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Prindle Institute for Ethics

My Dream of Martin Luther King

For Teachers Pre-K - 5th Standards
Conduct a book study of the story, My Dream of Martin Luther King by Faith Ringgold. Followng a read-aloud, scholars take part in philosophical discussions covering the topics of freedom, equality, race, and heroes. 
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Arcademics

Ducky Race

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
Scholars take part in a multiplayer game in which participants subtract facts to 12—the faster they solve problems, the faster they make their way around the track.
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Creating a Caring Culture: Appreciating the Diversity of Your School

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students explore community diversity. In this character education lesson, students read the book Is There Really a Human Race? discussing it with their classmates and teachers. Students design paper dolls to represent themselves and...
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Space Race Word Search

For Students 5th - 6th
In this space race worksheet, learners study the 18 words related to the 20th Century space race and Cold War. Students locate the words within the word search.
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Rover Races

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students identify the challenges encountered by astronauts in operating a planetary rover. In this space science lesson, students create a rover using their team members. They follow a command sequence from the driver and navigate...
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Baseball, Race and Ethnicity: Rounding the Bases

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Students consider Race and Ethnicity in baseball. In this American history lesson, students examine primary source images of American baseball. They then develop an original argument, pose historical questions and conduct Internet research.
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Race Car Activity

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students investigate linear functions.  In this linear functions lesson, students are given a situation where two race cars start at the same point.  Students have four graphs that they match to the race car scenario. ...
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Spelling Lesson Plan: Make a Word Race: Class Teams

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Young scholars practice their spelling words. In this spelling skills instructional activity, students play a game that requires them to race to the front of the classroom to spell their spelling words before the other team does.
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Design and Race a Solar Car

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students design, construct and evaluate a solar powered model car.  In this solar power lesson students compete in a "solar sprint" race once their car is created. 
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Race and Voting in the Segregated South

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers examine the history of African American voting rights. In this voting rights lesson, students listen to a lecture on African American voting rights between the years 1890 and 1965. High schoolers respond to discussion...
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Mr. E. Science

Manned Spaced Exploration: From Start to Gemini

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
Seven percent of Americans believe the moon landing was staged. The presentation covers manned space exploration from the beginning of the space race through the Gemini missions. The lesson is the 23rd in a set of 26.
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Solar Matters II- Ice Cube Race

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students discuss the methods of energy transfer. In this energy transfer activity, students use ice to demonstrate what happens when energy is transferred. Students complete a Science Journal page as an assessment.
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A Stranger Among Us

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders give their own definition to the terms race, religion, culture, character and ethnicity and write them on the board. As a class, they discuss the differences and similiarties between the terms. In groups, they complete a...
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Wall Reading

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students are given practice in scan reading and in revising verb forms. They are given copies of Worksheet 2. Students are told that they should answer all the questions on the Worksheet and that it is a 'race.' They use thier short-term...
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Cultural Diversity

For Teachers Higher Ed
Introducing the topic of cultural diversity and the social issues surrounding it, this presentation will get your students thinking about stereotypes involving race, gender, and sexual orientation. Affirmative action and positive and...
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American Chemical Society

Racing M&M Colors

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
More than anything, this is great practice in scientific inquiry. After discovering that the color coating of an M&M® dissolves in water during a preceding activity, investigators now question whether or not the color makes a...
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Arcademics

Grand Prix Multiplication

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
The race is on to multiply. Scholars use an online four-player racing game to practice their multiplication skills. Every time they correctly answer a multiple-choice question on multiplication facts within 100, their race cars move...
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Race To Win Project

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students develop proper work and personal skills that will enable them to become competent and confident adults. Students analyze basic nutritional habits. Students evaluate sport/athletic food patterns.
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Squeebles Addition & Subtraction

For Students K - 3rd Standards
The math monster is at it again, this time stealing all the cars and drivers that were to take part in the cart race. If their addition and subtraction facts are up to the challenge, young mathematicians can win the drivers' freedom...
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"In Defense of My Race and Country": African-American Soldiers on Why They Are Fighting

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Why would an African-American slave fight in the Civil War? Read and analyze primary source documents to understand the ex-slave perspective on fighting in the Union Army. Everything to complete this lesson is included.
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Tortoise and Hare Races

For Teachers K
Practice basic map skills with the story of The Tortoise and the Hare. After listening to the story, class members create a map that indicates the starting line, the path the animals took, where they stopped to rest, and the finish line....
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Board Game: Race to 100

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Who can get to 100 first?! It may be in the hands of chance, but either way kids will have to practice counting and adding along the way. Partners take turns rolling two dice and moving their game pieces that many spaces until one pupils...
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University of Iowa

Reading Racetrack Sight Word Activity

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Vroom! Get your learners reading as fast as race cars with an engaging Dolch sight words. As class members read the assigned words, they move along a race track to mark their progress.
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Human Origins: The Prehistoric Human Race

For Teachers 9th - 12th
When it comes to the origin of the human species students are full of misconceptions. Clear up the hominid confusion with this evolutionary activity focused on assisting students in understanding prehistoric man and his family tree....

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