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Discovery Education: Careers in Health

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan has pupils research careers in health and interview someone in a health-related field.
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Discovery Education: Web Math: Comparing Two Numbers on a Number Line

For Students K - 1st Standards
Type in two numbers. A number line and explanation will appear with an explanation how one number is smaller than the other.
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Discovery Education: Rome's Influence

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson plan which has students understanding the impact that Rome had on history, from things as diverse as city planning to our everyday vocabulary.
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Discovery Education: Plants

For Teachers K - 1st
The Discovery Channel provides numerous lesson plans dealing with plants. Content is organized by grade level, but all lesson plans include suggestions for adaptations for older or younger audiences.
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Discovery Education: Habitats of the World

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This site has a lesson to use to start a unit on biomes and animal habitats. This plan incorporates grasslands, temperate forests, tropical rainforests, deserts, polar ice regions, and tidepools.
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Discovery Education: Dictator for a Day

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This is a lesson plan for better student understanding of life in ancient Rome. Young scholars experience and analyze the pros and cons of a dictatorship.
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Discovery Education: Explore Galapagos

For Students 6th - 8th
This site provides a fun way of exploring the Galapagos Islands through pictures, sound, videos, games, learning exercises, and more.
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Discovery Education: Make It a Habitat

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan explores the adaptation of life forms through natural selection to fill various niches and accommodate changing environmental conditions.
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Discovery Education: Early American Leaders

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
In this project from DiscoverySchool.com, students will identify men and women who are leaders in their community and in the world at large. From this more concrete experience, they will travel back to early America and learn on a more...
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Discovery Education: Great Expectations

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Discovery Channel School offers a lesson plan regarding the study of Charles Dickens novel, "Great Expectations." Students are asked to note that a writer considers theme, plot, characters, setting, and point of view when writing a...
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Discovery Education: B. J. Pinchbeck's Homework Helper for Art and Music

For Students 9th - 10th
The art and music subsection of the popular homework helper site from Discovery Education. Contains links to museums, art history, music theory, and other arts-related sites thought to be helpful for completing homework assignments by...
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Discovery Education: 3 M Science of Everyday Life: Dishwasher

For Students 3rd - 8th
A video detailing the history of the dishwashing machine. [3:13]
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School.discovery.com: Fry's Readability Graph

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Fry's Readability Graph from School.discovery.com gives us a comprehensive look at reading levels. The site has a tool that is used to determine the reading level of reading materials.
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Discovery Education: The Real Bionic Man

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lesson plans for a classroom investigation into the field of bionics, with discussion suggestions and links to sites on bionics.
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Discovery Education: Hurricane!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Use this site to explore the effect of wind speed on the height of ocean waves and what happens to the waves when they hit shallower water.
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Discovery Education: Matching Romeo and Juliet (Quiz)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Simple, eleven question character matching quiz for Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet." No key is provided.
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Discovery Education: Classroom Planetarium

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Create a classroom model of the solar system while teaching about relative size of all the planets, and each planet's distance from the sun.
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Discovery Education: An Era of Innovation

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students research and learn about the history of transportation. Groups design and present a decade in transportation exhibits to share with the class.
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Discovery Education: Landmarks of Civilization

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This lesson plan deals with why people build structures and landmarks and their place in different cultures.