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Science Club, Danielle Gibson, Krista Andersen Apr 2023

Science Club, Danielle Gibson, Krista Andersen

Honors Expanded Learning Clubs

Honors After School program for elementary age children to engage with scientific principles. Students performed hands-on experiments to explore various STEM fields. Each weekly lesson consisted of a different concept to be learned or explored by early elementary aged students.


Tactile Arts Club, Hayden Hauge, Rowan Havranek Dec 2022

Tactile Arts Club, Hayden Hauge, Rowan Havranek

Honors Expanded Learning Clubs

Students will build tactile skills while learning how to crochet, knit, and sew, and they will have a finished project in their hands at the conclusion of the club.


Green Genius, Zoe Zingler Nov 2022

Green Genius, Zoe Zingler

Honors Expanded Learning Clubs

No abstract provided.


Girls In Stem! Elementary Afterschool Six-Week Curriculum, Jess Li, Samavi Rafique Aug 2022

Girls In Stem! Elementary Afterschool Six-Week Curriculum, Jess Li, Samavi Rafique

Honors Expanded Learning Clubs

No abstract provided.


K-2 Theater And Art Club, Hailey Revord, Madelyn Kreifels Apr 2022

K-2 Theater And Art Club, Hailey Revord, Madelyn Kreifels

Honors Expanded Learning Clubs

No abstract provided.


Health And Nutrition Club, Ashley Mcrae, Maggie Osborne Oct 2021

Health And Nutrition Club, Ashley Mcrae, Maggie Osborne

Honors Expanded Learning Clubs

These lesson plans outline a Health and Nutrition Club for kindergarten to second graders. The lessons aim at educating today's youth about their health through fun, interactive activities. Feel free to use the lesson plans exactly or to adapt the lessons to your own needs.


Up And Atom, Emily Plotnik, Elizabeth Struwe Oct 2021

Up And Atom, Emily Plotnik, Elizabeth Struwe

Honors Expanded Learning Clubs

"Up and Atom" is a hands-on and creative afterschool club geared towards fourth and fifth graders. Through conducting a variety of science experiments, the goal of this club is to inspire a creative and immersive perspective of the sciences for the younger generation.


Afterschool Club: German For K-5, Justin Solheim Jul 2021

Afterschool Club: German For K-5, Justin Solheim

Honors Expanded Learning Clubs

The lessons found in this paper were designed for a group of 20-25 elementary schools students in downtown Lincoln, NE. The students were split into two groups: K-2 and 3-5. Through a variety of activities, the students learned the basics of the German language and culture. Many of the lessons are simple and do not require difficult thinking, as this was a summer club. Instead, they allow students to collaborate, move around, color, and solve puzzles.


"We Mean Green" Environmental Science Club, Maria E. Heyen, Lauren Prehn Apr 2020

"We Mean Green" Environmental Science Club, Maria E. Heyen, Lauren Prehn

Honors Expanded Learning Clubs

Lesson Plans for an Environmental Science Club. This club seeks to promote environmental awareness to elementary students through hands-on activities, videos, and discussion.


French Club, Brett Foster, Madisen Bell Apr 2020

French Club, Brett Foster, Madisen Bell

Honors Expanded Learning Clubs

Afterschool club that introduces French Language and Culture to young elementary students. Through hands-on activities and discussions, students will learn the basics of French Language and complete a French Journal full of everything they learned that semester to take home.


Stories That Shape Us, Lauren Dubas Apr 2020

Stories That Shape Us, Lauren Dubas

Honors Expanded Learning Clubs

This club is a Mythology Club that explores popular greek myths through fun and interactive activities. These actives are designed with 4th and 5th graders in mind, and are meant to provide an interesting way to interact with the mythology material presented during each lesson. The lessons do not build off of one another, and can be used in any order and still retain understanding of that myth.


Girl Empowerment Club, Tori Pedersen, Murphy Glen Oct 2019

Girl Empowerment Club, Tori Pedersen, Murphy Glen

Honors Expanded Learning Clubs

Girl Empowerment Club teaches girls about self-reflection and communicating effectively in hope of inspiring confidence. The goal of the club is to encourage girls to strengthen their interpersonal skills while learning more about themselves.


Stem Opportunities - High School 2019, Huey-Xian Kelly Wong, Madeleine Rauhauser, Annie Morgan Nelson Aug 2019

Stem Opportunities - High School 2019, Huey-Xian Kelly Wong, Madeleine Rauhauser, Annie Morgan Nelson

Honors Expanded Learning Clubs

This publication details the lesson plan for the “Opportunities in STEM” club for the summer of 2019. This club began out of a desire to educate high school students about the opportunities and careers available in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields. Often, students feel that the prospect of entering a STEM field is daunting and out of their grasp. What it means to be a scientist is often unclear, and students never consider opportunities out of the fear of the unknown, particularly when science is associated with complexity and difficulty. This lesson plan integrates experiments with a wealth …


Knit Kit: Create, Craft, And Code, Alison Cloet Jan 2018

Knit Kit: Create, Craft, And Code, Alison Cloet

Honors Expanded Learning Clubs

No abstract provided.


Space Venture, Mickey Tran Jan 2018

Space Venture, Mickey Tran

Honors Expanded Learning Clubs

No abstract provided.


The Great Escape, Caleb Kowalsk Jan 2018

The Great Escape, Caleb Kowalsk

Honors Expanded Learning Clubs

No abstract provided.


Mind Craft, Dana Hoppe, Alison Cloet, Mickey Tran, Caleb Kowalsk Jan 2018

Mind Craft, Dana Hoppe, Alison Cloet, Mickey Tran, Caleb Kowalsk

Honors Expanded Learning Clubs

No abstract provided.


3-D Mapping | Topography, Dana Hoppe Jan 2018

3-D Mapping | Topography, Dana Hoppe

Honors Expanded Learning Clubs

No abstract provided.