This hands-on activity shows how to make a hand drum that creates percussion sounds.
Materials
Mini Glue Gun and Glue Stick
Hole Punch
Drawing Compass
Thread or Yarn (Waxed thread wor…
Skyscrapers Inquiry Unit
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Skyscrapers Hands-On Activity
Prompt for the students:
Using only the materials provided, teams of students will design and build a structure as tall as p…
See video demonstration here: How to Make a Light Bulb with Cardboard and Pencil Lead
Materials
Safety Glasses
Glass Jar
Cardboard paper towel tube, or toilet paper tube
Either 2 long w…
Often when a natural disaster occurs, it is difficult for first responders and government officials who have evacuated to know what has happened to their town in the hours, and sometimes days, followi…
Refrigerated Rail Car Inquiry Unit
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Testing Insulation for Refrigerated Rail Cars
Prompt for the students:
Joel Tiffany has just hired your team to engineer his first Tiffany Refri…
Radio Inquiry Unit
(Featured Sources, Supporting Question 3)
All of the information below is also available in the pdf linked below.
ORIGINAL RADIO PLAY:
Create an original radio program using the…
Please refer to the Triremes Hands-On-Activity Power Point found here
Hands-on Activity PDF includes:
Materials
Directions
Instructional PowerPoint
Evaluation Worksheet
Images
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Photo taken from Ms. Bisconti’s 8th grade class, on Triremes - Democracy and Empire, 2016. Ms. Bisconti is a Social Studies Teacher, at Heritage Middle School, Livingston NJ (Note: An option prior t…
Printing Press Inquiry Unit
(Alternate Formative Performance Task, Supporting Question 1)
Potato Stamp Monogram
Create a pad of personally monogrammed writing paper in the style of Gutenberg pri…
Early Maritime Navigation Inquiry Unit
Compass Lesson Plan - Supporting Question 3
Task
With a towel placed over their heads and the only visual being that of a magnetized needle, set on a plasti…