what Kind of good winning 8th grade project can i do ?
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You want a simple one?  Human observation.\n\nMake a white sheet cake.  Take some vanilla icing and color it brown with food coloring, so it looks chocolate.  Ice it.\n\nMake a list of 10 questions to ask people who try the cake.  Around #8 should be "What flavor was it?"  When I did it, 100% said chocolate frosting.
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How about a video project depicting a group working on a school video project.  \n\nYou can begin with a brain storming session among the group who will be making the subject video.  Follow through with planning, casting, and shooting something insignificant like a commercial, after all the video being made in the video will not be shown.  Finish with a narrator saying something like "the actual success or failure of our venture rest with you, our audience".  This while a slow fade is taking place of the final “CUT” and the crew putting their equipment away.\n\nIt may be different enough to score some points for originality.
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A project in what subject?
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www.proteacher.com has some great chat boards, lesson plan ideas, content ideas, strategies, etc.  Good site, I think all grades.
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Winning a speech contest\nA pinewood derby\nbecoming an eagle scout.\nWinning a running race\nWinning most any sporting event.\nBeing student of the month\nWinning a spelling bee\nAnd on and on\n Hope this helps.
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These are some ideas aimed for pre-k, 1st and 2nd grade:\n*you can provide different geometrical shapes and have them sort them according to color, size, shape, etc.\n*with the same shapes have them complete a pattern you start for them ex. red circle, yellow square, red circle, yellow square, etc.\n*try looking for a game called "Tangram", I don't know if you can buy one already done or you can make your own in this site:http://www.tangram.i-p.com/\n*give students play money and have them solve problems using it.
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pick something you know how to do (softballl, possibly?), then pick a specific aspect of that to present\nsome ideas:\nhow to make something (sewing, carpentry, art, etc.)\nhow to throw a ball\nscrapbooking\nbaking a cake\nwriting the letter "A"\nbecoming the dictator of a country\nwriting a speech\n\nwithout knowing anything specific, i can't give many suggestions, but i hope you can at least get some ideas from this
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http://www.aaacertificates.com/free.php\n\nhttp://www.scrapbookscrapbook.com/student-awards.html
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I think a great how to speech is to show how to make origami.  It can be a little confusing to explain but if you're up for the challenge and pick something not too difficult, I think the class will like that.  Another idea would be to make something they could eat but it wouldn't require baking or cooking. Some treat like trail mix would be cool.  Good luck!
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The best project will be one that has some interest to the 8th grader. So my granddaughter likes animals. But my youngest boy likes photography. So a pinhole camera would bore my granddaughter but would have caught the interest of my son.\n\nThat being said... Here's an easy one. Go to a store and find some cheap analog clocks (clocks with hands) that run on a single AA battery. Then go to Radio Shack and get some battery holders and some "aligator clip leads" -- short wires with clips on either side. And get a bunch of different brand batteries of different sizes (if you are trying to get by simply, use only AA batteries and then you just need the clocks and the batteries).\n\nTake off the battery covers and hook up the battery holders to the clocks with the clipleads (unless you are only using AA batteries). Then put batteries in and see how long it takes for the clocks to run down. This may take a long time. If you are short on time, try this. Get a flashlight bulb at radio shack and put it across the battery with the clock. So this way the battery is running the clock and the flashlight bulb at the same time. Note the time on the the clock and check it every day to see when the clock stops. You can graph the results easily.\n\nQuestions (form a hypothesis and answer one or more of these):\nWhat lasts longer, a AA, a C, or a D battery?\nWhat brand of battery lasts longer?\nWhat lasts longer, a standard carbon-zinc battery or an alkaline battery? What is the cost difference per unit? Per run time?\n\nA little research on the internet about how batteries are built, and the different technologies (carbon-zinc, alkaline, nicad, NiMh, lithium, lead-acid) and you have a great project.
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Congratulations to you, and a hearty cheer for taking on such a challenging task.\n\nI arrived mid year once to teach 8th grade English and History.  The situation was not as...degenerated as you describe, but it was tough for both sides.\n\nI think others have given valuable advice.  These kids need structure and enforcement of rules, whether they know it or not.  Make your rules fair and apply them equitably and you should have some success.\n\nI do disagree with the idea of using a Homework pass as a reward.  Don't we assign homework because of it's value to learning?  Letting a student earn the privilege not to do an assignment completely dilutes its educational value to the students left doing it.  Other rewards are certainly useful, though.  Stickers actually work to motivate a lot of kids.  Even though they're in 10th grade, they'd still like to bring home a "refrigerator paper" to show mom and dad (or whoever's at home).\n\nI think you also need to acknowledge out loud the things many of these kids have gone through outside of school, as well as the turmoil they have faced in school with this course.  Lay out your rules early and often.  Follow through with disciplinary action, but be a nice, reasonable person.  Find out what the school administration would consider success for this course this year, tell the kids, then go for it.\n\nBest wishes.
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Hey there!!  Good luck on your project.  Here are a few great sites to get you on your way!!\n\nhttp://www.smartdraw.com/specials/education.asp?type=41504&id=41504\n"SmartDraw is easy drawing software that provides you with an assortment of fun and creative classroom activities!\n\nShort on time, but need to create a math quiz? An astronomy handout? What about a permission slip for the museum field trip? It's all right at your fingertips with SmartDraw!\n\nSmartDraw comes packed with educational templates and clip art to help you create great-looking worksheets, forms and handouts in minutes.\n\nNot only is it quick and easy to get great results, allowing you more time for your students, but it's fun to use!"\n\nhttp://teacher.scholastic.com/tools/class_setup/\n"Class Set-Up tool is a new, easy-to-use, virtual layout tool that helps you design customized and effective classrooms to promote learning. Use this tool to rearrange and set-up mock classrooms, and map out virtual seating charts."
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Good luck with your project!
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How about an art activity?  Here are a few:\n\nCategory: Crayon resist Grade level: K - 3 \nProject Focus:  Magical Leprechaun Footprints\nIntegrated Subject:  Saint Patrick’s Day\nArt production:  Students will trace their shoes on a piece of paper.  They will fill the shoe outline with various crayon colors.  Then they will paint over the entire paper with green and white paint.  This creates a resist drawing.\nArt Criticism:  Students will be evaluated on their use of colors, materials, and on their overall effort.\nArt Aesthetics: The students will discuss their thoughts on their paintings.\n\n\nCategory:  WatercolorGrade level:  2 - 5\nProject Focus: Watercolor Butterflies\nIntegrated Subjects: Science\nArt production: Student will draw two butterflies and demonstrate the wet on wet technique on one and the wet on dry technique on the other.\nArt Criticism: Students will be evaluated on their use of the watercolors, how well they followed directions, and by their overall effort.\nArt Aesthetics: Students will discuss which technique they liked the best and why.  Also, they will have a discussion on which one gave them more control.\n\n\nCategory: WatercolorGrade Level: 1-6\nProject Focus: Sunsets \nIntegrated Subject: Science \nArt production: Students will create either a landscape or ocean scene by using oil crayons, stencils and watercolors, after which they will show and explain their work. \nArt Criticism: Students will be evaluated by being given an oral quiz on the vocabulary learned, and on their use of media and overall effort. \nArt Aesthetics: Students will discuss their finished works and give their reactions to them \nIntegrated Subject Vocabulary Words: Landscape, Sunset, Horizon\n\n\nYou may also want to check this out:\n\nhttp://funschool.com\nOn this website you can find printables for coloring, stickers, and a section about origami.  Children can play crossword puzzles and word searches.\n\nhttp://www.nytimes.com/learning\nThis site provides excellent web connections for teachers, students, and parents, and is helpful for incorporating current events into lessons
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A good project would be on either diet or excercize.  Teenagers tend to be very lazy, that is the age where their motabolism begins to slow down.  The first link is a great place for answering questions you may have about teen's health.  The second site is a good place to generate ideas about your project.  Maybe you want to be more specific than just "diet" or "excercize".  the third source is a very good place for facts and stats also.
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ask the children to help u make one up its something they have done and achieved then will encourage their self esteem and self worth
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Do a project on which product is better