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Whose God?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate religious freedom in the U.S. They watch and discuss a Bill Moyers NOW video, take a Freedom of Religion quiz, write an essay, and participate in a mock trial and debate.
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Using Team Games Tournaments

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students apply Team Games Tournaments, a cooperative studying strategy developed at Johns Hopkins University. They utilize the games as an assessment alternative and/or as a review technique.
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Using Team Games Tournaments

For Teachers 3rd - 9th
Students review the unit on evolution and natural selection by playing a card game. Students take turns drawing a card from the stack and reading the question out aloud. The reader gives an answer. The other students, in turn may pass or...
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Searching for China: A Full WebQuest

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Young scholars research the six key aspects of Chinese culture. They examine problems and issues from different perspectives and look in to the nature of international relations in an interdependent world. All of this is accomplished by...
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Classification and Identification

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students, after exploring and analyzing diagrammatic and taxonomic keys and their association to marine sciences, identify and classify objects and organisms based on visual attributes/characteristics. They research and create their own...
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Acids, Bases, and Buffers

For Students 7th - 12th
In this acids and bases worksheet, students test the pH of different solutions to determine if it is basic or acidic. Students complete 7 short answer questions based on their results.
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Measuring the Heat Energy of a Chemical Change

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the Law of Conservation of Energy and the relationship between heat and temperature. For this heat energy and chemical changes lesson, students observe a candle heating a paper cup of water and make predictions about...
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Properties of Matter

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the properties of matter. In this properties of matter lesson plan, students observe containers of different metals and discuss their properties including density. Students find the density of an unknown metal and of...
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Getting A Charge Out of the Sky

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students investigate electricity from the sky. In this electricity instructional activity, students participate in an experiment to simulate the electric charges from the sky. Students discuss results.
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Facing History and Ourselves

Emmett Till: Examining the Choices People Made

For Teachers 9th - 12th
The choices made by Roy Bryant and J.W. Millam, the men who murdered Emmett Till in 1955, are usually the ones people ponder when they examine the case. But other individuals made choices that contributed to the event and its subsequent...
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Design Project: Intercom System

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
In this electrical worksheet students design an intercom circuit and answer 2 open-ended questions about the volume control and microphone of the intercom. This worksheet can be printed and the answers to the questions are available...
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It's a Gas - Natural Gas

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students use plastic bottles, water, and condiment packets to simulate how natural gas comes from decaying ocean plants and animals. In this natural gas lesson plan, students also fill out lab packets and answer exit questions.
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Scrabble Problem

For Students 4th
In this algebra worksheet, 4th graders play a game of scrabble using equations. They use the rules for scrabble when solving the equations.
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How We See Things

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students study light. In this lesson on light, students discuss how flat and angled mirrors reflect light and draw a picture showing how a mirror reflects light into an eye. 
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Dividing by 3's

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders review and practice strategies for solving division problems. In this division by 3's lesson, 3rd graders play games, use an interactive whiteboard, create flashcards, and solve word problems. 
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Dividing by 4's

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore math functions by completing problem solving activities. In this division lesson, 3rd graders utilize the division strategies acquired earlier to divide multiple digit numbers by 4's. Students complete problems on...
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Permutations and Combinations

For Students 11th - 12th
In this permutations and combinations worksheet, learners solve 10 different problems that include determining the permutation and combination of each problem. First, they determine the number of 4 digit combinations that can be made if...
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Coordinating Conjunctions

For Students 4th - 6th
In this coordinating conjunctions worksheet, students identify independent clauses and determine usage as showing agreement, disagreement, or reason. In this multiple choice, fill in the blank, and short answer worksheet, students write...
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Finding Mass in the Cosmos

For Students 9th - 11th
In this finding mass in the cosmos worksheet, students use the equations for the force of gravity, the centrifugal force pushing a planet outwards and the speed of a planet to solve 2 problems. They find the mass of primary bodies given...
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Theories, Hypothesis, Laws, Facts & Beliefs

For Students 8th - 10th
In this scientific statements worksheet, students are given 35 statements and they are to identify if each statement is a fact, law, hypothesis, theory or belief.
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Why Do People Migrate?

For Students 5th - 8th
For this migration worksheet, students complete tasks about migration including short answer questions, look at pictures, fill in the blanks, and more. Students complete 11 tasks total.
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Can an Astronaut on Mars Distinguish Earth from its Moon?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners explore the possibility of being on Mars and being able to identify the Earth.  In this space lesson students complete a set of calculations to see if this is possible. 
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou: Fun Trivia Quiz

For Students 8th - 12th
This Fun Trivia interactive, online quiz may be engaging for readers who want to self-assess their basic understanding of Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; however, I do not recommend it as a class assignment given the lack of...
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Brown vs. Board of Education and NAACP

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders examine the issues surrounding Brown vs. Board of Education.  In this American Government lesson, 11th graders study the key civil rights legislation passed in 1964 and 1965.

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