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- 3rd - 5th
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The U.S. Constitution requires that the President be born in the United States. The 42 Presidents were born in 20 of the 50 states (or in colonies that later became states). This lesson uses maps to process and report information from a spatial perspecti Full Review »
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- 1st
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Students identify the seven continents, four major oceans and the cardinal directions. They discover map legends and symbols. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students use maps and a globe to discover the differences and similarities of continents and oceans. They practice the names of the seven continents and four oceans by learning songs and poems to help them remember. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students accurately measure the distance to eight points on an uneven surface by conducting a simulation of sattelite altimetry. They create a two-dimensional model of the simulated ocean surface by graphing data from the Radar Run activity. Full Review »
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- 1st - 6th
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Students explore their world using the book "This is the Way We Go to School." They predict information about the story based on the title and pictures. Students label a world map with the names of continents and oceans. They write a set of clues that identify a type of transportation and create an alphabet book about how they get to school. Full Review »
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- 5th - 8th
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The goal of this lesson is for students to place the events of the 2002 servicing mission of the Hubble Space Telescope in the correct sequence. Students increase their knowledge about technology and working in space by completing "Be the Mastermind Behind the Mission." Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 12th
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Students create mental maps of their community. They read articles and add information to their maps. They compare their community map to their mental maps to observe similarities and differences. Full Review »
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- 9th - 10th
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Students explore and analyze data from different maps in order to explain geographic diversity among the continents. Student groups research continents' physical features and examine how they contribute to quality of life for inhabitants. Full Review »
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- 4th - 6th
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Students identify the word team in a word scramble and define its various meanings or synonyms for the word. They then identify that an acronym is a word that is created from the first letters of a series of words and use their skills, along with the word team, to design a slogan on poster board for their team formed. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students discuss the political atmosphere of post-World War II Europe and the U.S. foreign policy strategy of containment. They research critical events that occurred prior to the formation of NATO, such as the Marshall Plan, the Truman Doctrine, the Berlin airlift, and Churchill's coinage of the term iron curtain. Full Review »
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