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Decision Making, Take a Seat or Get off the Bus

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore the positive and negative consequences of choosing to fight against discrimination. They read the story of Rosa Parks. Students discuss the movement against segregation. Students read other books about...
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Mapping Out A Summary

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students summarize a selected piece of fiction text. After reviewing the correct way to read silently, students read a chapter in the novel they are currently reading. They write a chapter summary using a story map and the process...
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Summarization Mapping

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students observe and demonstrate the strategy of summarizing the main idea. They discuss six rules of summarizing, and observe the teacher summarizing the first chapter of the novel "The Incredible Journey." Students then read chapter...
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Reading Comprehension: The Very Hungry Caterpillar

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students draw a picture, make words, and respond to short answer questions about The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
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It's All in the Making: Our Local Organizations

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars study African American nonprofit organizations. In this nonprofit organizations lesson, students discuss African American organizations. Young scholars research the NAACP and NUL website. Students design posters for both...
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Word Map-- The Latin Root "spect"

For Students 5th - 6th
In this language arts learning exercise, students examine a colorful poster showing about 100 words which share the root "spect" from the Latin "spectare" which means to look. This very colorful poster has each word in a different color...
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Mapping Tanzania

For Students 4th - 8th
In this Tanzania worksheet, students label countries, cities, landmarks, rivers, and more that make up Tanzania. Students label 10 items.
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Making Headlines

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Learners identify acts of kindness in the news. In this random acts of kindness lesson, students discuss kindness, find a news article about an act of kindness that took place in another country, locate the country on a map, and write a...
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Route Map Lesson Plan

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students read and make a route map by following step by step directions. They identify and make legends.
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Making Personal Maps

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students study maps and become familiar with how to use one.  In this investigative lesson students create a map of an area and provide a legend. 
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Minnesota-China Connections: Mental Maps

For Teachers K - 6th
Students examine the concept of mental mapping. They draw a map of their school, before and after touring the space they draw. Then they draw mental maps of China and Minnesota, before and after seeing actual maps of the areas.
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Lets Put Delaware On The Map

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students compare and contrast historical and modern maps of Delaware. Through class discussion and group activities, students analyze maps and make comparisons. Each group participates in a game to aid in discerning the similarities...
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Mapping Your Local Community

For Teachers 1st
First graders take a walking tour of their community to discover the names of numbered locations on a premade map. They then, create their own map of the community on the computer using Kidspiration software.
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Geography: Mapping Newspaper Coverage

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students examine the locations of stories appearing in newspapers and determine where to assign reporters. Using various maps, they connect the stories to the correct maps and create charts of the story locations. Students explain their...
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Making a Region Map of a State

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders create salt maps of a state and indicate its regions. They include topographical elements including mountains, valleys, lowlands and major water bodies and a compass rose.
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Mental Mapping Hangman

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students participate in mental mapping hangman activity. They choose the name of a country from a hat, draw that country on the board including at least one physical feature produced by nature or humans while not using any speech while...
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Mental Maps

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students analyze and evaluate how they mentally organize information. They participate in a visualization exercise, create a sketch of a mental map of their neighborhood, state, country, and the world, and complete a Mental Map Checklist.
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Creating a Thematic Map Using S'COOL Data

For Teachers 8th - 9th
Students observe weather patterns, collect data, and make a weather predictions for various locations on a map.
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Route To School Mapping Assignment

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students create a map showing the route from home to school. Students include a legend, compass, label buildings, and color the map route on the map. They write out specific directions.
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Tooling Around Arizona: Reading Arizona Maps

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students study geography. In this Arizona maps lesson, students develop their map reading skills. They have class discussions and work independently with various copies of Arizona maps to practice those skills. This lesson mentions...
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Mapping the Ocean Floor

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students study the bottom structure of underwater habitats and how they can be mapped.
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Mapping a Stream

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Young scholars map an actual local waterway. They create full color scale drawings that include windfalls, plant cover, streambed composition, and landmarks such as trees, boulders, and slumps. This is a long-term project that involves...
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Tactile Maps

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students make a map of an assigned area (state, country, etc.) using a 3-D pictorial-tactile representation of the features to be included. They also learn to create a pictorial- tactile representation of their knowledge of a region, and...
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Mapping Animal Behavior

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Pupils use stickers and graph paper to map cricket movement.

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