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The Invention of the Telegraph

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Students study the history of telegraph invention. In this technology lesson plan, students build their own Morse Telegraph System. They discuss how this invention benefits the society.
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Exploiting Antarctica

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students read the story and diary "Lizzie's diaries from Antarctica and Antarctica" to get massive clean-up. Students discuss their knowledge of life in Antarctica and raise the fact of the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station and its...
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Handwashing

For Teachers 8th - Higher Ed
Young scholars experiment in order to determine proper ways to disinfect hands to prevent the spread of infection.
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Heredity: Your Connection To The Past

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students investigate genetics and the process of reproduction in living organisms.
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Growing Into Public Service: William Howard Taft's Boyhood Home

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students research the role that education, family values, and respect for civic duty played in forming the leadership skills of the Taft family. They list and examine jobs held by William Howard Taft before he became president.
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ESL Writing Lesson - Using Non-Defining Relative Clauses

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Young scholars review the differences between defining and non-defining clauses, and then go on to a writing exercise which employs non-defining relative clauses to expand a basic story outline.
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"Words, words, words"

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discuss words that represent the "big ideas" in Othello and that recur throughout the play. They will be assigned words to track throughout the text, recording which character says the word and in what context.
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Learning About Slavery

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students locate on a map the places in Africa where the majority of slaves came from. They express their own personal thoughts and feelings about slavery.
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Too Bright at Night?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the consequences of light pollution. They consider benefits and drawbacks of technology in order to acquire informed attitudes on the various technologies and their social, cultural, economic, and ecological consequences. .
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Greco-Roman Origin Myths

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners explore myths that explain the world, recognize some characters of Greco-Roman mythology and their symbols, and Make personal connections to the theme by writing and drawing a myth of their own.
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Is There A Fungus Among Us?

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Learners experiment with fungi and yeast in order to determine their role in nature. Students study terms associated with fungi and yeast through this series of lessons.
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Farmers, the Populist Party, and Mississippi (1870-1900)

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners determine the cause and effect of a historical event. They draw conclusions about statistical data and maps and compose a campaign speech for a Populist candidate. They design a political poster and badge for the Populist Party.
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Oregon Trail Diary

For Teachers 5th - 11th
Students pretend they are on the Oregon Trail and keep a diary of their adventures. In this Oregon Trail lesson plan, students write about their decisions to move, crossing rivers, buying supplies, and more.
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Music

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders learn the song "Blow the Man Down" and know that it is a work song. They differentiate between loud and soft singing. They use body movements to reinforce the recognition of music in 3/4 time.
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History through Poetry

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders, after analyzing the poem The Charge of the Light Brigade, discuss its significance to the Crimean War. They explore how war is perceived from a non-military point of view.
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Three Wars Equal One New Country: Part 2

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Students explore how Germany became a country.
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Three Wars Equal One New Country: Part 3

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Students explore the many reasons why and how Germany became a country.
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Whatever Happened to Shylock?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students, in groups, write and perform an unwritten scene from a play they are reading.
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The Macbeth Tango

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine how Macbeth and Lady Macbeth relate to each other in individual scenes and throughout the play. By taking elements of that relationship and making them physical, students analyze the Macbeths' marriage on many different...
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O Time, thou must untangle this": Tangling up the Love in Twelfth Night

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders are broken into groups to review a section of The Twelfth Night. They are then given a handout of the same material in which they are to break up material which conveys a single idea. They are to preform this idea to the...
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Railroads in Antebellum Augusta and Franklin Counties

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders are divided up into groups and work on separate worksheets. They reassemble as a class and discuss the different articles and how the railroads affected people's lives.
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Roughing It in the Backwoods

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students have the opportunity to practice research and essay-writing skills using primary and secondary source materials. They explore aspects of early settlers' lives in the backwoods of Upper Canada.
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From the Flintstones to the Jetsons

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders compare and contrast transportation and agricultural methods in the United States from Colonization to Reconstruction. They, in groups, create and present Ohio Memory Scrapbooks to rest of class.
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The Plight of Women's Work in the Early Industrial Revolution in England and Wales

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students read about, discuss, and answer questions regarding the various jobs women performed in the early Industrial Revolution in England and Wales.

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