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Lesson #6: Sea Surface Temperature and Coral Bleaching
Fifth graders examine the concept of coral bleaching and sea surface temperature. They view a teacher demonstration, interpret sea surface temperature data, explore a website, and complete worksheets.
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Red Ribbon Week
Students perform monologues about bullying and cyber-bullying. In this bullying and drama lesson, students write scenes while improvising before word processing the scenes. They put their work in order to present a show about bullying...
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Women and World War II
Students determine the influence of World War II on women's roles in society. Students research the answers to questions about how women were able to enter jobs that had not been open to them before the war and how this affected society....
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Water and Diffusion
In this water and diffusion learning exercise, students will explore the characteristics of water and the water molecule. Students will also answer questions about diffusion and the movement of materials due to concentration differences....
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Exploring Magnetism and Electricity
Students explore Faraday's Law. In this electromagnetism lesson, students investigate Michael Faraday. Students discover the history of the electromagnet. Students examine the parts of an electromagnet.
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Introduction to the Scientific Method
Students designs and conduct a scientific experiment that identifies the problem, distinguishes manipulated, responding and controlled variables, collects, analyzes and communicates data, and makes valid inferences and conclusions.
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Seized Before Flights: Graph
In this bar graph worksheet, students analyze a graph that show the number of prohibited items intercepted at U.S. airport screening checkpoints. Students answer 3 problem solving questions about the data on the graph.
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Factors affecting infiltration and runoff
Young scholars investigate some of the factors that determine the amount of runoff. They are reminded that infiltration and runoff tend to work oppositely. When conditions are bad for infiltration they usually lead to runoff.
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Relative Humidity
In this humidity worksheet, students use a graph showing hourly surface temperatures, dew points, and relative humidity to complete 10 fill in the blank questions.
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Spend, Save, Invest or Donate
Middle schoolers explore the concept of philanthropy. In this personal finance lesson, students consider economic choices and why people donate to causes. Middle schoolers investigate the processes of borrowing money and investing money...
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Talking Bulls and Bears
Students compare and contrast bull and bear markets. In this stock market lesson, students visit the noted Web sites to study supply and demand, the stock exchange, and financial scandals.
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Current Issues and Problems In Turkey
Students engage in a lesson which will focus on five main points: Kurdish nationalism and terrorism, Islamic fundamentalism, economic weakening and inflation, political corruption, and disputes with Greece.
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Our Monster Travels...
Students write emails to their parents and locate specific places on a map. In this email lesson plan, students email their parents from the teacher's account and map locations of their parents.
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Follow One Step Directions From Peers
Learners practice taking directions from their peers during group activities. With teachers, they practice the directions and then gradually start practicing with their mainstream friends. They are given marks on a chart noting how they...
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Newspaper for Inner City School
Students use their writing skills and digital cameras to produce a newspaper. They write about school events, class projects, items of interest, culturally-related issues, and interview students. Students edit digital images and insert...
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Exploring the Landscape
Young scholars determine the monotonicity and concavity properties of a function, then apply the First Derivative Test and draw conclusions about the first and second derivatives from these properties.
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Population Dynamics of Growth of Drosophila
Students investigate population dynamics such as variation in density of females, composition of food sources an environmental factors such as light and temperature on Drosophila. They then relate their findings to human populations and...
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Independent - To Be or Not Top Be - Day 2, Lesson C: Freedom of Speech
Fifth graders explore the following questions: What is it? What is it like? What is an example?
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Weave a Web of Words
Fifth graders write a first draft of an oral presentation about the American Revolution and take their work through the writing process.
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Independent - To Be or Not Top Be: Press Conference
Fourth graders deliver an oral presentation on the American war for independence to small groups. They use a rubric to give each other peer feedback on the strengths and weaknesses of their presentation.
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Political Cartoons: Thinking Broadly, Communicating Succinctly
Students think broadly about the tsunami disaster and its aftermath through studying cartoons. Students critically think about the literary devices the authors/artists use, such as satire, metaphor and personification.
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Discovering Demographics
Students analyze demographic data including a statistical overview of India. Students synthesize their findings and create an informational poster about India.
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Independent - To Be or Not Top Be - Day 1, Lesson B: To Arms!
Fifth graders explore the verbal and non-verbal parts of an oral presentation.