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Sun's Path

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students explore the movement of the sun across the sky. In this science lesson, students use clear plastic hemispheres and markers to record how the sun moves across the sky. Students write directions so the activity could be repeated.
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Cooking with WIC Foods

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students share ideas about how they use their WIC foods. In this adult health lesson, students discuss benefits of eating a healthy diet. They create recipes using WIC food supplies.
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Orienteering II

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students name the parts of a compass and comprehend the function of each part. They define paces and tallies and use them in a real world situation. Students are shown the proper use of radio terminology. They use a map and compass to...
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Lesson Plan
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Beat the Cheats

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students read an online article and participate in Language Arts activities associated with it.
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Worksheet
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Christmas Square Dance

For Students 9th - 12th
In this secondary mathematics worksheet, students solve a riddle in which dancing partners are assigned numbers such that the sum of each couples numbers is a perfect square.  The one page worksheet contains one problem with the...
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Lesson Plan
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History of Wildlife Management Lesson Plan

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Learners explore how others maintain the balance between humans and wildlife.
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Lesson Plan
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First Peoples Project

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students participate in this project to connect the indigenous groups of the world. They create a calendar with their artwork with the hope new ideas can be exchanged between groups.
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Telling the Date

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Pupils practice naming the date using the proper words for the days of the week, months, and associated ordinal numbers. They examine how to put words in the proper order to state the date and how to fill out forms.
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Lesson Plan
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Number Stories (Part 4): Presentation

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students observe a model classroom where children are using clip art to add to a number story. After viewing the video, students discuss methods of teaching technology skills. They explore how the room arrangement affects the students...
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Verb Forms And Contractions

For Teachers 7th - 9th
For this mixed verb and contraction worksheet, student fill in the blank with the proper verb form the first 16 statements. They insert the proper present perfect or past simple verb in 28 statements and insert the proper contraction in...
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Organizer
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Japanese Internment Camps in the USA

For Students 5th - 6th
In this worksheet about Japanese Internment camps, students read a 9 paragraph passage about the camps, locations, and a personal account. Link to additional activities included.
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Measurement and Problem Solving

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students solve problems using a calendar. In this calendar instructional activity, students complete a worksheet of math story problems. Example problems are provided. 
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Twelfth Night: Thrusting Greatness Upon the Television (Series of 4)

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students incorporate language from Twelfth Night into their own skits.  In this Hamlet activity, students use a handout to assist them as they dub over the skits created earlier with specific language from Twelfth...
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Eating, A Family Affair

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students explain the benefits of eating together as a family. In this adult health lesson, students share their happy mealtime experience with each other. They develop a mealtime goal for their family.
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Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Teach Your Way: December Collection

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This is a collection of materials from Teach Your Way: December including an December Planning calendar. This Collection includes: Video (15), Interactive (1), Media Gallery (13), Document (10), Webpage (1) for Grades PreK-K, K-2, 3-5 ,...
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Primary
PBS

Pbs Liberty!: Congress Adds a Bill of Rights

For Students 9th - 10th
Informative site recounting the events of December 15, 1791, when the Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution. Learn about the Bill of Rights and the freedoms it was designed to protect!
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Graphic
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Etc: Maps Etc: Battle of Nashville, December 1864

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of Nashville and the surrounding region, site of the Battle of Nashville. This map shows Union and Confederate positions on December 15-16, 1864.
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Graphic
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H. Mikuz Image of 109 P Exposed on 1992 December 15

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a detailed overview of the comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle. Content includes discovery information, images, and historical highlights.
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Article
CNN

Cnn: Study Links Lupus to Epstein Barr Virus

For Students 9th - 10th
This article, published by CNN (December 15, 1997), talks about a link that may have been discovered between the Epstein-Barr virus, which causes mononucleosis, and lupus.
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Website
Other

Unfccc: Un Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides information about the Copenhagen conference held in December 2009. Highlights include essential background, documents on the adopted decisions, meetings archive, and the COP 15 closing press briefing.
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Graphic
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Robert Augustus Toombs

For Students 9th - 10th
Robert Augustus Toombs (July 2, 1810 - December 15, 1885) was an American political leader, Secretary of State of the Confederacy, and a Confederate general in the Civil War.
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Graphic
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Whitelaw Reid

For Students 9th - 10th
Whitelaw Reid (October 27, 1837 - December 15, 1912) was a U.S. politician and newspaper editor, as well as the author of a popular history of Ohio in the Civil War.
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Website
PBS

Pbs Online News Hour: Rebuilding New Orleans' Levees

For Students 9th - 10th
A conversation with the coordinator for Gulf Coast recovery. He discusses what the federal government is doing to rebuild the levee system of New Orleans. Video, audio and a transcript are available for this report from December, 2005.
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Graphic
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Sherman's March to the Sea, 1864

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina showing the routes of Union General Sherman's 'March to the Sea’ from Atlanta to Savannah (November 15 to December 21, 1864), and his march to Raleigh. The map shows state capitals,...