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Module: Workplace Skills

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Get your future professionals working in teams as part of a college and career readiness lesson. Discuss times learners have been on teams. What worked and what didn't? How did they settle disagreements? There is a teamwork handout here...
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Modeling: Having Kittens

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Cats can't add, but they do multiply! Determine the number of descendants of a single cat given specific facts about cats and kittens. The lesson focuses on developing strategies for problem solving using both individual and group work....
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Maximizing Area: Gold Rush

For Teachers 7th Standards
Presenting ... the gold standard for a instructional activity. Learners first investigate a task maximizing the area of a plot for gold prospecting. They then examine a set of sample student responses to evaluate their strengths and...
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Comparing Value for Money: Baseball Jerseys

For Teachers 8th Standards
Learners step up to the plate as they first complete an assessment task using linear equations to determine the best company from which to buy baseball jerseys. They then evaluate provided sample responses identifying strengths and...
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Classroom Jobs

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students explore responsibility by participating in class exercises. In this classroom community lesson, students utilize flash cards which assign one of six jobs to every student in the class. Students perform their class...
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Clean Up Time

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students explore organization by participating in a cleaning activity. In this classroom rules instructional activity, students identify their responsibility to clean up messes they have made and define the consequences should they not...
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Fighting Infection

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers study immune responses and the structures that are related to immune cells functions.  For this fighting infection lesson students construct antibody complexes and model the interaction of the immune system when it is...
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Antigen Switching in Malaria

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students model how the malaria-causing protist avoids immune response in its host. In this parasite biology instructional activity, students use printed cell images to model the way that Plasmodium changes surface protein markers every...
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Feelin' Hot, Hot Hot!

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore human anatomy by researching first aid care. In this heat related injury instructional activity, students discuss the problems extreme temperatures can cause on the human body if left untreated. Students define the...
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9-1-1: Response, Rescue and Recovery

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students discover the many types of emergency management teams through an interactive program. They review the history of FEMA and the Red Cross. They focus on terrorist attacks and how different groups are trained to respond to the...
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Role of Cerci in Escape Responses of the Cockroach

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the changes in escape behavior in Madagascar Hissing Cockroahes when their sensory apparatus is removed. They use puffs of air at differnt angles to simulate a predator's approach then collect and analyze data on...
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Enemy or Ally: America's Response to the Russian Revolution

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the events related to the Russian Revolution. In groups, they use the internet to discover the concerns of Woodrow Wilson during this time period and relate them to the origins of the Cold War. To end the instructional...
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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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Energetic Energy: A Child?s Guide to Responsible Energy Use

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students explore how energy transforms into heat.  In this energy lesson students create models and find a need for fuel to make a Stirling engine. 
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PARAMECIUM RESPONSES TO STIMIULI

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students design the test they use to examine, how the paramecium move, feed, and react to different types of stimuli such as a drop of vinegar. They conduct a lab experiment using a microscope.
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Family Responsibility and Commitment

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students discuss the meaning of family and how they can community love and affection. Using an analysis of the work of Picasso, students define who is in their family. They discuss the various ways family members express their affection...
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Rules and Responsibilities: Youth and the Process of Change

For Teachers 1st
First graders analyze politics by participating in a class rules instructional activity. In this democracy instructional activity, 1st graders identify several class and school rules they dislike and conduct discussions to examine if...
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Dose-Response Relationship

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners complete their observations of germinating seeds. They create a graph showing all of their data and develop a dose-response curve. They compare their data with other groups and analyze the curves.
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"An American Story" -- The Responsibility of Citizenship

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify examples of philanthropy in a movie. They explain how philanthropic acts contribute to the common good. They discover their rights and responsibilities on being a citizen of the United States.
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Responsible Stewardship: The Saving of the Great Lakes

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students devise a plan to protect the Great Lakes. In this environmental lesson, students conduct research to identify nonprofit groups that help protect the waterways. Students write letters to the Congressman or a nonprofit...
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Predict and Clarify with The Old Woman & Her Pig

For Teachers K - 1st
Primary readers predict and check for understanding by using comprehension strategies. Prepare readers the first day by frontloading vocabulary and using pictures to visualize the words. On the second day, read the story The Old Woman...
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Retelling the African Folktale Abiyoyo

For Teachers K
Act out the African folktale Abiyoyo. Kindergartners listen to the tale and discuss the characters, dressing as their favorite characters in order to retell and perform Abiyoyo using props. They will gain an understanding of story...
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WET Science Lesson #5: Pass the Salt Please! (How Road Salt Affects Wetlands)

For Teachers 7th - 12th
As an anticipatory set, biologists listen to the story of Ruth Patrick, a scientist who used algae to detect water quality. They observe a demonstration of osmosis and diffusion. In their lab groups, they place Elodea stalks in...
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Is That Your Final Answer?

For Teachers 7th - 9th
This unit on integers includes a pre-test, a post-test, four spreadsheets, and links to an interactive web-site to support the learning of integer operations. Access to computers and the Internet are imperative to this unit. The lessons...

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