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Family Letter - Foreign Currency and Exchange Rates: Proportions and Ratios

For Students 6th - 8th
In this proportions and ratios worksheet, learners solve 6 short answer problems. Students find the foreign currency exchange rates for six countries. Learners express the exchange rate as a proportion or ratio.
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Counting Principle

For Students 7th - 8th
In this probability and statistics worksheet, students work with a family member to determine the number of outcomes in a given situation. The two page worksheet contains four questions. Answers are included.
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Exploring Quadratic Graphs

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Learners solve quadratic equations using graphs. In this algebra lesson plan, students factor quadratic equations and graph their answer. They discuss the shape of their graph based on the function.
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The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis

For Students 10th - 11th
In this Screwtape Letters worksheet, students define six vocabulary words from Letter 15 and answer eleven comprehension questions about the reading. Students can also answer sixteen extra credit vocabulary words.
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Social Darwinism and American Laissez-faire Capitalism

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Pupils investigate Social Darwinism. In this government systems lesson, students listen to their instructor present a lecture on the details of Social Darwinism and American laissez-faire capitalism. Pupils respond to discussion...
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English Perspectives

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students perform research in order to answer an essential question: How did the cultural characteristics, beliefs, attitudes, behaviors, and economic conditions of the French, English, and Indians contribute to the growth of inter-group...
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Understanding Wikis and Ethical Responsible Posting of Information

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers, using the Internet, post information about local attractions. They choose a topic and create a website. They review each others website and make comments on its content.
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Nebraska And Exports

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers investigate the role of Nebraska in the exporting of goods from the United States. They look at ways the state is looking to help expand its role in the markets. Students conduct research using a variety of resources. Then...
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LABOR UNIONS IN THE 21ST CENTURY

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students define and discuss labor unions in the United States. They compare and contrast labor unions in the United States and labor unions in Europe and Japan.
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Promoting Nebraska

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students engage in a lesson about the promotion of Nebraska as a state to visit and live in. They conduct research using the internet about the state and then work in teams to create a multimedia advertising campaign for the state of...
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Spanish and New Standards

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students, at the end of the instructional activity analizar una lectura period??stica.
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Nonprofit and Profit Careers

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils examine the difference between profit and nonprofit organizations. They identify careers that are available in each sector as well. They develop their own questions and interview people who are in those careers.
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Sectors? What Sectors?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students develop a list why water is an endangered natural resource. They identify four sectors in society. They explain the responsibilities that each sector plays in conserving water.
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The Cost of Art

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders experience difficult situations where they need to choose values. This lesson provides students with a role-playing opportunity to discover alternative ways of approaching these situations.
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For the Record: Black Inventors and Inventions

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create a database with the inventions of African-Americans. They analyze and sort the data in an appropriate fashion. They use the internet to gather their information for the database.
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Sunset Hills: A True Community Discovered!

For Teachers K - 12th
Learners interview community members who have lived there for a long time. Using the internet, they research the city of Sunset Hills and share their information with the class. In groups, they decide on a mural theme and design their...
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A Share in America

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students examine map - reflect on why English colonist kept coming to America (scarcity of land in England / seemingly endless land in America) Recite line from English poem. They discuss English attitude towards Indians and their lands.
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Utamoro Prints

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discuss the art work of Japanese artist Kitagawa Utamoro and investigate the term "commercialization" and its affect on societies. The lesson concludes with individuals presenting their own findings and examples of...
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Cause and Effect Slide Show

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders use KidPix software to create a slide show demonstrating their understanding of cause and effect in literature.
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Who's Going to the Convention?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students practice planning budgets as they create a budget for ten employees of a company to attend a professional convention. They use the Internet, and spreadsheet software to complete their assignment.
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Tortured Beauty

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students compare and contrast two fundamentally different treatments of women, one Chinese and one Japanese, and to examine how this reflects on the culture that produced them.
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Video-Conferencing

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers write a paper on the impact of video-conferencing in an area of their choice. The paper should discuss pros and cons to this technology and include a clear description of what video-conferencing is.
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My Neighborhood

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders discuss maps and identify boundaries found on a map. They walk through their school and nearby neighborhood and collect information regarding important features of the area.
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Round to the Nearest Whole $

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this rounding money worksheet, students identify the money amounts in each examples and round to the nearest dollar for the 10 examples.