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Seasonal Changes

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine wildflower data compiled from their student journals from the school year. They determine patterns of seasonal growth then use these patterns to predict patterns for missing data.
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Geologic Time: Relative and Absolute Dating

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate relative and absolute dating; determine the difference between the two dating systems; and apply this knowledge by creating a geologic timetable of their own.
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Sizes, Sizes, Choosing the Largest and Smallest

For Students Pre-K - K
In this size comparison worksheet, students examine 4 rows of black and white clip art pictures. They draw an X on the largest picture and a circle around the smallest picture.
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CURRENT AND CLIMATE

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students study currents and how they have been used to plot courses for travel. They examine the ocean currents in both the Atlantic and Pacific and discuss their effect on local weather.
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Multiculturalism and Immigration

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders determine how a refugee is different from a migrant. They explain how there are various classifications of refugee claimants and gain an overview of Canada's refugee determination system.
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Lesson 2: Maine's Merchant Marines

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students simulate the quarters aboard a ship. They write a letter to Joanna Colcord or Alice Drinkwater that shows an understanding of the experience of being aboard ship, and asks further historical questions about the experience.
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An Archaeological Adventure

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students simulate an archeological dig in the classroom to explore a culture through its artifacts.
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Proportional Representation: A Fairer Voting System?

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders work as a grade to conduct a mock election. They tally votes in two different systems and discuss if proportional representation or straight counting of votes leads to a fairer outcome.
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The Impact of Disease on our Lives

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore infectious diseases. They analyze the effect of a disease on the community. Students develop a public health policy that addresses the containment of the epidemic. Students create a policy and present findings as part...
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Hatching Brine shrimp

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders investigate the life cycle using brine shrimp as an example. They conduct observations by watching the shrimp hatch out of cysts. Students design simple experiment to structure an observation. The experiment is approved...
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Recipes for the Future

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students engage in real time interactions with researchers and are exposed to innovative research. They conduct an experiment designed to investigate the strength and maximum deflection of a composite material with and without the use of...
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Plane Weather

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students examine the important issue of plane safety. In groups, they are introduced to how NASA determines if it is safe to fly on a particular day given certain conditions. They use the internet to research the types of tools and...
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With Liberty and Justice for All

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders identify and define in their own words the first ten amendments to the Constitution. They are assigned a CDV or amendment from the Bill of Rights and create and present a one-minute skit demonstrating it.
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Class Final Report - Global Sun Temperature Project

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students reflect on the data they have analyzed during the Global Sun Temperature Project. They use the project website as a resource for their observations, draft a class report and post it on the Internet.
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Jobs in 1860 and Today

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students compare occupations during the 19th century with the 21st century using information from 19th century census information.
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Dino Hunt

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Young scholars use the Internet to gather information about dinosaurs. They practice navigating through webpages and following directions. They define important vocabulary and practice making a KWL chart.
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Searching the Attic

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate an attic or basement to "discover" family artifacts. They develop a grid map using string, create a naming system for the grid, and analyze items of interest.
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Adapted to Fire

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore forest species' adaptations to fire by participating in a scavenger hunt and mapping a burned forest. Students create maps and explore how indigenous species adapted to living with fire.
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Protecting the Herd

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explain how immunizing a significant proportion of a population against a disease prevents epidemics of the disease (herd immunity). They list factors that affect the proportion of a population that must be immunized to prevent...
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Weightlessness Demonstration

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers explore the concept that free-fall eliminates the local effects of gravity. They discuss what an Earth-orbiting spacecraft experience is like as well as the terminology of weightlessness. Their lab experiment commences.
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VA Statute for Religious Freedom, II. Matching Activity

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils read and analyze primary source documents. In this matching lesson, students read sections of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom. Pupils match the document sections with paraphrased sections and discuss the accuracy of the...
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Weightlessness Demonstration

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students investigate gravity.  For this weightless lesson students complete a lab activity about how a free fall might effect how one perceives gravity.
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Colorful Sentence Writing

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders practice expressing themselves through writing. In this language arts lesson, 5th graders study the parts of speech and apply to writing sentences.
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Ecology: Adaptations

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders identify different types of adaptation in organisms. In this biology lesson, 8th graders explain how adaptation help organisms survive. They complete a worksheet at the end of the lesson.

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