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What Is Legal With Music On The Web?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners research what is legal now as far as downloading music from the Internet. They also gather information now that some citizens have been charged with crimes. The research allows students to form informed opinions that are educated.
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Baseball Stats

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners explore data sheets and statistics in baseball. They use baseball data available on the Internet to develop an understanding of the different ways in which data can be analyzed.
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Credit - Good? Bad?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine credit cards. They explore the detrimental effects that result from debt and poor credit. Students analyze interest rates, minimum balances, and consumer debt. Students survey the benefits of credit cards.
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Do You Know Your Schedule?

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students identify classes in their schedules and associate the class with the time of day it is held. They then name classes in sequential order according to the period during which it occurs.
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Capture/Recapture

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers use proportions to estimate the size of populations. They describe the data with using a graph or table of the estimate. Students use descriptive statistics to calculate mean, median, and mode. They also compare and...
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Hypothesis Testing

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils investigate the finding of a hypothesis and how it can be tested.For the experiment they will be using the concept of probability. Students design an experiment and test the hypothesis. Then the results are graphed showing the...
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The Coriolis Effect

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Learners will determine the direction of Earth's rotation as viewed from the north and south if they were suspended out in space. They will model how the rotation of the Earth causes currents to be deflected in different directions for...
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Property Lists for Quadrilaterals

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students establish classifications of shapes by various properties (angles, sides, etc.). They introduce the important properties of common shapes. Students develop an awareness of the wide variety of ways the 2-D shapes can be alike.
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The ABC's of Apportionment

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students are introduced to the terms of apportionment and redistricting. Using a Census map, they identify the states that had the highest and lowest numbers of change during the past ten years. They examine a map of voting districts and...
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The Problem Solving Game

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders identify the steps to problem solving: STAR (Stop, Think, Act, and Review) and how the steps relate to resolving problems and conflicts. They are told that they are an employee at a game factory. Students are told that they...
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Building Friendships

For Teachers K - 5th
Students explore that sometimes we are surprised when we spend time with someone we previously thought we would not like and find this person to be very likeable and they may become a great friend. They explore how a friendship can...
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The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students, after reading and discussing, "The Metamorphosis," by Franz Kafka, explain the symbolism of Gregor's metamorphosis moving beyond a literal view of "he turned into a bug" into the idea that society/family/stress/environment led...
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Life before Humans Roamed the Earth

For Students 4th - 5th
In this sequence worksheet, students read the story, then they place the number, starting with 1 on the lines in the correct order as they happened in the story.
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Area, Arithmetic and Algebra

For Teachers 8th - 9th Standards
Explore the concept of this perfect square trinomial and difference of squares lesson. A hands-on activity that uses paper rectangles and squares to illustrate the perfect-square trinomial and difference of squares formulas.
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You're Invited...To A Tea Party

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Kids read the book Boston Tea Party by Steven Kroll and use maps to locate various landmarks. They identify the cause and effect of the events related to the Boston Tea Party, then write a descriptive composition.
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Help Wanted: President of the United States

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students consider qualities and United States president should have. In this government instructional activity, students research the responsibilities of the president and use that information to create an advertisement that describes...
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Peanut Butter and Jelly and Order of Operations

For Teachers 4th - 5th Standards
Study order of operations using a peanut butter and jelly sandwich activity as your guide. The class watches you make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich based on a volunteer's instructions. They discuss the importance of following...
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Science and Art Museum

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Imagine each one of your learners on task and interested in scientific material. Learners investigate science related art by creating a small museum! Using digital cameras, pupils photograph different scientific actions that look...
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Mini Me Society Economy Those Doggone Resumes

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders practice writing resumes. In this resume lesson, 3rd graders discover the attributes of resumes, complete an activity that exhibits their likes, and write their own resume as they follow the model provided in a PowerPoint...
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What Are They Feeling?

For Teachers K - 3rd
A very basic outline for a four-week unit on feelings for young learners, this resource suggests four activities to help learners explore their feelings. Learners spend the first week listing feelings. In week two, they pantomime these...
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Calico Watercolor Cats

For Teachers K - 2nd
A fun art project, this lesson incorporates math and listening skills as young artists play with a new painting technique. First the teacher models how to draw a cat using shapes, an oval for the body, triangles for the ears and so on,...
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California Fights Sugar

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Scholars read articles and have a class discussion on California's efforts to fight obesity. They will read and discuss the effects of sugar on the body and the soda tax that is being proposed in California.
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Persuasive Elements

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Investigate letters to the editor and their persuasive qualities. Break your class into reading groups and give each one a different article. As they read, they complete a graphic organizer to record their thoughts and opinions. There is...
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Problem-Solving Processes and Figurative Language

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Nonfiction texts about people on the move provide young readers with an opportunity to examine not only the problem-solving strategies employed by immigrants, but to also find examples of figurative language these writers use to tell...

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