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Where the Wild Things Are

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore the role of gargoyles in New York City architecture as a starting point to considering architectural structures in their city. They create designs that illustrate ways in which those local structures may be enhanced by...
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Less Is More

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore the underlying principles behind the Minimalist art movement. They create their own Minimalist works of art that explore specific philosophical questions.
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Do You Know the Master Programmer?

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders, using candy, build models of DNA replication, RNA transcription, and tRNA translation.
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How Do Organisms Reproduce

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers examine the difference between mitosis and meiosis, and describe the steps involved in meiosis and the significance of each step. They create a diploid nucleus containing two pairs of chromosomes using clay.
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...And the Earth Did Not Devour Him

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Students examine impressions of a community of migrant workers in Texas who go north to pick crops. The lesson highlights the poverty and discrimination that a family suffers in the 1970's.
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Built To Last

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners face the challenges of building big, functional structures, like bridges, domes and skyscrapers. They turn their talents to satisfying clients who have hired them to design their new home.
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T's Alive! Or Is It?

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore data on the bone, muscle, and skin of living systems and then create a list of characteristics of these systems and relate these characteristics to bone, muscle, and skin.
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The Circulatory System

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students follow the path of blood from its entrance into the right atrium of the heart until it leave through the aorta to the rest of the body. They study the heart's structure and how it pumps blood using the included activities. They...
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Play on Architecture

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners describe how buildings effect them emotionally. They recognize and describe at least five components of a particular building as metaphors for parts of the human body [Footing), heart(h), eye (window), door(mouth), face(facade),...
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Married Math

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students participate in a two-week real-life math unit. In pairs, they calculate salaries, taxes, and a budget, plan a vacation, buy insurance, make a will, and design a room. They conduct Internet research to plan the vacation, and...
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The Writing Process

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students engage in the various steps involved in the writing process. The lesson plan is written as a guide for the teacher to write more in depth lesson plans for specific activities. This is a good model plan to follow.
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Exhibiting Tools of the Trade

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students design 'mini museums' that exhibit both historic and current artifacts and information associated with specific professions. They then display and defend their work in class gallery talks and exhibitions.
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Cranimals in 3D

For Teachers K - 5th
Students design their own mix and match animals, using lesson framework that emphasizes transformation, explore differences between clay and model magic, experiment with clay, and shape their animals into 3D sculptures.
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It's All About Scale

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders investigate scale models of toys.  In this scale models of toys lesson plan, 6th graders bring in toys from home to measure.  Students discuss scale and what scale is used with their toys.  Students determine...
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Bedroom Floor Plan

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students identify and compare the characteristics of floor plans and zoning to family activities and needs. They draw an accurate floor plan--either existing or a work in progress to scale. Then, students roughly sketch their bedroom...
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Ethan Frome

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students can earn up to 50 points in Section I "C" Level. They can earn up to 10 points in Section "B" where students can complete only one activity. Students can earn a maximum of 20 points in Section "A" activities.
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Constructing a Building

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students work with big boxes to connect big ideas. In this early childhood problem solving instructional activity, students develop social, language, math, creative-thinking, and problem-solving skills as they work together to plan and...
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Converting among Metric Units

For Students 7th - 10th
In this metric conversion activity, students convert twelve metric measurements using conversion factors to show their work.
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Castles and Cornerstones

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students become familiar with the style of architecture of medieval times.  In this architecture lesson, students design a model of a medieval castle including its cornerstone. Students understand scale in their representation.
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Explore More About Bottle Construction

For Teachers 5th - 10th
Students explore Green Construction. For this lesson based on the experiences of Peace Corps volunteers, students gain insight into alternative construction in Guatemala. They examine the pros and cons of using alternative building...
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Extending Trigonometry Skills

For Students 10th - 12th
For this trigonometry worksheet, students use the sine and cosine law to solve problems. They investigate obtuse triangles using these laws. There are 40 questions.
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Lesson 3: Subject and Verb Agreement: Singular Nouns and Pronouns He, She, It

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this subject and verb agreement worksheet, learners learn the rules for making the subject and verb agree when there is a singular noun: he, she, it. Students answer 25 questions.
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Heroes Here and There

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the concept of philanthropic heroes. In this everyday heroes lesson, students compare and contrast media and famous heroes with everyday heroes. Students discuss heroes in small groups and then come together in large...
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Using Primary Sources in the Classroom

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students draw their own conclusions by studying documents created in the past.

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