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What Do Portraits Communicate?

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students make connections between their personal experiences and portraits. define a portrait and identify different kinds of portraits in artworks and their own lives. They look closely at a portrait using visual analysis to describe...
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Observing Mars in the Night Sky

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers compare and contrast the orbits of Earth and Mars, locate the planet Mars, and diagram its retrograde motion.
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Reading the Shapes of Volcanoes on Earth and Mars

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students compare and contrast the volcanoes of Earth and Mars, and examine specific volcanoes on Mars. They model the processes that create cone and shield volcanoes, and measure the slope angles of cone and shield volcanoes.
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Surviving War

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Learners examine the effect of war on teenagers through an interactive program. They also examine how the war effects Americans. They listen to families testimonies and political opinion.
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Mars Mission Logbooks

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students design and create a logbook into which a variety of data is kept to document and assess their involvement in the Live From Mars module. Academic progress is tracked as materials are added to he portfolio.
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Become a Member of the Mission to Mars Team

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Pupils examine the various jobs of the Mars Mission Team, organize them into categories and write a formal application for a position on the Mars Mission. Entries are made into the logbook and on-line Field Journals read.
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Today's Weather on Mars

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students investigate the temperature and wind data locally, nationally, and internationally and compare these conditions to those on Mars. Conclusions are drawn about the differences of these conditions and the causes for the variance...
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Detecting Magnetic Materials in "Martian" Soil

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students simulate some of the Pathfinder experiments by devising methods of collecting and measuring magnetic substances in pseudo-Martian soil. The efficiency of each of the methods used to collect materials is evaluated in this lesson.
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Mission Planning: Geography

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students investigate the use of latitude and longitude to locate specific locations on Earth and evaluate that location as a potential landing site for researchers, terrestrial or alien space missions.
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Mission Planning: Earth/Mars Comparisons

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students compare and contrast conditions on Mars to those on our own planet, specifically, their local or regional environments. The physical characteristics, the atmosphere, and other astronomical data is considered.
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A Flag for Mars

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars investigate the historical use of flags on Earth, debate ownership issues for interplanetary exploration, and design a flag for Mars. The implication of placing a flag at a location forms the focus of the instructional...
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"To Terraform or Not to Terraform?"

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners analyze an article written by an engineer at NASA proposing colonizing Mars with human explorers on the fastest track possible. They are invited to react to the article through several activities.
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The Great Chase

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students use the text "The Great Chase" to explore characters, views, and using words and phrases from the text. They write character profiles that describe the characters in the story. Students use key words and phrases from the story.
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The European Union 3

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders identify countries in the European Union (EU).They consider the positives and negatives of group membership. Students create a mock governing body for their school and make a membership ID.
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Wisconsin History and Information

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders complete a multi-faceted project about the people, places, and government of Wisconsin. Working with traditional and technological resources, they research various topics related to the history of Wisconsin and create a...
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Bon Voyage: Travel and Exploration

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use the internet and other media to locate and collect information about travel. They interpret the information they collect and convert American currency to foreign currency. Students create scale drawings of travel cards.
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Juana Maria, the Real Lost Woman of San Nicolas Island

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students view a museum exhibit on Juana Maria. As a class, they describe the difference between real and fictional people and the difference between history and historical fiction. Using a map, they locate San Nicholas Island and...
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Enter Through the Form: Explore Japan Treasure Hunt

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students use the internet to take a virtual treasure hunt to Japan. Using other websites, they gather information on the country's values and beliefs along with its culture and geography. They relate Japan's culture to that of the...
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Spelling Words

For Students 6th - 8th
In this literacy worksheet, learners find the words that are related to the spelling words and the answers are found through looking at the bottom of the page.
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Vocabulary; Traveling/Travel Plans, Part 2

For Teachers 8th - 9th
In this foreign language worksheet, students fill in the blanks of 10 sentences with the best choice from a selection of 3 options. Each of the sentences is related to traveling.
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City Quiz Series

For Students 11th - 12th
In this ESL worksheet, students answer 20 questions about Iron Gate, Derby. For example, "Name a shop that sells musical instruments."
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Vocabulary: English in a Government Office-Part 1

For Teachers 7th - 8th
In this foreign language worksheet, students fill in the blank on ten sentences. Each sentence is a statement that a person might say when visiting a government office. Vocabulary terms include terms such as license, identification, and...
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Vocabulary: English in a Government Office-Part 2

For Teachers 7th - 8th
In this foreign language worksheet, students complete each of ten sentences. They read the sentence and choose the best choice from three options. Each sentence is a phrase a person might use when visiting a government office.
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Homographs

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this language arts instructional activity, students learn that a homograph has the same spelling as another word but a different meaning and sometimes a different pronunciation. On these 3 pages, students study 5 examples of...

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