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Repeat After Me: Repetition in the Visual Arts

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify repetition in the composition of a variety of art works, and how it is used to create a unified composition. They discuss compositional structure of a painting.
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Introduction to Philanthropy-Recognizing Good Citizenship and Philanthropy in Our Community

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore the term philanthropy and recognize it in everyday situations. They list three philanthropic activities occurring in their own home, in their classroom, or in their school. Students identify at least one act they might...
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Giving Beyond Measure-The Diary of Anne Frank

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students read and analyze the play "The Diary of Anne Frank" based on the book of the same name. They identify philanthropic concepts and values in the play and discuss the ways in which specific characters actions affect the events....
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Becoming American: The Chinese Experience

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students examine the experience of Chinese American immigrants in the PBS series BECOMING AMERICAN. ESL learners investigate and explore their own identities within a multicultural context.
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A Letter to Terry Fox

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students research information about Terry Fox on the Internet. They write a personal letter to Terry Fox.
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What Is Happening To My Species?

For Teachers K - 5th
Students select and research an animal that lives in the rainforest of Manu, Peru. They watch and discuss a video, create masks and costumes to role-play various rainforest animals, conduct research, and write a short story of their...
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American Culture in a Musical Setting

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students discover the significance of similarities and contrasts of three separate cultures of the United States through music. They take out maps and trace the expedition of the Spanish along the coasts of Mexico and North and South...
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Three D Constellations

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students address a major misconception in astronomy, the understanding of scale. The lesson is designed to introduce students to both celestial coordinates and to the first rung on the distance determination ladder, parallax.
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The Battle Over Reconstruction: The Aftermath of Reconstruction

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the Reconstruction Era. In this American history lesson, students explore the condition of the United States following the Civil War as they read statistical data. Students analyze the Reconstruction policies to...
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Got a Problem? Let's Solve It! Lesson 1:

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate how problem solving skills contribute to philanthropy. In this animal welfare lesson, students use problem solving skills to make suggestions about how to solve an issue regarding the humane treatment of an animal.
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Producing a skit for the morning announcements

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students produce a skit to appear on their morning announcement that is in lined with their franchise topic. In this producing lesson plan, students produce a 2 minute skit including originating, scripting, editing, directing, and...
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Phaedo

For Students 10th - 12th
In this online interactive history worksheet, students respond to 10 short answer and essay questions about Phaedo by Plato. Students may check some of their answers on the interactive worksheet. 
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Scientific Notation and Metric Prefixes

For Students 9th - 11th
For this Algebra I/Algebra II worksheet, students convert between scientific and standard notation and examine the link between scientific notation and the metric system prefixes.  The five page worksheet contains five multi-part...
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Symbiotic Strategies

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the different interspecies relationships namely mutualistic, commensal and parasitic. In this ecology lesson, students investigate an ecosystem disrupted by humans. They formulate an action plan to save it and present...
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Investigation the Derivatives of Some Common Functions

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Students investigate the derivative of a function.  In this calculus lesson, students explore the derivatives of sine, cosine, natural log, and natural exponential functions.  The lesson promotes the idea of the derivative as a...
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Time, Talent, and Treasure

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students look at how time, talent, and treasure are parts of stewardship and philanthropy. In this stewardship and philanthropy instructional activity, students complete a Time/Talent/Treasure Survey before discussing the answers in a...
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WikiLeaks: High-tech terrorists? Or Journalists?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars investigate the credibility of WikiLeaks.  In this history lesson, students read three WikiLeak articles, then answer questions that relate to each article.
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Simulating the Legislative Process

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students research and simulate a debate of an issue. They simulate proposing a bill to the legislature.
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Como lo veo

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Learners pretend there is breaking news in their local area. After reading other eye-witness accounts, they identify the components of an article of this type. They write their own eye-witness account, share them with the class and...
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What is a Pest?

For Teachers K - 6th
Students investigate whether rabbits should be considered pests even though they make good pets. They extend this to determine what, when, and where other organisms are considered to be pests, and examine why the concept of a pest is a...
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A Little Reminder to Take With You

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers use information already gathered on a specific public health issue to create a public service message in the form of a bookmark. They consult multiple sources to compile sufficient information to create the public service...
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Elders As Resources

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students engage in a lesson that uses discussion groups for communication. The focus of the lesson is upon the respect for authority that should be given to older adults. Students engage in class discussion about the information that can...
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Canadian History: City In Transition

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders create an electronic presentation documenting information about St. John, New Brunswick, Canada. Using research from an interactive web exhibit, 12th graders create a PowerPoint presentation documenting the human...
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A Tale of Two Towns

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students gain and apply knowledge of life in their own community and compare specific aspects of it to life in other communities. They work in small groups to fill out a questionnaire about life in their community, and email it to e-pals...