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Celebrating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Students honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the principles he stood for: justice, equality, freedom, and peace.
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Truth, Trash and Treasure

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine how people can make a difference in the world. They read and analyze excerpts from a novel, discuss song lyrics, clean up a local park, and write an essay.
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Great Britons

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students read an online article focusing on discussion work, and practice comparative and superlative adjectives.
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Taking a Stand - 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery Voting Rights March

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery Voting Rights March. They view pictures reflecting their perceptions of their most important rights as citizens, write journal responses, create collages illustrating courage, and read...
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Constitutional Issues: The Separation of Powers

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students research and stage a debate on the question: RESOLVED that the Constitution should be amended to provide for a parliamentary system of government. They debate if a parliamentary system of government might be better.
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Using Art to Study the Past: Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation - 1863

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders analyze artwork as historical artifact and recognize that the Emancipation Proclamation was a major turning point in the Civil War.
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Eight Lines about home

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students brainstorm positive things about their city and write an eight line poem about it.
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Jaywalking

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students study the consequences of breaking laws. They role-play jaywalking and what could happen if they participate in this behavior.
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Direct Object Pronouns

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners work together to identify parts of a sentence, and decide where the direct object pronoun should go and what it should replace.
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The Imperfect

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students practice the concept of the other past tense, the imperfect via the provided worksheet and the suggested web site.
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The Preterite

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils practice one of the past tenses in Spanish called the preterite after the teacher presents the provided Power Point presentation.
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How much is a movie worth?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers discover how much a movie is worth. They use decimals and percentages greater than 100 to complete this activity.
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Is This Fair?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars discover how to convert fractions to decimals and percents. They play the role of a shopper to complete this activity.
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Classification

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate how to classify items based on similar characteristics. They study the scientific system of classification.
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Native Americans and Native Plants

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students take a field trip to a native plant culture. They need to describe where the plants were before the Europeans occupied North America.
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Native Americans and Topography at Rose Bay

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students visit a wetland ecosystem. While they are there, students explore how to read topography maps of Rose Bay.
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Reenacting the Treaty of Versailles

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners examine how provisions in the Treaty of Versailles contributed to events in WWII. They participate in a debate, researching their position, then presenting their national position orally to the class.
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Map Skills

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers examine the nations, battlefields, troop movement of the Germans through Belgium and the location of both fronts during World War I by creating a map. They visualize the strength of the Germans early in the war.
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Introduction to HTML

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine how to use basic HTML formatting tags. They add tags to a web page created in Notepad, and move the tags around their page, observing the results.
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Discovering Aristotle's Three Forms

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students, working in small groups, role play different kinds of governments--oligarchy, monarchy, dictatorship, and democratic republic. They portray their form of government in a skit, while other groups guess which kind of government...
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Organize Your Own Government

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students, in groups, design a government. They create a web page that describes the group's fictitious nation, details the citizen's culture, identifies the type of government and explores how the chosen government would respond to...
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Classifying Living Organisms into Kingdoms

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create a flip book that describes the basic characteristics of the five main animal kingdoms. They research the animal kingdoms, include examples of organisms for each kingdom and illustrate the finished text.
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"What If?" A Jigsaw Activity

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students, in groups, consider a scenario in which some structure of a cell has been changed. They explore how structural change affects the function of a cell and create a visual aid to illustrate their observations.
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The World's Ten Greatest Inventions

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students review a list of important inventions from the last century and a half. They order the top ten inventions with an explanation accompanying their choices and then write a report on a selected invention.

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