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Patterns and Possibilitiies

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students gain an understanding of the value and importance of patterns in mathematics. Through video, interaction and hands-on activities, students identify concrete and abstract patterns incorporating logic and deductive and inductive...
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Four Color Map

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students explore geometry by completing a color puzzle. In this shape identification lesson, students utilize deductive reasoning to complete a Google SketchUp puzzle with trapezoid, triangles and rectangular shapes. Students complete...
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Three Reasons Why I Want To Be...

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the process of writing an expository paper. The purpose of the paper is established in the introduction and the supporting details are sequenced in a logical order. The paper possesses punctuation and grammatical...
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Apply Post-Reading Skills and Discuss Persuasive Text

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students put their reading comprehension skills to practice. In this interpreting text activity, students read "Chief Red Jacket's Reply," and then respond to questions that require them to reason, infer, and analyze the selection.
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Goal Setting: Respect for ALL Workers

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students discuss their views on the importance of various jobs. In this career paths and goal-setting instructional activity, students create a list of all jobs required to produce a particular object.  Students then prioritize the...
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Robert Boyle and the Royal Society

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students research Royal Society, explain reasons for its foundation, examine reasons why it is beneficial to modern scientists to work in teams, and identify ways scientists disseminate information.
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If I Could Have Been Somebody Else

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Pupils research a specific person from American history who played a significant role and had an impact on future events and situations. They write a multi paragraph essay which includes three reasons explaining why they would have...
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Using the Internet to Challenge Young Writers

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Designed as a professional development exercise to introduce teachers to the Internet, the activities in this resource ask novice web surfers to access a series of sites, bookmark them, and answer question about information found on the...
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If I Could Have Lived in Another Time or Culture

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders develop multi-paragraph compositions. They include an introduction, first and second level support, and a conclusion. They use a variety of sentence structures (e.g., simple, compound/complex) and sentence types (i.e.,...
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Is Global Warming Happening?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers investigate the probability of global warming and the effects of global warming on the environment. They conduct Internet research and collect data, transfer the data onto an Excel spreadsheet, and create a presentation...
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Finding Historical Evidence: David Brion Davis

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students study the Tran-Atlantic Slave Trade and learn to evaluate historical arguments. In this slave trade lesson, students read about the Atlantic Slave System. Students take notes on slave trade and make a timeline for the...
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The Argument

For Teachers 6th - 9th Standards
After brainstorming, middle schoolers write an expository essay for a writing project. They focus on supporting points, organization, and writing conventions to develop a well-integrated paper. In addition, they revise, proofread and...
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Possible Careers

For Teachers 7th Standards
Is a STEM career the right choice for me? Lesson four in a six-part career and college readiness series introduces seventh graders to the world of STEM occupations. Individuals use their Holland code results to select, research, and...
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A Fortnight of Furlongs

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students perform a webquest to research information about the horse industry. They look at economic and the cultural impact of the industry on Central Kentucky and then create a group presentation that addresses all essential questions.
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Jobs I Like At Home and At School

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore jobs at home. They name a personal strength, indicate interests, and explain the importance of jobs to home and school.
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How We Are Alike And Different

For Teachers K
Students engage in a lesson that is concerned with the similarities and differences as part of knowing other children. They use examples of different drinks to illustrate the differences or similarities that are present in the student...
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Comparing Themes Across Texts

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Read various texts to compare the themes across each text. Learners write a journal entry describing the most beautiful scenery they've seen and use a map of the United States to locate the Sequoia National Park and Muir Woods. They then...
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Physics Park

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars research and design a playground for a park or school in their community. They explore the physics concepts that are present in the design and, if applicable promote their ideas to city or school officials.
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Ohio Department of Education

I Can Name that Angle in One Measure! - Grade Eight

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
Collaborative groups work with geometry manipulatives to investigate conjectures about angles. They create a graphic organizer to use in summarizing relationships among angles in intersecting, perpendicular and parallel lines cut by a...
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The Historiography on Robert Boyle: Was Boyle the Progenitor of Modern Science?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students participate in a warm-up activity by attending a football match writing an account of who won the game. They discuss how their account could differ from someone else's account of the game. They discuss how different people's...
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The Scientific Revolution in England and Europe

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students read and discuss Scientific Revolution information sheet and the diagram concerning the causes of the Scientific Revolution. They construct a timeline including Aristotle, Democritus, Copernicus, Bacon and Descartes along with a...
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How the Environment Affects Our Health

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders explore how the environment affects health. In this infectious disease lesson, 9th graders investigate what environmental situations cause infections diseases. Students study the symptoms, treatments, prevention, and...
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No Edge, No Center -- Exploring the Shape of Our Universe

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Young scholars examine various "spaces" (including ones that are one-dimensional, two-dimensional, and three-dimensional). For each space, they will examine what it means to have or not have an edge, or to be finite or infinite.
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Analyzing My Path to Success

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders review their graphs from the previous lesson about trends. Individually, they identify their personal strengths and weaknesses when it comes to being successful. To end the lesson, they use this information to write a...

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