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Language Arts: Mississippi River Brochure

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create brochures about recreational activities along the Mississippi River. Focusing on points of interest, they research attractions and create maps of the surrounding area. Once students write descriptions of their...
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Planet Protectors

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore ways to protect the earth.  In this environmental issues and technology lesson plan, students investigate the water quality in their community and compare their findings to the water quality in other geographic areas. ...
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Presidential Trading Cards

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students research the Internet to collect data about the US Presidents. They use the data that they collect along with available technology to produce trading cards and brochures using keyboarding skills, text boxes, acquiring photos,...
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Exploring and Comparing Other Communities

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders search TDC database for images of physical geography maps, weather maps, natural resources maps, and old travel brochures. They create a new travel brochure of an area of their choice using the information they gathered.
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Best Practices of Technology Integration

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learners study how a type of product is advertised. For this product advertisement lesson, students research a specific product and its advertisement. Learners create a market research survey based on their peers preferences. Students...
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"The Emperor's New Clothes and Mahler's Ninth Symphony" Writing to Explain, Confidently and Efficiently, Even Physics!

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students combine their study of physics with their study of best practices when writing to inform. They communicate with experts using e-mail before creating a brochure based on their study of universal gravitation.
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Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders use a variety of information resources to identify local environmental issues and examine the ways that people have tried to solve these problems. They read "Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs" and create a list of three...
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Presidential Trading Cards

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Learners use the internet to gather information about Presidents of the United States and create a trading card for one of them. They create a brochure with the president's information and accomplishments.
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Asian Civilizations

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders complete computer based research to complete a travel brochure that highlights an Asian civilization.
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Take Me To Your National Park

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students describe the purposes of national parks as a part of our American heritage. They identify and describe important national park sites in a specific state. They write a journal entry or paragraph about why national parks are...
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Kids Are Consumers Too

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students investigate a chosen product. They use television, radio, print, and internet sources to investigate how the product is advertised. Students create a market research survey to determine which brand is preferred by their peers...
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Presidents of the United States

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students gather data using the Internet to create products related to technology.
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The Ratification Debate

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders investigate the debate in order to understand the Ratification in context of the period of history being studied. They read text answer questions through identifying the differences between Federalists and Antifederalists.
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Hemispheres & Continents

For Teachers 6th
Students learn in cooperative learning groups to determine how the equator and the Prime Meridian divide the earth into hemispheres and use Venn diagrams. Students will locate and label the hemispheres, continents, and oceans.
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Virtual Vacation

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars select a foreign city, research the city using the Internet, and plan an eleven-day vacation to that city. This instructional activity is ideal for a social studies classroom and includes ideas for using iMovie, Excel, and...

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