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Artfully Searching for Treasure

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Search for artwork using online museum databases. Young artists will create their own online art treasure hunts based on a specific theme and set of criteria.
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If You Build It, They Will Come

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students, in groups, develop a new sports team, design a multi-use stadium for the team, and promote a special event at the stadium.
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Biologically Altered (B/A Fish)

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Learners complete a variety of activities as they examine the ethics involved in biologically altering fish. They hold a mock town meeting in which they determine whether or not a transgenic aquaculture should be allowed to locate in...
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The Urban Explosion

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students investigate the uncontrolled development of the world's major cities. They define key vocabulary terms, view and discuss video excerpts, and complete a project that involves drawing a "perfect city," developing a plan to...
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Isamu Noguchi/Stone Sculpture

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students examine the art and history of Japan and use it to help them conceptualize and create a work of art that reveals something about their own culture. They examine, interpret and analyze Noguchi's work and reveal information...
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Create the Ideal City

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners examine the significance of city planning. They analyze maps, develop a crossword puzzle using vocabulary terms, and create a diagram of an ideal city and describe the features that make it healthy for the economy, the...
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Great Lakes Ecology

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders identify the Great Lakes, and describe the habitat of life of a loon. They are able to point to and explain one of the major river systems that enters the Great Lakes with a focus on the Clinton River and the food webs...
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Heroes and Heroines: King David, Julius Caesar, Cleopatra and Napoleon

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students identify and examine four heroes from history and imaginative literature. They discuss the characteristics of a hero and share perceptions of what makes a hero. By comparing and analyzing a few historical and literary figures,...
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Patterns and Shapes in Our Community

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Students explore shapes and patterns found in their own community. They identify shapes and patterns in photographs, and listen to a book about shapes. Students then examine Paul Klee paintings for shapes and patterns, and create a...
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For Public Display

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students compare three works of art to understand how juxtaposition can express a point of view. They brainstorm topics of interest to them and their respective communities that could act as a springboard for curating individual exhibits...
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Relative Masses

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate relative mass using 8 different items. In this relative masses lesson plan, students discuss as a class John Dalton's atomic theory. They take the masses of the 8 items and record their data. They discuss relative...
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Properties of Matter

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers investigate the properties of matter. For this properties of matter lesson, students observe containers of different metals and discuss their properties including density. High schoolers find the density of an unknown...
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Mining an Ore

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers investigate how to determine the percent composition of a mineral in an ore. In this mining an ore lesson plan, students use chocolate chips cookies to represent an ore and they remove precious minerals (the chocolate...
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From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students listen to From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil F. Frankweiler and discuss wants and needs.  In this iincome and expenses lesson, students relate the adventures of the children in the book to a real life financial situation....
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Cook Me Up Some Equations

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students study a variety of math concepts in the context of cooking up a meal. For this math lesson, students calculate surface area and volume. They draw and interpret different types of graphs.
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Endocrine Disruptors in Our Drinking Water: Should We Be Concerned?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the different hormone contaminants in the water supply. In this math lesson plan, students analyze data tables and graphs. They demonstrate exponential growth and decay using frog populations.
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Gravity: A Relatively Heavy Subject

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students examine planetary movement and its relation to the tide.In this gravity lesson students describe how and why the high and low tides change every day.
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The Life and Work of Jacob Lawrence

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Black History Month provides a time to talk about the accomplishments of African Americans like Jacob Lawrence.
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Homeschooling Chronicles - Summer Book Ideas

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
With summer reading programs in full swing at local libraries, here are some selections you can use to pique everyone's interest.
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Adjectives in Stories

For Teachers 4th - 5th
In this adjectives worksheet, learners match adjectives with descriptions of different types of stories. Students then read a news report and fill in the spaces with adjectives that begin with the specified letters.
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Find Someone

For Teachers 2nd - 7th
Your class will participate in a series of math vocabulary activities to learn about parallel lines. They find people using a math list and connect math words in the context of sentences. They also read the math words in the example...
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Calgary Response to Growth

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Learners read about some of the ways that the city of Calgary has responded to urban growth. They determine that seemingly simple decisions about how to curtail growth are, in fact, quite challenging. They critique and propose some...
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Jack the Ripper: Limitations of the Police Force

For Students 8th - 9th
In this British law enforcement worksheet, students learn why police had such difficulty tracking down and capturing 'Jack the Ripper' in the Whitechapel murders of 1888. Three questions are listed for students to complete.
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Just the Facts, Ma'am

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students use tables of content, chapter titles, and key words as a strategy for organizing non-fiction information. They write a paragraph with a partner using information from a graphic organizer.

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