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Runaway Ad - Using Primary Documents

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine a runaway slave advertisement. For this American history lesson, students investigate a missing slave advertisement run by Thomas Jefferson in 1769. Students make inferences based on the advertisement.
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A Wolf by the Ear

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students examine Thomas Jefferson's view of slavery. In this slavery lesson, students watch segments of the video "Slavery and the Making of America." Students respond to discussion questions as they watch the video and make inferences...
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Rockin’ the World: Rock and Roll and Social Protest in 20th Century America

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students explore protest songs. In this interdisciplinary lesson, students examine issues-based music by summarizing lyrics and revealing inferences, generalizations, conclusions, and points of view found in the songs.
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Advanced Critical Reading: Ethanol

For Students 6th - 10th
In this advanced critical reading instructional activity, students read a passage about ethanol then answer questions. Students make inferences, determine author's purpose and use context clues to find the meaning of unknown words in the...
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Literature-based Skill Building:Holesby Louis Sachar

For Students 5th - 7th
In this literary elements worksheet, students read chapters 26, 27, and 28 of Holes by Louis Sachar and then respond to 13 short answer questions regarding setting, conflict, and inference.
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European Agriculture

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners make inferences on how physical geography affected the development of early civilizations and come up with solutions to global issues. In this physical geography lesson plan, students compare maps of the past to maps of today to...
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Lesson PlanThe Huexotzinco Codex

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine primary sources that include pictographs from Puebla, Mexico. In this Huexotzinco Codex lesson, students perform historical analysis as they investigate the codex as they make inferences and draw conclusions about taxes...
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Architecture of the Skeleton

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Young scholars experiment with skeletons. For this bone health lesson, students analyze, construct, and perform comparative investigations with bones. They make inferences about the structure and function of various bones. This lesson...
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The Huexotzinco Codex

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners examine primary sources and perform historical analysis. In this Huexotzinco Codex lesson, students investigate the codex as they make inferences and draw conclusions
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Cherstey: What was Cherstey like in the middle ages?

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students examine maps of a medieval village. In this medieval town lesson, students identify major buildings and make inferences about village life.  Students could draw a modern day map of medieval Cherstey.
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Weather Olympics

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students consider the effects of topography on climate patterns. In this earth science lesson, students research weather patterns and make inferences of how the land forms may create different climates. Students compare Celsius...
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Exploring Religious Violence and Persecution in 16th Century Europe

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Pupils watch a movie on religious violence in 16th century Europe and then write a background about a picture they are given on violence. In this religious violence lesson plan, students create the background by making inferences about...
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Look Around You

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Pupils make predictions about a book they are reading and use their background knowledge to make inferences. In this predictions lesson plan, students complete a worksheet that they are given.
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Rudyard Kipling's "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi": Mixing Fact and Fiction

For Students 3rd - 9th Standards
"Rikki-Tikki-Tavi," from The Jungle Book, offers young readers a chance to examine how Rudyard Kipling uses setting and personification to bring to life the brave mongoose who battles cobras to protect his family. Class members...
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Where the Red Fern Grows Chapter 16-17

For Students 4th - 7th Standards
Find out how much your class understood of the listed chapters of Wilson Rawls' novel. Class members respond to eight plot and character questions before looking closely at an instance of personification from the text. The resource is...
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Poems that Tell a Story: Narrative and Persona in the Poetry of Robert Frost

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students read and discuss poems by Robert Frost. Students collaborate in small groups to draw inferences about speakers' character and motives and to gather evidence supporting those inferences.
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What Can We Learn From the Past?

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Learners observe items from their past, making inferences and observations about their own culture based on these artifacts. Students then share with the class what they learned about their own culture, giving all learners more...
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Looking Back to 1980

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use clustering/mind mapping techniques to generate ideas, graphically represent inferences, organize their conclusions and write a report that presents conclusions the writer has reached, and facts substantiating those conclusions.
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Carbons to Computers - 1

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students gather and classify information from observation of photographs; to have students differentiate between fact and inference.
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It's All In The Rocks

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners think critically to determine fact or inference when examining sedimentary layers with embedded fossils. Geology and evolutionary biology are introduced. They individually write a story about various diagrams and share their...
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Scientific Inquiry

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students make inferences about what activities occur at different places in school. They form a hypothesis as to how space is used. They simulate how archeaologists explore past people by designing and conducting a research project.
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Learning Cycle Lesson Plan

For Teachers 3rd
students investigate, develop inferences, and identify general descriptions for each of the three states of matter - solid, liquid, and gas. students investigate water, by observing and stating inferences about, the properties of each...
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Seeing Sound and Sonar

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers grasp how underwater animals can "see" using sound waves. They practice making inferences, and build a conceptual understanding of sonar radar.
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Local Heart Rates

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students determine the type of data needed to test their inferences. As homework, they check and record heart rates of fellow students, teachers and family members. During their next class period, students enter all data into the database.

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