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\nAgriculture in Your Life\n

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\nStudents examine the agricultural sources of everyday products and identify food products outside traditional farming circles. They discuss the background information, and complete activity sheets, locating various commodity locations on...\n
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\n\"World\n\n
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\nWorld War II New Guinea Campaign\n

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\nAlthough the big picture for this instructional activity on the New Guidea Campaign of WWII is taking a field trip to the Douglas MacArthur Memorial, you can easily use it as a guide to an independent or group research project as well....\n
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\nExploring The Columbian Exposition\n

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\nFourth graders listen to a read aloud of a book that provides background information on the Columbian Exposition. They research the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition and the city of Chicago at the turn of the century and create a...\n
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\n\"Sonar\n\n
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\nSonar Simulation\n

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\nStudents compare and contrast side-scan sonar to other methods used to find objects underwater. In this underwater search activity, students describe side-scan sonar and make inferences about the topography of an unknown landscape. This...\n
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\nWhere In The World Is Bermuda?\n

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\nYoung scholars locate the Island of Bermuda, and identify its absolute and relative location.\n
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\nHow Can We Locate Specific Places On Earth?\n

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\nSecond graders discover how to use longitude and latitude to locate specific sites on Earth. They compare old and new ways of locating specific places, and discover how latitude and longitude coordinates are used to locate places on Earth.\n
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\nTwo-Cell Battery\n

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\nStudents build their own two-cell battery and determine which electrolyte solution is best suited for making a battery. They discuss background information for their experiment, construct and test their battery, and using the chart on...\n
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\nThe Iditarod: The Last Great Race\n

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\nStudents investigate the Iditarod. In this last great race lesson, students explore and research the Iditarod race which takes place in Alaska.  Students explore a variety of websites and images to gather background information. A...\n
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\nMaking a Travel Brochure of a Louisiana Parish\n

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\nAlthough the attachments for this travel brochure project are no longer linked, you can still use the idea here and create your own assignment sheet and rubric. Learners choose a parish in Louisiana (or a city in your state) to research,...\n
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\nMud is Mud...or is it?\n

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\nWe know that the type of soil varies by location, but does the seafloor sediment also vary, or is it all the same? Scholars compare photos of the seafloor from two different locations: the Savannah Scarp and the Charleston Bump. Through...\n
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\nSettlement Exploration: Then and Now\n

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\nNASA has crafted an imaginative and memorable series of lessons, \"NASA and Jamestown Education Module.\" This lesson is one of the five components. In it, middle schoolers connect history and science by comparing the settlement of...\n
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\nNative Americans and Natural Resources\n

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\nNorth American Indian civilizations had already been in place for over 10,000 years before the arrival of European settlers. Introduce your young historians to Indian tribes that lived in the Chesapeake region in the...\n
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\nGeothermal Energy\n

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\nWith Earth Day quickly approaching, as well as many science fairs, why not challenge your class to investigate geothermal energy or other renewable energy resources? There are five driving questions explored in depth here, as well as...\n
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\nInvestigation: Tour de Texas\n

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\nTeams of Texas tourists gather into groups to analyze what they can do with $50 worth of an alternative fuel. They write checks, keep a balance sheet, and map out their sight-seeing route taking into consideration the location of...\n
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\nThe Crisis in the Ivory Coast\n

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\nThrough reading a variety of news articles and other informational texts, learners discover the political turmoil and intense ethnic and religious tensions that envelop the Ivory Coast today. Class members research the historical...\n
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\nThe Civil War at Home\n

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\nTo conclude a study of the 4 C's (cause, course, consequences, and characters) of the Civil War, young historians examine personal letters that reveal the effects of the war on those at home.\n
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\n\"Jacksonian\n\n
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\nJacksonian Democracy and Indian Removal\n

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\nIntroduce a study of the presidency of Andrew Jackson with a lesson that uses video clips, primary source documents, group activities, and debates to examine Jackson's early life and career. The lesson focuses on the 1828 election and...\n
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\nWhat Can We Learn from Sediments?\n

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\nVarve: a deposit of cyclical sediments that help scientists determine historical climates. Individuals analyze the topography of a region and then study varve datasets from the same area. Using this information, they determine the...\n
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\nAlabama Tenant Farmers and Sharecroppers, 1865 to Present\n

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\nThe tenant farming and sharecropping systems that developed in the South after the Civil War, the reasons for their development, and the eventual decline of these systems are the focus of this two-day plan.\n
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\nMASS, MASS – Who Has the MASS? Analyzing Tiny Samples\n

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\nWhat is it worth to you? A hands-on lesson asks groups to collect weights of different combinations of coins and calculate weighted averages. They use the analysis to understand the concept of an isotope to finish the third lesson in a...\n
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\nThe Farmer and the Cowman\n

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\nWhat is the difference between a ranch and a farm? After reading and discussing the provided background information, young agriculturalists will color, cut, and create neat little booklets that show the differences between ranches and...\n
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\nThe Outer Planets\n

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\nStudents study the planets Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. In this solar system lesson plan, students read facts about the planets and their location in the solar system. Images, diagrams, and background information on the planets is...\n
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\nCitizen Photojournalism\n

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\nMatt Black's photo essay, \"The Geography of Poverty\" provides a shocking reminder of the poverty that exists in the United States. The resource not only focuses attention on poverty but also conditions that have given rise to situation...\n
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\nMarine Biology Field Trips\n

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\nYoung scholars visit a Marine Biology study area 2-3 times and write a report after the last visit. They participate in the Marine Biology field trips working with lab partners. They complete data sheets to write their primitive...\n
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