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Public officials, DUI and role models

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers watch a video clip discussing the story about the mayor and answer the following: What kind of people should be role models for students today +++ Are they politicians and government employees, movie stars, or professional...
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Safe schools, Scary Schools

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students write an essay discussing the balance between safety and restrictions when it comes to the placement of metal detectors in schools. They research the safety situation in their district, including discussions about safety issues...
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Your Tax Dollars at Work

For Teachers 5th - 12th
In order to understand how tax dollars are spent, young economists use given data and graph it on a circle graph. Circle graphs are highly visual and can help individuals describe data. A class discussion follows the initial activity.
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Reading Teammates

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders read the book "Teammate" after participating in pre-reading activities that include examining the concepts of segregation and discrimination. For this six week literature study, they make timelines, discuss what they know...
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Funerals and Burial Rites

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders research burial practices that originated in West Africa and then migrated to the South Carolina and Ohio. They compare and contrast burial practices in both places. As students collect information and data, they organize...
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Try A Pizza Theme Week

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students explore all the things they could do with a pizza. They become aware of food groups and nutritional needs, make decorated cardboard pizzas, interact with pizza slices and fractions, create stories to go along with their...
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Proportions and Scale Factor for Measurement

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students explore the concept of proportion. For this proportion lesson, students use google maps to find the distance the their school is from home. Students discuss what a scale factor is through teacher led discussion. Students...
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Peace Corps Challenge—Solving the Water Quality Issue

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students create a Wanzuzu newspaper. In this Peace Corps lesson plan, students participate in a discussion regarding water pollution in Wanzuzu. Students conduct further research about the issue and create newspapers that detail the...
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Cultural Awareness/Sharing Traditions

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students examine and explore cultural traditions that make their own families unique. In groups, they discuss traditions, write about the similarities and differences in the group, and interview other students.
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Perspectives on Animals

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Engage your class in a discussion about humane treatment of animals by recognizing the basic rights of all races, religions, classes, etc. Have volunteers stand on a milk crate without shoes until they become uncomfortable as an example...
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Coming To America

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students investigate the history of America with the help of children's literature. The story is structured as a timeline that begins at the time of Columbus and progresses to the present. The teacher reads the story with the class and...
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Lily and Miss Liberty

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Learners discuss ways to earn money and why they might need it. Students create crowns to wear all day like in the story. Learners create a play using characters in the story. Students interview "eyewitnesses" at the unveiling of the...
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Behind the Camera

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Scholars, in groups, gather information relating to community health care. Using video and digital cameras, they interview members of a health center staff. They then compile digital images, select music, and narrate a story about their...
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Verb Tense Exercise 17

For Students 5th - 9th
In this online interactive grammar skills worksheet, students answer 12 fill in the blank questions regarding present and past tense verbs. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Caribou

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders study the cultural and nutritional importance of the Caribou in Inupiaq life.  In this World History lesson plan, 8th graders analyze primary sources that explain these people's lives. 
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The Rise of Islamist Terrorist Groups

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students analyze the rise of Islamist terrorism. In this terrorism lesson plan, students listen to their instructor present a lecture regarding the growth of Al Quaeda and other terror groups. Students respond to discussion...
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The Learning Network: Reactions to Rating Teachers

For Students 9th - 12th
Meant to be used in connection with the article "In Teacher Ratings, Good Test Scores Are Sometimes Not Good Enough" also available on The New York Times website, this resource provides 12 short-answer writing prompts that ask both basic...
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Why College?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
By engaging in small and large group discussions, learners consider the importance of attending college. After discussion, small groups reconvene and create posters based on their findings.
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Bbc News School Report: Bringing a Radio News Story To Life

For Students 7th - 8th
In this language arts worksheets, students read six tips for bringing a radio script to life. Students then add five tips of their own. No actual radio script is provided.
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History and culture through food

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students select a favorite family recipe and research the recipe and its ingredients using a variety of sources on the Internet. Each student then creates a recipe flyer for a class cookbook that includes their recipe and the historical...
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Anza and Font in Search of Latitude

For Teachers 7th
This is an integrated activity that incorporates Social Studies, Science, and Mathematics. In Social Studies, 7th graders complete an online interview and complete an online worksheet about latitude of sites on the Anza trail. In Science...
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My Town

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students research the history of their local community. They focus on interviewing skills and primary source analysis. They present the research information using a variety of creative techniques.
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Fort Morgan, Colorado - 100 Years of Progress and Promise

For Teachers 8th - 9th
Students discover and practice interviewing skills by role-playing. They utilize these techniques while discussing the history of Fort Morgan with senior citizens who came to the school and with those whom they visited in the local...
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Getting To Know You

For Students 8th - 10th
In this getting to know you worksheet, students interview fellow classmates and ask them fifteen questions in order to get to know each other better.

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