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The New Wind Turbine

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Learners study the basic components of a modern wind machine.  In this investigative activity students investigate and find out if there are any wind machines in their state, how many and how much power they produce. 
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Build Skills and Word Experiences: Make Compound Words

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders complete spelling activities for compound words. In this compound words lesson, 2nd graders put words together to make compound words.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Factoring by Mack

For Teachers 8th - 10th Standards
Learners explore the concept of factoring trinomials.  In this factoring trinomials instructional activity, young scholars use the Mack Method to factor trinomials.  Learners watch a video on how to factor a trinomial with a...
Interactive
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Winter Facts Fun-Crossword Puzzle

For Students 4th - 5th
In this winter crossword puzzle worksheet, students complete a 19 word puzzle using clues given.
Worksheet
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Capitalization Practice

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this capitalization worksheet, students underline lower case letters that are used incorrectly in a set of 22 sentences. An answer key is included on page 2.
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Teaching English: Northern Ireland

For Students 6th - 8th
In this northern Ireland instructional activity, students complete a matching activity, and true/false and short answer questions after reading short paragraphs of text.
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Risks and Benefits

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars research "risk." They complete a guided worksheet to help them find relevant answers. They complete an analysis of the Space Shuttle Challenger. Students determine pros and cons of technology
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Mapquest

For Students 9th - 10th
Find website allows you to get step-by-step walking or driving directions to your destination and to avoid traffic with optimized routes. It will also give you information about hotels, food, gas, shopping, etc. along the route or nearby.
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Ib Times: October 26th Driving Campaign: Some Saudi Women Get Behind the Wheel

For Students 9th - 10th
In Saudi Arabia, women are legally prohibited from driving. Learn about a recent protest where women drove in protest.
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Hmg: Fetch: "Eyes on the Road" Driving Game

For Students K - 1st
Help Glen keep Ruffy from being distracted while driving by putting all of the distractions in Glen's thought cloud and the things having to do with driving in Ruffy's thought cloud.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Driving With Djikstra

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to one of the prominent algorithms in graph theory used to find shortest paths -- the Djikstra Algorithm. The lesson includes four graphs of increasing...
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Driving Questions: Students Uncovering Amazing Content Through Inquiry

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This blog post provides background on the concept of Driving Questions as a basis for Project-Based Learning and gives some direction for how to create them. The links at the end of the blog allow teachers to explore this technique more...
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Other

Developing Project Based Learning Units: Driving Questions

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Learn how to use open-ended and directed questions to drive the development of driving questions for project-based learning to take place. This includes several charts and checklists to help teachers develop good driving questions or to...
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Mars Quest Online: Drive a Rover

For Students 9th - 10th
Be the command center directing the Mars rover to points of interest on the surface of the planet. The rover is based on the exploration of Sojourner which was initially only supposed to last seven days.
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Other

Middle East Forum: Fundamentalist Islam at Large: The Drive for Power

For Students 9th - 10th
An excellent, detailed treatise on Fundamentalism not to be read by the faint at heart as it is quite detailed. Offers several definitions of fundamentalism and the history.
Interactive
PBS

Pbs Kids: Kart Kingdom

For Students 1st - 5th
Pick your character's features, pick your cart, and be off on a driving adventure.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Vectors Drive the Boat

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Using a combination of online exploration and teacher instruction young scholars will discover that vectors have both magnitude and direction. They will be able to use vectors to represent problem situations. Students will also be will...
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Treasure Grab

For Students 3rd - 8th
Grab all the treasure you can and test your driving skills with your Treasure Grabber made with string, paper clips, and a straw.
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Getting From Point a to Point B

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity features a map of the state of Michigan. Students are instructed to give the teacher driving directions from one point in the state to another. The students accomplish this task by finding the correct linear equation that...
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Donald Smith at Ceremony to Drive in the Last Spike of Canadian Pacific Railway

For Students 3rd - 8th
The Kids Site of Canadian Trains looks at the last spike, the day the east was joined with the west uniting the nation along the Canadian Pacific Railway. The web page from the National Library of Canada has quotes from people that were...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Racing With the Sun Creating a Solar Car

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students use engineering design principles to construct and test a fully solar powered car. Several options exist, though we recommend the "Junior Solar Sprint" (JSS) Car Kits that can be purchased with direction from the federal...
Handout
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Hhmi: Simple Chemical Switches Steer Migrating Neuron

For Students 9th - 10th
Page is describing the chemistry that drives the direction of neuron growth in developing nervous systems. Interesting background to knowledge of neuron growth and neurons in general.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Minnesota: Pillsbury "A" Mill

For Students 9th - 10th
The Pillsbury "A" Mill, situated along Saint Anthony Falls on the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, held the title of largest flour mill in the world for 40 years. Completed in 1881, it was owned by Pillsbury and operated two...
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Youngzine: The Amish Way of Life

For Students 3rd - 8th
As you drive along the rolling hills of south-east Pennsylvania, you might come across a community where time stands still. Welcome to Amish country! We take a look at these unique people and their origin in Part 1 of the series....