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Inquiring Minds Want To Know

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders conduct a scientific experiment that help them explain the concept of nature versus nurture.
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An Atlas of Health Care

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students use educational software to create an alphabetical directory of maps that indicates the precise location of the community's health care facilities.
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Observation Challenge

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders, in groups, use observation skills at 12 stations and describe what they see.
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Dice Games - How to WIN!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students play game to practice numerical skills.
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What's the Story?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students write a group continuation story after reading the novel, The Giver. They write a continuation of the story of Jonas' and Gabe's adventures in Elsewhere, then share their story with the class.
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Who Is That Ghostly Character?

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders listen to a taped version of the radio play, "The Hitchhiker". They write a conclusion to the play and work with a partner to evaluate it before a final revision.
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From Different Angles

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students participate in Socratic seminar discussing a person's right to refuse to say the Pledge of Allegiance.
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Is Seeing Believing...Or Decieving

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders investigate media protrayal of railroad trespassing incidents. They write a legal action letter against one of the media companies.
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Historical Indian Treaties and Aboriginal Population

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders navigate an online atlas of Canada and compare the land area of of historical Aboriginal peoples in Manitoba to present-day figures.
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The Unfinished Lincoln Memorial

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students develop a list of images of President Abraham Lincoln: for example, self-taught youth, great debater, advocate of abolition of slavery and assassinated hero. They must determine if these images of Lincoln stand up under scrutiny.
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Potato Chip Classification

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students classify specimens by observable characteristics. By classifying potato chips, they are introduced to the dichotomous key for identifying plant and animal specimens.
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What Happened to Slaves When their Owners Died?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers analyze last and testaments of former slaveowners to identify and explain economic, social and cultural differences between the North and the South leading up to the Civil War.
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Germans and Irish in Augusta and Franklin Counties

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers examine 19th century newspapers, a last and testament, and census manuscripts to analyze the Irish and German immigrant communities in the 1850s and 1860s. They write a letter from the perspective of an Irish or German...
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Groundwater and Ecology

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students are presented a problem concerning an aquifer which may be in danger from overuse by agriculture/industry. They compile data and consult online data and experts in creating a proposal to rectify the situation.
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African Amercan Images in Harlem (1920-1950)

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders compare and contrast different representations of African Americans in Harlem using visual sources. They detect point of views, themes, contradictions and ironies in sources using designed templates.
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Concrete Canoes

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Learners explore and analyze the relationship of buoyancy and displacement needed to make an object float. They examine various boat designs, then design and build clay and aluminum boats that hold a cargo of marbles.
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Digging Deeper in Mission San Saba

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders explain Spanish motives for establishing Mission San Sab?? and the reasons for the mission's failure. This lesson should be used when students already have an understanding of the Spanish mission-presidio system in Texas.
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Preserving and Promoting Democracy

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders create surveys to determine whether or not young people have or plan to vote. Using their findings, 11th graders make advertisements aimed at encouraging youth to vote.
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CATCH, TAG and RELEASE

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Pupils apply estimation strategies for problem-solving purposes. They become familiar with one aspect of a marine biologist's work.
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WHAT INFLUENCES OUR PERCEPTION OF GENDER ROLES?

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners talk about the influence of media on gender equity perception.
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Caverns: Drip Rate Analysis

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students tour a cave and collect water samples. They measure the drip rate from several locations inside the cave and discover the part water plays in cave formation.
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Mythical Mayhem

For Teachers 3rd
Students explore Greek and Roman mythology in this five lessons unit. Common gods, their roles in the myth and stories of the era are surveyed as students take on the personality of a mythical character.
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Life Giving Rivers

For Teachers 3rd
Students examine the world's rivers in this six lessons unit which mingles science with social studies. The dynamic forces that create erosion in nature are also seen as habitats and ecosystems that are affected by environmental and man...
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Basic Operations with Decimals

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders practice skills adding and dividing decimals. They examine the help wanted ads and compute the hourly and weekly wages. They discuss the real life value of understanding the importance of decimals.

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