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Galileo Galilei Questions for Study

For Students 9th - 12th
In this online interactive philosophy instructional activity, students respond to 10 short answer and essay questions about Galileo's contributions to science. 
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Persuasion and Political Debate by PBS

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students examine rhetorical strategies. In this political debate instructional activity, students research issues of presidential campaigns and deliver persuasive speeches about the issues they research. Students then participate in...
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Bearing the Torch: A Study of Ancient Greece

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders research Ancient Greece. In this Ancient Greece lesson, 2nd graders survey the geographical, historical, and cultural aspects of Greece. Students discover stories of Greek mythology and explore the beginning of the Olympic...
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Heliocentric and Geocentric Models

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this instructional activity, students read an informational article and view drawings of the two models. In this comprehension instructional activity, students answer twelve questions.
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Alexander the Great Lesson Plans

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Alexander the Great lesson plans can provide ways for students to study history, geography, and politics.
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Identification and Classification Activities

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Explore and understand your world with taxonomy.
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Aristotelian and Newtonian Motion

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers use a quotation from Einstein as a reference to categorize their descriptions as either Newtonian or Aristotelian. They discuss the idealized nature of the Newtonian approach. Students describe the events they observe...
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Coin Content

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Pupils calculate ancient Greek coin values as compared to their weight, equivalence in grain, and determine their worth today. They explain how to calculate fractions of a given weight and how to use decimal numbers.
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Introduction To Law

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers define and identify various law terminology and vocabulary. They explain the role of law in society.
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Ellipse

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore the concept of ellipses including finding the center, vertices's, foci and eccentricity. They assess how to graph elliptical functions and solve application problems involving ellipses. This assignment is to be completed...
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Ellipse

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students find the center, vertices, foci, and eccentricity of ellipses using the subscriptions website www.explorelearning.com. They graph elliptical functions and solve application problems involving ellipses.
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Goddesses are Personifications Too!

For Teachers 8th - 9th
Students analyze the use of personification in classical Greek art and the Neoclassical period. In this Neoclassical art lesson, students discuss the cultural values reflected in classical and Neoclassical....
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Goddesses Are Personifications Too!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students discover the use of personification as a way of expressing ideals.  In this Language Arts lesson, students create an allegorical depiction of a contemporary ideal.  Students write labels that clearly support the...
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How Tragic!

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students study and interpret a classical tragedy and role play a character from the play.  In this tragedy lesson plan, students discuss a specific work to discover the form, structure, and characteristics of the genre and interpret...
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Brain and Senses

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Young scholars investigate the brain through multiple senses. In this biology lesson, students experiment with different activities involving taste, memory, touch, and sight to understand how the brain works. Young scholars work in...
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Disproving the Proof

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the progression of discoveries that have led to the genetics knowledge that scientists currently have. They determine how genetic experiments disproved previous theories on inheritance.
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Was Alexander Truly Great?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discuss Alexander the Great and his father Philip II. They complete the worksheet, Things That Alexander Inherited, discuss Alexander's accomplishments, and write an essay examining whether Alexander was truly great.
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A Literature of Democracy

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders analyze how American literature shows a lot of different genres. In groups, 11th graders create a short report about the passage they have chosen.
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A Trip Back in Time

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders, through the following 10 lessons, develop an understanding of what life was like in Ancient Greece.
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A Trip Back In Time

For Teachers 2nd
Students develop an understanding of Ancient Greek life. Students explore cultural, political, and social processes that shape different city-states. Students discover people such as Socrates and Alexander the Great.
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Taxonomy

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students analyze the complexity of organism classifications based on certain criteria.  In this classifying organisms lesson students study taxonomy and gather information and leaves to do their own experiment on classification. 
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The Helenistic Age and the Legacy of Alexander

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders describe, analyze and evaluate the history of ancient Greece from 2000 to 300 B.C. They explore the influence of geography on Greek economical, social, and political development.
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Forces and Newton's Laws Unit

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Pupils participate in lessons on Forces and Newton's Laws by selecting activities and assignments to complete in a Layer Unit. Students select assignments and activities in the C Level, B Level, and A Level.
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Astronomy: Earth/Moon

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Pupils investigate the Earth and the Moon. They select activities from a menu of options including viewing videos, drawing magnetic fields and plate tectonics, creating vocabulary flashcards, observing the phases of the moon over a two...

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