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Mars Rover Races

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students simulate driving a rover in Mars. For this space science lesson, students navigate an obstacle while blindfolded and guided by verbal commands only. They assess the challenges encountered by astronauts in operating a rover.
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Snail Car

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students design and create robotic cars using Legos and the Robolab program. They hold a "snail race" where the slowest car that can be determined to be actually moving is the winner.
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Mosaic America on Film: Fact Versus Fiction

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders define race, ethnic group, and culture. They identify the ways in which words are used in political cartoons and examine the way visual elements in a cartoon determine the meaning of words and enhance their impact. They...
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Trash Bashing

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students define trash, garbage, or solid waste, discuss ways of disposing of trash, list examples of biodegradable materials, and have trash relay race in order to sort trash into appropriate containers labeled biodegradable, reusable,...
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Constancy and Change

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders investigate how objects can move in different ways. They move in different ways across the room and develop a class list of movement words. Students also conduct a measuring motion experiment, create a bar graph for the...
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Coin Codes

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Young scholars work on cracking coin codes in honor of the Navajo Code Talkers Medal. Students review the handout on Crack the Code. Young scholars race to see who can crack the code the fastest.
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The Sharecrop System , Yesterday and Today

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders are able to define sharecropping, wage labor and labor gangs. They identify races and economic classes of people involved in sharecropping. Students determine the economic and physical geographic circumstances that led...
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Disease & Epidemics: Architects of History

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Young scholars explore disease and its relationship to history and literature. They investigate issues that range from early biological warfare and historical disease treatments, to observing today's race for the cure against current...
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The Cotillion or One Good Bull is Half the Herd, a Black Arts Movement novel by John O. Killens

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students study late twentieth-century African American satirical literature as well as its cultural antecedents. they analyze and discuss, within the contexts of race and gender, the social criticism of the middle classes presented by...
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Emmett Till: Confronting the Murder

For Teachers 9th - 12th
The 1955 murder of Emmett Till is often regarded as the catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement of the 20th century. Learn more about the brutal crime—and, as many believe, the miscarriage of justice—that began a national conversation...
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Vietnamese Americans: Voice and Identity

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the concept that one's identity is imposed by others, such as one's family, friends, classmates, society, age, race, gender and socioeconomic status. They assess a poem pertaining to Vietnamese American identity and...
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BELT-ABOUTS Lesson 1

For Teachers K - 12th
Students explain how safety belts prevent injury. They identify three other safety features in a vehicle. Students discuss how fast 40 miles per hour is. They discuss how high a five story building is. Students discuss other types...
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Betting Game--Who's the Winner?

For Students 5th - 6th
In this betting game of odds learning exercise, students review and discuss what odds mean and then play a game with a racing post and a ratio fact and learning exercise.
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Historical Scavenger Hunts

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate the impact of historical events. In this historical scavenger hunt lesson, students examine photographs of a local monument that zoom in on details. Students record their impressions regarding the photos. Students...
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Aerobic Bowling

For Teachers K - 5th
Students participate in a bowling game for accuracy, speed and cardiovascular exercise. In this bowling aerobics instructional activity, students race in teams to underhand throw a bowling ball accurately. Students calculate their points...
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Alaska Virtual Field Trip

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students participate in an on-line virtual field trip to the state of Alaska. In this U.S. Geography lesson, students research several Internet sites dealing with travel to Alaska and activities to participate in. Students create story...
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The Union is Perpetual: Lincoln is Elected

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students view primary documents about the race for President in the time of Abraham Lincoln.  In this election lesson, students prepare arguments for and against Lincoln using an analysis sheet.  Students create a poster or...
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Talking About the Past

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explore communications by discussing deceased individuals. In this past tense activity, students analyze which verbs to use when speaking of a person who is no longer living. Students read a story about the race car driver...
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Who's Afraid of the Big, Bad Wolf?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students compare wolves' behaviors to those of the human race.  In this wolf instructional activity students write a story that will show that wolves are either good or evil.
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Surface Friction and Wear Characteristics of Common Materials

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify the factors affecting friction. In this physics lesson, students construct their own rocket car and race them. They graph the average speeds and discuss how lubricants affect friction between rubbing surfaces.
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Ideas that Lead to Probability

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students explore the concept of probability. In this probability activity, students use random number generators to determine probabilities of events. Students discuss if certain probable events are fair. Students determine fair ways to...
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Acceleration

For Teachers 8th - 10th
The mechanics of rollercoasters, and the acceleration and velocities reached with the different kinds, are outlined in this presentation. Although short, this would be a great starter for a class working with building rollercoasters or...
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Complex Number Maze

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
This is a to-the-point complex number skills worksheet with a fun addition of completing a maze. Learners solve problems to determine if answers are imaginary or not, in order to work their way through the maze. An average...
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Turtle Races

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this subject and verb agreement worksheet, students write the words are or is to correctly complete each sentence. Students objective is to enhance their understanding of subject and verb agreement in singular and plural subjects.

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