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Color Combinations

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Learners develop a basic understanding of how color is perceived by the eye. They utilize the technique Seurat used to paint A Sunday on La Grande Jatte to create their own paintings.
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Understanding Waves

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners examine the physical properties of waves to explore the word crest and trough. They use toys to study waves in air, water and light.
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Mock Congress

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers simulate the legislative process of law-making by assuming different roles. They investigate the process by writing a bill on any subject of his/her own choice
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Is there Treasure in Trash?

For Teachers 7th - 10th
More people, more garbage! Young environmentalists graph population growth against the amount of garbage generated per year and find a linear model that best fits the data. This is an older resource that could benefit from more recent...
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Box and Whiskers

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers discover how to relate collected data with a box and whiskers graph in a number of formats. They collect, organize, create, and interpret a box and whiskers graph. Pupils interpret the difference between sets of data,...
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Bye-Bye Bison

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders investigate the bison's struggle for survival. They discuss the importance of bison while participating in an role playing activity showing how important the food supply and surroundings are to their survival.
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Ready for Roots

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders sort seeds and predict what conditions are needed for them to germinate. They keep the seeds moist, observe and measure their growth and graph the results. As the seeds start to grow students compare and contrast the each...
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Your Day as a Cycle

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders examine a variety of cycles. They take a look at life cycles of plants and animals, the cycle of the moon and tides, and other sequences of events in their daily lives. An interesting part of the instructional activity is...
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Lady Macbeth's Cure

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers role-play the position of Lady Macbeth's nurse. They are to create a project or service that can cure her sleepwalking. They create their own commerical to sell their product.
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Computer (Keyboarding)

For Teachers K - 6th
Have your class play a game in which they practice identifying various keys on a keyboard by moving around on a body-sized model keyboard. Kids love this game!
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Newtonian Mechanics

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students familiarize themselves, through teacher demonstration, with Gavendish's apparatus first used for experimentally determining the value of the Universal Gravitational Constant G, and calculate theoretical value of Earth's...
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Farms And Cities

For Teachers Pre-K
Students differentiate the differences of living on a farm or in a city. They do this with the use of coloring pictures and have group discussion about each picture to identify characteristics and identify where the picture is from. The...
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Investigation- On The Surface

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students will examine solids to determine which has the least surface area. They will also understand the use of units, square units, and cubic units. There is also the teaching and application of geometry formulas to perform calculations.
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English Literature Circles

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine how to develop self-expression, inter-personal skills, and an Student have an appreciation of literature. This is accomplished through small groups, ideally located in a library setting where the teacher and the...
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The Color of Success

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students participate in an activity in which they share with each other what success means to them. They are given bags of crayons and blank sheets of paper and create an image that displays what success means to them. Bags of crayons...
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Primary PE Lesson

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students work on balance, strategy, and movement while playing a beanbag game. They review high fat and low fat foods and classify these foods while they play a game of "Low Fat Locomotion."
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Circling Ethiopia: A Novel Approach to Introducing a Region

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students read a novel to gain insight into a different region of the world. Using a graphic organizer, they share the information they have already gathered about Ethiopia. They draw an outline map of Africa and read the opening pages of...
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Pablo Picasso Collage

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students read the story SAIL AWAY by Donald Crew to show different pictures of water and oceans. They are then introduced to a collage showing examples of Picasso's work. They construct a collage using different methods.
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Vertical and Horizontal Lines

For Teachers 1st
First graders view works from Mondrian such as "Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue" receiving explantion of the primary and secondary colors and the color wheel and vertical and horizontal lines. They glue black strips to the...
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Henri Matisse Collage

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore the work of Henri Matisse. They use shapes to create a collage. Students create texture in their collage by using various types of papers and they study how to use various materials to make one unified piece of art.
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Boat Safety and Water Sports - Lesson 1 - Boating Basics

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Teach your young adventurers about boating basics, such as boating terminology, knots, key aspects of the boat, and how to determine a boat's capacity. This resource is a good way to get started on learning how to water ski. There are...
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Ropes Course Challenges - Toxic Waste Transfer

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Toxic waste transfer is an intermediate level challenge game for a Ropes Course. A group of learners, who are holding ropes attached to a five-gallon bucket filled with simulated toxic waste, transport it across an open space. This will...
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Volleyball - Lesson 8 - Spiking Footwork

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Lesson 8 in this series of seventeen volleyball lessons focuses on the basic footsteps of approaching the net to spike the ball. It takes a lot of practice to get good at spiking the volleyball. It is also one of the most thrilling...
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Soccer - Lesson 5 - Heading, Throw-ins

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Besides dribbling and passing a soccer ball there are other skills to be learned. Lesson five covers heading a ball and how to do a proper throw-in. The drills are scaffolded to build up to performing the entire skill. There are 20...

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