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Prehistoric Native American Lesson Plan: Make a Mississippian-style Gorget
Students create a Mississippian-style gorget using clay and a stylus to etch a design of a stylized spider.
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Emergency Preparedness
Students are introduced to governmental and humanitarian responses to disasters. They research organizations such as FEMA and the Red Cross. They examine their local National Guard unit as well.
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The American Flag
Students examine the history and origin of the United States Flag. They identify each symbol and discover the proper way to display it. They discuss how the flag itself has played a part in recent events.
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The Delicate Balance within a Forest Ecosystem
Students examine the causes and effects of alterations in a forest ecosystem and evaluate how human actions may only seem to have minor consequences, but can lead to extinctions of large numbers of populations. Students produce an...
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Governance
Second graders practice decision making. In this government lesson students role play making different types of decisions. They discuss how decisions affect life. The Great Binding Law of the Iroquois Confederacy is used as a focus.
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A Politically Correct Version of Hangman
Instead of playing Hangman, students can try a different version of the game called Snowman.
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Outdoor Survival
Students are introduced to basic outdoor survival concepts. They identify the seven basic needs for survival. Students describe the symptoms and treatment for frostbite and hypothermia. They compare and contrast the value of different...
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What's the Difference?
High schoolers discover how volcanic processes differ at convergent and divergent tectonic plate boundaries. They identify three geologic features that are associated with most volcanoes on Earth.
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Archery
Students are shown proper stance, nocking, targeting, and release techniques of archery. They follow basic safety procedures involved in handling and using archery equipment. Students practice shooting aluminum or fiberglass shaft arrows.
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Read a Transportation Story
Students explore a transportation story. In this reading comprehension lesson plan, students read The Thumb in Box and discuss the provided discussion questions regarding the plot of the story.
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Estimate or Exact?
In this estimate or exact worksheet, students complete word problems where they either estimate or find the exact number. Students complete 3 word problems.
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Where There's Smoke......
Learners use fundamental relationships between melting points, boiling points, solubility, temperature and pressure to develop explanations. For this chemistry lesson students complete an activity.
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Unexplored!
Students explore volcanoes. In this deep sea volcano instructional activity students complete a worksheet and various activities.
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Native Americans Names
Third graders are introduced to the Native American groups of Michigan. Using primary source documents, they reconstruct events that occured in their local community. They discover the names of cities and towns in Michigan are related to...
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Locations Within a Community
Students identify important locations within a community. In this communities lesson, students read the books Let's Visit the Police Station and Firefighter A to Z, and discuss the importance of these locations. Students illustrate...
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Going to Extremes
Students compare and contrast Archaea with bacteria and other organisms. In this ocean instructional activity students complete diagrams.
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Real Life Challenge
Ninth graders read and examine narratives, review chronologies, consider ideas, and analyze trends in order to understand the past and present. In this American History lesson, 9th graders examine cause and effect, review chronologies,...
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Sending Messages, Then and Now
Students analyze how patriots created ways to communicate during the Revolutionary War. After reading about and discussing ways patriots communicated, students create a chart analyzing the way messages are sent today with the way...
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Overglaze Decoration on Tile
Students explore majolica. In this art and history instructional activity, students glaze and decorate pottery using the decorative ceramic technique of Majolica. Students discuss visual arts and make connections with history.
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Rescue 911
Studentsgain an understanding of the roles and responsibilities of emergency 911 responders while working in cooperative groups.
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Writing Police Reports
Students discover police procedures by filling out crime reports. In this government lesson, students discuss the benefits of historical reports pertaining to criminals and victims. Students listen to an officer of the law speak in...
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Painting Pottery
Pupils summarize and illustrate the process of painting an ancient Greek vessel, identify the amphora as an example of the black figure style and order the steps and procedures necessary to produce an amphora in the black figure style.
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Mountain of Myths
Students listen to mythical stories about Greek Mythology. In this myths lesson plan, students actively listen to myths, examine why it would be a myth and analyze the characters in the stories.
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I Went Walking Lesson Plan
Pupils study writing structure and patterns in repetitive texts. In this writing structure instructional activity, students read portions of a story and predict what will come next based on the repetitive text. Pupils create their own...