This section of the Learning @ Hand website provides classroom-tested lesson plans submitted by teachers across the nation, which can be used "as is" or modified for your grade level.

	Algebra Action Middle School
		Balancing equations and manipulating algebraic algorithms is abstract for many students. Using Sketchy, an animation program, students make "movies" of the process in a step-by-step fashion.
	Animating States of Matter Middle School
		Students will use the Sketchy animations previously created, or students will need to create a Sketchy animation depicting each of the three states of matter prior to this lesson. After reviewing the three states of matter, students will create a graphic organizer illustrating how the states of ...
	Daily Weather Records Middle School
		Students create a data table in Cells to keep a record of local weather conditions. Students will use this information to create graphs on paper to illustrate the changes in daily temperature.
	Find the Phony: Critical Internet Research Skills Middle School
		Students are beamed three Web sites related to a topic currently being studied. Students must read the sites, and try to determine what makes a particular site valid and useful for research purposes.
	Food Chain Fun Elementary
		Students will create food chain diagrams on their handheld computers using their concept mapping software. They will discuss the roles of producers and consumers in the balancing of nature within an environment. This lesson could be tied in with the Owl Pellet lesson.
	Graphing Fun Middle School
		While learning how to construct a bar graph, students will create their own class poll and graph the results using a spreadsheet program.
	Heat Absorption and Color Middle School
		Students work collaboratively to observe, measure, and record temperature changes in cups of different colors under heat lamps. Students make connections between the different rates of heat absorption between black and silver cups and heat absorption differences of land and water. The actual lab...
	Inventor Research Elementary
		Students will gather and formulate information from various sources to determine how a particular inventor and invention affected our present day lives.
	Investigating Inclined Planes Elementary
		After students experiment with, and build their own inclined planes, they will predict and test how inclined planes work. They will learn about the relationship between force and load. They will predict and test how amount of incline and friction affect work. Students will make animations showing...
	Plant Parts Elementary
		Students take a close look at many types of plants. Students conduct experiments with growing plants and observe the functions of different plant parts. Students learn about the different parts of a plant and the function of each part. Students create their own plant picture and tell about each p...
	Round Table Collaborative Writing Elementary
		One individual begins a story and others add one sentence at a time, passing the story on by beaming it to others. Students gain exposure to a particular writing focus and the program FreeWrite.
	School Community Booklet Elementary
		Students will familiarize themselves with their school community. Students will learn how the different parts of their school community function. Students will create a School Community booklet.
	State Research Middle School
		Students will gather information from various sources pertaining to one of the fifty United States.
	What Country Am I? Middle School
		Students individually research a particular country in a specified geographic setting. Students use various applications on their Palm handheld computer in conjunction with other media to learn everything they can about their country. Students then take information they have gathered and make a s...

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