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Swiss Ball Square Dance

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students use "Swiss Balls" to help them combine their movements into repeatable patterns.
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Merge Letter

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create a database of addresses and a form letter, and merge that information into a letter.
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FACS:Health Careers Planner - Support Services

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students explore the Support Services Career Pathway using articles in the Health Careers Planner (HCP).
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Click!

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Young scholars think about what it was like when audiences flocked to movies that simply showed glimpses of everyday life. They make a film n the style of the earliest cinema, when moving pictures were just that -- moving images of...
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Area Lesson Plan

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Learners manipulate a variety of materials and computer applets in order to explore area and the units used to measure it.
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A Tale of Two Reactors

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders role-play as members of the food chain. Sticky tables acting as polluting factors are introduced and members of different trophic levels suffer varying degrees of damage due to those pollutants.
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Optional Laboratory: Soil Particle Size and Texture

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students work together to perform experiments on different types of soil. They record the soil's pH level, color and texture. They develop hypothesis' on what they believe they will discover before beginning the experiment.
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Try Your Hand at Han'geul

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers explore Han'geul, a Korean writing system. Pupils participate in a class discussion involving the history of Han'geul. Using specified websites, classmates create flashcards containing letters of the Han'guel language. ...
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Gallery Crawl

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students explore art and artists from a specific country. While on a field trip to an area art museum, students choose one painting to sketch. After researching the chosen painting, students prepare a presentation in the targeted...
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Looking For Newton

For Teachers 8th
The lesson has sufficient background information for the teacher to implement the lesson. Students are asked to summarize the three laws of motion. They also conduct classroom activities to role play the Laws of Newton.
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Panther in the Basement

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students produce an ongoing journal in which they relate their personal response to literature. They examine the theme of the rights of the individual versus the whole. They explore conflict in Panther in the Basement.
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Little, Medium, Big

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students order different-sized objects from little to big, click, drag, and hold objects using a computer mouse, and improve confidence with computer skills. They use the computer mouse to order sets of clip art in a Word document.
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Eagle-Eyed

For Teachers 2nd - 7th
Young scholars study the eyesight of eagles. They discuss raptors and their eyesight and compare it to their own. They measure how far away they can see a small object and its distance. They calculate the eyesight to measure an eagle's...
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Civil War Letter Web

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students use the internet to gather information on a specific Civil War battle of interest to them. Using the information they gather, they organize it into a web to be used later when writing a letter. They use the web to write their...
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George Washington's Birthday

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students recognize George Washington and why his birthday is celebrated as a national holiday through pictures, a story, crossword puzzles, and other activities involving other presidents.
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Language Arts: How Can Research Shape Ideas?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers are able to characterize arsenic and determine its potential health threats in writing. They are able to compare and contrast arsenic to other water pollutants using Venn diagrams. Students are able to demonstrate essay...
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Merge Letter

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students practice creating a database of addresses and a form letter and eventually merge that information into a letter. They create a from letter that incorporates the data sheet information in response to customers complaints...
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Biodiversity Trust Games

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners make a tight shoulder-to-shoulder circle. They are asked to turn to his or her right. Students squeeze in tight, they are explained that on the count of three, everyone slowly sits down. Once they are successfully seated,...
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Goals -- Lesson 2

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students watch the movie "Rudy" and identify his long and short term goals. Individually, they develop a list of their own short and long-term goals and share them with the class. To end the lesson, they discuss how the goals we make...
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"Whales are Mammals" Idea Web

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore the characteristics of whales that defines them as mammals. Using the internet and Inspiration software, 3rd graders create and organize "idea bubbles" to organize facts about whales. They locate details to...
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Make Sense of Nature

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Learners participate in this program that heightens their awareness and curiosity of nature as well as their sense of adventure and exploring new surroundings. They identify and choose an object from nature after exploring it with other...
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Butterfly Lesson

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners identify that Idaho is a home to 168 species of butterflies and they are an important part of many habitats. They also identify how to use the Digital Atlas of Idaho and write a report regarding information of their assigned...
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Syllables Millionaire, Silent Scrabble

For Students 5th - 6th
In this spelling activity, teachers have access to websites with games to enhance learning. Syllables Millionaire is a powerpoint presentation used to help students understand how syllables help spelling. Silent Scrabble helps students...
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Sampling Distribution of Sample Means

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students collect data and crate a distribution sample. In this statistics lesson, students compare and contrast their collected data. This assignment requires the students to be comfortable with navigating the internet.