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Life Cycle Literature Briefs
Literature containing life cycle information is available from many sources. Several examples of this type of literature are listed below with a synopsis and sample questions for each. These examples have been taken from a variety of...
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Charting and Graphing Sales
Young scholars analyze and represent weekly sales figures using tables, bar graphs, and pie charts. They draw conclusions using bar graphs and pie charts. Students are told that each day at school they have the option of buying or...
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Project H.O.P.E. (Highlighting Opportunities for Potential Employment)
Young scholars explore career paths by creating a job scrapbook. In this employment lesson, students discuss what types of skills employers look for in the job market. Young scholars decide on a career they would like to...
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Job Shadow/Internship
Students identify a career field to research and complete a job shadow activity. In this career exploration lesson, students brainstorm a list of careers they are interested in and research them. Students participate in a job shadow of...
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Infusing Equity by Gender Into the Classroom: A Handbook of Classroom Practices
Students match their natural proclivities to possible future careers which are nontraditional for their genders. They further examine gender stereotypes through other activities.
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Taking Poll Information
Young scholars investigate the election and poll surveys. For this statistics lesson, students take poll information and analyze the data. They graph their data and make predictions and conjectures.
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All About Me Book
First graders create a book about themselves and their world. In this All About Me book lesson plan, 1st graders complete prewriting activities, along with sharing their books with others.
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Tuck Everlasting
Students use a rubric given to them to answer questions about the novel Tuck Everlasting. They may have to find ten words that are new to them, complete a Venn Diagram, respond to given prompts or complete a survey. The students...
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Maps as Models of Earth
Eighth graders use different types of maps to find locations and surface features. In this map-reading lesson students use a compass to find direction.
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Busy Fingers
Young scholars describe their favorite hobbies and pastimes and investigate those of others. They survey the range of hobbies and share them with a partner school abroad. They make a poster or website about hobbies and pastimes.
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Create a Career Flyer: Marine Mammal Rescue
Young scholars study prerequisites for a career. After they explore a selected career, students create a tri-fold flyer describing the positive aspects of the job. Young scholars include job description, skills, education, salary and...
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Cultural Characteristics
Pupils are introduced to the various types of cultures found in the world. Using the internet, they research a culture they are interested in and answer comprehension questions. In groups, they demonstrate in a PowerPoint presentation...
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Careers in Science
Students learn the trends in the current job market for scientists,
find where the jobs are, the range of salaries, and the job requirements.
They discover that scientists do some very interesting things, then
write a letter of...
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Reading Artifacts
Students explore and analyze categorizing objects, material culture artifacts, from a variety of perspectives, to consider the story behind each one. They research skills by assessing how to look at artifacts as cultural outsiders would....
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This Great Enterprise”: Theodore Roosevelt and the Panama Canal
Young scholars explore the implications of the "Great Enterprise." In this Panama Canal lesson, students listen to their instructor present a lecture regarding President Teddy Roosevelt and Panama Canal. Young scholars respond...
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Executive Decisions
Students explore the role of judges in Britain. For this current events lesson, students visit selected websites to discover the responsibilities of judges and the justice reform in Britain.
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Trips as Cheap as Chips
Young scholars take part in summer activities. In this field trip opportunities lesson, students may visit California Country Park, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Manchester Art Gallery, the Princess Diana Memorial Playground, or...
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Family Life Among the Ashanti of West Africa
Students examine the way of life of the Ashanti who live in West Africa. After locating the countries on a map, they are shown slides of artifacts to determine their uses. In groups, they compare and contrast the Ashanti's view of...
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Reading Aloud
Students practice their reading aloud skills. They examine different careers that focus on public speaking. They also gather new tips to practice when speaking aloud.
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Design an Island
Learners make a map of an imaginary island using the topographic symbols provided from a worksheet. Students place lakes, dwellins, reefs, etc. in areas where they would logically be located from understanding how the topography of an...
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Dear America: Letters Home From Vietnam A Study of the Vietnam Era
Students examine letters that US service people wrote to their family and friends while they served in Vietnam. They examine the daily hardships and the role of medical personnel and helicopters. They write letters in response to those...
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An Adaptable Four-Skill ESL Information-gap Acivity
Learners encounter a variety of grammar structures and vocabularies in the English language. Students get involved with teacher statistics as well with this lesson. Learners correlate facts thru chronological order steps. Students...
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Get a Life Project
Eighth graders participate in interdisciplinary career unit in which they explore alternate lives. Students assume roles, manage budgets, make decisions, and solve problems, Students then research challenges, develop solutions, and...
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Cultures of the Continent
Students explore the various cultures of North America. They examine the differences and similarities between an immigrant's homeland and the culture of Central Kentucky. Students discuss strategies to make the transition easier for...