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Facial Tattoos or Face Painting

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students use a grid-like method to create a life-size self-portrait from a 3X5 black and white photo. They explore the different customs and rituals surrounding face painting from ancient through modern civilizations. Students create a...
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Life of a Logger

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students are introduced to the work and lives of 19th century lumberjacks through a living history slide show presentation. They compare and contrast life 150 years ago with the present. Students describe the history of logging in...
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What Makes Time Tick, or Has the Industrial Revolution Really Made Clocks Go Faster?

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore the concept of time both historically and in their own lives. Students count the number of times they refer to a clock and the number of scheduled and unscheduled activities in their lives. Students discuss how the...
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Native Americans During the 19th and 20th Centuries

For Teachers 7th - 11th
Young scholars explore major events in Native American history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In this American history lesson, students listen to lectures, examine photographs, and analyze music regarding Native American...
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Canoe and Kayak

For Teachers 4th - Higher Ed
Students explore canoes and kayaks. In this canoe and kayak lesson, students research the history, parts, and sport of the canoe and kayak.  Students then practice how to use a paddle for each boat, and go on a field trip in order to use...
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Shinto, Japan's First Religion

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students participate in centers activities that enrich understanding of Japanese culture, history, geography, art, and religion.
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Deadly Dancing: Failure Proof Field Trips

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students are given an opportunity to role play a particular period of American History. They engage in a field trip that is then reflected upon and further research is done in the class. Their final project is to act out a play they...
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Cypress/Tupelo Swamps

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Young scholars study the geologic history of terrain, soils, and drainage patterns. They recognize ecological processes that determine the dynamic nature of habitats. They investigate the influence of human activity on the landscape.
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Low-country Rice Planting and Cooking

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders compare the use of rice in the 1700s to the modern use of rice. In this instructional activity examining the importance of rice in US history, 8th graders learn about the role of rice in the early 1700s and compare the use...
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Energy

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Young scholars see that energy is everywhere in nature - in the light of the sun, in wind, in falling water and erupting volcanoes. Without energy, there is no life. This lesson provides many good ideas across the curriculum to study...
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Pre-WWII Pacific W/Japan

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders explain how the islands/countries contributed to Japan's war effort. They study the concept of location and determine how natural resources were a large factor in Japan's trade.
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Essential to Autumn: Line, Shape, Color, Texture, Pattern, Rhythm, Emphasis, Movement, Balance, and Unity

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore the environment by learning about nature. In this art lesson, students go on a walk and find objects to help in creating a picture, or collage representing whatever season is being discussed. Students write similes or...
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Crossing the Oregon Trail

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students become familiar with the sacrifices that the migrants endured crossing the plains to the west. They experience some of the problem solving that the pioneers faced and pay the natural consequences of their choices.
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TEACHING OUR MANY GRANDCHILDREN

For Teachers K - 12th
Students study the connection between where Villages are set up and the natural resources nearby. They interact with Elders to gain historical appreciation of their culture and investigate how their Village came to be located where it is.
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Quilling

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students practice the art of quilling. They also practice how to do rolled art. They examine the history of the type of art and create their own quilling. They share them with the class.
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Science: Arsenic and Old Lace

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils read about specific instances of arsenic in history and share these stories with each other. They identify, after reading the articles and sharing, what role arsenic played, how arsenic enters the system and what its effects are....
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South Africa Story: Apartheid, Diamonds & Gold

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Young scholars explore South Africa. In this South Africa instructional activity, students investigate the natural resources of the nation and how they have impacted the culture and history of the nation. Young scholars also create a...
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Greek Mythology: All in the Family

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders compare/contrast the Greek myth to explain an aspect of nature. They create an explanatory myth about some aspect of nature and design a mythological business card using Microsoft Word.
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The New Canada Project

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students focus on one province/territory in Canada. They study the natural resources, location and geographical significance, physical geography, people, culture, climate, and the brief history.
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Iwo Jima: Forgotten Valor

For Teachers 4th
Students explore the nature of island combat on Iwo Jima during World War II. They examine the association between the Pacific Theater of World War II and Iwo Jima. Students evaluate Charles Lindberg's oral history, propaganda posters,...
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President Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt

For Students 5th - 6th
In this biography comprehension activity, students read a 3 page selection on President Roosevelt and answer 8 multiple choice question about the selection. The selection is a
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Renewable Resources: Ancient Civilizations

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students examine how ancient people used natural resources. In this renewable resource lesson, students will be put into 5 groups each focusing on a different past civilization. Each group will identify they types of resources their...
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Looking at French Decorative Arts: The Quest for True Porcelain

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students study the effects of production and consumption of goods on French society during the porcelain period.  In this history lesson students research the trade history of porcelain from Asia. 
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Fossil Hunt

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners ask questions about the nature of science as they experience a 'Fossil Hunt'. They reconstruct a book that has been literally destroyed, just as the fossil record has been changed by billions of years of geological processes.

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