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Huntington Library: What Plants Need in Order to Survive and Grow: Light [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
A lesson plan unit where young scholars conduct an experiment in small groups to test whether plants need light or not.
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Huntington Library: Garden Lesson Plans: Seeds & Sprouts: Vocabulary [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 5th
A one-page glossary of words that might be used by young students when learning about plant seeds and sprouts.
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Huntington Library: Garden Lesson Plans: Japanese Garden Vocabulary [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
A one-page glossary of vocabulary that might be used by students when discussing a Japanese garden.
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Huntington Library: Garden Lesson Plans: Japanese Zen Gardens [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
A instructional activity where students learn about Zen garden design and the symbolism used, then work in small groups to create a miniature Zen garden. This activity is intended to be done in conjunction with a visit to a Japanese...
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Huntington Library: Garden Lesson Plans: Science Investigation: Vocabulary [Pdf]

For Students 6th - 8th
A one-page glossary of vocabulary that would be used by middle school students to discuss plants.
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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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George W. Bush Presidential Library: Teaching Primary and Secondary Sources

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This comprehensive lesson plan provides a fact sheet, reusable worksheets, source scenarios, and assessments.
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Huntington Library: Garden Lesson Plans: Japanese Seasonal Scroll Painting [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
An activity where students learn about the art of Japanese scroll painting, and create their own scroll painting to reflect the seasonal changes in a garden. This is designed to be in conjunction with a visit to a Japanese garden, but...
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Huntington Library: Making Community Measurements: Biotic Factors [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
A lesson plan in which students explore plant communities and observe and classify different types of vegetation. Includes discussion questions, extension activities and web links, a vocabulary glossary, and handouts.
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Huntington Library: Learning From Leaves: From Observation to Inference [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
A lesson plan in which students explore plants from three different ecosystems and make inferences about plant structures and their environments. Includes discussion questions, a vocabulary glossary, and handouts.
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Huntington Library: Mini Ecosystems [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
A lesson activity where learners create a terrarium inside a plastic bottle using a Venus Flytrap and other plants. They then observe growth and changes over time.
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Huntington Library: Garden Lesson Plans: Reading Plants: Vocabulary [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
A one-page glossary of terms that might be used by older students when studying plants.
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Huntington Library: Garden Lesson Plans: Gyotaku: Japanese Fish Printing [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
An activity where students learn about the koi, an important symbol in Japanese culture, and create a gyotaku fish printing. This is designed to be done in conjunction with a visit to a Japanese garden but can be easily adapted.
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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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Huntington Library: Coming to California [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Detailed lesson plan that uses primary sources to help students learn about the people of California from pre-Columbian times to the Mexican rancho periods.
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Library of Congress

Loc: A Century of Creativity: The Mac Dowell Colony 1907 2007

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the history and purpose of the MacDowell artist colony, a creative sanctuary for artists, composers, and writers located in Peterborough, New Hampshire. Founded in 1907 and home to such artists as Thornton Wilder and Leonard...
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Loc: The Titanic: Shifting Responses to Its Sinking

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In 1912, popular media headlined the sinking of the world's largest luxury passenger ocean liner while on its maiden voyage. Newspapers captivated the world's attention with stories from survivors and about victims who did not survive....
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Library of Congress

Loc: 1900 America: Primary Sources and Epic Poetry

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
To better understand the United States at the end of the nineteenth century, this interdisciplinary lesson integrates analyzing historical primary resources with literary analysis. Students work in groups and express themselves...
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University of Georgia

University of Georgia: Chicago Manual of Style: Bibliographic References

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Good site for referencing "Chicago Manual of Style". Includes example citations of non-electronic media.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Evaluate Site

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart provides students with strategies for researching on the internet and how to tell if a resource is reputable. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.7
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Can You Read a Spine Label?

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a library skills lesson on how to read a call number on the spine label for fiction and everybody books (5th graders also studied biography spine labels). Followed by small group evaluation,...
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Vision Learning

Visionlearning: Understanding Scientific Journals and Articles

For Students 9th - 10th
Explanation of the difference between popular media and scientific journals. Includes examples.
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Duke University

Duke University: Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850 1920

For Students 9th - 10th
This timeline includes selected events in business technology, media, marketing, and advertising for 1850-1920.
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Library of Congress

Loc: The Branding of America

For Students 9th - 10th
This Library of Congress resource page includes information about American brands names and products. The history of advertising as a whole as well as the history of Coca-Cola TV ads, and the beverage industry are also covered. There are...

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