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Urban and Rural Communities

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students discuss similarities and differences of urban and rural communities.  In this urban and rural communities lesson, students compare urban and rural communities using a Venn Diagram.  Students examine maps of each type...
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Cuban Missile Crisis in Thirteen Days

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders explore the Cuban Missile Crisis. In this Cuban Missile Crisis lesson, 11th graders take notes from a PowerPoint presentation regarding the topic and then watch the film "Thirteen Days". Students participate in...
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Tuck Everlasting: UDL Team Lesson Plan

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students participate in a differentiated lesson about Tuck Everlasting. In this Tuck Everlasting lesson, students work on comprehension strategies that are leveled for their reading ability. They focus on the ability to tell the main...
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Juvenile Justice - Decline Hearing

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners analyze what a Decline Hearing is according to juvenile justice. They also study and evaluate the Kent Criteria.
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Traveling the USA

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students simulate the role of travel agents addressing the needs of a foreign family visiting a state in the US. They prepare a presentation and informational sales pitch of a proposed travel itinerary.
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Push or Pull

For Teachers K - 1st
Students study the forces, push and pull. They conduct demonstrations of pushing and pulling. They examine the Nebraska state quarter for an example of pulling.
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Earthquake!

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students study causes, probability and location of earthquakes. They complete a number of activities and look at web pages to examine the characteristics of earthquakes.
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Creating a Human Rights Community

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Learners work together to create lists of rights and responsibilities that set a standard of behavior to foster human rights in their community. They participate in class discussions, draft a plan of action to establish these behaviors...
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The Nez Perce and the Dawes Act

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders explore westward expansion in the United States. In this US History lesson, 11th graders watch the epic struggle of the Nez Perce. Students evaluate how a variety of Americans viewed Nez Perce through a role play. 
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Mountain Man Measurement Activity

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders discover the history of the Utah Mountain Men and utilize their math skills simultaneously. In this cross-curricular history and measurement lesson, 4th graders read about the Utah Mountain Men and the challenges they...
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Delivery Timeline

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Young scholars study the transportation and delivery service and complete a timeline activity. In this delivery and transportation lesson, students identify activities that need to be completed to make deliveries. Young scholars arrange...
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Roxaboxen

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders discuss the story "Roxaboxen." In this reading comprehension lesson, 3rd graders discover new vocabulary words, discuss the story using story mapping, and take a reading test. Students investigate safety in the desert and...
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Breaking it Down

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students discover how water expands when frozen during a glacier. In this matter instructional activity, students fill a glass jar with water, leaving no room for air in the jar and place it in the freezer.  Students retrieve the...
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Complex Networks and Graphs

For Students 7th - 10th Standards
Show your class how engineers use graphs to understand large and complex systems. The resource provides the beginnings of graph theory by introducing the class to set theory, graphs, and degree distributions of a graph. 
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Living in America (The Earliest Years)

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders work in groups to study a particular group of Native Americans. They use a study guide to guide their research and use the internet and text resources to gather information. Students post their research on a class web page.
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Create a Weather Newscast

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore, research and study how to make and give a weather newscast. They assess a variety of weather terms, research skills on the Web and develop an oral presentation on a weather newscast to present to their classmates.
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Kidsville USA

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders create an imaginary town using Kid Pix. They demonstrate their knowledge of specific vocabulary words and their knowledge and understanding of location by placing schools, stores, parks, etc. appropriately on their maps.
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Story Writing

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders review the basic elements of a story. Individually, they write their own original story as they use a software program to help them map out their ideas. With a partner, they exchange papers and read them for grammatical...
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Hit The Road Jack(or Jill)

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners find the approximate area of the court order on a current map of Delaware. They draw a layout of their school and decide where a new hallway or outside pathway would be most needed.
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Map Making Exercise

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students complete a Web Quest in order to determine why Harlem was an attractive place for African Americans to live. They study a map of Harlem in the 1930's.
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On the Road Again": Moving People, Products, and Ideas

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson students learn how to identify modes of transportation and communication for moving people, products, and ideas from place to place. Students also study the advantages and disadvantages of different modes of...
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Where in My World Am I?

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students determine exactly where they are in the world by using a local map to write accurate directions to local eating establishments. They write precise directions from the school to their home which the teacher simulates driving to...
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Making A New Nation

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders read standard road maps and topographical maps, and examine the lives of pathfinders who opened the trails to the West. They develop Living History presentations, role-playing a character from the past.
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Satellite Images- Night Time

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders study the geography and population distribution of various places on earth. They utilize actual satellite images of the night sky (lights showing heavily around area of dense population) to study and make observations...

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