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Clean Coal Technology

For Students 5th - 10th
In this clean coal worksheet, students click on the links to learn more about clean coal technology and answer short answer questions about it. Students complete 12 questions total.
Lesson Plan
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Presidential Election 2008:Making Decisions about Political Candidates

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students think critically about political candidates. In this election lesson plan, students research candidates and use information sources to explore their stands on issues.
Lesson Plan
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Energy and the Environment: What Can We Do?

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students consider the impacts of global warming and brainstorm ways to help decrease their contribution to the problem.  In this climate change lesson, students are exposed to facts concerning global warming and think of ways to...
Lesson Plan
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The Cuneiform Writing System in Ancient Mesopotamia: Emergence and Evolution

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students research the parallel development and complexity of writing and civilization in ancient Mesopotamia. In this ancient Mesopotamia lesson, students analyze the Cuneiform writing system in ancient Mesopotamia and how the...
Lesson Plan
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Comparing and Contrasting

For Teachers K - 1st
Students listen to the story "Bloomers" and discuss the differences between men and women in the past. They chart their guesses about women's rights in history.
Lesson Plan
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What Does It Mean?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils demonstrate an understanding of words with multiple meanings. They give the meaning for each "trunk" in the sentence.
Lesson Plan
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Female Artists

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners listen to excerpts from "History of Women Artists for Students" and discuss the artwork of three artists. They compare and contrast the styles of art and investigate a CD-Rom of famous artists.
Lesson Plan
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Earth Day

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders utilize technology to access, analyze, interpret and communicate information about Earth Day.
Lesson Plan
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A Birthday in Amsterdam

For Teachers K - 8th
Students view Rembrandt's etching, View of Amsterdam. They compare commerce and trade of 17th-century Amsterdam to modern day. They create self-portraits of themselves as children with birthday gifts during the 17th century.
Lesson Plan
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BEWARE OF POISONS

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students research and explore all the safety conditions to being exposed to poisons in real-world situations. They review/discuss/investigate about types, sources, effects and responses of poisons by creating general questions to pose to...
Lesson Plan
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My Son is Naughty

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Learners find factors of numbers; work systematically; and use logic to explain away certain possible number combinations. They then devise and use problem solving strategies to explore situations mathematically.
Lesson Plan
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Grab Hands and Run: Understanding Human Rights

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders read the novel Grab Hands and Run by Frances Temple. They explore the effects of war on human rights. Students explore the idea that human rights are protected by the United Nations. They identify the human rights that were...
Lesson Plan
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What Is A Dinosaur?

For Teachers K - 4th
Students use the question of "What is a dinosaur?" in order to establish the context for a class investigation. They use a variety of resources in order to gather information. Students compare and contrast the similarities or differences...
Lesson Plan
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The Greenhouse Effect

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Pupils complete a group experiment which simulates the greenhouse effect as well as compare the climate on Earth to the climate on Venus following a class discussion on the greenhouse effect.
Worksheet
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May Speech Puzzle

For Students 5th - 8th
For this word search worksheet, students discover terms related to speech. The words include speaking problems, parts of the mouth and speech techniques.
Online Course
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Language and Its Structure Iii: Semantics and Pragmatics

For Students 9th - 10th
A complete undergraduate level online course from MIT, originally taught in 2005. A Chinese version of the course is also available.
Study Guide
University of South Florida

Fcat Express: Semantic Feature Analysis

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Site provides extensive assistance in preparing 4th grade students for Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. This section on semantic features helps students recognize supporting details as they read.
Professional Doc
Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Semantic Gradients

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Use the strategy of determining semantic gradients (shades of meaning) to help students improve their vocabulary and understanding of related words.
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Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center

Wisconsin Rt I Center: Semantic Maps for Morphological Analysis [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Classroom teachers will learn about semantic maps to break words into meaningful word parts, an engaging instructional strategy tool. Teachers will learn how to implement semantic maps, understand how to measure progress with semantic...
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Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center

Wisconsin Rt I Center: Semantic Maps for Word Learning [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Classroom teachers will learn about semantic maps, an engaging instructional strategy tool. Teachers will learn how to implement semantic maps, understand how to measure progress with semantic maps, find research that supports semantic...
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Guided Comprehension: Semantic Analysis

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Lesson introduces students to comprehension of knowing how words work. Students learn semantic feature analysis and examine folktales, myths, and fables using this analysis to better understand these terms and texts.
Article
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Xml: Berners Lee and the Semantic Web Vision

For Students 9th - 10th
Read an article by XML highlighting a presentation by World Wide Web creator Tim Berners-Lee in which he describes his vision for the Semantic Web. Includes slides from Mr. Berners-Lee's talk.
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Semantic Feature Analysis

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The Semantic Feature Analysis strategy engages students in reading assignments by asking them to relate selected vocabulary to key features of the text. This technique uses a matrix to help students discover how one set of things is...
Study Guide
University of South Florida

Fcat Express: Semantic Feature Analysis Worksheet [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This is a worksheet in a pdf format on Semantic Feature Analysis. The worksheet, or matrix, is divided into boxes in three rows with four columns across.

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