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Social Studies: What Is Folklife?

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students read an essay about folklife and record their thoughts in journals. After discussing the terms associated with the topic, they complete worksheets on types of folklife, pop, elite, and folk cultures. Depending on the age group,...
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Home School Connection

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students explore responsibility by participating in a jobs activity. In this housekeeping lesson, students identify the work and preparation that needs to be done at their home if they are going to learn in a home schooling environment....
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Goods and Services Scavenger Hunt

For Teachers 1st
First graders conduct research into the concepts of goods and services. The information is used in order to create a definition for each concept. Then the information is organized using the scavenger hunt format. Further extension to the...
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Making Birthday Calendars for Community Organizations and Businesses

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students create birthday calendars using The Print Shop computer program. They produce and market a product, replicating a work environment.
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Trade Mission Proposal

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students create an itinerary or a travel brochure for a trade mission group traveling from another country to Minnesota. They conduct research on resources, goods and services people might purchase, and develop the proposal or brochure.
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What Do These People Know That I Don't Know?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers research career areas within the field of oceanography. They read interviews of people who work in these fields and discuss how the fields are similar. They write a paragraph or more telling what career choice sounded...
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Illustrating Endangered Species

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Young scholars conduct research to answer the questions for each section. They critique a work of art using the levels of art criticism. Also they prepare gathered facts for a final presentation.
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Household Go-Togethers

For Students Pre-K - K
In this household items worksheet, learners match the 5 pairs of items found in a house to show what belongs together. Students draw a line to connect the items that match.
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Cartography

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students research about cartography and how to be a cartographer. In this math lesson, students draw a map of their classroom. They use a robot to explore navigation using a compass rose.
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Controlling the Code: Molecules at Work

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
In this DNA worksheet, students access a website to learn about how single-celled organisms function successfully. Then students pretend they are a bacterium and determine how to transport lactose across their cell membrane for food....
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Paws in Jobland

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore jobs in different countries . In this lesson about different countries through research. Students are broken into groups and given a country to research. Each group is provided with a worksheet with 14 questions to be...
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See Me, Feel Me, Hear Me, Describe Me!

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders read the poem "Root Cellar" and then close their eyes and describe objects that are placed in their hands.
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Investigating Soil

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders swap local soil samples with another school and examine the differences. They research soil properties, identify organisms that live in soil, create and maintain a biome of soil decomposition and design a poster to present...
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Lewis and Clark

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders study the plants and animals Lewis and Clark discovered on their expedition. There is a plant illustrator, a plant recorder, an animal illustrator, and an animal recorder. They research the plants and animals and the ...
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Children of the Earth and Sky

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore the culture and traditions of Native Americans. After reading "Children of the Earth and Sky," students discuss the lives of Native American children in relation to their own. They create replicas of Hopi...
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Promoting Yourself Through Advertising

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders design their own ads and complete a full-size comprehensive of the final ad which showed color and final layout of the printed piece.
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Play For Pay

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students practice various skills with manipulatives, such as counting correct money amounts to pay for manipulatives.
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Toad Tag

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students who are chosen as taggers move throughout the area tagging others using a locomotor pattern of choice like walking, hopping, skipping, etc. When tagged, a spell has been cast upon them, turning them into a toad or frog.
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Hula Hoop Dribbling

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students practice and improve their ability to consistently dribble a ball, using cues previously introduced.
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Mirror/Matching Tag

For Teachers K - 5th
Students travel around the provided space avoiding the "taggers" using a teacher chosen locomotor pattern.
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Moving In Unison

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners practice moving in general space successfully (i.e., not bumping into each other and moving to empty space). Teachers may add many different locomotor movements, or increase participants for an extra challenge.
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Sports Careers

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students research various sports careers, locate possible places of employment, and give an oral presentation of their findings.
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Football Bingo

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students develop the football skills of passing, hiking, catching, and dodging. Student practice skills using a variation of Bingo.
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Soccer Golf

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students practice golf etiquette without the use of golf clubs, balls, etc.

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