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Project X-35

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners demonstrate rocketry principles through a cooperative, problem solving simulation. They work in teams to simulate the development of a commercial proposal to design, build, and launch a rocket.
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Reporting Personal Information

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers practice the proper way to ask and answer questions pertaining to personal information. Students practice words pertaining to personal information by filling out an information card. This instructional activity is...
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Scenario challenge

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders become familiar with the geography of New Hampshire and the importance of specific sites in history.  In this New Hampshire lesson, 5th graders create a brochure including points of interest and showing distances between...
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Air: Fuel For Thought

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students consider the impact of vehicle use in their family and brainstorm viable alternatives to this use. They calculate the total emissions for their family cars during the week, then compare those totals with Hybrid car totals.
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I'm in a Tizzy! How Can I Help? King Day

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students listen to the book Miss Tizzy and discuss how characters feel about Miss Tizzy. In this unconditional kindness and philanthropy lesson, students understand how when you do a good deed it somehow comes back. Students reflect on...
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Sense of Place: No River Too Wide-Bridges

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders discover the history of their hometown Des Moines River.  In this U.S. Geography lesson students speak with Iowans that tell stories of the settlers and early villages near the Des Moines River.  Students document their...
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Tree Seedling Planting- My Relationship and Responsibility to our Forests

For Teachers 4th
In this trees lesson plan, 4th graders read the book, A Tree is Growing and complete a KWL chart on how trees grow and how they are used. Students research the symbiotic relationship of humans and trees, create tree collages, plant a...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Voyagers: Challenge Activities (Theme 5)

For Teachers 3rd
Young voyagers face the challenge of the wide dark sea, travel with Yunmi and Halmoni, and even get trapped by the ice as they explore the reading selections offered in these enrichment activities designed for the Houghton Mifflin...
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Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights

Van Jones: Police Brutality

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Develop an understanding of how the media and society are connected and responsible for the defense of universal human rights. Learners investigate and examine the conflicts of police brutality as it is portrayed in the media and through...
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Where Does Food Come From?

For Teachers Pre-K
Distinguish between food and non-food items. Recognize that food is obtained from both plant and animal sources. Identify sources for some common animal foods then construct a simple food path from the farm to the consumer.
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Who's Range is it?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students investigate the habits of panthers by analyzing radio transmitted data.  For this animal life lesson, students utilize computers to view the range of different statistics dealing with Florida panthers.  Students complete a...
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Backyard Bacteria

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students demonstrate safe ways to handle bacteria, prepare agar plates, and grow bacterial cultures. They identify different kinds of bacterial colonies, and devise a controlled experiment.
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Egyptian Weather Lesson

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars chart temperatures in Egypt on spreadsheet to determine how weather conditions affect lifestyles.
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Respecting Diversity

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the concept of philanthropy. In this service learning lesson plan, students read and respond to The Sneetches by Dr. Seuss. Students discuss self-respect and respect.
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The Water Around Us

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discuss importance of reading maps and knowing about the geography of the United States, and locate bodies of water on different types of maps and examine how they are used in the state or local community.
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A Thanksgiving Feast

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Learners compare a Thanksgiving feast of today to the Thanksgiving feast of 1621. They analyze information to write a Rebus story about a Thanksgiving feast of today of the Thanksgiving feast of 1621. Pupils describe a typical...
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Uncle Sam Wants You!

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine several narratives exploring attitudes to World War II involvement at the time. They develop their own opinions and write a fictional personal narrative to record their observations.
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Understanding the Price Paid: America's Conflicts

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders interview war veterans about their combat experiences and write newspaper stories about their interviews. They share their interviews with classmates. they discuss the impact of war on the veteran and the United States.
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Passport to the World

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders investigate the process for obtaining a United States passport. They plan a trip to a foreign country looking at important information including the climate, geography, culture, money, and language. They complete the...
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I'm a Weather Watcher Watching plants grow by......my,my,my

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students investigate how weather affects how plants grow. They collect data on weather and plant growth for a week and display the data on a graph. For a culminating experience they design a movie using software that shows plant growth...
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ESOL Filling out a Form

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students review new vocabulary for filling out a personal form orally and then practice writing. They observe an example modeled by the teacher then complete worksheets independently.
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Treaties

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore Canadian history by participating in a role-playing activity. In this First Nation treaties lesson, 3rd graders identify the difficulties the Aboriginals faced when dealing with early European settlers. Students...
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Don't Use it All Up

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students observe the way that a sponge absorbs liquids and discuss how we our use of natural resources affects the environment around us. They discuss the need to conserve resources so we don't run out of what we need.
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Decode Word Is..

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students solve problems using patterns. In this algebra activity, students identify the relation, domain and range of a function. They graph functions using coordinate pairs.