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Curated OER

Debt: Who Does it Affect?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Debt is a topic that affects everybody: the community, the nation, and the entire globe. Kids take charge of debt by designing a project that informs those in their community about good financial choices, keeps personal debt low, and...
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Facing History and Ourselves

Social Media and Ferguson

For Teachers 9th - 12th
How can social media help or hinder civil dialogue? How can information shared on social media be verified? As the investigation of media reports of the events surrounding the shooting of Michael Brown continues, class members read news...
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Curated OER

Cruising Aircraft and Balanced Forces

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students, after reading an explanation from a NASA Web-based textbook, demonstrate an understanding of the text by applying it to questions involving cruising aircraft and balanced forces.
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Curated OER

Balancing

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students use a balance to complete subtraction problems and weigh out the items they take away. In this subtraction lesson plan, students use a pan balance and record their equations.
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Curated OER

Balancing Discoveries

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Learners use a balance to help them with their addition facts. In this addition lesson plan, students also play the seven up game to memorize their facts.
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Curated OER

Using Mass Balance to Understand Atmospheric CFCs

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils use an interactive online mass balance model to observe levels of chlorofluorocarbons over the past few years. Students evaluate the influence protocol emissions will have on the future levels of CFCs.
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Curated OER

Determine the molarity of an unknown HCl solution

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Young scholars complete a lab to help develop a comprehension of stiochiometry. They review equation writing, equation balancing, and stiochiometry. Studnets are given the following information: Sloppy students from the previous class...
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Curated OER

Balanced Meal Planner

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students use an online website to select foods and put them onto a plate to see if they have made healthy and balanced meals. For this healthy meals lesson plan, students review the food pyramid before this activity.
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Curated OER

Title of Segment: Balance of Trade

For Teachers 2nd - 12th
Students take a closer look at the balance of trade. In this current events instructional activity, students watch PBS video clips about American trade with China. Students research Chinese production and consumerism in order to...
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Curated OER

Create a Wrapping Cloth Design

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students create wrapping clothes using paper or cloth scraps being sure to find or make geometric shapes. They create a visually balanced composition including symmetry,and repeated patterns.
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Curated OER

Tour + Workshop = DESIGN: Presenting Information

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners develop a business card to market them.  In this developing a business card to market them lesson, students design a business card to represent them.  Learners create a logo or graphic design that is professional and catchy. ...
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PBS

Zip Line

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
Slide all the way to the bottom. Using the design process, pupils create a carrier for a ping pong ball that will travel down a zip line. Learners test their carriers and determine solutions to issues they encounter to complete the third...
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Unit Plan
Special Olympics

Train at School

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Keep your mind and body fit with a fun activity about the five food groups. After going over the functions of fruit, vegetables, grains, meats and beans, and dairy, as well as oils and fats, learners participate in a bean bag toss to...
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University of Southern California

Mastering Microbes

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Small but mighty! Learners explore the role of microbes in a healthy ecosystem. An engaging lesson asks pupils to design an aquaponics system that demonstrates that healthy microbes are necessary to maintain the ecosystem.
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Channel Islands Film

Cache: Lesson Plan 3 - Grades 4-5

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
Should the excavation of what is believed to be the cave of the Lone Woman of San Nicholas Island be allowed to continue? As a practice exercise designed to prepare pupils for a timed writing exam, individuals read two Los Angeles Times...
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School Improvement in Maryland

Immigration Legislation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
What is the purpose of immigration legislation? How has this legislation evolved over the years? What are the factors that caused these changes? Class members research immigration legislation to determine whose rights the laws are...
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Assessment
Curated OER

2005 U.S. National Chemistry Olympiad - Local Section Exam

For Students 9th - 12th
National Chemistry Olympiad tests are released after their use each year, since they cannot use them again for this event. The result: outstanding comprehensive assessment resources for general chemistry classes! This 2005 version covers...
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Activity
Curated OER

Final Crucible Project Options

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Finding and/or designing a menu of equally weighted synthesizing projects to end a unit can be a challenge. Simplify the task with this menu of individual and group projects meant to accompany a study of The Crucible. Presentations,...
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Project Maths

Introduction to Equations

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Do your pupils truly understand inverse operations, or is their understanding a little backward? Scholars learn the meaning of an equation in the second lesson of a four-part Algebra series. A series of activities begins with an analysis...
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Teach Engineering

Optimize! Cleaner Energy Options for Rural China

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
What are the trade-offs when looking to get the most benefit from an energy source? Small groups compare the cost-to-emission levels of several energy sources by looking at the information graphically. The groups utilize this information...
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Virginia Department of Education

Osmosis, Diffusion, and Active Transport

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
No, it really is okay to play with your food! Emerging scientists manipulate popcorn, eggs, and other household objects as they demonstrate multiple cellular processes. The activity, capable of modifications, is designed to reflect the...
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National Association of Teacher Educators for Family and Consumer Science

Consumerism in the Classroom: Effective Strategies for Today's Teenage Consumers

For Students 9th - 12th
Help class members become savvy consumers with a series of activities that has them analyzing marketing strategies, comparing the value of brand name versus off-brand clothing, and considering the advantages and disadvantages of shopping...
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Balanced Assessment

Oil Consumption

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
An assessment presents a chart displaying oil consumption Pupils use the chart to determine the greatest increase in consumption, and then apply that information to figure out when the consumption may reach 100 million barrels a day.
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Curated OER

Dinosaur Designs

For Teachers K - 4th
Students study dinosaurs in science and conduct online research to gather written information about his or her dinosaur. Then, in art class, they sketch their dinosaur and create an accurate three-dimensional dinosaur model out of paper...