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- 9th - 12th
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Students use the Internet to explore population distribution and survivorship curves. They collect information about the deaths of humans and organize them into a life table and decide the ages at which the human population is most vulnerable to death. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students explore issues surrounding death penalty debate and participate in a values-clarification activity to help them form their opinions on this topic. They create a talk show to discuss issues involved with DNA testing and the death penalty. Full Review »
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- 7th - 8th
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Students research death records in order to contrast causes of death in the past with those of today and compare the ages of death of males and females in the 1800s. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students read and analyze poems about death. They analyze the poems in small groups, listen to an audio clip, define key vocabulary terms, complete a worksheet and Venn diagram, and prepare a presentation of a poem comparison. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students analyze the Eighth Amendment and how the U.S. Supreme Court makes determinations about what constitutes cruel and unusual punishment through the example of the death penalty for juveniles. They read a variety of cases and discuss their position in a class discussion. 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 »
- Grade Range
- 11th
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Students perform a study of the rights guaranteed by the Bill of Rights and focus on the protection against cruel and unusual punishment in the Eighth Amendment as it relates to the death penalty. Prior to formulating a position on the issue, students research and become informed about the death penalty and its history before the Supreme Court. 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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- 7th - 12th
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Students read a current events article about the death penalty debate in Italy. They review pertinent vocabulary and answer comprehension questions. They follow up with a class discussion on the death penalty and how to "agree to disagree" about such highly-contested issues. Full Review »
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- 8th
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Students explore the similarities and differences between the Black Death and HIV/AIDS. They write an essay answering which is the worse plague, the current spread of HIV/AIDS or the Black Death in the mid-fourteenth century. They research the Internet and evaluate websites to record information and read about both topics. Full Review »
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