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- 7th - 12th
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Students search primary documents for information about how infants and students died during the late 1850s and 1860s. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students draw inferences from numerical data; practice using data to make graphs; make projections based on a variety of assumptions; make graphs with a range of projections based upon a range of assumptions; and practice testing hypotheses. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students analyze data for death rates dealing with smoking cigarettes, automobiles, and AIDS. They read and organize material, examine case studies, define problems, and report on the information. Full Review »
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- 11th - 12th
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Students analyze air pollution data and cardiovascular disease death rates. They read an article, develop a hypothesis, test their hypothesis using statistical analysis, and write a hypothesis to study how air pollution affects the cardiovascular system. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students examine the time in which the Puritans lived in colonial New England. In groups, they research the Puritans view on life and death and discuss as a class. They read gravestones, diaries and other primary sources to discover more about their daily life. To end the lesson, they research the way contangious diseases made their way into New England and the effect on the population of the Puritans. Full Review »
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- 9th
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Students are introduced to the concept of population. In groups, they research the problems associated with overpopulation and underpopulation. They practice calculating birth and death rates and discus how they can be used to describe a country. To end the lesson, they focus on the role of women in population and how to voluntarly and involuntary control population. Full Review »
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- 10th - 12th
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Students use this lesson to focus on population growth and the threat of overpopulation. In groups, they analyze the world birth and death rates to determine the growth rate of the population. As a class, they discuss the causes and consequences of a growing population on the land space and resources available. They pretend with a partner to have a discussion about adding a new baby to their family and how it would affect Connecticut as a whole. Full Review »
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- 9th
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Students defient the concept "Quality of Life." They give examples of countries that they think have a high quality of life and those that they think have a low quality of life. Pupils define the following terms: birth rates, death rates, infant mortality rates, education levels and per capita Gross Product (GDP). Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students determine whether a higher-than-normal death rate among surgery patients in a hospital was caused by faulty blood-typing. They are given a sheet that contains the blood types on record for patients, the type of blood each patient received, and whether or not each survived the surgery. Students use information and materials to determine correct blood types for each patient and bag. They determine whether a patients were given the correct type of blood or not. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students discover the world as a global community and the social implications. They construct graphs to represent data, interpret diagrams and draw inferences.Students create a report, which could lead to a class discussion. Full Review »
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