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A Different Perspective

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students participate in a show called "A Different Perspective" that recognizes previously unnoticed talents of wheelchair bound kids. They assess how to attach an Olympus digital camera to their wheelchairs and take pictures from their...
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Creating a Primary Source Archive: All History Is Local

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore personal, local, state, and national history. In this historiography lesson, students search the Library of Congress digital collections for primary sources regarding their family histories framed in local, state, and...
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My Community

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students identify how their school has changed. In this local community lesson, students listen to a brief history of their town and school and interview someone that graduated from their school. Students then create a map of their...
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Homonyms and Homographs

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this homonym and homograph worksheet, students use a word bank to answer a set of 5 questions about homonyms, then do the same for 5 questions about homographs. An answer key is included.
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An American Childhood

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students discuss themes found in the story. In this language arts lesson, students brainstorm words associated with childhood and categorize the words they came up with. While reading students locate a passage related to the assigned term.
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Logic- Always and Sometimes

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders investigate logical reasoning. In this math vocabulary instructional activity, 2nd graders explore the words: always and sometimes while evaluating story problems. Students create images on KidPix to illustrate their...
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Finding Patterns in Tiles

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners explore perimeter and area of rectangles. In this rectangular instructional activity, students use tiles to discover the formulas for perimeter and area. Learners solve for area.
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Obtuse Triangles

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore obtuse triangles. In this geometry instructional activity, 4th graders make obtuse triangles with paper and scissors. They determine how to find the center of their triangle.
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Sketching Cones

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students sketch cones and identify its properties. In this geometry lesson, students calculate the surface area and volume of each three dimensional shape. they define and sketch prisms, pyramids and cylinders.
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Sketching Cylinders

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students create nets of cylinders. In this geometry lesson, students calculate the surface area of cylinders and other solids. They show their understanding of three-dimensional shapes by solving problems.
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Sketching Prisms

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students sketch and create nets of different polygons.In this geometry lesson, students differentiate prisms from other three-dimensional shapes. They define the properties of prisms.
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Sketching Pyramids

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students sketch and identify properties of pyramids. In this geometry instructional activity, students create nets to identify three dimensional shapes. They sketch cones, prisms and pyramids.
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Mathematics In You

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Young scholars construct ratios using the hand as data. They use examples of cortical and trabecular bone found in the long bones to measure circumference, diameter, length, and weight of long bones. They perform computations using...
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Convince Me!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use the Internet to learn the art of persuasive speaking in order to present a speech in a convincing manner. Students analyze the characteristics of a good speech, and then practice giving one.
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Overview of World events during the Deerfield Colonial Period

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders explore the political, social, religious, and economic world and national context in which the events of Deerfield occurred.
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Deerfield Matures: Deerfield's Changing Economy

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders explain that Deerfield became prosperous because of the river trade and improved agricultural practices. They examine how transportation and communication were improved.
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Victorian Philosophies in the Connecticut River Valley: The Connection between Mind, Body, and Spirit

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders explore late 19th century concepts of physical and spiritual health, which includes spiritualist and conservation movements, heath tonics, the perceived relationship between climate and physical well being.
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Putting It All Together: Creating an artifact

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders analyze a variety of images and documents, then create artifacts to archive, such as a newspaper, an album, or scrapbook from their writings, drawings, and projects. They present learned information to their peers
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What's the Hold-Up?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars explore the current plan by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to retain underperforming third graders in public schools. They research and debate social promotion versus retention.
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A Dark Cloud Over the Sunshine State

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students provide their own solutions to the controversy over the ballots in Florida.
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MP3-Ring Circus

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore the meaning of copyright and copyright issues surrounding the use of downloaded music.
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Phases of the Moon

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students research and identify the phases of the moon. They consider the moon's rotation, as well as that of the earth and sun. They write a description of their research and present it to the class.
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Introduction to Adverbs

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students categorize a list of words into various categories of their choosing. They notice patterns in the lists and discuss -ly words and adverbs. They practice adding adverbs to sentences.
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Turning the Tide in the Pacific, 1941-1943

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students analyze the Japanese strategy for the Pacific and compare it to the Allied strategy. They identify on a map the sites that were important the early war in the Pacific, and identify key military engagements.

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