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Introduction to Aseptic Techniques

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students study bacteria and aseptic microbiology laboratory techniques. They discover how to pour, label, streak, seal and store plates in an incubator and articulate what they have learned via an informational laboratory poster. .
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Drawing a "Life Map"

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Learners create an autobiography. In this writing lesson plan, students use a life map as a graphic organizer to develop their autobiography.
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Bird Brained?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify general abilities that indicate animal cognitive intelligence. In this biology lesson, students create an intelligence testing challenge for ravens. They compare its ability to that of a crow.
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The Power of Persuasion

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Learners explore the power of persuasion. In a classroom setting, students discuss incentives, testimonials and deceptive pricing schemes that are used to influence others. After observing professionally made infomercials, learners...
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Here's an Instant Activity for December 20, 2004

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Help learners improve their spelling skills by completing a word analysis activity. They complete the instant activity by finding the hidden words inside each given word. There is a menu of skill ideas and various ways suggested to...
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Counting Numbers: Four

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Young scholars practice counting to four. In this counting to four lesson, students access an e-book at "I Save A Tree.com" where they count items up to four. They examine the text and images which can be seen in both Spanish and English.
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SAY IT WITH DNA: Protein Synthesis Tutorial

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders explore protein synthesis. In this DNA lesson students complete a worksheet and a DNA lab activity. 
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DNA Chips

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers explore issues surrounding DNA microarray technology. They focus on a single area of biomedical research to help them explain how science, people, ethics, and history all fit together. They analyze gene-expression data.
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Ted Hughes "Pike"

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers analyze how a poet uses language to capture creatures and draft a poem on a 'sinister' animal. In this poetry analysis lesson, students read Ted Hughes' poem 'Pike' and analyze pictures of pike fish. Middle schoolers use...
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Solving Polynomial Equations

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students demonstrate how to use spreadsheets as a tool for analyzing, visualizing and solving mathematical problems. Students obtain fundamental grasp of cubic equations and other polynomial equations.
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Harriet The Spy

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders investigate the style of diary writing as its own genre of literature. They read Harriet The Spy in order to have a text for this literature study. Students use the skill of prediction to preview the story, and then...
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Making Movie Storyboards

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars explore the importance of images in telling a story in film, analyze movie clips and identify some visual cues that help them explain the story; students work collaboratively to storyboard a passage from a book and present...
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GET'N JIGGY WITH THE JITTERBUG

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders research the history of the jitterbug dance through an interactive group project. The goal of the lesson is to get them to execute the dance steps independently with little outside help from the teacher. The steps are...
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Analyzing Key Ideas and Details in Nonfiction

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Learners explore nonfiction texts. In this language arts lesson, students read a nonfiction text and make predictions. Learners identify facts and opinions in the text and draw conclusions as they read.
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That Was Then, This Is Now

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Learners examine the price of food over time. They analyze charts, perform math operations and compare and contrast data about the price of food. They complete worksheets while interperting the charts.
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Water and Ice

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore water and ice. In this 3 states of matter lesson, students work with a partner to observe, illustrate, and describe the characteristics of an ice cube in a cup. The ice cube is observed again in 15 minutes and changes...
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Sky 2: Shadows

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore space science by participating in a shadow experiment. In this sky observation lesson, students identify how the sun creates different sized shadows by moving across the horizon. Students utilize yard sticks, markers,...
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Making a Case for Beginning Wigh Suprasegmental Features in Pronunciation

For Teachers Higher Ed
Pupils explore the ways in which voice quality and intonation can convey meaning.
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Counting on Measurement

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore measurement. They measure by counting non-standard units. Students use a variety of non-standard units to predict and measure volume of various containers using rice.
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How Banks Create Money

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students participate in a simulation game to discover the role of banks in creating checkbook money through lending practices. They play a lending and borrowing game and use a money multipiler equation to solve problems associated with...
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Native American Friendship Dance

For Teachers All
The performing arts offer artistic perception, creative expression, historical and cultural context and aesthetic valuing. This dance helps students understand dance history and develops cultural awareness. Students are given the...
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Narrative Cartoons

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students compare and contrast the traditional superhero cartoon with a narrative cartoon. Students research water resources and usage in Africa and create original narrative cartoons showcasing their findings.
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Big Magic Squares

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students discover that magic squares are interesting objects in both mathematics proper and in recreational mathematics. So they are objects that students should have heard about and experienced.
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Social Movements in American Politics

For Students 8th - 12th
In this term paper assignment worksheet, learners follow the provided steps and outline that requires them to research and write a paper about social movements in American politics.