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Summer Camp in the Classroom
Students explore wildlife plants and summer activities. In this natural science lesson, students identify plants and animals and create a scrapbook of their findings.
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Activities on the Theme of Summer 2
Students explore activities related to summer. They develop their sense of poetry and extend their vocabulary through summer associations. They discuss sun safety tips, nouns and verbs related to summer and sun facts. They create...
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Minimize the Effects of Fire
Young scholars explore environmental safety by reading assigned text in class. In this fires instructional activity, students discuss the benefits and negative aspects of lighting a fire near a campground. Young scholars list other ways...
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Countdown to Disaster
Students discover the potential dangers of weather in their hometown. In this environmental instructional activity, students research Hurricane Hugo and the devastation it caused South Carolina in 1989. Students record...
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Mining and Safety in Illinois
Students answer questions that are related to factors that determine the type of mining used? They are able to answer questions after reading the assignment. Some questions that are asked: Briefly describes the steps of surface mining....
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The African Slave Trade: From West Africa to South Carolina and Beyond
Eighth graders explore the African slave trade. They identify the principal figures practicing the African slave trades at three locations. Students draw the physical routes of the slave trade on a map and they list the reasons for the...
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Changing Perspectives on the Japanese Internment Experiment
Learners discover the characteristics of Japanese internment during World War II. They discuss racist policies and use the internet to gather information to write their own version of history. They write essays from different points of...
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Evacuating a Volcano: A Simulation
Students explore hazards associated with cataclysmic natural events, and human responses to them by creating emergency plans.