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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Science Safari: Ways of the Wild

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Explore the problem of wildlife management in many African countries. Apply critical thinking skills to a decision-making scenario and strategically communicate information.
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Article
Live Wire Media

Good Character: The Socratic Approach to Character Education

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A how-to article that illustrates how teachers can educate students about making choices that are consistent with their ethical values. A comprehensive plan for using the venerable Socratic method to reinforce critical-thinking skills by...
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Unit Plan
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Body and Mind: Kabam! Comic Creator

For Students 3rd - 8th
Choose a scenario and decide the best choice of dialogue to use in the situation. Then create a comic to play out the rest of the situation.
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Handout
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Applying to New Contexts Quick Guide

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Some questions ask you to identify which scenario matches the principle in a passage. This type of question asks you to apply a principle or idea presented in the passage to a new context presented in the choices.
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Lesson Plan
Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Staying Afloat Financially in the 21st Century

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This lesson will help students identify how to make good decisions which will help them financially in the future. Students will identify how to take their own wants and work them into a form of a personal budget. Students will also...
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Activity
Live Wire Media

Good Character: Ethical Dilemmas for Classroom Discussion Archive

For Students 9th - 10th
An archive of challenging ethical dilemmas relevant to the experiences of high-school students. Use this solid set of resources as the foundation for lessons that teach about ethical choices and values based on real-life contexts and...
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Interactive
PBS

Pbs: Endgame: Ethics and Values in America

For Students 9th - 10th
At this interactive site from PBS, viewers enter the lives of fictional characters who are forced to make critical decisions about their roles in a fatal car crash. A variety of media--video, polling, and audio interviews with an expert...
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Professional Doc
Other

Share: 5 Problem Solving Activities for the Classroom

For Teachers K - 1st
Problem-solving skills are necessary for all areas of life, and classroom problem-solving activities can be a great way to get students prepped and ready to solve real problems in real-life scenarios. Here are five classroom...
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Extinction: Is It Inevitable?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learners read the article "The Sixth Extinction" by Niles Eldredge on past mass extinctions and the current rate of loss of species. There is a choice of student activities which includes having students respond to discussion and...
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Unit Plan
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Smartgraphs: Independent and Dependent Variables

For Students 5th - 9th Standards
For various scenarios students select which of two variables should be considered independent and which dependent, and to explain their choice.