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Reporting War: a Comparison of News Reports on Vietnam And Operation Enduring Freedom

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students research how television news shows reported on the War in Vietnam. They describe how television news shows reported on the Iraqi War and compare the two coverages. They contrast how are they similar and how they are different.
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Fit For Life

For Teachers K - 5th
Young scholars participate in a daily school-wide fitness program which takes place every morning following morning announcements. They complete a warm-up, a cardiovascular workout, a strength and endurance workout and finally, a cool...
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Scooter Drivers Test

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students increase muscular strength and endurance and are introduced to basic traffic safety rules.
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Place Value Tag

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students increase their cardiovascular endurance through movement. At the same time, they learn place value of numbers to the millionths place.
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The Twelve Ways to Fitness

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars work on their cardiovascular and muscular endurance by exercising to the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas."
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Easter Egg Hunt

For Teachers K - 5th
Students increase cardiovascular endurance and develop the components of health related fitness.
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Crossing the Oregon Trail

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students become familiar with the sacrifices that the migrants endured crossing the plains to the west. They experience some of the problem solving that the pioneers faced and pay the natural consequences of their choices.
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Basketball: Purposeful and Fun Fitness Activities

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Studnets practice basketball skills. They combine cardiovascular endurance, flexibility, and strength fitness activities with skill practice and review of previously learned skills in the fitness development part of a basketball lesson.
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Moving Day

For Teachers 6th - 11th
Learners cognitively connect what would be important to a family that was enduring the Depression. They illustrate what would have been present in someone's home during the late 1920's and early 1930's. Students provide rationale for...
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Life of a Private Lesson Plan

For Students 3rd - 12th Standards
In order to understand the challenges the Continental Army faced during the American Revolution, class members analyze primary source materials including a soldier's journal and an officer's letter, and watch a short reenactment video.
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What Is Important to Me?

For Teachers 6th Standards
Pupils complete an activity sheet to determine what values are most important to them. They then discuss their responses with partners before sharing the results of the discussion with the class. 
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Missouri Department of Elementary

Be a Problem Solving Star

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Reach for the STARs! Using the resource, scholars review the STAR (Stop, Think, Act, Review) method and discuss how to use it to solve a math equation. Next, small groups collaborate to solve a common problem in the classroom using the...
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Fighting For Freedom: The Stono Rebellion and Free Frank McWhorter

For Teachers 8th - 11th Standards
Travel back in time to the Stono Rebellion. Young historians research historical figures who played a role in African Americans' fight to escape slavery. Scholars research material, complete handouts, participate in group discussion, and...
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Enduring Understandings: Alaska's Culture

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students predict how people lived in Northwest Alaska before the arrival of the Europeans. They read an online selection to give them the answers.
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Poll Positions

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners analyze and graph the results of a nationwide New York Times poll about race in the United States. They poll people in their community regarding their views and experiences, and compare and contrast local and national poll data.
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Volleyball Work It Out

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers practice volleyball skill-related activities while working on cardiovascular and muscular endurance.
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Wagon Train

For Teachers 3rd - Higher Ed
Students use educational software to examine the hardships and problem solving skills needed by the pioneers as they endured frontier life. They work as teams while using the game simulation. They work a number of project while not on...
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Coronado: Misfortune's Explorer

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders discuss the importance of Coronado's expedition through Texas and the trials his men endured during the journey. They view and discuss a map of Coronado's route, the effects of weather on the Great Plains, and Buffalo....
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The Mier Expedition

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders explore the significance of the Mier Expedition to the Republic of Texas. They discuss the suffering Texans endured during their escape attempt and incarceration. Using first hand interviews and recollections, 7th graders...
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Happy Birthday Martin Luther King

For Teachers 1st
First graders listen to the book Happy Birthday Martin Luther King and sing a song about him. For this reading lesson, 1st graders develop listening skills as they listen to the book. They also discuss their feelings about the laws that...
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Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students research the exploration of Antarctica by the explorer Sir Ernest Shackelton. In this Antarctic exploration lesson, students watch a movie about Sir Ernest Shackelton and his ship the Endurance. Students study a map of...
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Slave Trade Memorial

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
Students develop a memorial to the slave who endured the Middle Passage. In this slavery memorial activity, student culminate a unit of study about slavery by creating a memorial for Africans who traveled the Middle Passage to slavery....
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Prairie Voices

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders compare and contrast a one room school house in Iowa in the past with how they go to school today. In this school lesson plan, 5th graders read about rural families and the controversies that they endured in the time of one...
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The Shape of Things

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers explore dome shape construction. In this dome shape construction lesson plan, students explore the history, strength, and endurance of the dome shape design.

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