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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students recognize that all people have rights and should be treated equal, describe some ways that women's rights have changed through time, and identify the contributions Elizabeth Stanton has made to womens' rights.
Organizer
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Story Writing Plan

For Students 5th - 8th
In this story writing guidelines worksheet, learners examine the 4 sets of considerations for writing stories. Students use the guidelines to write their own stories.
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Lesson Design Archaeology

For Teachers K - 12th
Students participate in their own excavation and measure and record as they go. In this archaeology lesson students divide into groups and solve the mystery of what they uncovered in their dig box.
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Globe Skills Lesson 7 The Transcontinental Railroad

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students explore the Transcontinental Railroad. In this geography skills lesson, students use map skills in order to locate legs of the Transcontinental Railroad on globes.
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Mars Pathfinder Egg Drop and Landing

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students construct a pathfinder that could land an egg safely. In this physics instructional activity, students explain the factors affecting the dynamics of falling objects. They evaluate their pathfinder design.
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Copycats

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders describe the features of 2 and 3 dimensional objects and use the language of geometry. They design and make a pattern which involves translation, reflection or rotation.
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Graphing To Solve Systems of Equations

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Young scholars explore graping linear equations and their relevance to real life situations. After a teacher led demonstration, students work at their desks and on the board to plot points and determine the slope of a line. Young...
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Orienteering I

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students are introduced to compass work. They name the parts of a compass. Students describe how the parts of a compass are used. They are shown the proper way to hold a compass. Students are shown that-a-way arrow and its purpose.
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Magnetic Attraction

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders create a hypothesis on what objects will attract to magnets. In this magnets lesson plan, 2nd graders use a computer program to create a hypothesis as to what will attract or unattract magnets. For an extension, they test...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: The Four Bugs Problem: Step on No Pets

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this simulation has students model the Four-Bug Problem in order to see the general concept of pursuit curves. Each student takes on the role of a bug, and are placed at each corner of a...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Writer's Model: Problem Analysis Essay

For Students 9th - 10th
This four-page essay provides an example of a Problem-Analysis Essay. Clicking on the "Writer's Guide" link in the upper right-hand corner of the page enables the user to get tips, directions, and explanations on the essay.