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National Security Agency

What’s Your Coordinate?

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
Your middle schoolers will show what they know with their bodies when they become the coordinate plane in this conceptual development unit. Starting with the characteristics of the coordinate plane, learners develop their skills by...
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Curated OER

Buzzy, Buzzy Bee

For Teachers 2nd - 7th
Students simulate honeybees pollinating flowers. For this pollination lesson, students role-play the process of pollination over the course of several seasons. Students graph results and share their graphs with the class.
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Wildlife

For Teachers 5th - 7th
First, biology pupils research land and marine habitats along the route of skipper Rich Wilson's Great American II. Then, using colored paper clips scattered across a colored paper background, they play the predator-prey game to...
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Wildlife

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
The centerpiece of this lesson plan is a predator-prey simulation in which colored paperclips represent different species of animals camouflaged against a colored background. Relevant follow-up questions are provided. The activity is...
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Fish Eyes Lesson Plan

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students practice counting and matching quantities using paper fish.  In this early mathematics instructional activity, students create a fake fishing pole and attempt to identify numbered paper fish they acquire from a bucket....
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Preparing a Business Plan to "Be Your Own Boss"

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Do your scholars strive to work for themselves some day? Help young entrepreneurs  create a business plan for an original idea and present it to a "board of directors." They complete online research (some links provided) and put...