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Why Is Climate Important to Growing Rice?

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders determine the location of major rice producing states in the United States. In this rice production lesson, 3rd graders locate the longitude and latitude of each rice producing state. They color the states and indicate...
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Simple Machines

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students investigate simple machines. In this simple machines lesson, students explore how tools increase productivity and make life easier. Students experiment with simple tools and discover the parts of each tool.
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Sex on TV: Teens and Parents Talk

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students observe human psychology by completing a media analysis worksheet. In this parent and teen communication instructional activity, students identify the main programs on television today and how sex is used to sell the program as...
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Chloroplasts

For Teachers K - 12th
Students study chloroplasts, their structure and evolution.  In this photosynthesis lesson plan students experiment with polarized light and the production of chlorophyll.
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Multiply and Reduce - Fractions

For Students 4th - 6th
In this fraction multiplication worksheet set, students find the products in 150 problems. They reduce each product to the lowest terms.
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Economic Problems and Adjustments

For Students Higher Ed
This packet does not contain problems for students to solve, however it provides a complete description of the allocation of resources in a competitive market. One could send this resource home as an assigned reading or have students...
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Multiplying Fractions

For Students 4th - 5th
In this on-line math worksheet, students examine examples that show the steps for multiplying fractions. They work on-line as they fill in the blanks in 32 fraction multiplication problems. They reduce the products to lowest terms.
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Multiplying Mixed Numbers

For Teachers 4th - 5th
in this math worksheet, students combine the factors of mixed numbers in order to get the correct products. The answers are also accessible.
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Absolute Dating/Radioactive Dating

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Pupils explore radioactive decay.  In this radioactive atoms lesson students complete a lab to help them understand the relationship between radioactive atoms vs stable atoms. 
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Smoking: The Truth Unfiltered

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students view a PSB "In the Mix" documentary about smoking and tobacco abuse prevention. They discuss the video, identify the physical risks and effects of smoking and analyze smoking advertisements for marketing techniques.
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Local Environmental Issues: Pollution

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders discuss the ways in which human interaction with the environment and production of waste products contribute to pollution. Through a pollution demonstration, they explain how various groups of plants and animals can be...
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Date a Rock!

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers figure the number of half-lives since the sample solidified, and therefore the "age" of the sample rocks.
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Trash Or Treasure

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the concept of garbage and define how it may be useful for people. The consumption of products is estimated to predict the annual volume of garbage for a household. Then students attempt to create a treasure made...
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Household Hazardous Waste Identification

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders learn about reduce, reuse, and recycle and identify household hazardous products. Students learn about less hazardous alternatives and complete an inventory of hazardous materials in a typical household.
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Decimals: Collaborative Lesson

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Young scholars explore mathematics by participating in a group activity. For this number value lesson, students identify the uses for decimals and how to best estimate whole numbers based on decimals and fractions. Young scholars...
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Plotting the Petroleum Plume

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders examine the difference between confining layers and aquifers in a basic water table aquifer scenario. They contour groundwater elevation and petroleum product thickness data.
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Anne Frank: Propaganda

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students discover techniques that are used to spread propaganda. They define what propaganda is and how it can be used in both a positive and negative manner. They produce an ad campaign for product.
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Is Radio 1 British enough?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students read the story Radio 1 defends not playing enough UK tunes. Students are then asked: What are the benefits of having a mix of musical cultures in a country?, Do countries lose a sense of identity when other cultures are added?...
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TV Documentary on Coal

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students are divided into five groups with each group assigned one of the following topics: how coal is formed, how coal is mined, how coal is used to create energy, environmental impact of coal mining, and the benefits of coal energy....
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Uranium On a Diet

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Young scholars examine how nuclear reactions differ from other chemical reactions they have studied. They add up atomic masses of both the product and reactant side of an example of uranium decomposition, demonstrating mass loss involved.
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Comparing Candy Bars

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders identify that a ratio is a comparison of two numbers and that a proportion is an equation that equates two ratios. They identify the extremes and means of proportions, as well as the product of the extremes equals the...
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Vitamin A

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students identify and pat the beat, move to and play quarter notes, half notes and eighth notes to create a factory movement and instrument improvisation.
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Papier-Mache Mask

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students analyze mask visuals provided by the teacher. They experience a paper-mache hands on activity that produces a three dimensional product. Students produce/make a mask.
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Stuffed Newspaper Butterfly

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Learners examine the parts of a butterfly. They use newspaper to build a replica of a butterfly. Students stuff the butterfly and paint it. They display the finished product.