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Thaw in the Cold War: Eisenhower and Khrushchev at Gettysburg

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students discover how President Eisenhower's brand of diplomacy at this Pennsylvania farm temporarily eased the tensions of the Cold War.
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Eating on a Budget

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students are "given" $25.00 to spend at a restaurant. Using the Internet, they must "order" a complete 4 course meal while staying within their budget.
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"Pigs Will Be Pigs" by Amy Axelrod

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students add, subtract, and multiply amounts of money.
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Positively Precise Organization

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders go online to critique the organization of student writing. They access the Yahooligans website to view the writing pieces. They utilize a worksheet imbedded in this plan which guides their scoring.
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Skittles and Springs

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students experiment to discover the relationship between the stretch of a spring and the amount of weight attached to the spring using Skittles. They use a CBR and a graphing calculator to gather data.
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Thunderstorms: A Recipe

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students discover the "recipe" for a thunderstorm. they discuss the "ingrediants" needed to create a thunderstorm and then research a related topic (radar, convection, etc.) and create a webpage about that topic.
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Picture Sentences

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders create sentences using word wall or spelling words. For this literacy lesson, 2nd graders type their sentences and attach a clip art picture that coordinates with the word or sentence.
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What Trout Need

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students investigate the important components for a healthy trout habitat. In this fish habitat lesson, students discuss how the aquarium will simulate a trout's environment in nature. Students complete a trout information sheet to set...
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Getting to Know You

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore different types of poetry and illustrate their own experiences through creating their own poem. In this getting to know you lesson, 3rd graders create and recite their poems with a self-portrait.
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Math Made Easy

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students evaluate word problems.  For this problem solving lesson, students are presented with word problems requiring graphing skills and students work independently to solve.
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Nutrition and Fast Food: Making Informed Choices

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners identify the components of a balanced diet and their importance to good health. Students research their favorite types of fast food to determine how healthy they really are. Links to websites of popular fast food companies are...
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A Study of Plants

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils study and become familiar with parts of a plant by using multi-media resources. They publish a story about plants using a word processing program and include new plant vocabulary that they have learned.
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Come One, Come All

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners analyze information from core map and other sources and construct routes from New York and Boston to Cincinnati as they might have existed in 1835.
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Genres in Literature

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students analyze and differentiate between various genres of literature. They view a slideshow, take a true/false quiz, create an Idea Pad file, and create an idea map of the various genres.
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Space Trader and Economics

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students use handheld computer with the appropriate software to explore economic skills. They purchase and sell items, travel to planets, and earn enough money to purchase a moon by playing a computer based game.
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Space Trader And Economics

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students' play a game applying different economic and game terms. In the game, the students' are to travel to 4 planets which provide the best resources for increasing their money to purchase a moon in the end. The students' keep track...
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Initial Consonant Clusters -1

For Students 1st - 3rd
For this literacy worksheet, students find the words to complete the crossword puzzle. They are focusing on the concept of consonant clusters.
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I Am Special and You Are Special Too

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students discover how everyone is special in his or her own way. In this character traits lesson, students demonstrate how they are special by drawing a picture or writing. Students listen orally to the book We Are All Alike...We Are All...
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Nutrition: One Hot Topic!

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students learn the content of the food groups and are better prepared to maintain a healthy diet and lifestyle. Students identify the main food groups and list content examples. Students create a cookbook of new and healthy snacks.
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Writing a Fictional Narrative

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders write a fictional narrative using the computer. They can use files to help them focus on including a beginning, middle and end, characters, setting and plot or planning a story by answering questions.
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Iraq: The Challenge of Securing the Peace

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students, in groups, are assigned a policy option. One of the other groups assumes the role of the President and his advisors or of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
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Loss of Wetlands: Subsidence

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Students observe subsidence and the effect it has on wetlands with a classroom demonstration. They think about the impact of global warming and the sea level and how it affects the marsh.
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Family Album "A Patchwork Quilt"

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders list of four important life events They create a quilt square for creating a whole class quilt. This project allows students to be creative and none of the squares look the same.
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What I Can Do And See At Fiesta

For Teachers 1st
First graders create a three page booklet about Fiesta. They use Kid Works 2 to create a project with illustrations and text.

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