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Race the Track! Design Challenge

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students focus on a force and motion problem, explore it, reflect on it and apply it while completing experiments.  In this motion lesson, students experiment with force and motion by creating a track for testing cars.  
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The Great Grizzly

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learners generate questions about grizzly bears and use the Internet to research the answers. As a culminating activity, students create a life-size mural of a grizzly that is annotated with the information they've learned.
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Energetic Musical Instruments

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students apply the principles and concepts associated with energy and the transfer of energy in an engineering context through the designing and making of a musical instrument. After the accomplishment of the design, students must...
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The Average Kid

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Young scholars determine the traits they have in common with other students in the class and create visual profiles of the "average" boy and the "average" girl.
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Art Through the Eyes of Youth

For Teachers K - 8th
Learners take a field trip to an art gallery reflecting on the paintings they like the most. Individually, they use magazines to find pictures related to their personality. In pairs, they make a mask to represent their ethnic group and...
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Keith Haring & Social Awareness

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students view four sections of one of Haring's paintings. They describe the people and characters they see. Students participate in a variety of classroom art activities such as: Making a treasure box modeled after Keith Haring's work,...
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Animation Flip Books

For Teachers 1st - 7th
Students investigate examples of animation made from a flipbook technique in order to learn how to create their own flipbook and to learn how this process looks like an animated cartoon. In this animation lesson, students will observe...
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Communities for All

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore potential community "barriers" that might prevent equal access for all people. In this disability awareness lesson, students identify potential barriers in their community that prevent people with disabilities from...
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Picture Perfect Parts of Speech

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students demonstrate the eight parts of speech with personal photographs. In this parts of speech lesson, students take photographs and label them with the appropriate concrete example of each part of speech. 
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One Room School House Reading Lesson

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners explore schools during the Colonial period. In this American history lesson plan, students participate in a simulation of school days in Colonial America. Learners visit a museum and use the schoolhouse as a setting for their...
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Arts and the Olympics/Dance and Athletics

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Young scholars study and perform dances with a dance specialist, while others photograph their movements. The resulting slides were used to help both these students and others explain dance and write creatively.
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Honor Your Special Qualities

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students view different sculptures from artist Ronald Baron. They discuss what the sculpture depicts. They are to create a thank you trophy for someone they know. They are to focus on that person's special qualities.
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What is a Karst

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students investigate landforms by holding a class experiment. In this topography lesson, students define the word "karst" and discover why sinkholes are created on the surface of the Earth by completing worksheets. Students create a...
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Vermicomposting

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore agriculture by viewing compost related presentations. In this worm and soil instructional activity, 5th graders identify the relationship between good soil and the worms who inhabit it by reading assigned text in...
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Art in Engineering - Moving Art

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students study how forces are applied in the creation of art. They design mobiles and pop-up books while identifying which forces of nature act upon them. They look at air currents, gravity, and hand movement.
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Junk Mail Overload!

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students discuss the "junk mail nuisance" with the teacher and share their opinions on the problem. Students collect a week's worth of junk mail, bring to class and complete a chart about the amount and weight. Students then complete an...
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Who Lives in the Arctic North?

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students study the Arctic North. In this Canada history lesson, small groups of students research and then teach the class about either the plants, animals, humans, or geography in relation to the Arctic North. Students make their own...
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Moving Objects

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students discover the history of the United States by examining the Great Migration.  In this U.S. History lesson, students research the immigration movement on the Internet and complete a worksheet about the large population shift. ...
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Protecting Treasures

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore electricity by creating an alarm. In this circuitry lesson, students analyze a diagram of a circuit based alarm which detects sunlight. Students utilize electrical equipment to recreate the circuit and practice using its...
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Be a Watershed - Create a Living River

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students investigate water ways by conducting an experiment with classmates.  In this natural resources lesson, students define a watershed and identify where large ones are located within the United States.  Students utilize cups,...
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Silly Pumpkins: Just for Fun

For Teachers K - 12th
Young scholars create works of art from pumpkins. In this art lesson, students decorate pumpkins in fun and goofy ways. Young scholars use their imaginations while decorating.
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Get Your Calcium - Rich Foods

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore personal health by identifying positive food choices. In this calcium sources lesson, 5th graders discuss the common ways a human can receive calcium such as consuming dairy products. Students view a virtual tour of...
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Peanut Butter Broccoli

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore food production by viewing DNA presentations. For this genetic engineering lesson, 5th graders discuss the foods they typically eat at home and how many common foods are engineered in a way that can produce a bigger...
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Specialized Structures and Environments

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore biology by completing an Internet activity in class. For this adaptation lesson, 5th graders identify several organisms and mammals that fight for their existence through slow changes to their anatomy over the...

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