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Water Contamination Challenge

For Teachers 8th - Higher Ed
Students play a game to analyze further the effects of water contamination. In this environmental concerns lesson, students play an online game about water contamination and may visit the additional links to further their studies on the...
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Writing: Laying and Covering the Foundation

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Your middle schoolers can become stronger writers with a lesson covering the basics. They compose effective thesis statements and introductions, discuss different ways to capture a reader's attention, and compare a poorly written...
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Tracking Ocean Ecology

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students look at the data maps given to them about how chlorophyll affects the algae blooms and make predictions about the harm they will cause. In this data maps lesson plan, students manipulate data sets from the website.
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Stem Cell Differentiation Game Questions

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
Thirty-five multiple-choice questions are spread out into boxes bordered with dotted lines so that they can be cut out to become game cards. Playing a game to review concepts is an effective way to learn, even if you are in college. Give...
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Human Impact Starts with?

For Students 7th - 12th
What kind of effects do humans have on their environment? Review key anthropogenic vocabulary with a fill-in-the-blank handout. You may wish to use this as an ongoing glossary, review before a test, or even create a crossword puzzle or...
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Exploring the Properties of Matter in the Preschool

For Teachers Pre-K
Students study the properties of the physical and natural world. In this properties of the physical and natural world lesson, preschool students work at discovery tables to see how simple machines work, what happens when items are put...
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Climate Change-Boon or Bust for Northern Waters?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore about and evaluate the potential impacts of climate change on northern hydrological systems. They work in small groups, research the background to climate change in the north with a particular focus on lakes and rivers.
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The Fear of Exploration Because of... Sea Monsters

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders examine the underestimated cause as to why exploration into the western hemisphere was not common before the 1400's. They reconstruct the causes/effects of exploration to North America.
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Film Interpretation of the Great Depression

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils examine major ideas, eras, themes, developments, turning points, chronology, and cause-effect relationships in United States, world, and Washington State history. They also analyze the chronology of the history.
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Deception and Advertising: When is it Misleading and when is it Puffery?

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders explore advertisements and deception in advertising.  In this marketing and advertising instructional activity, 8th graders write cause and effect paragraphs describing products, promises made, deceptions caused, and...
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Mystery Photo

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students research the effects of soil erosion and pollution in the soil.
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Earth's Place in Space

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this Earth instructional activity, students review how the revolution, rotation, and tilt of the Earth effects the Earth. This instructional activity has 4 matching and 3 short answer questions.
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The Black Plague: International Insects

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders research conditions that caused 16th Century Black Plague and led to downfall of Europe, and examine causes and effects of population density, disease, and invention.
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Desertification

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate the process of desertification in the Sahel region of Africa. They discuss photos from a National Geographic magazine, analyze the physical/political map of the Sahara, identify the causes and effects of...
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Tending To The Greenhouse

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students investigate global warming through initial discussion of recent findings of an 11-day lengthening of the growing season caused by warmer temperatures. They research and propose solutions for restricting greenhouse gases.
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TE Activity: Yogurt Cup Speakers

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders build a speaker as they investigate the roles of electricity and magnetism. They discover the properties of magnets, create an electromagnet, and determine the direction of a magnetic field. They show cause and effect...
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World War I

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers justify how alliances lead to war. They compare the conflicts of war that arose because of imperialist interest. Students explain the cause of World War I. They compare and contrast European maps before and after World...
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Baby Boom and the Culture of the 1950's

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students study the ripple effect of the baby boom generation on history and on their lives today. They discover how the rules and conformity of the 1950's set the stage for the rebellious, anti-establishment sixties. They study the...
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Modern World Traditions

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate why traditions fade as time moves on and represent the fading traditions in a visual manner. In this traditions lesson, students read the article 'Looking for My Prince Charming' by Shalmali Pal. Students answer...
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Parents and Teen Hardships

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Pupils analyze the cause and effects of fading traditions and explore the parent teen relationships through poetry. In this past analysis lesson plan, students complete a cause and effect worksheet about a related movie. Pupils free...
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"Tsunamis"

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers visit a PBS Website about tsunamis to consider their causes, effects and steps countries have taken to try to defend against them. They answer questions and create a brochure explaining tsunami facts and procedures to...
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Out in the Middle of Nowhere: Inevitable Lifestyle Changes

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders examine the interaction between Utah's geography and its inhabitants. They explain how looking at cause/effect relationships is an example of historical thinking.
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World's Deadly Diseases

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students gain knowledge on the cause/effect of five major diseases. They clearly locate where major diseases are located throughout the world. Students obtain statistical information through research of the population of the world...
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Morgan's Raid in Ohio

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Students examine the cause, effect, and impact of Morgan's Ohio raid during the Civil War. They complete unit sections on the raid, dates, viewpoints, results, and historic markers.

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