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Family Search We All Came To America

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders participate in a computer based Family Search Unit. They use multimedia resources to research their country of origin, conduct interviews, and use software to produce narratives, databases, spreadsheets and graphs in this...
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What is Matter?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate what matter is and how it changes states.  In this physical properties lesson, students examine the vocabulary database and identify the characteristics of the three phases of matter.  Students perform a liquid vs....
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Spreadsheets in Science

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders create spreadsheets, explore patterns and make predictions based on the information. They select the appropriate graph to display the spreadsheet data. They search and sort prepared data bases to gain knowledge for...
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What is An Electromagnet?

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students explore and define electromagnets. In this electromagnet lesson, students access an assigned web site to research what an electromagnet is and how it works. They complete a database with information from the web site and...
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Techno Celebrate

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students explore world traditions by utilizing computer programs. In this Internet research lesson, students utilize the TechnoCelebrate digital database to locate information regarding cultural celebrations. Students utilize Microsoft...
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Genetic Traits

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students supplement their study of genetics by collecting and analyzing information about their own and their classmates' characteristics and traits. Students create a database of traits and characteristics to compare and contrast.
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Gearing up for Grammar

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students input autobiographical information to apply in a Diamante' poem that utilizes the different parts of speech. Students interact with each other sharing their autobiographical information completed on the database created....
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In Their Own Words: Slave Narratives

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Young scholars identify primary sources, explain the strengths and weaknesses of personal accounts in history, and negotiate the Library of Congress Database. They also analyze documents and write a summary that compares and contrasts...
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Does Humidity Affect Cloud Formation?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use NASA's S'COOL database to identify factors that affect cloud formation.
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Dialect Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine the life and works of Paul Laurance Dunbar. In groups, they read various poems of his and use a database to examine the covers of his books. They also discuss the criticism he faced during his life and how he dealt...
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How Are We Alike and Different?

For Teachers K - 8th
Young scholars review an online database and look for similarities and differences among the plants, animals, and non-living things that were listed. They compose a narrative based on their conclusions.
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Introduction to the Biotic Water Quality of a Stream

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this lesson, pupils properly use a taxonomic key to identify benthic organisms. Students go onto collect aquatic macroinvertabrate and then ennumerate all organisms colelcted. The culminating activity is the Project Watershed database...
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Introduction to the Virtual Atlas

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students use an atlas online to gather information about the state of Washington. Individually, they practice using the database and researching specific items in the Pacific Northwest. They complete a quiz to end the lesson.
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Just Because You Cannot See It... Doesn't Mean It's Not There

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discover bacteria which is around them by using agar over three days. In this biology lesson, students predict what they will see over the three days and then take photographs of what is actually shown. Finally, students write...
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Indian Removal and Forced Assimilation

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
It can be difficult to describe the removal and forced assimilation of indians during Andrew Jackson's presidency to a class. Reading the manuscript of the Indian Removal Act and analyzing photographs and political cartoons from the time...
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Western Hemisphere

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders use a database to compare countries in the western hemisphere. They describe a variety of regions in Texas and the Western Hemisphere such as political, population, and economic regions that result from patterns of human...
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Comparing Weather Conditions

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students conduct research on temperature, wind speed and weather conditions from a variety of areas. They organize their findings on worksheets and spreadsheets and discuss various examples of databases.
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Technology as a Tool of Science

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students monitor streams, take stream surveys, collect chemical and macro-invertebrate and stream discharge data. Using a digital camera, students observe the percentage of various types of vegetation on the flood plan, riparian area and...
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Exploring and Comparing Other Communities

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders search TDC database for images of physical geography maps, weather maps, natural resources maps, and old travel brochures. They create a new travel brochure of an area of their choice using the information they gathered.
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Thin-layer chromatography

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students produce chromatograms of various vegetable extracts and standards. Using a flat bed scanner, they create a database of the results.
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Where Have All the Road Salts Gone, Long Time Migrating

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine what happens to road salt after it is applied to the road during a storm. In groups, they collect their samples using a conductivity meter and enter their data into a database. They analyze and discuss the data...
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Mussel Identification Activity

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students identify given species of animals, such as various mussels, by sets of physical characteristics as they use a key. They also read about mussels on the Illinois River and look at mussel species in the online database. Finally,...
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Local Heart Rates

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students determine the type of data needed to test their inferences. As homework, they check and record heart rates of fellow students, teachers and family members. During their next class period, students enter all data into the database.
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Biodiversity in Our Watershed

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders create a database of animals and birds in the area in which they live. They use molded prints to make a cast of an imprint from a specific animal. They identify and research animals and prepare an outline for an oral...

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