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World Hunger

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Students research the causes and effects of world hunger on children. In this world hunger instructional activity, students discuss causes and effects of hunger around the world and research a specific area affected by hunger. Students...
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Beyond Louisiana

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders examine the challenges that faced United States as a new nation.  In this American History lesson, 11th graders study the chronology of events leading up to the expedition of Lewis and Clark.  Students organize...
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Barter Day

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders research bartering. In this bartering lesson, 5th graders investigate bartering as a way to trade for goods and services. Students experience bartering first hand while playing a game.
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Food Travels and Preservation

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders study food processing and distribution. For this food processing lesson, 4th graders investigate various methods of food preservation. Students study methods of food distribution.
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Polythene: Bags Of Trouble

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the use of polythene bags in the community and measure the possible impact upon the environment. They conduct research using a variety of resources. The information is used in order to create an evaluative opintion...
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Waste Audit

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students engage in a lesson that is concerned with the concept of mental math. They perform calculations as following: recognizing a half, three quarters, and tenths. Students are also challenged to extend skills to making calculation...
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Why Study War?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students discuss war, specifically World Wars I and II, analyze causes and element of war, and decide whether war is acceptable solution to conflict situations, given resulting loss that occurs.
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Creating a How To Book

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders investigate "How To" books by watching a "How To" video and looking at books in the media center. They make a class "How To" book with a title page, table of contents, individual student pages, and graphics which they make...
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East Asia--The Asian Holocaust

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders study the effects of the Asian Holocaust by comparing it to the Nazi Holocaust. They view a Power Point and discuss the comparisons between both Holocausts. As they compare and contrast both, they discuss their reactions...
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Microsoft

Microsoft: Globalization Comes to the Table

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students examine globalization by researching the issues surrounding one of the several controversies involving food, and then grappling with those issues in a summit. The lesson plan includes student activities, resources, and a...
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Us and Eu Go Bananas Over Trade

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Economists generally agree that free trade helps to improve the overall quality of life in countries that participate. However, disagreements do arise concerning trade agreements. This instructional activity looks at a disagreement...
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National Geographic

National Geographic: Interdependence

For Students 3rd - 5th
Use this interactive to explore how interconnected the global economy is. After creating a character, gather some clothes together and enter their origin information into your database. Then look at your own interdependence map and...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: 2010 Census: For Kids

For Students 3rd - 8th
Play these fun learning games to uncover facts about the United States you might have never known or download a great story/coloring book for students to learn more about the U.S. Census. Educational resources are also available for U.S....
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I*earn (International Education and Resource Network)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This nonprofit organization creates structured projects that facilitate engaged learning and youth making a difference on an International scale. Project areas include interdisciplinary topics such as the environment/science,...
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NASA

Nasa: Climate Kids

For Students 3rd - 8th
Climate Kids thoroughly covers climate change and global warming. There are videos, games, puzzles (e.g., Cloud Picture Scrambles), interactives (e.g., the Climate Time Machine) and stories (e.g., Climate Tales). An educators' page links...
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University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: Climate

For Students 9th - 10th
The climate where you live is called regional climate. Global climate is a description of the climate of a planet as a whole, with all the regional differences averaged. Includes links to additional resources on climate and climate change.
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Black Past

Black Past: Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt

For Students 9th - 10th
This brief encyclopedia article gives information about W. E. B. DuBois, the controversial founder of the NAACP. He was the foremost black intellect of the early 1900's.
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Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami: Inuktitut Magazine

For Students 9th - 10th
Inuktitut Magazine is distributed throughout the Inuit communities of Northern Canada. It focuses on timely topics, e.g., politics, education, global and environmental issues, culture. Past issues have been archived.
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Nothing to Buy

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
This site is a printable lesson that compares the command economy of Soviet Russia with the market economy of present day Russia. Lesson provides tables with data comparing prices within the two systems. Discussion questions are also...

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