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Unit Plan
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Spatial Connections

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students use maps, scales, and describe locations in order to learn about spatial sense. In this spatial sense lesson plan, students participate in many activities for this spatial sense unit that should last throughout the year.
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Lesson Plan
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Cranes, Crosswalks, and Big Gulps

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students watch a video and answer questions based on wildlife jobs. In this wildlife lesson plan, students learn that biologists don't just play with animals but that there is a lot of study involved.
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Worksheet
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Manifest Destiny

For Students 9th - 12th
In this Westward Expansion worksheet, students read assigned textbook pages which describe  Manifest Destiny and respond to 33 short answer questions.
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Worksheet
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Practice End Marks

For Students 4th - 5th
In this end marks worksheet, students place a period, exclamation mark or question mark at the end of sentences, correctly punctuate a paragraph and write interrogative, exclamatory and declarative sentences.
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Lesson Plan
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A Big Issue

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Young scholars examine the issue of childhood obesity. In this current events lesson plan, students explore the personal health issue as they discuss balanced diets, food diaries, and the 2012 London Olympics. Suggestions for classroom...
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Worksheet
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CGC1P -- Unit 1 Lesson 2 Video Introduction

For Students 5th
For this listening worksheet, 5th graders fill-in the blanks and respond to questions. Students watch a video and fill-in the blanks and answer questions with information that they hear during the video.
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Lesson Plan
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Put Me in My Place: Using Alphanumeric Grids to Locate Places

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students practice locating points on a large wall grid and create and label a neighborhood map. In this geography lesson, students spell and discuss places as the teacher places them on the map. They discuss the concept of an...
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Lights On ! Lights Off! Exploring Human Settlement Patterns

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders write informational paragraphs based on the settlement patterns of the United States. For this settlement lesson plan, 3rd graders read about population and how it affects where people settle next.
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Lesson Plan
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Facts About Australia: Fill-In-The-Blank

For Teachers 4th - 6th
In this geography worksheet on Australia, learners fill in blanks in a paragraph about Australia with words from a word bank; the paragraph contains basic facts about geography, settlement, etc.
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Lesson Plan
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Where is Tornado Alley? Internet Research and Crossword

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
In this science and language arts worksheet, students are directed to an Internet site where they do research on tornadoes and Tornado Alley. Students complete a 10 question word puzzle.
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Lesson Plan
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This Place is Going to the Dogs

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students study different breeds of dogs. They watch a video, "Extraordinary Dogs", about special dogs and how they are categorized according to their adaptations. Then they create a digital video that demonstrates the qualities of dogs...
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Lesson Plan
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Displaying the Data

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students gather facts about their parent's families through the completion of parent interview forms. Using tally marks, the data gathered is counted, transferred to graphs and used to create family timelines.
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Handout
Science Struck

Science Struck: What Are the 7 Continents

For Students 4th - 6th
Provides short descriptions of the characteristics of each of the seven continents, along with maps.
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Soft Schools

Soft Schools: Map of the 7 Continents of the World Game

For Students 3rd - 8th
A quick game where students drag and drop the name of each continent onto the correct location on an interactive world map.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Continents of the World

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is devoted to identifying, locating, and learning facts about the 7 continents. It contains interactive maps, facts, and a short video at the end.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Continents

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart identifies the 7 continents of the world and reviews with Activotes.
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Activity
Quia

Quia: World Capitals Matching

For Students 3rd - 8th
Use this website to practice matching world capitals and the corresponding country.
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Interactive
Quia

Quia: World Capitals Concentration

For Students 3rd - 8th
Use this website to practice matching world capitals and the corresponding country in a concentration game type format.
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Activity
Quia

Quia: World Capitals Word Search

For Students 3rd - 8th
Practice matching world capitals and the corresponding country in a word-search format.
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Graphic
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Drawing North America, 1872

For Students 9th - 10th
A map exercise from 1872 for drawing North America. The map shows the general outline of the coasts, major waters and rivers, and a vertical profile cross-section of the continent from the San Francisco Bay area to Cape Hatteras....