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Plants and Oxygen: Breathing

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Second graders gain an understanding of how plants produce oxygen and that the oxygen we breathe comes from trees and plants. After a lecture/demo, 2nd graders discuss the ways plants produce oxygen and the detrimental effects of cutting...
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World Wide Waterfalls

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners explore the difference between virtual and actual experience by creating Web sites about a nearby river.
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Trekking to Timbuktu: Mansa Musa Takes a Trip - Student Version

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders identify Mansa Musa and discuss his pilgrimage, explain how he related to leaders in the East, and describe decisions he made about his homeland. They discuss changes brought about in Mali as a result of his pilgrimage.
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Geography and World History

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students build off of their current knowledge of geography and world history, while being introduced to new concepts and ideas.
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Latex Helium Balloons: Any Alternatives?

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Pupils discuss the latex balloon release controversy and review suggested alternatives to the latex balloon.
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The Underground Railroad

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders work in teams to play a game that is based on the Underground Railroad in Delaware.
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Is the Earth Warming? a Test of the Effect of Increased Carbon Dioxide on the Thermal Properties of Air

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Pupils investigate the environmental and economic effects of increased carbon dioxide (CO2) content in the atmosphere.
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Poverty, Inequality and Income Distribution

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students view a PowerPoint presentation on poverty in the UK and then research and discuss different strategies available to governments for tackling poverty through fiscal policy.
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Will There Be Ozone Tomorrow

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners collect and analyze real time data. They make comparisons and determinations about the status of ozone in their local area and predict the Ozone level for the next day
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Transport

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students analyze wind barbs and determine which way the wind is blowing and how hard the wind is blowing. They access near real time wind data and pollutant animations to track the transport and destination of pollutants.
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Looking At Water: a Walking Field Trip

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders observe the effects of water on the soil and record those effect by drawing sketches of water erosion and conservation practices.
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Rice (Gohan) Observations

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders investigate rice or gohan as it's called in Japan in a couple of experiments. They tally the results.
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Growing Pains of the Yearling

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders read The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.
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Desegregating the Kentucky Public School System

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students watch a video which chronicles the struggle to desegregate Kentucky's schools. They write a paper on a given aspect of what they saw in the video.
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Ambush Warriors

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students identify four different categories of reptiles and explain how snakes deliver their venom to their prey.
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BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students explore how to build a bridge and test how much weight it can support.

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