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More Moms, Fewer Pops
Young scholars explore the concept of women entrepreneurs. In this women entrepreneurs instructional activity, students read an article about women opening their own businesses. Young scholars discuss factors influencing women to become...
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A Pottery Business In Asia
Students read and discuss some material about Neerja International, a successful business in India, then construct a role play about how the business began. Students role play as people trying to start up their own business and learn...
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From Printed Page to Home Page
Students compare on-line newspapers to their print counterparts
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Using the Internet for Grammar Exercises
Students identify correct forms of verbs and use the internet to complete grammar exercises.
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British Colonization-Settling the Thirteen Colonies (1607-1733)
Students study the thirteen colonies: geography, economics, politics, and religious groups. They explore early colonial life, and create a travel brochure, travel guide of the 13 Colonies, and word search.
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the Sound Detective Scientist
Students identify sounds in their environment and acquire listening and inferring skills.
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True Tales of Adventure for Young Part 1
Students explore the Passageways website. The instructional activity leads students through the website and requires that they read to find answers to a series of questions. Students study some of the general aspects of exploration, as...
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Ice Age Challenge Game
Students use a website to do various projects about the ice age and discover the route taken by the first arrivals are unknown and are the subject of a great deal of debate and research.
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NASA Robots
Students discuss the needs for robots in space discovery, and take turns simulating a robot and controller to demonstrate the difficulties of programming a robot to successfully complete simple tasks.
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The Eyes Have It ... Or Do They?
Students explore facial expressions for the hidden meanings being communicated. Truth can be hidden or at least disguised by a particular expression. The reality of control and the manipulation of truth is discussed in this lesson plan.
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Centennial: Ghost Riders And Rest Stops
Fourth graders read aged letters that describe communities or stops along the route of the early Pony Express. Each day they mark on a map where the letters come from and chart the Pony Express route. They compare to today's mail and...
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The New Canada Project
Students focus on one province/territory in Canada. They study the natural resources, location and geographical significance, physical geography, people, culture, climate, and the brief history.
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Early Explorers
Middle schoolers discover why explorers left their homes to explore and how they played an important part in the discovery of the New World. Students create PowerPoint presentations of a specific explorer's journey and discoveries and...
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English-Indian Encounters in Early 17th Century Virginia
Young scholars participate in a three part lesson in which they examine the initial encounters between the English and the Indians, the different ways in which the colonist and Indians interacted and why English settlers and Native...
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Active Wear
Learners interpret and analyze data. In this middle school mathematics lesson, students conduct an experiment in which they investigate which solar collector, black, white, or silver, absorbs the most heat. Learners examine...
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Worksheet 27 - Fall 1995
In this math worksheet, students find the area bounded by the tangent line, the x-axis, and the line x =2. They also describe the graph of the function.
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Worksheet 20 Fall 1995
In this math worksheet, students describe a step by step method to solve rate problems. Then they state the time derivatives of different quantities.
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SoHo House: A Short History
In this SoHo House learning journey worksheet, students read a short history of the So Ho house and the prominent workman associated with it. They read about James Watt, William Murdoch, and Matthew Boulton.
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Total English Upper Intermediate: Exploration
In this reading comprehension worksheet, learners read a selection based on exploration and then respond to 10 short answer questions regarding the piece. Students also take notes as they plan a trip around the world.
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The Business of Design
Young scholars visit the Design for the Other 90% exhibition. In this design lesson, student learn how to design for the population of the world that is poor or impoverished. In addition, students read New York Times articles and watch...
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Cloze Activity: Rainforests
For this rainforests cloze procedure worksheet, learners review a brief selection that is missing 16 words and then attempt to fill in each blank with a word they think the author might have used. A word bank is provided.
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Theatre: Persuasive Explorers
Students act like a famous explorer. In this explorer lesson, students research an explorer and act out persuasive arguments in which that explorer might be involved.
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Proverb Matching
In this proverb matching worksheet, students match the first half of each of the 20 proverbs with the appropriate second half that completes them. Students discuss their answers.
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The Pilgrim Fathers
In this "Pilgrim Fathers" study guide worksheet, students read about ;the beginning of colonization in the American East. Students read 3 sections of information.