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Moving On Up!

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students complete a game-like simulation to determine a career and salary. In groups, they collect information and decide what is the "best" city in which to live. They create a monthly budget for their "best" city based on salary from...
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Island Survival

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students participate in a simulation of life on a deserted island. They work with their group to develop an island survival plan and summarize it in a journal. Students use a worksheet and challenge cards to earn points. They will be...
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Virtual Earthquake

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students visit a website that features online interactive geology and biology simulations. They observe and estimate the amplitude of the largest wave and transfer the information to a nomogram. Based on the nomogram students will...
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Aviation

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders examine the main parts of an airplane and explain their functions. They inquire about a flight simulator. They study a flight plan and what happens when they move the flight controls. They view and keep a logbook.
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What Causes the Seasons?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students conduct experiment to examine how tilt of globe influences warming caused by lighted bulb. They monitor simulated warming of their city by sun in winter and in summer by using light bulb, interpret results, and submit lab report.
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Crash Test Smarties

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students share hypotheses about the variables needed to produce a collision between two moving objects. They simulate the impact of a moving object on an object that creates a spray of debris, and simulate a NASA Deep Impact study.
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A Good Government Is Hard to Build

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore the challenges that Iraqi leaders are facing while working to create a new government. They engage in a class simulation in which they create a new governing council to preside over their school.
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United We Stand

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students recreate and simulate the secession of the South during the Civil War by having their class secede from the school. They write an essay comparing and contrasting the similarities and differences of everyday life before and after...
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Floodplain Modeling

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars simulate the impact of fluctuating river volumes on structures and landforms. They experiment with table top-sized riverbed models and water. Students consider how human design can help mitigate the effects of a flood.
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Eruption!

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Learners role-play as villagers, the governor, volcanologists, or the press in a simulation about the possible threat of a nearby volcanic eruption.
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Infectious Disease Detectives

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students participate in a simulation of how diseases are transmitted. Each student holds a test tube, with only one containing the "disease" while the others have water. They move around the room until told to stop. Using droppers to...
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World Summit on Climate Change

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students work in small groups researching the impact of climate change on a particular country, and predict future impacts for this country. They simulate an international summit on climate change. Students understand the impact of the...
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"Children of Loneliness": Understanding the Immigrant Experience

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students research and enhance the Jewish immigrant experience to that of contemporary immigrants to sustain a connection to their personal family stories. A story is shared with the class and then a discussion follows on the possible...
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Be Direct - Oil Spills on Land

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students participate in an activity to simulate direct variation. In this oil spills on land lesson, students participate in a simulation using toilet paper and vegetable oil to explore the characteristics of direct variation. They...
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Fred the Fish -- A River Ran Wild

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
Students apply cause and effect relationships to water pollution in a stream. For this pollution lesson students recognize the importance of clean water in their daily lives. Students accompany "Fred the Fish" as he travels down stream....
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An Introduction to Mathematica and the "Birthday Problem"

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders determine the probability of two people in their class sharing the same birthday.  In this determining the probability of two people in their class sharing the same birthday problem lesson, 12th graders use...
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Segregation

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners consider the implications of prejudice. In this segregation instructional activity, students experience a simulation that has school staff favoring learners with blue eyes. Students discuss the simulation experience, watch "The...
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HIV/AIDS

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders discuss facts and myths about HIV transmission. In this biology lesson, 10th graders complete an HIV awareness poster and scavenger hunt. They simulate the transmission of the disease through a class activity.
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The Effects of Light Intensity and Wavelength on the Rate of Photosynthesis

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use an on line website to simulate the effects of light intensity and wavelength on photosynthesis. For this photosynthesis lesson plan, students determine how wavelength of light and intensity of light affect the rate at which...
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The Jelly Bean Problem

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students are challenged to eat some candy as a cell would need to do it. By solving this problem students simulate the cell process called endocytosis. They think about some of the problems that arise when a cell ingests food.
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Term Paths

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students follow several pathways using anatomical directions on a simulated "body" produced from a copy of a school building's fire evacuation plan.
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Paleontology: A Field Experience

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Young scholars go to a dig where they prospect for bones which simulate fossils. They encase the bones in plaster and transport them back to school for further investigation.
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Boston Massacre Trial

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars participate in trial simulation following the Boston Massacre in which they use core map A to help present their evidence and testimony.
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Moving the Earth

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders simulate the three primary types of fault movement lateral fault, reverse fault, and normal fault by positioning their hands and applying pressure to them to observe the similar action taking place in the Earth's crust.

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