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Fort Sumner and the Navajo Long Walk

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars research the Fort Sumner campaign against the Navajo; why the campaign took place; the details of the forced march to Fort Sumner; conditions at Fort Sumner; length of imprisonment; details of life in prison, and...
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Social Studies: Grab Day at the Pueblo

For Teachers K - 1st
Students develop a cultural understanding of "Grab Day." Using magazines, they clip out pictures to make collages of items thrown down to people on this day. Students label the items in their collages.
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Celebrating S.C. (Field Day Theme)

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students celebrate different field events that are celebrated in South Carolina. For the Freedom Weekend Aloft activity students line up in two teams with the first person from each team standing inside a starting hoop. The first two...
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What's Your Angle

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create an original lesson plan about geometry and angles. In small groups they take pictures using a digital camera of obtuse, acute, right, and straight angles that they find at school. Students use the photos in a computer...
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Math: Finding Surface Area

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders engage in hands-on activities to determine the surface areas of various objects. Using boxes, they cut them so they can lay flat and measure all the various shapes, which can be calculated and added together to equal the...
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What can American third graders learn about soil from the European Union

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders develop a list of ways humans destroy soil. In this soil conservation lesson, 3rd graders listen to a book on soil conservation and design posters about how to conserve soil. Students share their work orally with classmates...
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Is There a Doctor in the House

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders predict outcomes of research. They analyze data and construct a class graph, then work cooperatively in a small group setting. They explain the prevention aspect of medicine, document references, and continue ongoing...
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Character in Leadership

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders inquire and research using secondary and primary resources.  In this leadership traits unit, 5th graders investigate information about Harry S. Truman and present on his early life and leadership abilities....
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Interaction Actions

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders, in groups, write about things that happen as a result of interacting with their environment.
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Election-Year Issues: Where Do the Political Candidates Stand?

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students create a multimedia presentation to compare the platforms of political candidates using information gathered from their research.
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Friends in the Snow

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students practice reading a story in order to develop character recognition skills. They participate in reader's theatre in small groups to increase cooperation and fluency skills.
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Natural Resources and the Economy

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders identify factors that determine economic development. They investigate occupations related to the natural resources and community development of SE Utah and the Four-Corners-Region. They review the listed natural...
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SEEKING FOREIGN ASSISTANCE

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners discuss the events in recent Tibetan history that led to their current government in exile and the four countries approached for help by Tibet and the response from each. They explain a position of agree or disagree with the...
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Chicago's Amazing Growth

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students, in groups, collaboratively explore the rapid growth of Chicago (from 350 to 300,000 in less than 40 years), and how the city changed to accommodate such rapid growth.
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Sense You Asked!

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders, in groups, brainstorm words that relate to the 5 senses after going on a field trip. The groups collect their words and create a piece of writing about the trip.
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Tracing the Roots of Modern Cities

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students identify several key inventions and other forms of technology that were part of city life during the classical Roman and Greek periods. They report on one characteristic or invention that is shared by modern and ancient cities.
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Water Density Boundaries

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learners create observable layers in water that represent a separation based upon density differences. They model density boundaries using differences in temperature and salinity. They, in groups, perform a meaningful experiment...
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Uncle Jed's Barbershop

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students are read the book "Uncle Jed's Barbershop". After the story, they complete an anticipation guide to label each statement as either a positive or a negative. In groups, they try to come to a concensus on each statement. They...
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Fun With Estimation

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students get an opportunity to practice estimation skills in a real life situation after a unit on estimation has been taught.
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Coral Reef Choreographic ProjectTo

For Teachers K - 5th
Young scholars enhance their understanding of how animals function in a habitat.Students are scattered individually and in small groups. About half of young scholars make coral shapes in small groups. The other half of students move like...
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Are U.S. Presidents Leaders or Figureheads?

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders, using a graphic organizer, analyze three presidents.
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George Washington

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders brainstorm what they already know about George Washington and complete a KWL chart as a class. They create a list of words that describe him and write a poem with other classmates. To end the lesson, they make a Washington...
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Back to School Rules

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students discuss basic classroom rules as a whole class. They break into groups to determine other rules which they present to the whole class. They vote on two or three of the best rules to use for the rest of the school year.
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Matter And Its Changes

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore the phases of matter, make observations of matter, the physical and chemical properties of matter, solutions and mixtures, formation of molecules and atoms and molecules all through hands on activities.

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