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Can I Handle Having a Baby?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students have a hands on experience of what it might be like to have a child.
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Women in India: Tradition vs. Modernity

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers explore cultural aspects such as gender roles and their impact on Indian culture and compare and contrast issues associated with those roles in America through literature.
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Ziplock Chemistry

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Pupils participate in an experiment in which the substances are sealed in a plastic bag. Watching the experiment, they determine why the chemical reaction is taking place and calculate the temperature change. To end the lesson plan, they...
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Were There Two Wars for American Independence?

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Students debate whether or not the War of 1812 can be counted as America's second war of independence. After researching the War of 1812, they complete a WebQuest designed to help them decide on the validity of the war as a quest for...
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Eli Whitney: A Top Ten Inventor?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students conduct research and present their findings in a persuasive manner. Then they work in groups to enhance the development of cooperative work skills. Students also present their findings through persuasive skills in writing and/or...
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Designing the Common School: The First Educational Reform

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers perform preliminary research to explore education before public (common) education was in place. They design a public educational system of their own. Students construct a report outlining challenges and solutions for...
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Freedom of Information Day

For Students 5th - 10th
In this Freedom of Information Day worksheet, students complete activities such as reading a passage, phrase matching, fill in the blanks, correct words, multiple choice, spelling sequencing, scrambled sentences, asking questions,...
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State Nicknames - A Right Angle Puzzle

For Students 5th - 9th
In this right angle puzzle, students identify the names of states  by their nickname.  They write the names of the states on a puzzle.  This three-page worksheet contains 50 clues.  Instructions are on the first page, clues and puzzle on...
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Matching Events and People

For Students 5th - 12th
In this social studies events worksheet, students match important events in history with people that were involved at the time. Students complete 13 matches.
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President's Day Scramble

For Teachers 5th - 8th
For this President's Day worksheet, students review presidential history as they read a sentence about each president and unscramble words in each of the sentences.
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Construction and the Three Little Pigs

For Teachers K - 1st
Pupils construct science experiments based on nursery rhymes and student stories, including: Humpty Dumpty, the Three Little Pigs and Charlotte's Web.
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Real Life Rights

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students consider modern applications to the Bill Of Rights (how does Ammendment 4 apply to locker searches?) students prepare and role play a mock trial to explore the finer points of the relevance ot the Bill of Rights in the 21st...
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Santa's workshop

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students are split up into groups of 3-4 kids, they write one story problem for each catagory: Santa's workshop, Reindeer Barn, Mrs. Claus' Kitchen. They read their story probems to the class and award points to the other teams for their...
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Yeasts and Molds: Food Science, Bacteria, Fungi

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
In this lesson students will consider the characteristics and nature of yeast and molds in order to help them understand how these microorganisms affect food production.
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Bill of Rights

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students define the Bill of Rights, identify and explain each amendment, and explain why these amendments were included in the Constitution.
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Stadium Voices

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students watch NEW YORK VOICES special "New York Sports: Big Shots and Bad Guys," read excerpts from famous novels/essays in hopes of understanding the feelings that sports stadiums inspire, and create a tourist brochure that highlights...
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The Monroe Doctrine: U.S. Foreign Affairs (circa 1782-1823) and James Monroe

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers read the test of the Monroe Doctrine then list the key points and discuss its central tenets.
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The First American Party System: Events, Issues, and Positions

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine and discuss the philosophical differences that arose during the Constitutional Convention and how these differences played a role in the formation of the first political parties.
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The Glorious Revolution, the American Revolution, and the French Revolution

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students relate the Glorious Revolution, the American Revolution, and the French Revolution through web based research and scenarios.
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Las Frutas (The Fruits)

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students study the Spanish words that name fruits in spoken and written form.
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Paper Mache Masks

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders create a mask made out of paper mache.
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"The Block": Romare Bearden's and Mine

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students study Bearden's style of collage and create their own collage that reflects their neighborhood. They are read "The Block" and poems about neighborhoods and write one about theirs.
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Dinosaur Prints

For Teachers K - 1st
Students examine dinosaur footprints and compare them to the shape of elephant footprints and to the size of their own footprints.
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What Big Teeth You Have:

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students make their own tooth impressions of a sharp and a flat tooth and compare the differences. They make impression of fossil teeth from dinosaurs comparing the sharp and flat teeth and learning about their uses.

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