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Locating the Salt Front

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students use Hudson River salinity data to create a line graph that shows the location of the salt front, and use math skills to explore how this location varies over time. They use the graph to estimate the location of the salt front...
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Rolling For Value

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students participate in a lesson to comprehend the concept of probability while rolling dice. They recognize patterns while making observations and recording the data for each roll. Students also review place values while playing a game...
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Dog Salmon Lesson Ten

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Studnets serve an afternoon tea in order to exhibit the Dog Salmon projects they completed. They take quizzes as a unit assessment.
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Daily Life in Ancient Egypt

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students explain how artwork can inform about a culture and its traditions. They pretend to be archaeologists who have just opened a tomb. They interpret the past based on what they discover.
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Coin Comparisons

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students analyze and compare symbols and their meanings on ancient Greek and contemporary coins.
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A Tale of Two Cities

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students research and compare Thebes to their hometown to explain how a city's geography, economy, climate, and culture affect its inhabitants.
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Ancient Abstraction

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students compare and debate how an ancient Greek sculpture is similar to modern art. Then they orally describe the cultural contributions of early Greek civilization and their relationship to the modern world.
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Honoring Leaders

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students design and compare monuments that honor an imaginary Roman emperor and a future American president. They explain how the monuments reflect the attributes of the person being honored.
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3-D Beginning Graphs

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore the concept of big and small. They collect objects from the classroom, sort them by size, and create a graph using Duplo stacking blocks.
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Fun Bones

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students learn different bones of the body while using various body awareness concepts.
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CREATE A FISH

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students watch a video that helps shows them how a diagram, flow chart, or blueprint can help them create a 3-d fish with the correct anatomy to live in a realistic environment.
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Our Home in the Milky Way

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students gain appreciation of the vastness of our galaxy by viewing an applet about the Milky Way. Students hypothesize about how long it would take to get from Earth to Pluto.
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Animals Kids 2

For Students 6th - 7th
In this vocabulary worksheet, students match the names of ten animals with their illustrations. The worksheet is intended to be used with English language learners.
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Animals 3

For Students 6th - 7th
In this vocabulary instructional activity, students match the names of ten animals with their pictures. The instructional activity is intended to be used with students who are learning English.
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Animals 4

For Students 6th - 7th
In this vocabulary worksheet, learners draw lines to match the ten animal names to their pictures. The worksheet is intended to be used with students who are learning English.
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Zebra, Zebra Where Are Your Stripes?

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students observe the embryological development in the zebrafish. Developmental hierarchy from three germ layers is studied in depth. Research is validated on the body plan of the embryo.
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Fossils: Clues to Ancient Life

For Teachers 4th - 8th
You can make your students amateur paleontologists with great fossil lesson plans.
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Daily Academic Language Development

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Five minute mini-lessons designed to expose learners to high-frequency academic language.
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Spiders! Scary or Nice?

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students participate in a variety of cross-curriculur activities in order to explore spiders.
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Newspaper Layout

For Students 6th - 12th
In this newspaper instructional activity, students follow the directions of this newspaper layout in order to create a newspaper. Students follow 5 sets of directions.
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Water Plan for Dryville

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Pupils use the internet to read about the water plan for Dryville. They work in small groups to develop a picture representation of each phase of the story. Students assemble their illustrations to create an entire illustrated edition of...
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Explorit's Tasty Food Quiz

For Students 5th - 6th
In this foods learning exercise, students complete a five question multiple choice online interactive learning exercise about foods that we eat.
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Animals from Afar

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars visualize the scope of the Roman empire by illustrating the geographic origins of various imported animals. They study how exotic animals were imported into Rome from the farthest regions of the empire.
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Human Expression

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students compare figurative works of art to determine what they say about the cultures that created them.