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Copyright
Introduce your class to the concept of copyright with a series of activities. Pupils first learn about copyright laws and fair use, putting their knowledge to the test with a quick categorizing task. They then watch a video and answer...
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Detecting Lies & Harmful Links
Who and what can you trust online? How do you know? After viewing a pair of introductory videos on positive and safe online conduct, learners discuss the content and put it into practice during an online search activity about alien...
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Reporting - Safety and Abuse Tool
Keep your charges safe online with instruction on how to report problems on YouTube. After providing learners with information on the Safety and Abuse Tool, demonstrate how to use the tool and discuss the feature. In groups, learners...
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Tree Rings: Living Records of Climate
Open with a discussion on weather and climate and then explain how tree rings can provide scientists with information about the earth's past climate. Pupils analyze graphics of simulated tree rings from various US locations for the...
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Who Do You Want to Be?
Can posting art or music online lead to the career of your dreams? Inquisitive individuals consider their social media presence with a lesson plan from a series focusing on identity exploration and digital citizenship. Pairs put their...
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Cybersecurity, Phishing, and Spam
Take a serious look at an equally serious topic! Security scholars explore and discuss the methods hackers use to gain access to personal information during a well-written digital citizenship activity. Part of an extensive series, the...
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Respect and Boundaries
Respect is a must-have in healthy relationships! Pupils explore their boundaries and identify the elements of respect during a lesson from a library of digital citizenship activities. The teacher's resource section contains a printable...
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Passwords
Creating a strong password is easy ... but remembering it is a different story! Cyber scholars analyze the methods used by hackers to gain access to private information through a digital citizenship lesson. After learning more about...
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Characterization
In this story elements worksheet, students complete a graphic organizer about characterization. Students describe the character's words, personality, appearance and reputation. There are four bubbles within the graphic organizer to...
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Birth of the Cowboy
Students examine how the image of the cowboy changed at the turn of the century. They read about cowboys' shifting reputation at the turn of the century and connect popular perceptions of the cowboy to a trend in popular culture that...
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Students complete close reading and analysis activities for Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. In this literature analysis lesson, students complete multiple close reading and analysis activities to evaluate the 19th century story.
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Mr. Peabody's Apples
Students read Mr. Peabody's Apples. In this reading lesson, students complete pre-and post-reading activities to improve comprehension skills. Students role play scenes from the story to analyze.
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Pizza Counting
In this ingredients on a pizza worksheet, learners count how many mushrooms, pieces of meat and bell peppers they see on a pizza and then write each amount in the boxes provided.
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Sayings Quiz: Money
In this English idioms and sayings worksheet, students use the meanings of English idioms and sayings to complete sentences. Students can receive hints about each saying before checking their answers.
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The Ocean: A Watery World
Pupils discuss the proper clothing for the season. They make wind chimes to use as an indicator of movement of the air and observe and identify the various cloud formations. They determine the basic rules of storm safety and discuss...
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Dissecting Owl Pellets
Students examine owl pellets and what their diet consisted of, specifically rodents. This furthers their understanding of simple food chains as well as bone structure and identification.
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Five Themes of Geography and Current Events
Basically, pupils look for a current world event from a reputable source and identify the five themes of geography within it. Throughout the school year, they keep a notebook of these current events. A grading guideline is outlined, and...
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Investigation 8 - Weather Forecasts
Fourth graders examine how to predict and evaluate weather forecasts. Discuss with students why weather predictions are important to us. Ask them what people do after they hear a forecast. They brainstorm reasons forecasts are important...
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Investigating Othello: Peeling Away Layers of Meaning
Students analyze piece of literature by looking at it from one perspective and then by re-evaluating what they have discovered when other layers of meaning are added.
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ACID RAIN
Eighth graders, in groups, take on the role of either Biologist, Chemist, Health Scientist, or Economist. They complete a webquest in which they must decide what to do about a problem concerning the effects of acid rain. They make a...
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Reading My Hero Stories
Learners use the My Hero website to help them develop their reading skills. They create a KWL chart for the hero of their choice.
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The Research Report
Students brainstorm criteria for reliablility, currency, and accuracy of information. They research a given topic, write a research report then develop a bibliography of sources for the research report using the designated format.
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Forced Marriages VS. Arranged Marriages
Students create a role play about forced marriages versus arranged marriages. They record or script their role play and decide on the most important line they said in the role play.
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Tracking the Wild Ones
Students apply mathematic skills to discover the extent of the concern for endangered species. Students analyze graphs and look for trends in graphed results of endangered species on a global level.