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Long-Term Goals

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students identify long and short term goals. In this perseverance lesson, students discuss the difference between short term and long term goals. Students categorize their personal goals as short or long term. Students read a quote by...
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Here's an Instant Activity for March 7, 2005

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders complete a spelling activity for homographs. In this spelling lesson, 5th graders complete a crossword puzzle using homographs.
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Number: Index Notation

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the concept of index notation. In this square root and cube root lesson plan, students examine number patterns as they complete a worksheet that requires them to calculate roots.
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Number: Ratio

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Young scholars explore the concept of ratios. In this ratio lesson, students complete a ratio worksheet and play a multiplication game that requires them to solve multiplication facts.
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Analysis of Dorothea Lange's Photographs

For Teachers 7th - Higher Ed
Pupils analyze a photo of Dorothea Lange and make connections to its historical context by creating a written and visual response. In this photograph analysis lesson, students analyze Lange's photograph and explain the historical impact...
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Design a Company Brochure

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students design a brochure using a publishing program.  In this design lesson, students follow step-by-step directions to create a brochure advertising a product of their choice. 
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Science and Technology

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Pupils research inventions that have been created. In this historical technology instructional activity, students read the Harcourt Brace social studies textbook and discuss how inventors used graphs to display data. Pupils create a...
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Express Yourself

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders write to Key pals. In this description lesson, 6th graders describe a place to their key pals and the pal has to draw a pictures based off their description.  They also create a Fun Facts Worksheet about their...
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Holiday Fire Safety

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Learners discuss and view flammable items.  In this fire safety instructional activity, students discuss items that can cause a fire, learn holiday safety tips, watch a holiday safety PowerPoint and discuss what they have learned.
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Intergenerational Relationships

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students build relations with grandparents. In this intergenerational relationships instructional activity, students identify questions they would like to ask their elders and prepare cookies to take to the interview. Students then...
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Personal Goals

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Young scholars analyze personal goals and set goals for themselves. In this goal setting lesson, students discuss short and long term goals. Young scholars visit a website about goals and use the FCCLA planning process to set their own...
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Introduction to the Holocaust: Appreciating Another Culture

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the concept of cultural diversity. In this cultural diversity lesson, students read Molly's Pilgrim by Barbara Cohen and discuss cultural traditions. Students then research countries and cultures and share their findings.
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Drawing a Perspective Floor

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders investigate the three D world of building. In this geometry lesson, 10th graders investigate math as it relates to the real world, increasing their perspective on mathematical concepts. They realize there is more to math...
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Is Climate Change Really Happening?

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students explore the impact of global warming. In this oceanography lesson, students investigate global climate change and write reaction papers about their research findings.
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Cocaine in the Brain

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students examine the effects of cocaine and heroin and withdrawal symptoms.  In this drug  instructional activity students participate in an activity that illustrates cocaine's actions. 
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Social Studies - Concentration Camps -2

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders investigate the typical day in a concentration camp. In this Holocaust lesson, 8th graders read primary and secondary sources about the conditions of the camps. Students also conduct research about the Warsaw Ghetto,...
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Introducing Chemistry Vocabulary

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils study vocabulary based on chemistry terms by creating flash cards.  In this scientific vocabulary lesson, students utilize a chemistry word or phrase to create a card which uses the term, describes it in the student's words,...
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The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire: 100 Years Later

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders examine the impact of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire.  In this American History lesson, 11th graders analyze various sources.  Students create a cartoon representing the impact of this fire on the United States...
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America Declares War on Germany, 1917

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Young scholars explore the reasons that the United States entered World War I. In this World War I lesson, students read "America Declares War on Germany, 1917," and then discuss the consequences for the U.S. entering the war.
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Europe Before and after WWI

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders compare and contrast maps of Europe before and after World War I. In this World War I activity, 8th graders color and label maps of Europe prior to the war and after it. The historical maps can be accessed online.
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The Pioneer Experience

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders consider the move westward. In this Westward Movement instructional activity, 10th graders compare and contrast the experiences of 2 pioneers by creating t-charts. Students analyze diaries, photographs, and political...
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Organisms and Their Environment

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students observe elements of a local ecosystem and gain an understanding of what elements make up an ecosystem.  In this ecosystem lesson students create a class food web that shows the interactions among the elements of the...
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Esperanza Rising

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders explore equality by reading a story with their classmates. In this discrimination instructional activity, 6th graders read the story Esperanza Rising and discuss the tensions between Latin America and the United States....
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Slippery Slope

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students define patterns, relation and function. In this algebra lesson, students find the slope of a line and write equations of line. They model the slope using real life scenarios.

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