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Land Use in New Hampshire: Farming

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Pupils examine how the environment as affected people farming in New Hampshire. They visit a field trip to a local farm to make observations. They create a poem based on their observations.
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Exploring Restoration Techniques

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students, after taking a field trip to a museum, use paint to try to restore old objects.
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Freedom and Dignity Project

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students use maps to "recreate" important battles of the Revolutionary war. Students research these battles, focusing on how topography played a role in the victory or defeat of the American army. A field trip may also be used as an...
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Eleanor Roosevelt -- Human Rights Advocate

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders examine the role of Eleanor Roosevelt as a human rights advocate. Students use this lesson to prepare for a field trip to National Historic sites.
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Life on a Farm

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students take a field trip to a farm or observe pictures of farms and animals in the classroom. They paint a mural of a farm setting with animals. They practice phonetic skills with farm stories and songs. They explain how milk becomes...
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Reel or Real?

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students compare and contrast a live versus an animated performance of the same title. They view and take notes during the animated version, take a field trip to observe the live version, and write an opinion on which performance is most...
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Let's Make a Map

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders draw maps of their playground, noting objects such as trees and play equipment. Working in groups, they make maps of different parts of the school and assemble them into a schoolwide map. They make maps on a field trip to...
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Keys' Desert Queen Ranch

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students complete a variety of activities that go along with the study of and possible field trip to Keys' Desert Queen Ranch in Joshua Tree National Park, east of Los Angeles.
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Little Kinnakeet Lifesaving/Coast Guard Station

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students complete a variety of activities that go along with the study of and possible field trip to the Little Kinnakeet Lifesaving/Coast Guard Station on the Cape Hatteras National Seashore, NC.
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Lawson Fusao Inada

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students read and analyze poetry written by Lawson Fusao Inada. They read and discuss the executive order issued to Japanese Americans during WWII, take a field trip to the Nikkei Legacy Center, and read and discuss poems.
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Walk Around the Block

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders participate in walking a route in a neighborhood with parent volunteers in order to stress the importance of looking and listening for moving cars. They take this "field trip
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Geology of Connecticut

For Teachers 8th - 9th
Students examine the geology of Connecticut, including plate tectonics, glaciation, and fossil formation. After reviewing past lessons, they write essays about what life may have been like in the Mesozoic Period. Following a field...
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Social Studies: Westville Through the Years

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners research the history of Westville, Connecticut by investigating three main areas of study. They begin with the town's early history, examine its industrial era, and conclude with its influence in the arts. The lesson includes...
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Deer Yard Investigation

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students study the survival strategies of deer during the winter. They investigate the resistance behavior of white tailed deer to winter conditions after discussing migration, hibernation, and resistance as survival techniques. They...
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Gallery Crawl

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students explore art and artists from a specific country. While on a field trip to an area art museum, students choose one painting to sketch. After researching the chosen painting, students prepare a presentation in the targeted...
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Irish Eyes: Taking a Look at Local Landscape

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students create landscape flyers of local landscapes using digital photography, educational software, and examples of Irish landscapes. This creative-project lesson lasts two weeks, including class time spent collecting photographs...
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Quick-Sketch Artist Tips on Mind Mapping the Urban Landscape

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students interpret maps. They also create mental maps of regions in which they are studying. Students then explain the historical or cultural significance of map features orally or in written form. Students take a walking field trip...
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How To Think Like An Archaeologist

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers take a field trip to historical Jamestown. Using artifacts given to them, they must identify them and discover who would have used them and for what purpose. They create a database to organize the information and share...
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Timbuktu: A Center of Trade

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils pretend to take a field trip to Timbuktu. Using the internet, they research the origins and secrets of this important city. They use a map to discover how important its location is to trade. They also examine why Timbuktu...
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Rpbert Henri: People, Places and Perceptions

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Learners use artworks to investigate the idea of cultural perspectives. They use the works of Robert Henri and the Ashcan School are used to initiate the discussion. Students e to view the examine and distingusih the formal qualities...
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Rouge River Data

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students participate in using Excel sofware in order to create graphs. They create the graphs using data that they gathered during the Rouge River Field Trip they attended. The produce bar graphs from the excel spreadsheets.
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Creating slideshow using Real Slideshow 2.0.

For Teachers 5th
students gather information during field trip to the zoo. They use and present their findings of the types of birds, cats, primates, and other mammals to their teachers and classmates by producing a slide show using Real Slide Show 2.0.
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Geographic Factors and Physical Environment

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders discuss WWII in their classroom. They take a field trip to the National Museum of the Pacific War. Each section of the museum has a comprehension question to go along with it. The Bougainville Campaign Exhibit asks students...
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Making Lowell Our Place

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils investigate a community through different types of educational experiences. They use short field trips to experience the community in real life. they also conduct research using a variety of resources. Then students build the...

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