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How Clean is the Water?

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Learners read about and discuss water and how it is used as a resource and how engineers use technology to preserve it. In this water lesson plan, students look at a picture of water treatment and tell what is wrong with the picture.
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Introduction to Bacteria

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Beginning biologists survey several websites to learn about the types, structure, motility, feeding habits, and reproductive methods of bacteria. All websites are linked to the lesson plan, so you can have individuals access it and click...
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The Election Connection

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners participate in a mock election. In this election activity, students vote online in a mock election, graph the results, and compare their results to the nationwide results.
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Career Education for Early Elementary Grades

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
It's never too early to connect children with the real world meaning of their work. A series of four one-hour sessions, plus a field trip, make up this unit on college and career readiness for first and second graders. After viewing a...
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Career Connections

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students use online self-assessment inventories to aid them in making career decisions. In this career decisions lesson, students visit the given website and identify their strengths and weaknesses. Students complete an online...
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Protests, Revolutions, and Democratic Change

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa. For this global issues lesson, students view video clips, conduct group research, and present their findings in group presentations about the unrest in Algeria, Bahrain,...
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Scientific Method Project

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers apply the scientific method and create a practical invention. In this science instructional activity, students design an original and practical invention and present the idea to the class. Class role plays the part of a...
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M&M Ratios

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore ratios. In this probability lesson plan, 3rd graders sort and count M&M's and identify the ratios of different colors. Students use the attached worksheet as an assessment.
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Health Is Not An Option

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore healthy lifestyles. In this health lesson, students brainstorm various types of healthy and unhealthy lifestyles and write them on cards. Students play a game and determine if the card they draw is a healthy lifestyle or...
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Digital History

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders analyze different types of photographs. In this Digital Records instructional activity, 10th graders create a digital history of a specific topic in World History. Students present their story boards to the class. 
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Introduce Your Class at Open House with Microsoft Windows Movie Maker

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students explore script writing. In this beginning of the year "building classroom community" lesson, students write several autobiographical sentences and introduce themselves on videotape. Students share the class introduction, which...
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Experimental Probability

For Teachers 6th
While just a simple lesson plan, this activity on experimental probability could provide a way to connect this concept to real life. Learners begin by participating in a probability activity using a coin, and then move on to create their...
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The Winter of Our Discontent

For Teachers 10th - 12th
The resource gives some basic concepts concerning the title of the novel, basic literary elements, student developed assessments, and a philosophical notion concerning honesty in literature.  The instructors are shown where they can...
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Exploring Diversity: What We Share and How We Differ

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students discuss the amount of diversity at their school. They examine a culture other than their own and share it with their classmates. They discuss the importance of diversity to end the instructional activity.
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Juvenile Justice in Missouri

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students are introduced to the juvenile justice system in Missouri. Using the internet, they familiarize themselves with the law and identify their rights and responsibilities as juveniles. They review the certification and sentencing...
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Dissolved Oxygen and Temperature

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learners are shown how temperature affects dissolved oxygen and they create a graph showing this relationship. They think about the adaptations of animals to live in different water temperatures. Students test four different water...
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Dissolved Oxygen Introduction

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers are shown how dissolved oxygen enters the water. They are taught the difference between a water sample that has been exposed to the air and one that has not. Students brainstorm what organisms need to survive. They use...
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Is Our Water Healthy?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers test water for a least one chemical characteristic. They hypothesize how a storm event might change the chemical characteristics of a stream. Students collect water samples and use the chemical test to test the water.
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Aquatic Ecosystem Exploration

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars visit a local stream, pond, creek, or river and collect macroinvertebrates. They sort macroinvertebrates and identify each species using a dichotomous key. Students decide on trophic levels and construct a possible food...
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What If There's No Light?

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
young scholars discuss the importance of light and the consequences of living without it. Using a plant as a demonstration, students predict and observe what happens to a plant when it does not receive enough light. In groups, they...
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Runoff: Intro to Watersheds

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students are taught that a watershed is, what types of basic land cover are impermeable and permeable to water. They trace the flow of water around their school and around their home. Students determine what watershed their school is a...
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Invasives and Marsh Birds

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students are taught that invasive plant removal can have a variety of impacts. They are shown this by using graphs. Students view maps of vegetation change on Iona Island. They discuss implications of changes on marsh birds using data...
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Water Chestnut Graphing Activity

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students are taught how to format and enter data into an Excel spreadsheet. They make a graph and interpret graphed data. Students discuss possible impacts of water chestnut invasion. They graph data on water chestnut. Students report...
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Water Quality with Samples

For Teachers 6th - 11th
Students recognize whether one wants to drink water, swim in it, or for the health of the organisms living in it. They prepare different water samples to observe and collect samples regarding the water quality.

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