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Homes Around the World
Pupils investigate houses and homes from around the world and create a map collage. They compare how the homes are similar and different and why houses match the weather and geography.
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You Too Can Haiku
Students explore the country of Japan. For this international studies lesson, students utilize their geography skills to locate Japan on a map. Students explore some Japanese customs and communities. Students use descriptive...
Beauty and Joy of Computing
Combining List Operations
Use list operations to modify an earlier version of Tic Tac Toe. The fourth lab in a series of five has pupils combine list operations to build more powerful operations. They take a project from a previous unit and enhance it to keep...
Mathematics Assessment Project
Meal Out
Middle schoolers identify an equation in one variable that models a restaurant order. They then solve the equation to determine the number of people who had each type of meal.
Teaching Adapted PE
Locomotor and Object Control Stations
Develop children's basic locomotor and object control skills with an invigorating Adaptive PE lesson. A series of four, timed stations engaged the class in playing a game of Twister, walking on a balance beam,...
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Types of Transportation
Students study different types of transportation including specialized trucks. In this transportation lesson, students look at a landscape picture map (not included) and identify all of the modes of transportation they see. They see...
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Mapping Seamounts in the Gulf of Alaska
Students describe major topographic features on the Patton Seamount, and interpret two-dimensional topographic data. They create three-dimensional models of landforms from two-dimensional topographic data.
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Using Story Structure to Enhance Comprehension
In these story structure worksheets, students review story structure and learn how to use story maps to help with their reading comprehension. Students review an example story map and then study three different graphic organizer versions...
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When You're Hot, You're Not!!
Students investigate volcanoes. In this landforms lesson plan, students locate two volcanoes on a world map. Students compare and contrast the types of volcanoes by using various Internet sites.
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Using Graphic Organizers for Sensemaking
Students create concept maps in order to assess the information that they have gathered during research. They study the concept map to determine if the research is complete.
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Europe Before and after WWI
Eighth graders compare and contrast maps of Europe before and after World War I. In this World War I lesson, 8th graders color and label maps of Europe prior to the war and after it. The historical maps can be accessed online.
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Mapping Where Animals Live
In this animal mapping worksheet, learners read a short passage about amphibians and reptiles in New York State, then use a set of maps to answer related questions.
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World Map and Globe-Equator, North Pole, and South Pole
Students identify the Equator, North Pole, and South Pole on a map. In this geography lesson, students use a world map and circle the North and South Pole. Students locate the Equator on a globe and use a map marker to highlight it.
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Let's Take a Trip!
Sixth graders plan trip for family of four, and choose best travel plan by studying maps, considering different routes, and visiting Web sites to get airline and travel schedules.
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Forecasting Weather
In this weather worksheet, students use a weather map to determine which station has the lowest and highest pressure. Then they describe the various types of fronts that can come through a location. Students also explain the difference...
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Globe Skills Lesson 1 Some Early American Cultures
Students apply their knowledge of geography. In this geography skills lesson, students read brief selections regarding early Americans. Students respond to the questions included in the self-guided map skills lesson.
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An Early American Culture
Students identify the locations of the Hopewell culture. In this map skills lesson, students use a globe to mark several locations of the Hopewell culture.
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Social Studies:
Young scholars identify various types of breads fromother countries and locate them on maps. In small groups, they make story maps of books that mention bread and make books resembling sandwiches. Students have a bread tasting party...
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The Writing Process
For this writing as a process worksheet, students explore how writing is a process instead of a finished piece of work. Students also test out how to mind map a story.
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Clouds
Young scholars observe and record different types of clouds. They use a cloud chart to discuss the three cloud types to see if students can identify the clouds they drew.
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Third Grade Social Studies-Multiple Choice Activity
In this grade 3 social studies learning exercise, 3rd graders complete a set of 25 questions about a variety of topics including geography, types of communities, map and questions about the environment.
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Route Map Lesson Plan
Students read and make a route map by following step by step directions. They identify and make legends.
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Tooling Around Arizona: Reading Arizona Maps
Students study geography. In this Arizona maps lesson, students develop their map reading skills. They have class discussions and work independently with various copies of Arizona maps to practice those skills. This lesson mentions...
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Global Studies I: Rise of Civilizations
Providing a list of presentations on a variety of topics focused on the development of civilizations throughout the world, this resource could be used in both an upper elementary or high school class. A few important topics covered are...