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Dead Man Walking

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Students consider personal opinions about capital punishment and have an intelligent debate after reading Dead Man Walking by Sister Helen Prejean.
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Benthic Macroinvertebrates

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students survey and describe a stream ecosystem. They sample the benthic macroinvertebrate populations of a given stream and determine community structure through the use of the Chandler Index and a species diversity index.
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Exploring diversity: Finding ways to learn about our multi-cultural community

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students discuss ways to research our multicultural communities, set personal goals for learning about others, and outline a plan with specific goals to achieve their goals.
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Lesson One: Mark Twain and Will Rogers - American Originals

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students research the lives of Mark Twain and Will Rogers. They watch videos and research websites to find information and compile examples of each man's writings which they present to the class.
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Developing Cause & Effect Understanding in Severely Multiply

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students with severe multiple impairments determine ways to use a single access switch to create sounds and images on the computer screen. They follow a variety of teacher cues to access the sound card and images until they reach an...
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Six Dynamic Designs for Arts Integrated Curriculum

For Teachers K - 12th
Students create a recipe for a certain aspect of a culture. They create a culture that has never existed before. They analyze either dance, history, geography, history or the future of space exploration. They compare and contrast...
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pH Readings and Salinity Readings of Water From Three Locations Within the Neponset River Watershed

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders test the ph levels of water from three different water environments within the Neponset River Watershed. They discuss the three different water environments, take pH measurements of the three samples, and predict which...
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Habits Are Hard to Break

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Studens brainstorm ideas about the ways scientists think. In small groups, studentds create a definition for one or two "habits." Students develop a set of questions to be used by the entire class in a series of interviews. Students...
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Analyzing The Research Of The Earth

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the concept of technology. They are taught about various science applications and how the technology is used in the disciplines. Students pick a subject to research and then indicate the technologies related to it...
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Arab-Israeli conflict

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learners script an encounter between Iris, Ahmad and Elad. They imagine they meet on a train. Students discuss what argument might Ahmad and Iris have, and how would Elad and Mark try to resolve these? Learners then act out the meeting.
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Perception And The Interpretation of Experiences

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students describe a problem and propose alternative strategies for the solution. They use a model or drawing to visualize the solution to a problem. Students identify alternative factors to be considered when examining possible...
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Water Quality

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Learners are presented with a hypothetical situation to investigate the water quality of the James River. They are given data to analyze and put into the graphic organizer that is included to help solve the problem. The lesson includes...
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Whole Child: Parenting Skills

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students and parents participate in a variety of activities intended to develop both the growth of the child and the parenting skills of the adult. They role-play daily activities, manipulate dough, discuss the rights and...
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Is It A Crime To Be Gay?

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
Students stage a parliamentary committee hearing in the newly independent Eastern European country of Boldovistan. Role playing characters with differing attitudes towards homosexuality, students testify on legislation to abolish laws...
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Missing Macroinvertebrates

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the concept of a macroinvertebrate. They observe the presence of increases or decreases in population in order to test for factors that contribute to the extinction of a species. Students predict the likelihood of...
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Introduction to Macroinvertebrates

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders investigate the world of macroinvertebrates and identify the environmental stressors that threaten their existence. Outdoors, they role-play as stressors and invertebrates, with the intolerant species doing pushups, spins,...
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Celebrating Diversity in Iowa Schools

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Young scholars examine the effect of cultural diversity on themselves and their community. They create a presentation to be given at a multi-school diversity conference. After listening to various cultures speak, they compare and...
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Beliefs/Teachings of Islam

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students listen to a guest speaker lecture on the beliefs of Islam while taking down notes and complete a KWL chart in their notebook. They then discuss in pairs the differences and similarities they note etween Islam and their own...
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Two Major Feasts of Islam

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils explore two major feasts of Islam. They discuss the day of Idul-al-fitr. Students discuss the importance of the festivals to Muslims. They discuss the ways in which Muslims celebrate on these occasions. Pupils discuss what they...
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WEEDS ON THE WINDOWSILL

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Discuss the suffix "cide." Have students name words having this suffix (homicide, suicide, genocide). Ask students what all these words have in common. Then ask students to define the word "pesticide." (Pesticides control organisms that...
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Most Troublesome Exotic Invasive Plant Species Web Quest

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students participate in a Web Quest activity in which they identify common exotic invasive plant species of the Southern Appalachian Region. After identifying the top 10 exotic invasive species, they choose one to research in depth.
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CTBS Vocabulary Study Sheet Five

For Students 7th - 10th
In this vocabulary instructional activity, students provide the definition of 22 words. They also generate 4 synonyms and 2 antonyms for each word listed. Words include acquiesce, apathetic, expressive and more.
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Zoology Word Search Puzzle

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this science worksheet, students look for the words that are related to the concept of zoology that is reviewed in the sheet. They also acquire new vocabulary.
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Verb Patterns Pellmanism Game (Advanced)

For Teachers 7th - 9th
For this grammar worksheet, students participate in a Verb Patterns Pellmanism Game (Advanced) in teams of four. Students match up as many verb patterns from the thirty-nine verbs listed as they can.

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