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Growth Mindset Toolkit

For Teachers K - Higher Ed
A nine-slide presentation provides educators with practical ways they can help young people develop a growth mindset, a key competency in social-emotional learning.
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Government Failure: Tuition Fees for Higher Education

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the concept of government failure. They analyze data to provide support for tuition fees. They write a report using their analytical and evaluative skills.
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Re-Examining Brown

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers identify, research, and report on the people, legal cases and conditions that led to the landmark case, Brown v. Board of Education. They role-play various people from the era preceding 1954.
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Documents Related to

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students use the National Archives to research the Supreme Court's 1954 ruling in Brown V. Board of Education.
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Guidelines for Sexual Health Information and Disease Prevention

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students describe effective sex education and its outcomes. They provide a tool for educators, policy-makers and others to evaluate existing or new programs, curricula or policies. Students comprehend that sex education refers both to...
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Bean Bag Challenge

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore the human body by participating in a physical education activity. In this bean bag lesson, students identify the hand eye coordination skills necessary to throw and catch a bean bag with a partner. Students throw,...
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Lessons in Learning

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students share their opinions about public education by responding to one-question interviews. After reading an article, they discover new recommendations for the No Child Left Behind Act. They prepare a three-part reader response to...
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Do We Have to Do This?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils conduct Internet research, and read articles about education to determine why particular educational practices are used, and why they are important in terms of No Child Left Behind. Students create PowerPoint presentations...
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PE on Parade

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students showcase what they are doing in physical education classes. They volunteer to participate in this activity and perform activities that they do every day in their PE classes. They demonstrate their skills in a one minute...
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Employment Growth in America

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the incomes that various jobs offer. In this economics instructional activity, students determine how education, training, market value, and productivity determine the income levels of professions as they listen to a...
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Class of 2000 - Student Loans

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students determine how they will finance their postsecondary education. In this student loan lesson, students create spreadsheets that help them budget their first year of college. Students identify methods to fund the budgets and...
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Rhythmic Movement Skills

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Young scholars practice using their physical skills while performing physical activities.  In this physical education lesson, students participate in musical orchestrated dances with their classmates.  Young scholars utilize a...
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Elective P.E.

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students choose a group to work with and sign up. They then choose which physical education activities, and the length of time in each activity to increase the level of responsibility, participation and ownership in the middle school...
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Is the Tassle Worth the Hassle?

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students analyze the costs of college education. In this economics lesson, students discuss the concept of opportunity cost as it relates to obtaining a college degree to secure a job.
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R-E-S-P-E-C-T

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students participate in a running/concentration game on teams and learn the expectations of physical education class. This is a great first day of the year physical education lesson.
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NEPANTLA BETWEEN WORLDS : A Story and Lesson Plan Addressing the Mexican-American Experience

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students read excerpts of "Neplanta" and discuss themes in the literature. In this bi-cultural education lesson plan, students analyze topics of race and Mexican American culture in the U.S. Students write a pledge to honor diversity and...
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Does my career fit me?

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Learners create a venn diagram about the job they currently have and if they think it is what they should be doing. In this job lesson plan, students list education and job duties in a venn diagram and analyze if it is the correct job...
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Teaching Tolerance: That's Not Fair!

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students study unequal resources and their effects on education. In this educational disparities instructional activity, students participate in a coloring activity with quality and low-quality resources. Students then discuss the...
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Making Good Decisions: Drug and Alcohol Reports

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
Students identify the effects and consequences of using and abusing alcohol and drugs. In this drug education instructional activity, students watch a video about underage drinking. Students research an assigned drug and compose a...
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Technology that Makes Phonics Fun

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students discover the Internet by participating in on-line educational activities.  In this educational technology lesson, students utilize interactive story books, podcasts, and games to help expand an understanding of phonics....
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Gymnastics Lesson

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students investigate the importance of having a healthy body by performing gymnastics.  For this physical education lesson, students utilize their flexibility and body strength to perform intense physical gymnastic maneuvers with...
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Cone Baseball

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners participate in a game to improve fielding and hitting skills. In this physical education lesson, students play t-ball and practice the correct form for catching and hitting the ball.
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What Effect Does A Communities Attitudes/Values/And Beliefs Effect Student Behavior And Influence Curriculum

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine how race relations effect the kinds and amount of educational resources individual schools receive within a school district.
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Sutton Jumpers

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students perfect skills learned in physical education class and use those skills to create jump routines. The troupe then performs their routines for various local and state organizations. They agree to come to practice before school,...

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