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Art or Artifact?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students analyze and discuss illustrations of the New World by John White. They examine the images, answer questions about each one, and write an essay.
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Limited Resources - Understanding Our Cultural Resources

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners examine and compare preserving natural resources and preserving cultural resources. They conduct Internet research on two topics, and write a position paper on whether cultural resources or natural resources are more important...
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Inner Space Cavern Cave Field Activity: Drip Rate Analysis

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students compare drip rates at several different locations throughout a cave. They observe, first hand, the heterogeneity in flow paths present in karst aquifers such as the Edwards aquifer.
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What Kind of Insect is That?

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders characterize insects and classify insects according to the Linnaean system. They use hand lenses or microscopes to examine insect body parts.
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Insect Matching

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders match insects to the proper order based on the characteristics. They culminate their study of the orders that insects belong in by looking at insects with magnifying glasses.
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Insects: Listen and Learn

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders use their listening skills to make observations of their environment. They study various insects within a natural setting. They, along with their identification of the insect, create a sketch of the insect.
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The Transit in Pictures

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students investigate the Transit of Venus and create and produce a public service commercial promoting the Transit of Venus and providing information about its safe viewing.
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My Country at the Crossroads to Peace

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students discuss issues with regard to different ways their countries are affected at the cross roads to world peace. They write prose pertaining to issues relating to unpeaceful situations in the world.
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Be Ready, Be Safe

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students complete a variety of activities as they explore the Canadian Red Cross emergency preparedness program for youth, ages 12-13.
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Developing Countries - International Monetary Fund

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students access the International Monetary Fund website and explore it in order to research the role of the organization. They use their findings to describe the purpose and activities of the International Monetary Fund.
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How Can You Detect the Invisible?

For Teachers K - 5th
Students participate in a lab activity in which they examine the characteristics of radon. They identify radon's link to cases of lung cancer. They complete a radon fact sheet and answer questions to end the lesson.
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Ports in a Storm: A Surge of Solutions

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students examine various environmental health issues related to ports and the shipping industry. As a class, they generate a systems model related to the ship- salvaging industry. Then in small groups, they create their own systems model...
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Conservation

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders examine how destructive fishing practices affect the health of coral reefs. They watch a Powerpoint Presentation, conduct an experiment, and in small groups create a Powerpoint Presentation.
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The Web of Life

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers participate in a game in which they discover the balance of life in the ocean. They identify different organisms that rely on different types of food. They answer questions to complete the activity.
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Living Longer

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students view a short video about diseases that are most common today and what ones were common fifty years ago. They examine demographic trends in developing and industrialized countries. They research life expectancy, birth rate and...
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Administrative Systems in the Travel and Tourism Industry

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students examine the administrative systems in place in the travel and tourism industry in the United Kingdom. They investigate what happens when administration goes wrong and how to correct the error.
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Nature and Haiku Poetry

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Young scholars compose haiku poems and recognize how cultures value nature and natural forces through the study of Japanese poetry. This lesson includes a bibliography of resources.
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A Proper Role for Government - Seeking Perfection in an Imperfect World

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Young scholars discuss the proper role of government in the economy. Reviewing the foundations for a market economy to work properly, they decide how to best direct resources to get the most out of them. They distinguish between private...
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River Width

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners determine the level of accuracy needed for computations involving measurements and irrational numbers. They use the correct number of digits in computation to achieve an appropriate unit or level of accuracy when solving...
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Ariel, the occasionally, tricksy spirit

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners focus on Ariel's character and use online research and close reading in small groups and examine more understanding of the tricks spirit. Each group is assigned a scene and they make notes of Ariel's action, behavior, and...
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Prints and Outlines

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students determine the area of two objects by superimposing one on the other. They compare and order the area of different shapes by covering a larger shape with similar smaller ones. They complete these activities as different stations.
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Green Space in the City

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners identify the different kinds and uses of green space that exist in an urban area. They create maps of local parks and research the history of each park. They conduct a survey of residents near the park and interview a park...
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Green Space in the City

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine city parks and their importance and affect they have on the health and well being of a community. An oral report with visual aids is prepared as a group to educate the class on the importance of green space in the city.
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Building an Ecologically Balanced Living Space

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students design and build an ecologically balanced living space based on the principles of an old growth forest. They take one part of a house (or structure in the community) and redesign it according to the principles of the forest cycle.

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