Simon & Schuster Cyber Schoolhouse Sample Activities

Kid Central Activities™

Kindergarten - The Way to Harry's House (patterned text activity with Silver Burdett Ginn Readable, How to Get to Harry's House)

Grade 2 - Dinosaur Hunt! (mock-up of interactive dinosaur puzzle/phonics word study)

Grade 6 - Dig This: Help Solve an Ancient Mystery! (virtual archaeological dig)

Classroom Activities™ (Teacher)

Kindergarten - How to Get to My House (Children innovate on a pattern to publish a class book about their own neighborhoods)

Grade 2 - Dinosaur Drawing (Children tell what some silly dinosaurs are doing as they complete a phonics word study with the vowel pair au/aw.)

Grade 4 - Up Close (Students discover tiny worlds as they use a virtual electron microscope to view a series of magnified photos to do the Can You Guess It? Nano Challenge.)

Grade 5 - Petroglyphs (Students learn about petroglyphs to uncover ways that people lived in the past.)

Cross-Curricular Project™

Comet Hale-Bopp - Stories from the Stars (Reading & Language Arts) -- Students learn how astronomical events have inspired myth-making across Native American cultures and then write their own, original mythology.

1492 - Perspectives on Christopher Columbus (Reading & Language Arts) -- Students read and research arguments about the impact of Columbus's arrival in the Americas and then debate the issue.

Election '96 - Writing Your Members of Congress (Reading & Language Arts) -- Students go through the writing process to write a persuasive letter to their Representatives and Senators about an issue of concern.

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