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The Hobbit: An Overview of the Book and Author

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Readers of The Hobbit will share in the adventure with a brief overview of the life of J.R.R. Tolkien and the publishing history of the tale of Bilbo Baggins and his trip over the Edge of the Wild.
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Center for Northwestern Art: Featured Objects

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Each of the slides in this presentation provide learners with an image found at a northwestern art museum and a critical analysis of what can be seen in each piece. Learners can view this prior to a museum trip in order to build...
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Visiting the Arcade

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Second graders take a trip to the arcade in an activity that engages them in problem solving with money. Composed of three word problems, youngsters are instructed to determine various combinations to represent a given value by using...
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Sistine Chapel

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Can you imagine taking students on a field trip to the Sistine Chapel? Well, now you can let them explore the art, symbolism, and history of this amazing work of art. Learners will use their mouse to move about the chapel as if they...
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California Academy of Science

Pick Apart the Tree

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In only 30 minutes, your class will have increased their rainforest vocabulary. They visualize the things they have seen on a recent trip to a rainforest exhibit. Then, they create sentences for each of the rainforest-related vocabulary...
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Working at the Television Station

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
There's a lot that goes on behind the scenes of a local news program. Read this passage independently or as a whole class to learn about all the different people that work hard to bring us the news. Afterward, young learners determine...
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Middle School Computer Projects

Timeline of Your Life

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Pupils can use PowerPoint as a tool to create clear timelines that show their lives in relationship to historical events. Take a trip to the computer lab and share this page with your class. Class members can watch each video and follow...
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Parent Volunteer Sign-Up

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
Planning a field trip? Looking for parents to lead small groups or assist in the classroom? Use a sign-up form to gather volunteers. There is space for parent name, a student name, a phone number, and comments on availability. See the...
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Maine Content Literacy Project

Setting in "Hills Like White Elephants"

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Continue your study of the short story with the next lesson in this fourteen-lesson series. After wrapping up a study of "Hills Like White Elephants" through a quiz and discussion of the setting, learners are introduced to the final...
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Reader's Theater with Animal Masks for Preschoolers

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Take a trip to the farm with a fun preschool lesson! Kids decorate animal masks and participate in a reader's theater, based on different songs and additional props. 
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Running Out of Time: Problematic Situation

For Teachers 6th - 8th
What would you take with you if you were traveling on your own to a different place? A different time? Pupils decide individually and then in groups what the main character of Running Out of Time should take on her trip. Coming to a...
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Henry Ford Museum

Human Impact on Ecosystems

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
An environmenta science unit includes three lessons plus a cumulative project covering the ecosystem. Scholars follow the history of the Ford Rouge Factory from its construction on wetlands and how it destroyed the...
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Passport to Literacy

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders discuss with their partners what they would need to pack for an international trip and share their brainstormed ideas with the class making a web map. They then write paragraph detailing what they should take on the trip...
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Travel Log

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students gather memories and mementos of past journeys and create a trip journal. They write an essay describing their travels.
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Planning a Dream Vacation

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students identify and examine characteristics of a specific country, as well as what it would take to organize a trip there.
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Train Talk

For Teachers 1st
First graders retell specific information. They listen and interpret train whistle signals and work cooperatively to play the game, I'm Going on a Train Trip.
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Let's Go Camping

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders plan a budget for a camping trip. They use a spreadsheet to organize the budget and word processing justification for their choices.
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Time Zones

For Students 4th - 6th
In this time zones worksheet, students complete the total length of trips for time zones and answer short answer questions. Students fill in 3 spaces in the chart and answer 3 questions.
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What's In A Name?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners explore the concept of the binomial system of nomenclature for classifying organisms. Students travel on a field trip to observe organisms displayed and their common names. Learners complete several classroom activities and...
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All I Really Need!

For Teachers K
Students differentiate between wants and needs. In this basic needs lesson plan, students prepare to pack for a trip to grandma's house and determine what they need for the trip and what they want for the trip.
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Creating a Food Web

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students investigate hunters and prey by creating a food web.  In this animal life instructional activity, students investigate a single organism in preparation for a field trip, discovering its diet and habitat.  Students each...
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Urban Rocks: Investigating Stone Used for Buildings and Monuments

For Teachers 2nd - 12th
Learners observe the rocks and stones used to build and carve monuments during a field trip.
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"Going Camping"

For Teachers K
Students review the difference between "wants" and "needs." Students apply acquired knowledge by preparing for a pretend camping trip. Students plan out their trip together and then revise their list twice.
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What Can You Learn About Dinosaurs by Watching an Ostrich?

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students collect a variety of drawings of dinosaurs and maps of a zoo. Students observe an animal in motion during a field trip to a zoo from reproducible worksheets. Students study about the process by which scientists and film...

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