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Discover How Trees Produce and Conserve Energy

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Learners discover the flow of energy from plants to humans, the importance of this and how the energy chain is effected.  In this informational lesson students will see how energy is produced and conserved by trees and how it can be...
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Unemployment in the UK

For Students 6th - 12th
In this unemployment worksheet, learners use the 16 sentences provided in the answer bank to complete a graphic organizer pertaining to unemployment in the United Kingdom.
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African American Inventors Study

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students learn about African American inventors. In this inventing lesson, students are assigned an African American inventor to research. Students work in pairs to complete their research. Students write a compare and contrast paragraph...
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Who Works for Nonprofit Organizations?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students research nonprofit jobs. In this nonprofit organizations lesson, students brainstorm jobs available at nonprofit organizations and listen to guest speakers talk about working for a nonprofit organization. Students focus on one...
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What's in My Water, and How Did it Get There?

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students analyze water samples to see the contaminants and then use the Internet to find the sources of the contamination.  In this investigative water instructional activity students analyze water and work together to solve the mystery...
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The Human Organism

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars discuss human emotions and mental health. In this mental and emotional health lesson, students write a short story regarding the "think and share" choice. Young scholars include emotion, the connection between feelings...
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Water and Ice

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students experiment with water and ice. In this states of matter instructional activity, students explore how water can change from a solid to a liquid and back again. They discuss and write about the results of the experiment in a...
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Walking the Talk

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students research production, consumptions, and disposal of everyday items and their ecological impacts. In this sustainable economics lesson, students discuss clothing and various items used everyday in groups. Students then study a...
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Advanced Sentence Completion 12

For Teachers 6th - 11th
For this sentence completion worksheet, students choose the best word(s) to complete each sentence from five possible answer choices.
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Genetic Engineering

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discuss the risks and benefits associated with biotechnology. In this biotechnology activity, students discuss the role of genes in the body and brainstorm ethical issues relating to biotechnology. They read about an ethical...
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Looking for the Bottom

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Secondary learners explore the economic indicators and the role they play in the US economy. Written for the 2008 economy, the lesson plan is adaptable to today's economic situation. Pupils discover economic indicators, analyze charts,...
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Percents

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Learners explore the concept of percents. In this percents lesson, students discuss the prefix cent and words that contain that prefix. Learners make bead necklaces and determine the percentages of certain beads in relation to the necklace.
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Triangulation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students calculate the triangulation of a box. In this triangulation lesson plan, students participate in an activity to find the calculate and then perform triangulations. They create a box and use formulas to determine the...
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Lesson 2: "To Elect Good Men": Woodrow Wilson and Latin America

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students analyze Woodrow Wilson's foreign policy. In this foreign policy lesson, students examine how the Wilson administration responded to civil unrest in Latin America.
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Worksheet
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Match Each Definition

For Students 4th - 6th
For this vocabulary worksheet, students match each definition in one column with the word or phrase it defines in another column. There are 12 words to match.
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Producing and Consuming

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders make a booklet. In this economics activity, 2nd graders define producers and consumers. They make an assembly line accordion booklet to demonstrate how producers and consumers work together to make and use goods.
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Cells Vocabulary Quiz

For Students 6th - 7th
In this cells vocabulary worksheet, students draw lines to match 12 words pertaining to cells to their meanings. Prior knowledge is assumed.
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Earth Pockets

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students identify the Earth's natural resources. In this Earth science lesson, students read the book The Great Kapok Tree and discuss types of natural resources. Students use categories such as wood, paper, and trees and list items that...
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The True "Cost of Cool!"

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders study hidden environmental costs in things we buy.  In this consumerism lesson students watch a video about consumerism and analyze advertisements in teen magazines. 
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Agriculture Careers

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students study the careers available in the agricultural field. In this agriculture field instructional activity, students study the jobs required to getting a food product into someone's kitchen. Students select an agriculture career...
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Caring for the Land

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Learners study soil management and issues relating to agriculture and the environment. In this agriculture and environment lesson, students define the terms farmer, environmentalist, and activist. Learners use a Venn diagram to compare...
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Solar Cell Simulation

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders describe how energy moves from the Sun to the photovoltaic cell to the wire and to the load. In this solar cell simulation lesson plan, 2nd graders demonstrate the movement of photons and electrons to emulate how solar...
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Hivernants: The Wintering Voyageurs

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students research the history of fur posts in North America. In this North American history lesson, students apply skills of historical interpretation by collecting and analyzing data from historic sources on the fur trade expansion.
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Efficiency Can Solve a Host of Problems

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the concept of efficiency. In this efficiency instructional activity, students read an article about efficiency in various industries such as health care, retail, and auto repair. Students identify a company that they...

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