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Animals in the Media

For Teachers 3rd - 9th
Sure to activate young minds, this resource asks learners to consider how media influences their personal points of view. Pupils examine how animals are portrayed in the media to understand why they feel the way they do about those...
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Write Picture Captions

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students notice and investigate a large range of devices for presenting texts-captions. Students write original captions for several audiences. Students write a fictional news story based around a certain caption.
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Climate Change

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students discuss global warming. In this global warming lesson, students read an article about global warming and list five things they learned. Students work in small groups to compare what they wrote. Students illustrate one of the...
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Ecological Organization

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
Students examine the concepts in the ecological organization unit.  For this ecological lesson students explore news articles that have to do with the study of ecology. 
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Publisher Brochures

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students create brochures on subjects they are studying in Publisher. For this nonfiction writing lesson, students use Publisher to create a brochure telling all the main ideas of a topic they are studying. Students use text boxes, fonts...
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What Would Happen If ... A Study of a Scandinavian Glacier

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students read an article about changes is the landforms in Scandinavia. They identify the main ideas. They eliminate or combine to make 4-7 main ideas. Finally students write about what they predict happen share, and discuss.
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National Research Center for Career and Technical Education

STEM: Lou-Vee Air Car

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
A comprehensive activity on acceleration awaits your physicists and engineers! Two YouTube videos pique their interest, then sample F=ma problems are worked and graphed. The highlight of the activity is the building of a Lou-Vee air car!...
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National Research Center for Career and Technical Education

Hospitality and Tourism 1: Safety and Sanitation

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Math and science come alive in this career-related lesson plan on sanitation. Along the way, learners explore bacterial growth rates using exponential notation and graphs. A link to a very brief, but vivid video shows just how quickly...
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Global Warming

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students explore global warming. In this science lesson, students research global warming. Students work in small groups to create a presentation about global warming.