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Photosynthetic Pictures--Are Worth More Than a Thousand Words

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students observe and examine how carbon dioxide, water, and light produce glucose/starch through a process called photosynthesis.
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The Internet Pizza Server - Creating Your Own Pizza

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students create their own pizza, "order" it from the Internet, and see digitized versions. They calculate the area of various size pizzas in order to do cost analysis to determine best buys.
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Bag It

For Teachers 3rd - Higher Ed
Students create a book report in a bag. They include items that explain the elements of the story and share them with the class.
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Lewis and Clark: Artful Recordings

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students examine the nature journals of Lewis and Clark. For this primary source analysis lesson, students research the journals that the members of the Corps of Discovery kept during the expedition and then conduct further research on...
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Amazing Facts about My City and State

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Learners investigate several sources to explore facts about their city and state. The location, population, history, landmarks, and main features of the area are unearthed in this experience.
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A Life Without Flight

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners explore impact of Ohio's aviation pioneers on life in America, discuss what life today would be like without people like the Wright Brothers, John Glenn, and Neil Armstrong, and brainstorm and research list of items that space...
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Enter Ophelia: Stage Directions, Promptbooks, and Film

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners review different film versions of the play, Hamlet, and compare what was presented to the actual stage directions given in the original Shakespearean version.
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Cell Size Changes

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers examine the behavior of living cells treated with different types of stimuli. They watch an online movie, examine wet mount slides under a microscope, take an online quiz, and analyze data.
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Environmental Health Hazards and Children

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students are introduced to the environmental hazards their community is facing. In groups, they develop a list of the ways humans have changed the Earth and how these changes have lead to environmental hazards. They record their...
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Football at Carlisle Indian School: A Tool for Assimilation?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers become familiar with procedures for helping Indians assimilate in the 1800's. In this history lesson plan  students explore how football helped Indians to assimilate in a positive way. Middle schoolers recognize the...
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Communications

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students incorporate different disciplines into this lesson. In this science lesson, students investigate the use of communicating without words, and how it is different than communicating with words. They discuss the pros and cons of...
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Employee Payroll Simulation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students simulate creating and calculating employees payrolls using hourly wages, deductions, and proper taxes.
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Problems and Solutions in Aircraft Design

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students watch demonstrations of paper folded designs that do and do not fly and discuss their observations. They identify problems that they, the Wright Brothers, or NASA scientists face when designing an aircraft, and identify...
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Regions Change

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine how geography can have an impact on change in a region. They discuss what their local area might be like in 50 years, and in pairs, select a situation and write a short story to describe how it changed from one thing to...
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Activity Plan Mixed Ages: Family Math

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students play with math. In this early childhood lesson plan, students create drawings of family members to use for math activities including counting, seriating, sorting, grouping, and sequencing.
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Going Beyond Basic Geometry Using Symmetry and Tesselations

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Using Bloom's Taxonomy you can help advanced students go beyond basic geometry.
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Travel Agent Presentation

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students participate in a role play as an employee of a country's tourism bureau. They research their country using a variety of resources and create a travel brochure encouraging travel to their country.
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Legends Old and New

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students listen to a Native American legend and discuss the basic elements of story. In small groups they read and analyze more legends from books and Websites. Then they compose and present an original legend.
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The Buffalo War: A Clash of Cultures

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students view a documentary on the different values and meaning placed on the buffalo. Examining various cultures, they link the attitudes to the treatment of the animal in the wild. They develop solutions to the conflict raised by the...
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Activity Plan 5-6: Book-Character Homes

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students use their creativity to build character homes. In this early childhood lesson plan, students develop creative-thinking, social, language, math, and motor skills as they work together to create buildings for characters from...
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World War II: The Pacific

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers explore the events in the pacific during World War II. In this World War II lesson, students use reference material to access information about significant locations in the War. Student debate the use of the atomic bomb to...
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The Art Of War

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars analyze the military, business, and political implications of Sun Tzu's book The Art of War. In this literature lesson, students read and discuss the novel prior to interviewing business people about business practices...
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Palestine Liberation Organization Worksheet

For Students 8th - 12th
In this Israeli-Palestinian conflict instructional activity, students respond to 20 short answer questions about the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).
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What is History? Timelines and Oral Histories

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students consider how we learn about the past and discuss how the framing of history is always done by the person who is telling it. They construct a personal and class timelines, compare two or more accounts of the same event and record...