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The Awful Eight

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate the concept of a carpool and its contributions to either reducing or increasing air pollution. They conduct research using a variety of resources for background information. The information is used to write a play...
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Magnetic Discovery Bottle

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine how to conduct simple investigations and use simple equipment to gather data.  In this magnet lesson students decide what types of objects are attracted to magnets. 
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House Three: The House on Stilts - Villa Savoye, Poissy-sur-Seine, France

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students analyze the architecture of Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret as pieces of art. For this architecture analysis lesson, students read information about the Villa Savoye and write an essay about Frank Lloyd Wright's comments about...
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Applications of Parabolas

For Students 11th
In this algebra instructional activity, 11th graders rewrite word problems using algebraic symbols. They relate parabolas to the real world and calculate the breaking distance using the distance formula they come up with. There is answer...
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Practice With Vocabulary for Wayside School Gets A Little Stranger

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
In this vocabulary worksheet, students learn six new words from Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger by Louis Sachar. Students answer 9 multiple choice and short answer questions about the meanings of the words.
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How Can We Conserve Water?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars describe the importance of water conservation and list ways to conserve. They construct composts and fill them with materials that recycle nutrients. They inspect their homes for leaky pipes, toilets, and faucets.
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Stop, Look, and Listen

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders participate in a class discussion and view a traffic safety video dealing with crossing the street safely. They discuss the steps taken in order to cross the street safely and then analyze the benefits of walking and...
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Highway Tag

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students choose one space on a line as their personal space while other classmates are choseen to be the taggers. Individually, they move along the line staying clear of the taggers. Within a specific time limit, new taggers are chosen.
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In The Quest For Sustainable Stuff

For Students 6th - 8th
In this environment worksheet, students read nine pages about recycling and focus upon how products can be produced to help save the environment.
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Vocabulary Review

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this expressing ability worksheet, students read 10 sentences and choose the appropriate multiple choice answer that best completes each sentence grammatically correct.
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Mechanical Advantage

For Students 10th - 12th
For this forces worksheet, students use the mechanical advantage equation to solve for input distance or output distance. The worksheet has 17 problems to solve.
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Kinetic Energy

For Students 9th - 12th
For this energy worksheet, learners use the kinetic energy equation to solve for speed or mass. This worksheet has 11 problems to solve.
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The Environment and the Community

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students observe their environment and come up with ways to protect it. In this environment lesson plan, students discuss pollution and ways to prevent it. Then they create a poster with drawings that show a goal to reduce pollution and...
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Recreating the Greenhouse Effect

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students recreate the greenhouse effect. In this environmental science lesson, students gather materials and follow procedures to create the greenhouse effect on a small scale.
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Modals, Part 1 Expressing Ability

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this expressing ability worksheet, students read ten sentences that have missing words. From four choices, students complete the sentences by checking all possible completions.
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Match Each Definition

For Students 4th - 6th
In this vocabulary worksheet, students match each definition in one column with the word or phrase it defines in another column. There are 12 words to match.
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Labor and Law: Sit-Down Strikes

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students analyze the work of auto industry labor unions. In this labor unions lesson plan, students listen to their instructor present a lecture on the details of various sit-down strikes. Students respond to discussion questions...
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Science Inventions

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore the world of inventions by describing their impact on their own lives.  In this technology instructional activity, 3rd graders practice writing descriptive paragraphs about different inventions that they find...
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1920’s Questions

For Students 8th - 12th
In this 20th century history activity, students respond to 50 multiple choice questions about events and significant figures of 1920's America. 
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If Horatio Drove Today

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students analyze and calculate expenses using the historic Horatio's road trip. Mathematics is taught using a cross curricular approach.
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Air Pollution and Health

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use Internet research to become familiar with the environmental and health effects of the six criteria pollutants identified by the U.S. EPA, along with the greenhouse effect and carbon dioxide.
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Air Pollution Survey

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students identify the different sources of air pollution andevaluate knowledge of air pollution concepts in school and community. Students brainstorm ways of reducing air pollution and instruct school and community in reduction of air...
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Solving Problems Using Proportions

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this math worksheet, students solve the problems that are in word form in order to find the proper type of proportion for the solution.
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Breaking News English: World Naked Bike Ride Against Oil Use

For Students 5th - 10th
In this English worksheet, students read "World Naked Bike Ride Against Oil Use," and then respond to 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.