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- 5th
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Students define a list of commonly known words and compare these words to a list of more complex words with similar origins. They analyze similarities to determine common origins and meanings. Students use these observations to decode the list of unknown words. Full Review »
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- 4th - 6th
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Students participate in an environmental action letter-writing campaign. They conduct Internet research on the Global Response website, discuss various successful Global Response campaigns, select a campaign they are interested in, and write a letter using specific points and facts listed on the Global Response website. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students work in teams to synthesize their air, asthma, air contamination, and environmental health knowledge as well as additional research to represent a particular point of view persuasively. They create a handout and presentatin materials to help communicate this knowledge and point of view. Pupils use these materials, to practice public speaking to present their work. Full Review »
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- 1st
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Students observe a variety of different foods including kiwi, banbnas, coffee, chocolate and discuss where they come from. They discuss the terms import and export then identify the locations where the items came from and their prices. They hypothesize how prices reflect the origin and availability of the items. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students review and discuss the rubric that will be used to evaluate their final product. Students brainstorm a list of holidays celebrated by a majority of people in the United States. Students each select an American holiday from the list as well as another country that may have a holiday that is similar. They perform research to locate useful information using a minimum of three sources. The lesson includes an extensive list of holidays. Full Review »
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- 9th
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Students research early mining in California. They study the "placer method" for mining gold, which is surface mining that does not involve tunneling. They examine what it was like for the early miners to pan for gold with simple tools in 1848 and 1849 in California. Full Review »
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- 2nd - 4th
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Students review and practice saying various weather expressions in Spanish. They play a charades-like game in which they ahve to act out the weather expressions and have others guess what weather is occuring. They describe the weather on that day, seasons, and typical weather in different Spanish-speaking countries. Full Review »
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- 4th - 5th
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Students examine the soil of the Inner Coastal Plain of North Carolina. Using the internet, they discover why tobacco was a major crop of the area and locate on a map tobacco farms. They show how tobacco was grown before modern farming machinery became available. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students identify six simple machines, including inclined plane, wedge, screw, lever, wheel and axle, and pulley, describe attributes of each machine, and design, in jigsaw groups, their own simple machines capable of moving brick. Full Review »
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- 5th - 12th
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Students study the life cycle of a coral reef. They then participate in a simulated village meeting in which they roleplay various characters who must review proposed legislation dealing with reef management. Full Review »
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