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Interactive
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Body and Mind: Teacher's Corner: The Energy Equation [Pdf]

For Students 6th - 8th
Students research recommended sleep, eating, and exercise guidelines for their age. They also investigate the roadblocks they may face to achieve these guidelines and the benefits that may be gained. With this knowledge, a plan is...
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: How Technology Changed the Way Candidates Run for President?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan focuses on how technology has changed Presidential election campaigns. It includes reading articles and conducting research.
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Other

Rmc Research Corporation: Kristallnacht

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This is a reading comprehension lesson plan featuring Kristallnact "Night of the Broken Glass." Middle school students will have an opportunity to learn through this interdisciplinary activity.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Build It Better!

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students learn about tornados and how engineers design structures to better withstand them. Students then design and draw a house that will better withstand a tornado. Students also learn about the Fujita Tornado Damage Score.
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Cyberchase: Crack the Code

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Cyberchase video in which the CyberSquad must get into a vault before Hacker, Buzz, and Delete by cracking a code of shapes and numbers. [3:20]
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University of Maryland

Univ. Of Maryland: Master of Chemical and Life Sciences: Dna Bracelets [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using a bead-bracelet simulation, construct a sequence of amino acids. Then, discover the effects of silent, point, and frameshift mutations.
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Activity
Bryn Mawr College

Serendip: Is Yeast Alive?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Brief text summary of what students learn in the Is Yeast Alive? Lab, along with links to download Student Handouts and Teacher Preparation Notes in PDF or Word formats. Characteristics of life are addressed and metabolism and the...
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Handout
Bryn Mawr College

Serendip: Diffusion Across a Selectively Permeable Membrane

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Brief text summary of what students learn in the Diffusion across a Selectively Permeable Membrane lab, along with links to download Student Handouts and Teacher Preparation Notes in PDF or Word formats. Main teaching points include...
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Other

Alliance to Save Energy: Educator Lesson Plans

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A series of teacher lesson plans for various grade levels. Topics pertain to insulation (among other things) and other energy conservation and energy efficiency topics. Can be easily adapted for a student project or lab investigation.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Spanish Travel Brochures

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will incorporate information from Internet research in creating original travel brochures for Spanish speaking countries using word processing or publishing software. Students could alternatively create wikis or podcasts.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: The Spanish Speaking World

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will research a Spanish-speaking Latin American country and make travel plans to the chosen country based on facts gathered through their research.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Touring Our School Through Two Languages

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This instructional activity will help students combine the tools of technology with language skills to communicate with non-English speaking students in the community.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Pacaderms, Pennies, and Pasta

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
After learning of a historical event in which elephants were used to test out the Brooklyn Bridge, students construct their own bridge using very basic materials. Students weigh different items to determine the weight their bridge can...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Become a "Ruler" of the Ruler!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
In order to practice basic sewing skills, students must be able to read and use a ruler for a variety of tasks. In this hands-on instructional activity, students will work collaboratively to demonstrate their mastery of how to read...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Sailing on the Wind

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This is a hands-on lesson that uses science and the steps of the Engineering Design Process to determine important properties in sail design materials and learn how to harness wind power. Students will learn that a problem can be solved...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Reading Really Is Fundamental!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Knowing how to read the language is just as important as knowing how to speak it. This activity is geared towards reading comprehension, correct pronunciation of words, and translation of the words that are read. This activity will also...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: A La Restaurante!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is an activity to test the strength of the young scholars. It allows students to exercise everything that they have learned throughout the school year. It is suitable for Spanish I-Spanish IV young scholars. It is an end-of-the-year...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Jeopardy en Espanol

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity can be used any time of the school year as a fun way to assist young scholars and motivate them to know the correct pronunciation, spelling, and definition of given vocabulary words. The activity is a unique way to teach...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Experiencing the Day of the Dead

For Teachers 9th - 10th
These activities will allow students to expand their horizons by experiencing an important holiday to Spanish speaking cultures. With this project and assignment the students will learn the purpose behind Day of the Dead, how it is...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Los Paises Hispanos

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson will introduce beginning Spanish students to basic reading skills needed to comprehend material in another language while also providing basic information on Spanish speaking countries.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Russian Calendar: Seasons and Months

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The purpose of this lesson is to acquire appropriate calendar vocabulary for future use in exercises, dialogues and everyday conversations. This lesson should be followed by a series of lessons on perfecting the knowledge of the newly...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: World Traveler

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Seventh grade social studies students will create a passport and detailed daily travel journal. The project will incorporate a minimum of two types of technology as they create a narrative vividly describing a city/country. Specific...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Running of the Bulls in Pamplona, Spain

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students research the history and the traditions surrounding the running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain, and bullfighting and its significance to the Spanish culture. Students submit a typed report on their findings and in pairs present...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Pen Pal Mania!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this instructional activity, students will use the target language to correspond with a native speaker. This is an excellent activity for students in second semester of second year or higher.