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Dangerous Roads in Your Community

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students collect information about dangerous streets and intersections in community, interview law enforcement officials and safety experts to find out what they think can be done to reduce accidents, write in-depth article using these...
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Trade and Travel Along the Silk Road

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine the religions that developed along the Silk Road. In this compare and contrast lesson, students visit various stations within the classroom to learn about the Silk Road and the two religions that developed. Using a...
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On My Honor-Marion Dane Bauer

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers read and examine the novel On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer. They choose to complete a variety of intriguing assignments on this novel. Critical thinking skills are intertwined throughout this activity.
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How Do We Solve the Problem of Wildlife on Our Roads?

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students analyze data on elk ecology and movements across the highway. In this ecology instructional activity, students research ways to save them from highway collisions. They write a report and present their findings in class.
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Road Safety- Alert Communications and Emergency Response

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students examine the effectiveness of road safety organizations. In this road safety lesson, students identify three road safety watch agencies that aid truck drivers to keep them safe. They look at the skills that truck drivers gain...
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Lesson 3: Seven Day Road Trip

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students plan a seven day road trip. In this travel lesson plan, students plan a driving trip that includes five major cities or attractions in Florida or another state of their choice. They show the trip on a map, calculate distances...
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On the Road with Marco Polo

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students follow Marco Polo's route to and from China. They explore the geography, local products, culture, and fascinating sites of those regions. They record their findings.
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Teach Engineering

Working Together to Live Together

For Teachers 8th - 10th Standards
Whose home is it anyway? Design teams plan a housing development in which they must also protect a native species. The teams consist of a project manager, civil engineer, environmental engineer, and graphic designer. Teams present their...
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Traveling the Silk Road: A Multimedia Approach

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students transfer what they have learned about China into an electronic project. In this collaborative project, students take what they have learned from their textbooks and synthesize the information in order to create an electronic...
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National First Ladies' Library

On the Road, on the Sea, in the Air: Women and Transportation

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students research women who made history in development of different forms of transportation, including boats, railroads, automobiles, airplanes, and space shuttles, and create timeline/collage depicting some of their contributions.
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Computer Science Unplugged

Ice Roads–Steiner Trees

For Teachers 4th - 12th
As an introduction to Steiner Trees, class members are challenged to find the shortest paths to connect multiple points. The teacher introduces the problem by showing how to connect three points. Groups then go outside and construct a...
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Using Poetry As Inspiration for Composition

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
A reading of Robert Frost’s "The Road Not Taken" launches an interdisciplinary study of the connection between the meters of a poem and a melody. After identifying the number of beats in each line of the poem, young musicians use...
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Trade in the Silk Road Cities

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students use Google Earth to map cities along the Silk Road trade route. In this Silk Road trading lesson, students complete a worksheet examining production, transportation, and value of goods and research trade items. Students create a...
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Amelia's Road: Teacher's Guide

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students complete pre reading, writing, during reading, and interdisciplinary activities for the book Amelia's Road. In this reading lesson plan, students complete journal entries, answer short answer questions, have discussions, and more.
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On the Road with Marco Polo: Crossing the Deserts of China

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the geography of China. They describe the geography of the Taklimakan. Students discover the best route to travel from one end of the desert to the other. They investigate how some of the local inhabitants make a...
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Diseases on Ships

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students create a presentation on one of seven diseases common to sea going ships.  For this diseases on ships lesson, students research diseases commonly found on ships of the late 16th and early 18th centuries.  Students read From...
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Road Trip

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create PowerPoint presentations on destinations researched on the Internet.
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Marco Polo Takes A Trip

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students identify Marco Polo and discuss why he took his trip, indicate on map routes Marco Polo took to China and back, describe challenges of traveling along Silk Road, list several interesting aspects of 13th Century Chinese culture,...
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Trade along the Silk Roads

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students explore the Silk Road. In this Asian history and culture lesson, students read a book about the silk Road, then create pictures of the products and landscapes found along the Silk Road.
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In Celebration of the Silk Road

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders explore the ancient trade routes of the Silk Road with a focus on a province in China to identify artifacts and research how these items arrived in the city of Turpan.
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Road Map Relief - Mixed Media painting

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners use road maps to create non-objective artwork.
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Navigating the Road to the White House

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore U.S. politics by researching the Presidential requirements. For this electoral process lesson, students identify the main requirements to become a Presidential candidate and the two main political parties. Students...
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Nonviolence the Road to Freedom

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders discuss the use of nonviolence.  In this civil rights movement lesson, 11th graders write a journal entry on the differences between Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr., discuss nonviolence and create a poster...
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Beauty and Joy of Computing

Sprite Drawing and Interaction

For Students 8th - 12th
Discover how to program objects to move on a screen. In the second lab of a five-part unit, each learner uses block instructions to program a sprite to follow their mouse (cursor). They investigate how to use these same block...

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