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HIV and AIDS: Rights & Responsibilities
Address myths and stereotypes surrounding HIV and AIDS in this lesson plan. Students discuss how the disease is transmitted, how to properly apply a condom, and how to handle real life situations. Note: A number of extension activities,...
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"Pleading the Fifth" Self-Incrimination and the Fifth Amendment
Students examine how the Fifth Amendment protects against self-incrimination. They apply it to hypothetical situations by role playing as judges.
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Why the Y2Y?
Students investigate the proposed route from Yellowstone to Yukon. They listen to lectures about the proposal and the different opinions concerning it. Students research the type of wildlife in the area for the road and they consider how...
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Mail An Egg Rules
In this mail an egg worksheet, students are given directions to construct a container that will protect an egg using the least possible materials. Students build their structures and mail their egg to another classroom.
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Sun Safety
Students discuss how to protect oneself from the sun. For this sun safety lesson, students explore the movement of the sun throughout the day by tracing their shadows periodically using outdoor chalk. Students discuss how the shorter...
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Strangers
Students learn and discuss what to do when approached by a stranger. In this stranger lesson plan, students answer questions based on a book that the teacher reads. They then participate in a discussion about rules and guidelines to...
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Re: Forest Station
Students read an online article to explore rainforests of the world starting with the Barro Colorado reserve in the Panama Canal. They participate in a mock international summit about rainforest conservation issues.
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A House for Hermit Crab
Engage young marine biologists in a reading of Eric Carle's A House for Hermit Crab with a fun hands-on activity. Given a set of clipart images of the different aquatic animals that appear in the book, children identify each one during a...
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Camouflage, Protection, & Adaptations—Who am I?
Students explore ocean animal adaptations. In this animal adaptations lesson, students examine how different ocean animals use adaptations other than camouflage to protect themselves.
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UV Rays
Fourth graders study the effects of UV rays and practice finding the UV index for where they live. In this health instructional activity, 4th graders listen to a lecture about ultraviolet rays, then find the UV index in their area and...
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Youth and Children
Students investigate the rights that students possess while examining human rights in relation to bullying. They develop ideas and advice for conflict resolution between students.
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The Leg Bone is Connected To The.... (a Look At the Skeletal System)
Students study the components of the skeletal system naming the bone groups that make up the appendicular and axial skeletal systems. They name the different layers of bone and the types of joints. They create an animated skeleton.
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Brain Injury
Students study safety and witness a tragic egg accident to see the effect of not wearing a helmet. They create helmets for their own eggs using paper, styrofoam, or anything else that cushions the egg and drop the protected egg.
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Planetary Web Of Life
Learners watch a video about the death of a whale. They explore the possible reasons for a marine mammal's death and discuss the importance of its death to our own lives and survival.
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Fish Food for Thought
Students examine the role of the US Environmental Protection Agency and the Federal Clean Water Act of 1970 after reading Lynne Cherry's, A River Ran Wild. They decide if the goals of the act were met and create a fish cartoon that...
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Introduction to Pests
Students study common pests. They examine pest damage and self-protection against pests by reading a story, creating a class book and playing a game.
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Protect Me, Protect Me Not?
Students brainstorm natural resources found in Canadian National Parks. They, in teams, defend and support conservation efforts and give a presentation. Evaluation consists of speaking on both pro and con sides of a national parks' issue.
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Privacy: Lesson 6: What Are the Possible Consequences of Privacy?
Young scholars recognize the advantages and disadvantages of privacy in general and increase their ability to recognize the benefits and costs of privacy in specific situations. Examples of benefits of privacy that students learn include...
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Think Safe! Be Safe!
Students predict, observe, and explain how pillbugs, grasshoppers, stink bugs, and humans stay safe and protect themselves.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Disguise! Disguise!
Learn how some animals disguise or camouflage themselves as a form of protection.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Diving School: How Do We Move?
Mariven lives in Barbados. He is going on a diving adventure to learn all about bones and muscles of the human body.
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Corrosion Doctors
A private Canadian organization has compiled this voluminous index of corrosion topics.
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Um: The Battle Over Cryptographic Key "Escrow"
This article describes the legal and technical issues involved in cryptography. It also discusses government proposals concerning the clipper chip.
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Chemical Engineers Resource Page: Forms of Corrosion
A Chemical Engineers Resource provides this site devoted to chemical engineers. Very thorough. The page you come to, Forms of Corrosion, is very thorough, and has some really useful pictures. Other parts of the site may be helpful,...