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Penguin Paradise

For Teachers 1st
First graders discover where penguins live, what they look like, what kinds of food they eat, and other interesting facts. They communicate statements of information through the composition of a one paragraph summary about a penguin.
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Philanthropy in Literature Lesson 2: Common Good

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students listen to a number of children's books that describe private citizens participating in acts of kindness, sharing their time, talent or treasure. They identify the characters, problems, and solutions in the books.
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It's All in the Line!

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders create various kinds of lines and fill an entire paper in an effort to make a full composition.
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The Literature Connection

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders read Cucumber Soup by Vickie Leigh. They make representations for the number of each kind of bug found in the book. This lesson is a terrific way to show students how fractions, decimals and percents are related.
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Who I Am - Likes

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders complete a "Who Am I" sheet to decide what kinds of things they like and then have a class discussion.
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Designing a Flotation Strategy for the Purification of Recycling

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders work in teams to design a method of recycled plastics purification by flotation. They base their design on the concept that different kinds of plastics have different densities and keep overall costs and purification time...
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Discussing Hatred Toward Immigrants And Ways To Reduce It

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars discuss hatred toward immigrants, and what kinds of behaviors constitute prejudice, explore attitudes toward people from other places, and analyze where these attitudes come from, and discuss ways to avoid and reduce...
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Japanese Warriors

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students compare and contrast the warriors in Japanese history, folktales, and art to the kinds of soldiers American children learn about. This lesson includes possible lesson enrichments.
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Waste Management

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students set up a recycling program in their school. They first estimate the kinds and amount of trash generated and brainstorm ways to reuse the recyclables and create flyers explaining how their program will work at the school.
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Value: Non-Violence - Friendship With Animals

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Pupils discuss the importance of respecting animals and properly providing for their needs. In a class setting, students read a story about animals and identify kind and caring actions toward the animals. After a class sing-a-long,...
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McDonald's and 'Spiked' Coffee

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils explore food safety. Pupils research what laws relate to food you cook yourself, food you may buy in a restaurant and food bought in a grocery store. They interview food inspectors. Students create a chart to indicate who...
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Green Space in the City

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students 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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Eye Spy Science

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders identify the four kinds of violent storms. Using photographs, they create "eye spy" questions for each and mount them on construction paper. They write a brief summary for each photo and share the questions with the class...
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Animal Activities: Just the tracks, ma'am

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students learn most urban mammals are nocturnal and are difficult to observe. One of the simplest ways to determine the kinds of animals living in your neighborhod is to track them down.
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The Crowd

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students compose and illustrate a scene in which a crowd of some kind, (people, animals, monsters, etc.), is reacting to some event happening out of the field of vision of the viewer.
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What Shape Is Money? Money Doesn't Have to Be Round or Rectangular

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explain that many kinds of objects have been used as money. After identifying qualities that make a good currency, they design a nontraditional currency and decide on its value.
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Robots

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students explore the two kinds of fluids: liquids and gases. They explain that liquids (water), unlike gases (air), cannot be compressed. This property makes them ideal for hydraulic work applications.
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Love Your Neighbors Like Yourself

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students sing a song which enforces the idea of loving your friends as you do yourself. They identify ways they can help others in and out of the classroom. They participate in acts of kindness in the community.
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What Do Portraits Communicate?

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students make connections between their personal experiences and portraits. define a portrait and identify different kinds of portraits in artworks and their own lives. They look closely at a portrait using visual analysis to describe...
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Raise a New Torch

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students write their own poem about immigration. They are asked to write a kind of "welcome to America" update of Emma Lazarus's classic verse.
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The Guest Investigator Puzzle

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students conduct a brief astrophysics lab matching the EUVE spectra of various kinds of "mystery" stars with the spectra of known stars taken at Extreme Ultraviolet and optical wavelengths to determine their type.
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Inventions 2: The Impact

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students see what inventors have to think about when making an invention, particularly the kinds of effects they can have on people.
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"Anno's Mysterious Multiplying Jar" by Masaichiro and Mitsumasa Anno

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers learn the meaning of the word "factorial" and how to apply the factorial concept to describe a special kind of numerical relationship.
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The Great Spider Debate

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students study about the survival and hunting strategies of several different kinds of spiders. They also be introduced to scientific classification of spiders and write a brief report about one of the spider families they observe.

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