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The Antebellum South
Your history students will be on the edges of their seats during this fascinating presentation, which details the abolition movement and slave life during the Antebellum period in the American South. Students will be left agape at the...
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Genes, DNA, and Mutations
With paper DNA patterns, budding biologists model translation and base-pair substitution within sequences. Through these activities, they examine how mutations can result in genetic disorders. The modeling that occurs is an enlightening...
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From Gene to Protein
Here is a detailed presentation to assist in your lectures on the difficult topic of genetic transcription. The history, discovery, and scientific breakthroughs will spark interest. The last 15 slides deal with the biochemistry and...
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Control of Prokaryotic (Bacterial) Genes
A nicely formatted set of slides that logically follow and define the structure and function of the genes in Bacteria. The repressor proteins and other gene regulators are listed and diagrams support the explanations of their function on...
August House
Go to Sleep, Gecko!
A cute folktale from Bali tells the story of Gecko, Elephant, and Buffalo, and Gecko's struggle to sleep. After reading Go to Sleep, Gecko, learners focus on comprehension questions, singing and learning about geckos, building a house...
Candace Fleming
A Reader's Theater Script for Clever Jack Takes the Cake
Breathe life into a reading of the children's story Clever Jack Takes the Cake with this Reader's Theater script. Offering speaking roles for nine students plus a sound effects chorus, this is a great activity that engages the whole...
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
RNA Was the First Genetic Molecule
Can organic molecules come from a pre-biotic environment? Stanley Lloyd Miller proved it is possible when exactly the right conditions exist. Learn about his experiment and the other experiments later building off of it that changed the...
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Making a Cave
Students discuss caves. In this science lesson, students experiment with how dissolution, a chemical weathering process, leads to the formation of caves. Once the cave is finsihed students draw a picture or describe in writing what it...
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Handwashing and Sanitation
Students experience and visualize first hand the importance of proper hand washing through a hand washing experiment with different temperatures of water and with a different length of time to wash. They prevent food-borne illness and...
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Name That Taste
Students analyze taste buds. In this taste lesson plan, students complete an experiment in groups of four people. Students have four cups with a different substance in each cup. One student dips a Q-tip into each cup and tests on another...
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Circle the Verb
In this grammar worksheet, students circle the appropriate verb in parentheses that makes twenty-five sentences grammatically correct.
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Woodrow Wilson
For this online interactive history worksheet, students respond to 10 short answer and essay questions about the achievements of Woodrow Wilson. Students may check some of their answers on the interactive worksheet.
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Bee Dance
Everything a bee does serves a purpose. Learners in grades one through five explore the behaviors of bees through reading and dramatic puppet play. First children will create honey bee puppets, then they will discuss how bees dance to...
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Figuring Out Food Labels
Students identify various sources of nutritional information and evaluate accuracy of messages. They comprehend and identify misrepresentations in current food labeling. Pupils evaluate specific consumer products for truth in labeling....
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The Legacy of Imperialism
Tenth graders research the historical background of a chosen country. They analyze the effects of Imperialism from a personal, historic, and modern-day perspective. They formulate a postion regarding the effects of Imperialism in their...
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Cell Energy - Bubbling Yeast
Students identify that yeast are a single celled fungi that are a great model organism for studying respiration in the classroom. They also fill the bulb of a disposable pipet (eyedropper) with yeast, then submerge the pipet in a test...
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Plant Nutrition
In this plant nutrition instructional activity, students read for information and assess comprehension. In this true and false, fill in the blank, multiple choice, and short answer instructional activity, students answer ten questions.
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Baking Ice Cream
Students discover the concept of an insulator. In this science experiment lesson, students follow the directions for baking ice cream. When baking is completed, students observe the results and answer questions on the provided worksheet.
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What’s the Shape of Your Diet?
Learners analyze their diets. In this healthy diet activity, students keep food journals and examine their diets next to the recommended daily allowances of MyPyramid for Kids.
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Connecting School Meals and Classroom Learning Making Breakfast Count
Students investigate the significance of a healthy breakfast. In this nutrition lesson, students participate in an activity that enables them to assess their own eating patterns. Students also analyze breakfast menus to determine...
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Agricultural Hard Times And The Great Depression 1920 - 1930, Screen 5 and 6
Learners study the interaction between the inhabitants of the state of Utah and its geographic features. For this Utah geography lesson, students determine how the geographic feature of Utah affected it settlement, land use and...
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Growing Gold
First graders explore a folktale from India. In this folktale lesson, 1st graders read the tale, Growing Gold and discuss facts about India. Students construct the national flag of India from construction paper. Students also participate...
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Tree Birthdays
Students investigate the growth of trees. In this tree growth lesson, students discover that trees make a ring each year they live. Students use new voabulary such as bark, phloem, and cambuim to talk about tree parts. Students create a...
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À Votre Sant?: A French-Language Unit on Nutrition
Students discover the basic nutritional information for different foods. In this nutrition lesson plan students classify items, identify what a balanced diet is and determine what recipes are healthy.