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Seeing in 3D: Interpreting Two-Dimensional Diagrams of Three-Dimensional Objects

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students hone in on their skills at reading diagrams.  In this dimensional lesson students collect information on the functions of organs then figure out how all the parts work together. 
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Creating Comic Strips

For Teachers K - 4th
Students create comic strips to communicate ideas that cannot be expressed through words alone.
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DEVELOPING A MONOLOGUE OR JOURNAL ENTRY BASED ON PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE DUST BOWL

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars infer the emotions of various individuals portrayed in the photographs and depict these feelings in a monologue or journal entry. Students explore the verisimilitude of art to reality, sharing ideas and observations in...
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What Do We Do With A Dirty Bomb?

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students examine composition of dirty bomb and its possible effects on a city, and investigate simulations of such an event; students use computational and problem solving skills to assess damage and prepare report proposing solution to...
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Ojibwa Sewn Bead Designs

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students recognize and describe the sewn beading style of the Ojibwa tribe that was influenced by seventeenth-century French floral embroidery and fabric prints imported by the French traders. They adapt and recreate an Ojibwa bead motif.
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Abstractions/Gestures

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students examine and display the differences between literal, and non-literal movement and abstraction using a creative project in movement. This project originates as an individual item, culminating in a small group performance.
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Line and Design

For Students 8th - 11th
With photography as the focus, students learn about line and design. Learners take pictures, and use the photos as a means to analyze artistic elements.
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Insect Inquiries

For Teachers 1st - 10th
Students explore the topic of insects. In this biology lesson plan, students develop a curiosity about the insect world. Students will collect and observe insects native to the area.
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Symmetry in Paper Airplanes

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Young scholars explore symmetry.  In this geometry and scientific inquiry lesson plan, students design paper airplanes with middle line symmetry, as well as right, obtuse, and acute angles.  Young scholars measure the plane's angles...
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Basic Ammeter Use

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this ammeter worksheet, students answer eleven questions about ammeters, multimeters and types of circuits. They identify different types of circuits given schematic diagrams.
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Basic electromagnetic relays

For Students 9th - 12th
In this worksheet on electromagnetics, students build simple electromagnetic circuits and determines voltage and resistance. There are 11 questions and answers are provided if working online.
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Design Project: Intercom System

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
In this electrical learning exercise students design an intercom circuit and answer 2 open-ended questions about the volume control and microphone of the intercom. This learning exercise can be printed and the answers to the questions...
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Probability and Expected Value

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students collect data and analyze it. In this statistics lesson, students make predictions using different outcomes of trials.
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Analyzing Literary Elements in Fiction

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students analyze the characters and events in fictional writing. In this literary elements lesson, students study the meaning of the words characterization and fiction. They listen to the story Pigsty by Mark Teague, or any other book...
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T-Shirt Lettering

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students determine the cost of a t-shirt using a variety of mathematical operations to solve problems. Then they use a spreadsheet to calculate the cost of lettering a t-shirt and display this information in a graph.
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Edward Lear, Limericks, and Nonsense: There Once Was...

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars recognize poetic devices including rhyme, syllabification, and meter. They identify the characteristics of a nonsense poem and of a limerick. They write their own limericks.
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Wire Circus

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders examine the life and work of Alexander Calder. They create a wire sculpture on a cirucs theme of their choice. They work on these projects in groups. They utilize telephone wire, or any thin wire cut to manageable lengths.
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Beatrix Potter's Naughty Animal Tales

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students gain insight into the unusual, solitary world of Beatrix Potter's Victorian childhood and can compare/contrast it with their own world to explain why Potter wrote such simple stories and why she wrote about animals rather than...
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The Interplanetary Magnetic Field (IMF)

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students design an experiment for NASA's STEREO/IMPACT mission to measure the interplanetary magnetic field. This lesson plan includes 3 excellent hands-on and critical thinking activities in which students explore magnetism in the solar...
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Create Your Own Ad

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the elements of advertising. They analyze the format and structure of advertisements. They develop awareness of advertising techniques and explain that media messages and products are composed of a series of separate...
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U.S. foreign policy in the early Republic

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students research various events during the War of 1812 and then create magazine articles with supporting illustrations, students are in control of their learning.
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Picture Fists Full of Kisses

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd Standards
Ease children's back-to-school jitters with this primary grade lesson plan based on the book The Kissing Hand by Ruth E. Harper. Starting off with a singing of the song "I Wish I Had a Little Red Box", children go on to discuss and...
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You're a Grand Ol' Flag

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore American flag and its symbols, and create an original flag that represents what they see in their own lives.
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Art of Japan - Textiles - Kimonos

For Teachers K - 5th
Students examine and discuss the role of the Kimono in Japanese culture. They create Kimono Paper Weavings, Kimono Scratch Art, and Kimono Clay Sculptures.

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