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Electricity Newsletter

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students create a newsletter about electricity. They view a completed newsletter and discuss its information and format and research the Internet to find facts about electricity. After researching their facts, they write a rough draft of...
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Cranes, Crosswalks, and Big Gulps

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students watch a video and answer questions based on wildlife jobs. In this wildlife lesson plan, students learn that biologists don't just play with animals but that there is a lot of study involved.
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Communications: Advertising in Schools

For Teachers All
Students will become aware of advertising already in the schools and will work on critical thinking and debating skills.
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Investigation 8 - Weather Forecasts

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders examine how to predict and evaluate weather forecasts. Discuss with students why weather predictions are important to us. Ask them what people do after they hear a forecast. They brainstorm reasons forecasts are important...
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Spoken and Written Instructions

For Students 5th - 6th
In this ELL grammar worksheet, students work with spoken and written instructions. They match the parts of sentences to form an instruction. They write their own imperatives using the given list of verbs in the second half of the page....
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Magnetic Discovery Bottle

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils examine how to conduct simple investigations and use simple equipment to gather data.  In this magnet lesson plan students decide what types of objects are attracted to magnets. 
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Working for Water

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students examine the ways that government works to help improve aquatic habitats. In this water habitats lesson students view a video and plan a school restoration project. 
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Elect Me! Creating a Campaign Platform and Video Commercial

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students conduct political campaigns. In this campaign investigation lesson, students research political parties and political offices. Students choose an office to run for and create election videos that incorporate propaganda techniques.
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Things Are Heating Up!

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders study how heat is produced from mechanical and electrical machines and human activities.
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Ford's Revolution (Differentiated by Ability)

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students explore the effects of Ford's use of the assembly line, auto financing, and increased wages to make his fortune. They complete a worksheet using the internet.
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Starlight, Star Bright

For Teachers 1st
First graders read books and use the Internet to identify several constellations and stars in the night sky. They make star pictures and write a class report about the night sky including a title, complete sentences and a cited reference.
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Chasing Peter's Wolf

For Teachers 1st
First graders listen to Prokoviev's Peter and the Wolf, relate the story to the music and identify instruments and their representative characters. They examine how music communicates events and images that help the listener to better...
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Election Voting Systems

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars discuss the Afghan elections and times when they have voted, i.e. student council, American Idol. Cooperatively, they create definitions for election, local council election, national government election, candidate,...
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Our Solar System

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students explore the solar system on the internet and video programs. They investigate the names of each planet and their places in the solar system. They chose their favorite planet and design an advertisement to sell a vacation to...
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Target Audience

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore and describe various persuasive tools used in advertisements, analyze advertisements provided by teacher, and identify target audiences. Students then work in groups to find advertisements aimed at assigned target...
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Child Soldiers

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the military recruitment that exists in many foreign countries. They research the occurrence of using children in the military and its social implications. For research the activity contains a great variety of...
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Space Science:Wherever You Go, There You Are

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Young scholars explore navigation principles by observing, measuring, and interpreting data to determine locations. Using a compass, compass rose, and a transit, they plot courses and discover the workings of the Global Positioning...
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Lesson Plan for Reading

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students in an adult ESL classroom are introduced to the definition of freedom of speech. Using the internet, they discover the differences between the rule of law and rule of men. To end the lesson, they examine how the court system...
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Vocabulary Review

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this vocabulary review activity, students find the definition of the nouns in column A of a table. They write the letter of the definition from column B on the blank line next to the word. They work with nouns such as coworker,...
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The Voice of Voting: How do We Judge Design

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students examine various methods of judging popular culture and compare them to the judging of the People's Design Award. In this popular culture and design lesson, students research different ways of voting in popular culture, beginning...
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Nouns and Definitions

For Students 4th - 5th
In this nouns and definitions worksheet, students read ten nouns and find the definitions in another column. Students write the letter of the definition next to each word.
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Star Gazing: Understanding the night sky

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students observe star charts to understand the difference between a star and a planet. For this star lesson plan, students also explain why we see different stars at different times of the year.
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Star for a Day Name Fun

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students practice introductions in a foreign language. In this foreign language lesson, students get a card with a star that they have to pretend to be. They walk around the room introducing themselves and asking other's names in a...
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Lost in Time

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars study time and how to accurately calculate it.  In this time lesson students complete a lab activity in pairs and discuss their findings.