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COOPERATION BLOCKS
Students follow oral instructions in order to make a pattern with wooden blocks.
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What's Your Style?
Fifth graders explore how different people have different styles of learning and which style of learning best suites them.
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Catching On To Cooperation
Learners give examples where they were to cooperate with others. They work together in groups to create something given the materials they have. They discuss how the project went afterwards.
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Nationalism and the Olympics
Learners discuss the topic of nationalism in the Olympics. After viewing video segments, they discuss how politics and nationalism have influenced the Olympic Games in various ways. They also examine the main reasons why a country...
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Tools of the Trade
Young scholars create and then play a game similar to Memory, which encourages them to recall what they have learned about different occupations and the related tools.
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Freeze
Students practice recognizing and getting into proper position when playing defense.
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Freeze
Middle schoolers practice recognizing and getting into proper position when playing basketball defense.
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Shark
Students practice the strategies of putting one's back or side between the ball and the defense, as well as switching the ball to the hand away from the defense when moving with the basketball.
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Geographic Themes From The Air: MOVEMENT
Young scholars observe a slide showing a shopping mall and the surrounding transportation network from an aerial perspective. They are asked to determine where stoplights would be located and predict future stoplight intersections.
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Declaration of Independence
Twelfth graders summarize sections of the Declaration of Independence and share their interpretations with classmates. They write essays on the Declaration or an essay tracing the rights of minorities from the Revolution to the present.
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Oscar's Garbage Can
Students are arranged in a circle with two students inside the circle. They try to clean out Oscar's garbage can while the ones outside the circle try to throw the objects back in.
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An Introduction To Material Sciences
Students investigate the concept of molecular structure. They describe the behavior of simulated molecules and identify any dislocations in crystalline structures. They also define various related vocabulary words and use them in...
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Attaining Career Goals
High schoolers explore career options available to them. They explore several careers and their requirements. Students create an action plan to help them attain their career goals. This lesson is intended for high schoolers acquiring...
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Introduction to Creative Thinking and Dr. de Bono's Thinking Methods
Middle schoolers become more familiar with the setting of the lesson plan. They know who Dr. de Bono is and what he invented. Students know the lessons ground rules. They have sparked their creativity to be stimulated.
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THE EARTH FROM ABOVE
Students comprehend the geographic themes of location, movement, and human-environment interaction. They identify ways in which individuals depend upon each other within their community. Students identify examples of linkages and the...
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Garbage: Why Don't You Do Something With This Stuff? (Grades 7-8)
Learners outline and discuss the steps necessary to tackle an environmental problem. They understand the process of recycling paper and discuss the importance of recycling efforts in fighting environmental problem.
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Introduction to Yoga
Students are introduced to yoga for fitness and relaxation. Over the course of the lesson plan, students practice various yoga poses and relaxation methods. They complete two minute yoga stations after all of the poses have been...
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Protecting the Herd
Students simulate the spread of a fictitious disease using an internet-based simulation. In this biology lesson, students predict the factors that could affect epidemic. They investigate these prediction using computer simulation.
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Earth History Part II
Eighth graders hypothesize what caused the break up of continents. In this earth science lesson, 8th graders study about the events that took place during Mesozoic and Cenozoic Era. They reconstruct a supercontinent and report their...
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Establshing Class Rules
Second graders review the importance of rules, the consequences that follow broken rules, and the establishment that everyone plays an important role in order for the classroom or community to be safe and orderly.
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How Things Fly
Students observe photographs of selected twentieth-century aircraft at the National Air and Space Museum and note differences in the design of aircraft wings, fuselages, and engines.
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Carbons to Computers - 3
High schoolers develop interviewing techniques--organize ideas and materials; record and summarize data; develop hypotheses about information collected; present results.
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Paper Structures
Students demonstrate that material strength varies with shape and arrangement.