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Radioactivity, Time, and Age
Four activities demonstrate the chain reaction of nuclear fission to your physical science fans: falling dominoes, snapping mouse traps, throwing paper wads, and igniting a series of matches. They perform additional laboratory activities...
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Welcome! What's Your Name?
Sing a song about friends and practice basic greetings! This is a good introductory lesson for young learners. First, as a class, review how to introduce yourself. Then, in small pairs, each learner introduces him or herself. Then...
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Innovation of Our Generation
Middle schoolers identify the innovations that have impacted their lives. In this inventions lesson students write and present a speech on the greatest innovation of their generation.
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Fifty Members of a Group: Average
In this average activity, high schoolers solve 1 word problem. Students find the average age of 47 people given the average of 50 people and three people's ages who leave the group.
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An Aging Population - Economic Problem or Opportunity
Students explore if the aging population has any effect on the economy and overall well-being of society. In this economic lesson, students research the economic impact of the older citizens. They develop their own ideas and share...
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My Tree Observations
In this tree observation worksheet, students pick a tree that they observe over the course of a school year. They make observations, they sketch the tree, they take photographs of the tree, they get a leaf sample. They estimate the tree...
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Our Family and Age
Start by playing a song about numbers. "Sing, Dance, Laugh, and Eat Quiche" is suggested. Then, start counting things around the room. Introduce yourself, and have kids start to introduce themselves when they catch on to the vocabulary....
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Brain Teaser - Age
In this logic worksheet, students solve a word problem using logic about the age of a woman. Students complete 1 problem on this worksheet.
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Bittersweet: Diabetes
Ninth graders examine the disease of diabetes. In this diabetes and health lesson students examine the disease, the people who are most at risk for diabetes, as well as how to best prevent diabetes.
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My Family & Me
Students become aware of their family background to make a life plan for their future. For this heritage lesson students complete activities on their family tree.
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Describing People
In this describing people worksheet, students write words under people to describe their height, age, shape, and more. Students complete 17 problems.
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Aging & Body Changes
Students complete several activities that have to do with aging. In this body changes instructional activity students take group averages, measure flexibility and see their changes over time.
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Old As I See It
Students share their views of aging then look at the medias images of aging and compare. In this investigative lesson students create a collage and written descriptions on aging.
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Relative Dating in Archaeology
Students create a timeline that explains how ancient cultures used artifacts. In this Relative Dating in Archaeology lesson, students examine artifacts and draw conclusions about their origins. Then students analyze antiquated objects or...
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Using Time Conversion Charts
In this time conversion worksheet, 8th graders solve 8 different problems that include using various types of time conversion charts for each situation. They determine when the data was taken and the age of the data using the listed...
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Ageism: Word Association Lesson Plan
Young scholars discuss the attitudes related to the word old. In groups, they identify negative stereotypes about getting older and determine how these attitudes affect public policy on the elderly. They compare and contrast the concepts...
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Getting Old
Students explore the topic of aging. They study vocabulary related to various age groups, discuss getting old, and role play people of diverse ages. They read the poem, "Warning", by Jenny Joseph and discuss ways to live longer.
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QUILT SHARING
Students share in the family histories of their peers as told through the quilt stories, and apply math skills by using invented strategies to determine the (approximate) age of the quilt from the information given about the date it was...
Math Cats
Math Cats: Exactly... How Old Are You???
Enter your birth date and this age calculator will tell you exactly how old you are in years, months, days, minutes and seconds.
University of Texas at Austin
Spanish Proficiency Exercises:beginning Task 07
Video clips of native Spanish speakers provide examples for students who are taking Spanish. The videos feature Spanish speakers describing physical features of different people.. Provides a transcript as well so you can read along.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Correlation Between Pitch & Age, Gender, Musical Background
Music can be a great way to learn more about science. This project uses music to examine whether there is a correlation between age, gender, or musical background and being able to sing with perfect pitch.
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Science Buddies: Old Salty: Does Age Affect the Ability to Detect Salt?
Sauerkraut, pickled fish, pickled vegetables, kimchi, corned beef, processed cheeses, smoked lunch meats. Do you like these high-salt foods? What about your grandparents, do they? Do your grandparents seem to like most foods to be a bit...
United Nations
Stats Division: Indicators on Youth & Elderly Populations
United Nations world population statistics on percent of youth and elderly in every country. Organized into a chart.
BBC
Bbc Languages: Talk Age and Siblings
This site is focused on the context of talking about the family and includes a video and a worksheet. This video explores the vocabulary and structures of family, age, marriage and family celebrations. The grammar areas of focus are on...