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Reflecting On The Past, Looking Towaards The Future

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students engage in a lesson that is concerned with the formation of a multimedia presentation to create a documentary of a middle school. They take photographs with a digital camera and use computer software to create a school project.
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Confronting Genocide

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discover what the term genocide means and are assigned to groups to reasearch an act of genocide in order to answer each question from their worksheet. They then compare their results making special notes of patterns they observe.
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The Tibet Question

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students examine the history or relations between China and Tibet. In this research skills lesson, students investigate the relationship between Tibet and China as they explore provided Internet links. Students write position...
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Check Out Lights and Shields with Beads

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore Ultraviolet detecting beads and conduct several investigations with them.  For this investigative lesson students participate in an experiment to see the harmful effects of UV light and discuss their findings. 
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Draw, Pardner!

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Students explore how to draw in 3-D. In this visual arts lesson, students use newsprint and a yard stick to construct three dimensional drawings of objects.
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PULSE: A STOMP Odyssey (6-8)

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine how non-profit organizations support the arts. In this non-profit lesson, students learn how foundations provide funding that supports arts in a community which contributes to the common good. They watch the movie...
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Taking a Stand: Pros and Cons of Forest Fires

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students explore the pros and cons of forest fires. In this science lesson, students research the ecological implications of forest fires. Students record their findings in journals and compose a persuasive e-mail to government officials.
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Runaway Slaves

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students examine struggles for freedom. In this Underground Railroad lesson plan, students listen to "Follow the Drinking Gourd" and "Freedom" to lead them into a discussion regarding freedoms . Students watch the video "The...
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Westward Ho

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers examine primary sources regarding Western migration. In this Manifest Destiny lesson, students determine why the pioneers moved west and what the trip was like as they examine sources and write journals based on their...
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Create a Video Poem

For Teachers 4th - 12th Standards
Collaborate to create a visual version of a poem using video. Before class, choose a poem to pick apart. Read it aloud and then analyze it in detail as a class. Assign a line or short section to each student to expand upon using a...
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Why I Serve

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the concept of philanthropy. In this service learning lesson, students consider and share the importance of volunteering. Students participate in a service learning project and reflect on it.
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New Deal Agencies

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify examples of government intervention during crisis. In this New Deal lesson, students play a game to place descriptions and names to abbreviations of New Deal Agencies. Students interview a person who lived through the...
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Web Puts Undiscovered Musicians, Listeners In Tune

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Pupils read an article from USA Today about technology and the music business. In this news article lesson, students read an article about failed musicians and their new roles in music and technology. Pupils discuss the article and then...
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Where journalism meets art

For Teachers 5th - 10th
Students pick out the different techniques in photographs taken. In this photographs lesson plan, students critique patterns, shadows, reflections, and more in the photographs.
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Flip Camera Christmas Lessons and Ideas

For Teachers Pre-K - 7th
Young scholars use a Flip camera to complete various projects about Christmas. In this Christmas and technology lesson, students write and record letters to Santa. Young scholars write letters to Christmas characters and record them....
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Fact Finders—The Media During Times of Crisis

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners practice finding reputable facts. In this media awareness lesson, students review a handout regarding tips for evaluating media and then discover the SMART method which they use to analyze news sources and media.
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Press Freedom Versus Military Censorship

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders explore the term terrorism.  In this US History lesson, 11th graders participate in a press release on terrorism. 
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War and the Media Fact Finders: The Media in Times of Crisis

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils explore the role of the media in war reporting. In this information age lesson, students discuss how to find and disseminate factual information. Pupils consider the source, motive, authority of information.
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War and the Media Press Freedom vs. Military Censorship

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Pupils analyze the relationship between war and media. In this media awareness lesson, students listen to their instructor present a lecture on freedom of the press and military censorship. Pupils participate in an activity connected to...
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Prairie Voices: Spare Time

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students examine forms of recreation throughout the last 150 years. For this leisure time lesson, students investigate leisure activities in pre- and post-industrial society as they listen to a teacher-led lecture and discuss their...
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Severe Weather

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders investigate the cause and effect of severe weather. In this Earth Science lesson, 9th graders use a learning contract and a rubric to develop a presentation about severe weather.
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A Reef of Your Own

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students study the reproductive strategies of reef building corals.  In this coral reef lesson students describe the behaviors of reef building corals and their nutritional strategies. 
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Media Bias

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
Students analyze mass media to analyze media bias. In this media bias lesson plan, students read example situations and definitions about media bias. Students read and discuss how to be aware of media bias.
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Agriculture in Motion

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders write a poem and an essay about the machines they have learned about that are used in agriculture. In this machines lesson plan, 6th graders compare different kinds of machines and discuss the economic impact machines in...

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