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Antarctica
Students explore the Antarctic continent, Australia's role in Antarctic exploration and development, the issues concerning Antarctica's future and the needs of the Antarctic community.
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Immigration, Where Do We Go From Here?
Students describe difference between immigration and emigration, and summarize impact that immigration and emigration have on a community.
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Woodland Animals and Their Habitat
Students explore the natural environment through a video and nature sounds tape. They keep journal's of the unit's activities and vocabulary terms. They play a web of interdependence game and compose a list of forest animals and write...
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Tornadoes
Students examine the characteristics of a tornado. They practice using new vocabulary and participate in a question and answer session. They use the internet to gather more specific information.
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All Aboard the Innovation Train
Students read "Next Stop for the Subway, a Fully Automated Future" from The New York Times and consider the effect of technology on their town or city. After discussing arguments for and against the new computer-based subway system in...
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The Civil War
Students, examine The Civil War, from a variety of perspectives and assignments. After taking notes, they can choose from creating a front page newspaper article describing the fall of Fort Sumter, discuss the pros and cons of fighting,...
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Brrrr! Expeditions to the North and South Poles
Students examine the first successful explorations of the North and South Poles, through a study of the four men who accomplished them. They present the fruits of their research on posters, or with PowerPoint presentations.
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Animal Bingo
Students discuss facts about animal habitats. For this animal lesson, students recall animal facts about habitats in an animal Bingo game. Teacher pieces and cards are already created and ready to print out.
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Mountain Pine Beetles
High schoolers research and develop power point presentations that answer the question, "What is changing our forests?" In this ecology lesson, students research the niche of Pine Beetles and their increased effect on the forests in...
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Zoo Poo
Learners use Internet research to determine the amount of carbon dioxide produced per unit energy for biomass and coal. For this alternative energy lesson, students research to find out how much energy and carbon dioxide several coal and...
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Oil and its Everyday Uses
Explore the properties of oil through an experiment. They use the scientific process to investigate oil, participate in experiments, watch videos,and use information from the internet to determine how oil has changed our...
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For Your Eyes Only
Students complete several activities in a unit related to the eye. In this eye lesson, students work in groups to research information about the human eye and create a multimedia presentation. They research anatomy of the eye, how the...
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Earthquakes: Getting Ready For The Big One
Students devise a plan to prepare a city for an earthquake. In this lesson plan on earthquakes, students differentiate between the different types of earthquakes, examine the impact they can have on a city, and write a proposal on how to...
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Seeing in 3D: Interpreting Two-Dimensional Diagrams of Three-Dimensional Objects
Students hone in on their skills at reading diagrams. For this dimensional lesson students collect information on the functions of organs then figure out how all the parts work together.
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Working With Hypotheses
In this science worksheet, students examine the topic in order to solidify knowledge covered in the curriculum using puzzles and creative games.
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Spelling Vocabulary Words with "PH"
In this completing the "ph" words with missing letters instructional activity, students read sentences with incomplete words, use the scrambled missing letters and context clues, and fill in the missing letters to complete the words and...
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Using Primary Sources in the Classroom
Students draw their own conclusions by studying documents created in the past.
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Probes, Exploration & Application
Students explore how a surface can be described without seeing it.
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Get Out of the Box
Third graders think outside the box with this instructional activity in organization through webbing. After a lecture/demo, 3rd graders utilize a worksheet imbedded in this plan which guides them through creating a writing web.
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All Around the Neighborhood - Part 3
Second graders illustrate the roles, responsibilities, and skills of community members and write a paragraph that summarizes the importance of those roles, responsibilities, and skills. They are asked: "What is a role?" Students are...
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The Vacation Can Be An Education
Fifth graders are given a worksheet in which they choose a location they would like to visit. As a class, they brainstorm a list on what needs to be done before they go on their trip and why it is important to have a plan. To end the...
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New York Times
Students explore current events. In this cross-curriculum lesson plan, students read and answer questions about the various articles included in the magazine.
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Too Many Tamales
Students investigate Mexican holiday celebrations and compare them to American Christmas holidays. They conduct a Mexican Christmas Scavenger Hunt. The lesson uses a streaming video in order to engage students in the main objectives.
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Comparative Geography II
Students engage in a research question of finding the effect of population density upon the use of land in a physical area. They also find the effect of how this can effect the lifestyles of the people who live there.