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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Mill

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students participate in a simulation of wool trading in the 1800's. They pass around a ball of yarn at various stations to simulate the interdependence of each stage of the wool trade, discuss what happens when there is a problem in the...
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How Are Organisms Adapted to Survive?

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this organisms worksheet, students brainstorm problems that organisms have and the adaptations the organism has to survive. This worksheet is a graphic organizer.
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Defining Voice of the Punk Years

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students analyze the music of The Clash and have extensive and intensive practice in reading and listening skills.
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Can I Take Action?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create a solution to a problem related to the environment. They work together to develop the plan and pitch the plan to their class. They discuss the action steps taken in a story they were read.
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Lollies!

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students are shown 4 lollipops and asked to tell you all the ways they could share them between 2 students; understanding the difference between sharing and sharing evenly. They read the math problem and share solutions.
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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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Calculating Range for a Constant Velocity

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students read an explanation from the NASA Web-based "textbook", The Beginner's Guide to Aerodynamics, then use the information in combination with data from other Web sites to solve single variable equations for distance (range), time,...
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Drugs in Schools: Preventing Substance Abuse

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners evaluate substance abuse problems at their school and then create solutions for the problems.
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A thousand seconds

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students use seconds, minutes, and hours. They then discuss the size of a thousand. After that they read time in digital or analogue form.
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Cave Conscious

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students examine the concept of stewardship as it applies to land use. Working in small groups, they read case studies about finding caves on their land and make decisions about what they would do based on the case of the Arizona State...
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My Spacecraft to Saturn

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students discover problems that NASA must deal with on a daily basis. They work together to think of solutions and sketch their own idea of a spacecraft. They discover the concept of engineering.
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Windsor Opposes Waste - WOW!

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students participate in paper recycling. They are taught to environmental awareness of recycling and its importance in their future. Students discuss and identify the problems of how they can minimize waste. They brainstorm suggestions...
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Build a Sturdy Wall

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students read a version of "The Three Little Pigs" and then work in small groups to design a wall. They use Legos to build the wall and subject their design to a strength test.
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Stories of Students Who Took Action: Human Rights

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students read stories of young human rights advocates and discuss examples where young people made a difference. They consider local problems, relate them to human rights principles and role-play possible solutions.
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Time Management: College Study Skills

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
Pupils read articles and listen to a lecture about time management. They discuss an appropriate balance between study and leisure time and identify the importance of setting a regular schedule for eating and sleeping. Students identify...
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Physics: Eigenvalues

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students solve problems by discovering the eigenvalues that satisfy design questions. They explain how relaxing a small angle approximation can change the solution. Students apply the numerical model of pendulumm motion to solve the...
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Fifty Toes

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students guess the subject of the given problem by reasoning. Then they discuss the ways that the problem could be solved by keeping track of their counting in 10s and showing their work.
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Tough Decisions

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine different problem situations that could be encountered during the building of the capitol building. They are divided into small groups and given a card with a problem written on it. Then students brainstorm in order to...
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Growing Up

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students solve a given problem and explain their thinking using two number sentences to match their answer. One number sentence must use addition, one must use multiplication, and students must explain their answers. Includes sample...
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How Do Adaptations Help Living Things?

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this adaptations worksheet, students will brainstorm a problem that a living thing might face in its environment. Then students will write down what solution or adaptation that living thing has that allows it to survive that...
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How Does Light Interact With Matter?

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this light worksheet, students will brainstorm problems associated with the interaction of light with matter. Then students will write in possible solutions to those problems in this graphic organizer.
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Mathematics Review 3

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this math worksheet, students solve the problems using the four basic operations as part of a review exercise or assessment. The answers are found on page two.
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Aldridge Sawmill -- The Story in Numbers

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders view a recent transparency of the average rainfall zones of the state of Texas. Using another transparency, they identify the Piney Woods subregion of the Gulf Coastal Plain and locate national forests and sawmills. ...
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Taxi Fare

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Learners discuss what they know about taxis and how they charge. They read the problem and work in pairs focusing their thinking on the repeating pattern of twos. They then share their solutions and conclude with some class practice...

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