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Are Cellphones Killing Honeybees?

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students read an article about how honeybee are sensitive to the electromagnetic fields generated by cellphones. In this ESL activity, students work as partners to complete a table of information relating to the many bee species in...
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Looks Like Respect, Sounds Like Respect, Feels Like

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine philanthropy through art using their senses. In this philanthropy lesson, students investigate what respect looks like, sounds like and feels like using their senses. They talk about diversity and tolerance before...
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Scientific Inquiry

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students make inferences about what activities occur at different places in school. They form a hypothesis as to how space is used. They simulate how archeaologists explore past people by designing and conducting a research project.
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Late Bloomers

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students demonstrate an understanding that individuals grow at various rates. For this health lesson, students read Leo, the Late Bloomer and identify ways to be tolerant of others. Students record the height of classmates and graph the...
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Asset Led versus Market Led Marketing

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students make a distinction between asset-led and market-led business approaches. The context used is that of British Airways (BA). BA has faced a number of challenges in the last ten years and the strategies developed have, in some...
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Same, More, Fewer

For Teachers 1st
In this mathematics worksheet, 1st graders color each circle red and draw one blue circle for each red one. Then they circle more, fewer, or same to identify which circles are which, red and blue.
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"Adopt an Outcrop"

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students "adopts" a different outcrop or road cut, describing and interpreting both the outcrop scale features and hand specimens. They build their confidence in their ability to describe and interpret outcrop geology. Students are...
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Cemetery Geology

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students examine the chemical and physical weathering process of different rocks in a cemetery based on dates on the stones. Students discover the susceptibility of different rock types to weathering.
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What is Money? Learn the Role of Money in a Free Market System

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students view a seashell and listen as the teacher explains that these were sometimes used as money. They listen as the teacher lectures on medium of exchange, barter, and commodity. Students determine the number of chickens it would...
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What Genre Am I?

For Teachers 1st
First graders differentiate between different pieces of literary genres by participating in a hands-on activity. This includes a student assessment sheet.
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Smart Snacking Dragon

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders participate in activities that focus on making healthy snack choices.
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What's planning permission?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate land regulations. In groups students explore how local councillors grant planning permission and how land is regulated. Students role play making decisions on a planning committee. They discuss why a land use...
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Studying Aquifers in Outcrop

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students describe two or more different rock types found in outcrop. Students look specifically at the hydro-geologic properties of the rocks and complete the lab with a paper explaining a scientific phenomenon in layperson terms.
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Welcome to Populations!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students define what population is in their own words. In this biology instructional activity, students explain different ways to measure population density. They interpret population graphs.
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Human Population Growth Simulation

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students simulate the growth of human population. In this biology lesson, students explore different perspectives on this issue. They write a reflection at the end of the activity.
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Who Turned the Lights Out?

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students discover the life cycle of butterfly by observing its growth from egg to caterpillar and the formation of its chrysalis. Students conduct an experiment in which they design housing for the chrysalises which are either in full...
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Doors to Knowledge

For Teachers K
Students identify symbols on a pylon and explain why the names of the Great TEachers the symbols represent. They interpret what religion is to them and sing a song about religion lead by the teacher. Finally, students construct a...
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September 11, 2001

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders discuss one thing that makes them feel special. They read the book "We're Different, We're the Same" and discuss the differences they saw in the people in the book. They discuss how they would treat others who are different...
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Respect Each Other at School

For Students 4th - 5th
In this social studies worksheet, students learn to respect each other at school. Students read the information on this poster, list their unique qualities and list ways that students are different.
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You Could Be a Banker

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils examine the careers that are available at financial institutions. They ask questions to visitors from these institutions who come to speak about their career. They also identify different job descriptions.
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We Can Read It Together!

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students practice various skills in order to help children to learn the skill of reading. The activity emphasizes the importance of reading to young children on a regular basis. The skills of repetition of key words and phrases are...
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Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: Stories To Be Told

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students listen to stories about the tradegies of Hurricane Katrina and Rita. Using their own experiences from the hurricanes, they try to put their own story into words. They are to focusing on getting the information and their feelings...
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Where We Live

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Young scholars become aware of the different homes in which people may live. They create a simple bar graph to compare the dwellings of their classmates. Students draw pictures of their own home and describe the details of the home to be...
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The Smacking Debate

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students compare and contrast the United States laws with other countries laws on spanking children. After reading an article, they discuss how adults and children are treated differently within the law. In groups, they compare and...