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Economics

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students discover the resources that are available for consumer protection. In a database, they are responsible for entering two new vocabulary words each semester along with a sentence using the word. In groups, they create a...
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Imagining Your Science Fiction Short Story

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders brainstorm ideas for their own science fiction story. Using worksheets, they sketch the plot and setting for their story. They create appropriate characters and develop their interactions among each other. They share...
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Social Studies: Dressing in Style

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the effects of personal appearance and determine if their own is acceptable. They examine clothing and discuss the situations in which the various items would be appropriate. Students take pictures of others in the...
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Separation of Powers

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders explore and explain the responsibilities and limits of our national system of government. After reading various selections documenting the viewpoints of the federalists and anti-federalists and the separation of power,...
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Social Studies: International Food Fair

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students identify activities that promote social studies education and enjoy an international food tasting session. On food item sheets, they write the origins of the various food items. On a laminated world map, each cook circles the...
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Circumference, Diameter, Radius

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders will determine the circumference, diameter, and radius of a circle. In this circle lesson plan, 6th graders will measure the appropriate amount to find these measurements on circles.
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An American Ballad - Lesson 1

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers listen to and analyze the ballad "American Pie." They utilize a worksheet imbedded in this plan. They circle the appropriate descriptive words of the song's medium form, melody, tempo and dynamics, and style.
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When is Humanitarian Intervention Justified?

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students analyze different foreign policies to derive their own idea of what constitutes appropriate intervention by a government. They complete a detailed proposal for their own Declaration of Human Rights.
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Electric Circuits

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners determine the power dissipated in the combination of two resistors connected in series to a 6 volt battery. This task assesses students' abilities to develop procedures for an investigation, develop a plan for recording and...
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Car Wash

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students determine the most appropriate site for a car wash, based on each site's soil characteristics (chemical, physical) and topographic features. They perform an experiment to determine the changes to three different soil types when...
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Cold Enough?

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students read and record temperatures and display the data. They represent the temperatures on an appropriate graph and explain completely what was done and why it was done. Students display the data showing differences in the daily...
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The Raid on Raters

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students read and discuss the article "Hollywood Rethinks its Rating Process." They discuss their views on the rating system. Students work in small groups to role play a "headhunting" company to find applicants for a new and improved...
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You and the Judicial System

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore how the structure of the state and federal judicial systems affect them. They select an appropriate media and create a presentation on the structure of the judicial system, the criminal judicial system and a guide to the...
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Using A Winogradsky Column to Analyze Microbial Communities

For Teachers K - 12th
Learners use easily obtained materials to study ecological succession in a microbiological community. This investigation is appropriate for a variety of age groups. Elementary Students be fascinated by the changes occurring over time...
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Who's Who at Our School?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students recognize and use language appropriately for varied contexts and purposes. Students integrate listening, speaking, viewing, reading, and writing for multiple purposes. Students develop and use a variety of strategies to plan,...
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Creating an Anti-Slur Policy

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students work in groups to develop an anti-slur policy for their classroom considering the categories of name-calling and types of behavior that should be addressed by the policy. They think about ways to prevent and respond...
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Smile Smarts Oral Health Curriculum

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students are given information on good oral health and tooth protection that is appropriate to their age and lifestyle. They discuss how adult permanent teeth are meant to last the rest of their life. Students are given a copy of "Teeth...
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Feminist Theories

For Students 12th - Higher Ed
In this Feminist Theories learning exercise, students define key terms and theories of feminism, provide examples, and answer questions with essays and short responses.
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Polite, Neutral, or Rude Language 2

For Students 12th - Higher Ed
In this social situations worksheet, students read four situations and the examples of polite, neutral or rude language to communicate. Students choose the most likely and appropriate way to speak in this situation and discuss it with...
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Subject-Verb Agreement Quiz

For Students 7th - 9th
In this subject/verb agreement worksheet, learners select appropriate verbs from a drop-down menu in order to complete sentences correctly.
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Ethical Issues Around Cell Phone Use

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the appropriate usage of cell phones. In this cell phone etiquette lesson plan, students examine how cell phone features may be use ethically and discuss compromises to privacy through the use of cell phones...
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Linear Equations and Their Graphs

For Students 9th - 11th
In this Algebra I/Algebra II worksheet, students solve problems involving interpreting the slope of a linear equation as a rate of change.  The two page worksheet contains a combination of seven multiple choice and free response...
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What Would Moses, Jesus, Mohammed, Budha and Krishna Say?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students compare and contrast five different religions and the views that their leaders have in regard to civic responsibility and philanthropy. They choose one of the five leaders and write a letter outlining their perception of that...
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Evacuating a Volcano: A Simulation

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore hazards associated with cataclysmic natural events, and human responses to them by creating emergency plans.