Mrs. O'Hora's House
Mrs. O's House is dedicated to providing information and engaging activities. The activities cover a wide variety of topics and offer many levels of difficulty. The EcoStudy Units employ higher order thinking skills to investigate special ecosystems and species. The problem based learning projects challenge users to examine and react to a variety of current issues. Puzzles and Projects makes use of online resources to enrich a broad set of topics.

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Internet Hunts > 200 Nature
Puzzles & Projects Milkweed and Monarch Butterfly Mania
Macintosh know how - Computers Bluebirds Project - learn about bluebirds
Problem/Project based Learning > 100 Plants and People
Pennsylvania Projects > 80 Eco Study unit - Fields, Meadows, Fencerows | Wetlands
Prominent Pennsylvanians > 850 Science Observation skills builders > 44
Civics: Projects | Essays | Elections | Quotes Water and Watershed Studies
Learning links Mac Links / About Author / FAQ
Internet Hunts:

May Fact Finder | May Internet Activity #2

Spring Internet Hunt

May Civics Facts Internet Hunt

Environment Exploration Activity

Anna Sunday Lit. Internet Hunt (Civil War)

@Email Internet Hunt

Are you 21st Century Literate?

Amphibians Internet Activity

Puzzles & Projects Index : an extensive collection dollar sign Financial
Word Cloud Project - Literature Character Traits

Critical Thinking Activity - Writing a Process

Healthy County Digital Project

How to be Healthy Campaign

National Highway Safety Report and You

Individual Privacy, Public Safety and Justice

Positive Weather Reports

Winter Song Photo Story

Energy Saving Digital Video Project

Actively seek out alternative information

Sagan - Reflect on this mote of dust essay

Digital Storytelling - Life around here project

Water Issue Digital Science Project

Environmental/Energy Issue Video Project

History Mystery Message Challenge

No Place like Home - Compare Contrast Geography Research Activity

Evaluate a government web site

Examine Online Collaboration and Social Networking - Web 2.0

Books that Shaped America

Your Personal Financial Survival Plan

Credit Cards Facts Activity financial education

Gas and Diesel Taxes

How are the Funding Decisions Made?

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Privacy at school project

The Right to Privacy and the U. S. Constitution

Make a Digital Presentation about your Student Handbook

Working in a Group

Discerning Fake and Real Photos - Why does it matter to you?

Concussion & Head Injury Action Project

Put your town on the map - Be a cyber cartographer

Make a schematic representation

Pennsylvania Projects Index - a plethora are provided > 80
PA Open Records Law projects

Government - Sunshine Laws | The Public’s Right to Know

Pennsylvania Charters and Important Documents

Thomas Paine - Common Sense

Who represents you? - My Government Project

Crossword Puzzles index > 30 Quizzes: 14
U. S. Constitution Facts puzzle (pdf)

Election Vocabulary MYO Puzzle project - rubric added

Make a Crossword Puzzle of Government Vocabulary - rubric added

The Scarlet Stockings Spy Quiz 4th - 6th

Stranger in the Woods Quiz K-2

Scientific Method Quiz

Nature Stuff - harness these activities to learn many interesting things
Best Treat of All - online children's book about birds

Bluebirds Project - EcoStudy Unit

Trees inventory and map project based learning

Plants and People Project

Problem based learning projects - many on nature/science

Habitat Garden - Make one at school or a park

Community Green Infrastructure Project

Life Cycles in nature

Fields, Meadows & Fencerows EcoStudy Unit

Wetlands EcoStudy Unit

Alternative Energy, Renewables & Energy Studies

Water & Watersheds Studies Index

Lentic Ecosystems and Lotic Ecosystems in PA

Sheets Island Archipelago Conundrum

Water and Air Pollution Activity

Habitat Project Digital Science Journal

Other Stuff
Articles: Mrs. O's other volunteer projects:
Central PA CSIU 16 region Schools 2012 PSSA results Web site Volunteer - article
Central PA CSIU 16 Region Schools 2011 PSSA results Monarch Waystation & Habitat Garden
Central PA CSIU 16 Region Schools 2010 PSSA results Education advocacy
Copyright notice Friends of the Pine Ridge Reservation - Contibute if you can
Author/Webmaster Make Book Covers - how to
Links to other interesting sites On Inspiration / Gaelic Blessing
Credit and Credibility - online report on the financial crisis
and the Credit Rating agencies
Sew Much Comfort - help provide modified clothing that accommodates medical devices for our wounded military personnel

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Updated May 3, 2013. Originally posted 2/1997.
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