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Links to the Missing

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students investigate the information required to identified missing persons, then create a personal 'database' of information on themselves and their community.
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DNA Fingerprinting: You Be the Judge!

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use their knowledge of DNA fingerprinting to evaluate the use fingerprints in courts, and will address the ethics of establishing a national database of fingerprints.
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Does Humidity Affect Cloud Formation?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars use NASA's S'COOL database to identify factors that affect cloud formation.
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Nature and Fintess Trail

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate how humans impact the environment and compile an organism database into an e-book field guide. They name muscle groups and develop specific exercises to strengthen these groups. Students utilize technology for data...
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The Land of Immigrants

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students access information and data about US immigration using the Internet and other sources. They identify from research data the countries from which the largest number of immigrants to the US come from and create a database of these...
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DNA Fingerprinting: You Be the Judge!

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore DNA fingerprinting. Students discover how DNA fingerprinting is done and judge the validity. They evaluate the use of certain prints in courts and address the ethics of establishing a national database of fingerprpints.
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Environment and the Earth

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students were involved in environmental service learning and they gathered information from academic buildings for a database. The data allowed them to use an establish baseline data on light use, recycling, and water fixtures in five...
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Whole Lotta Shaking Going On

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students explore earthquake activity in California. They observe the historical data and create databases and graphs of the earthquakes. Students analyze the data and form a hypothesis about future earthquakes.
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Dialect Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Pupils examine the life and works of Paul Laurance Dunbar. In groups, they read various poems of his and use a database to examine the covers of his books. They also discuss the criticism he faced during his life and how he dealt with...
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Slave Narratives

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students use a database to find and read examples of slave narratives. In groups, they read the various narratives and discuss their feelings about them. They also research the time period in which the narratives were written to end...
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Writers and the Old South Myth

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students are introduced to authors of the South. In groups, they compare and contrast the pastoral and counter pastoral traditions present in some forms of Southern literature. They use a database to examine the covers of the books...
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Technology: Narrative Procedure Web Site

For Teachers 1st - 7th
Pupils use Web page templates to publish how-to instructions on the Internet. The Web sites are used as instructional databases for others to view. Students also participate in electronic message boards to post and answer questions to...
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Making Science and Literature Connections

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students access the Internet and research physical characteristics and route of migration of the gray whale. They complete a database and reproduce the information using Apple Works. They read the novel El Guero by Elizabeth Borton de...
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Folk Remedy Worksheet

For Students 7th - 9th
In this folk remedy worksheet, students create a database categorizing folk remedies and sayings by using the graphic organizer that has been started for them.
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Thanksgiving Feast

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Use the Tool Factory Workshop to have your class create a list of people to invite to their Thanksgiving Feast.They will take pictures related to the fall season and create invitations using Tool Factory Database. Students make a grocery...
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Big Cat Classification

For Teachers 1st
First graders discover the different names and classifications of big cats by using word processing applications.  In this animal life lesson plan, 1st graders investigate one big cat and create a database of facts about it using an word...
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University of North Carolina

Symbols and Words of Hate

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
This resource is structured with exercises that ask class members to explore hate symbols and hate speech. Learners examine the historical significance and harmful effects of these words and symbols, examine the First Amendment and...
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Using Historic Digital Newspapers for National History Day

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
Your learners will take a trip through history as they peruse through historic digitalized newspapers, reading real articles from such historical periods in the United States as the Temperance movement and passage of the Thirteenth...
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Mathematics Vision Project

Module 4: Linear and Exponential Functions

For Teachers 8th - 10th Standards
Sequences and series are traditionally thought of as topics for the pre-calculus or calculus class, when learners are figuring out how to develop limits. But this unit uses patterns and slopes of linear functions in unique ways to bring...
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University of North Carolina

Clichés

For Students 9th - Higher Ed Standards
When it comes to writing, cliches are as old as dirt. A handout on tired phrases provides examples of cliches, as well as a description of the negative effects they have on a paper. Writers discover specific words and phrases to avoid,...
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Historic New Orleans Collection

Exploring Primary Sources: Music in New Orleans

For Teachers 5th - 12th Standards
Looking for a new and exciting way to teach young historians the art of primary source analysis? Jazz up your lesson plan with a resource that asks class members to analyze photos, travel documents, and letters written by some of New...
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School Journalism

Investigative and Data Journalism – Day One

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
A free press, free to investigate and report on responsibly, compelling stories, is essential to a democracy. A 10-slide presentation details where to get ideas, how to go about an investigation, gather data, and assure the accuracy of...
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Human Population Ecology: Demography

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students describe the basic concepts of population demography. They collect a wide range of data from an online cemetery database including a variety of places across the U.S. They analyze factors that may have affected human demography...
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How Are We Alike and Different?

For Teachers K - 8th
Students review an online database and look for similarities and differences among the plants, animals, and non-living things that were listed. They compose a narrative based on their conclusions.

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