods Will Leave a
Greasy Spot?

Why Does the Sun Look Small?
Why Is Exercise Important?
Will It Float or Sink?
Your Body's Control Systems:
Family Activity

Your Body's Control Systems:
Vocabulary

Science & Language Arts


Biology Teacher
Breathing in Words
Cell Repair Person
Create your Own Mail Order
Catalogue

Design Your Own Animals
Earth Processes
I Hear a Symphony
Journal Entries – Hometown
Climate

Moving Objects
Synonyms and Antonyms
Synonyms and Antonyms
Technology and Weather
The Energy of Words
The Sequence of Mitosis
Your Body's Control System

Science & Social Studies


Acid Rain and the Mayan Ruins
Antibiotics
Benjamin Franklin
Caffeine - Harmless or Harmful?
Charting Mountain Biomes
Choosing a Healthy Lifestyle
Colonizing Space
Ecosystems - The Human Factor
Glaciers - Good and Bad Effects
Make a Scale Map of the
Solar System

People, the Sun, and
Radiant Energy

Preserve the Past or Build
the Future?

Saving Nonrenewable Energy
Resources

Science, Technology,
& Society


A Better Air Bag
Aerosondes
Antibacterial Drugs
Artificial Limbs
Asthma on the Rise
Controlling Disease
E.T. Phone Home
Electromagnetic Fields
Heat-Resistant Ceramic
Laser Eye Surgery
Lasers and Life
Reptiles and Birds
Scanning Tunnel Microscope
Super Freeze
The Greatest Telescope
in the World

The Making of a Medicine
The Power of Plastic
The Problem with Methyl Bromide
The Truth About Meteors
Trick or Train?
Unfriendly Fertilizer
Weather You Like it Or Not...
Wetlands Watch
What Do You See?
What's Wrong with Frogs?

Creative Writing


Grade 1


Writing a Descriptive Paragraph
Writing a Group Research Report
Writing a How-to Article
Writing a Letter to Persuade
Writing a Story About Me

Grade 2


Writing a Compare-and-Contrast
Essay

Writing a Descriptive Paragraph
Writing a Group Research Report
Writing a How-to Article
Writing a Persuasive Letter

Grade 3


Writing a Compare-and-Contrast
Essay

Writing a Descriptive Paragraph
Writing a How-to Report
Writing a Personal Narrative
Writing a Persuasive Letter
Writing a Research Report

Grade 4


Writing a Compare-and-Contrast
Essay

Writing a Descriptive Paragraph
Writing a How-to Report
Writing a Personal Narrative
Writing a Persuasive Argument
Writing a Research Report

Grade 5


Writing a Compare-and-Contrast
Essay

Writing a Descriptive Paragraph
Writing a How-to Report
Writing a Personal Narrative
Writing a Persuasive Argument
Writing a Research Report

Government & Religion


Defining Religion and Its
Purposes

Introduction to Religious Diversity
Making a Difference for the
Environment

USA PATRIOT Act –
Security vs. Privacy

What is a Treaty?


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