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Huntington Library

Huntington Library: Garden Lesson Plans: Investigation: Dissect a Flower [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th
A lab activity where students carefully dissect a flower and learn about its different parts. Materials may require sharp dissection instruments. Includes extension activities and test preparation questions.
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National Institutes of Health

National Library of Medicine: Changing the Face of Medicine: Women Physicians

For Students 9th - 10th
Online exhibition that features the accomplishments of women doctors, many who have changed the face of medicine and served as role models for women today. Includes learning activities, games, and lesson plans showing how the human body...
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British Library

British Library: The Search for the Northwest Passage

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Detailed third grade lessons help students understand what skills and knowledge were required in order to become an explorer. Includes specific lessons on John Cabot, Jacques Cartier, and Henry Hudson.
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Huntington Library

Huntington Library:garden Lesson Plans: Fruit Salad Hold the Dna, Please [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th
After learning about DNA and how it is used in crime scene analysis, young scholars take part in a lab activity where they extract DNA from ripened fruit.
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Huntington Library

Huntington Library: Garden Lesson Plans: Japanese Stone Lanterns [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
A study of the stone lanterns that can be found in Japanese gardens. Learners will learn about their history and symbolism, and create lanterns of their own out of clay. This is designed to be in conjunction with a visit to a Japanese...
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National Institutes of Health

National Library of Medicine: What's Happening to Your Body?

For Students 6th - 8th
This lesson plan site focuses on the changes that adolescents go through and delves into their nutritional, physical, and mental health needs.
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Library of Congress

Loc: Teachers: Lessons: Wall of Dreams

For Students 9th - 10th
Read personal dreams for America's future, and share one of your own. Hundreds of dreams from across the country and around the world, all in hope for a better tomorrow.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: How Should Our Gardens Grow?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson plan, students will learn about types of land use by humans and evaluate the ways land is used in their local community. They will also consider the environmental effects of the different types of land use. Students will...
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Library of Congress

Loc: Learning Page: Lewis and Clark

For Students 9th - 10th
A rich resource page with primary sources, online resources, student activities, and lesson plans.
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Folger Shakespeare Library

Folger Shakespeare Library: Lesson Plans: A Boxful of Character

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
A character-in-a-box lesson plan in which students choose everyday items and put them in a box to represent facets, traits, or other aspects of a character that can be supported with excerpts from the text.
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Folger Shakespeare Library

Folger Shakespeare Library: Lesson Plans: Merchant of Venice: Views of Africans

For Students 9th - 10th
Lesson plan uses primary sources, along with Shakespeare's play, to give students insight into how Elizabethans perceived men and women of African descent.
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Folger Shakespeare Library

Folger Shakespeare Library: Lesson Plans: A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Lesson plan useful to teachers of any of of Shakespeare's plays in which students retell a scene using only visuals.
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Folger Shakespeare Library

Folger Shakespeare Library: Lesson Plans: King Lear: Multiple Texts, Editions

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Lesson plan in which students compare and contrast Lear's last lines. when he holds the dead Cordelia, from two early editions of King Lear.
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PBS

Pbs News Hour: A Penny for Your Thoughts, Movies or Music?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The ethical implications of downloading entertainment are huge. Explore this issue with students using this lesson plan. Be sure to include your library media specialist in planning.
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Other

University of Washington Libraries: Starting Research

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
If you need help knowing where to start your research, or if you're a teacher looking for a way to help students understand the research process, this resource is terrific. Interactive tutorials on a number of topics offer review quizzes...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Building a Paper Airplane Using Bernoulli's Principle

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This is a culmination activity used after students have studied Bernoulli's Principle as part of a unit on forces and fluids. Students will use the Internet, textbooks, library resources and their cooperative learning group to design...
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Library of Congress

Loc: For Teachers: Holidays: Themed Resources

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A rich resource page with links to primary source information about a number of holidays and special days, such as presidential inaugurations.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Star Search: How Do I Find the Books I Need?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Lesson which outlines the STAR process for finding resources in a library. Learners are taught to select appropriate search tools, subject headings, and resources.

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