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All The Way to Timbuktu

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students discuss the concept of historic preservation and relate it to their own families and communities. After reading an article, they discuss the efforts of Mali to preserve their history. Using the internet, they research one...
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Cartoons for the Classroom: Drawing the Line

For Students 8th - 12th
In this current events instructional activity, students read about the attributes of political and editorial cartoonists. Students then respond to 2 short answer questions.
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Field Trips Can Inspire Students to Write Creatively

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Fieldtrips can lead to a variety of writing experiences for students.
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Know Your Local Government

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students explore their local govenment structure and the people who hold various positions of power.
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A Trip to Sully Plantation

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders have a better understanding of life in colonial Virginia. The students compare and contrast their life today with the life of colonial Students. Each child or small group of students design a project comparing the two time...
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Career Connections

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students research information to create a career projects where technological skills will be utilized. In this career projects lesson, students create a project relating to a selected career of personal interest.
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Drink It Up???

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners research and record facts about well, lake, and tap water. They increase their computer skills for research, creating a spreadsheet, and word processing.
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Picture This

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students create a descriptive paragraph about their past or their heritage and provide a picture to go along with it. In this past and heritage lesson plan, students share their paragraph with the class.
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Design Technology- Grow Your Own Grub

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students design a protective cover for outdoor plants. In this agricultural instructional activity, students use chicken wire, plastic sheeting, and empty bottles to construct a cover for lettuce leaves. Students take digital photos of...
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Make Your Own Sketchbook

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students create and assemble a sketchbook from assorted materials. They use various media to create the cover design of the sketchbook, then create sketch ideas for the weekly sketches.
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Ariann's Nutrition Expedition Adventures Remembered

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders respond in their nutrition journals to a prompt about the importance of the five food groups.
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People of the Desert

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students study the importance of caring for desert water sources. For this desert lesson, students investigate water resources that are available in deserts. They listen to a read aloud about the Sonoran Desert before working in groups...
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Science Safari: Energy Resources

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students pick a topic that is related to energy and power companies, tools, and careers. They organize information, photos, illustrations, video, or other graphics into a presentation.
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Progressive Story Using the Internet for Research

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Students explore Internet sites about Egypt and use them as background for a progressive story using Kid Pix, import grafics from the Internet to include in their story, and collect sites visited into group of "Hot Links" using...
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Surfin' the U.S.A. with Road Rabbit

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students take virtual field trips to places in the U.S.A. in conjunction with the stops made by the class mascot, Road Rabbit. As Road Rabbit travels to his destination(s) via snail mail, so do the students via the Internet.
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Ready-to-Go! Blank Board Books

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create a board book from a blank template. Using a specific theme, they decorate their book to show an idea. They share their creations with the class and receive constructive criticism.
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Dissecting the Media

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine an editorial point of view in journalism and explore how this contributes to the West's understanding of events in the Middle East. They discuss the concepts of objectivity and subjectivity, and how tone and vocabulary,...
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Make a Table

For Students 4th
For this charting worksheet, 4th graders complete a table. Using the information provided, students fill in the missing data and complete 2 short answer questions.
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Who Lives Here?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers explore the concept of philanthropy. In this environmental stewardship lesson, students examine water conservation efforts in desert regions as they act as members of a city council committee investigating the issue in a...
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Picture Word Book

For Teachers Pre-K
Students create a book. In this vocabulary and word identification lesson, students make a book by gluing pictures on construction paper, then the teacher writes words in the book to label each picture.
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Growth of Islam

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders explore the beliefs of Muslims. In this Islam lesson, 7th graders research Internet and print sources to prepare for a mock foreign exchange trip to Syria. Students research Islamic history and culture as well as the...
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Victorian Philosophies in the Connecticut River Valley: The Connection between Mind, Body, and Spirit

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders explore late 19th century concepts of physical and spiritual health, which includes spiritualist and conservation movements, heath tonics, the perceived relationship between climate and physical well being.
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Know Your Local Government

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Young scholars attend a local assembly meeting of local government officials and keep a journal of what they saw. In this assembly lesson plan, students also discuss government and how they think government can influence society.
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Deerfield Debates Its Future: What Constitutes Progress?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers explore the many resources that one can use to explore a community, the Colonial Revival movement, and how the industry and technology reshaped life in Deerfield the Connecticut River Valley.

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