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Discover and Celebrate the Chinese New Year

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Spring into Chinese New Year with a look at the history, food, and traditions associated with this holiday.
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Layers of the Rainforest

For Teachers 2nd
What a great way to discuss the rainforest! Learners discuss the importance of adaptation in the environment and how it is linked to survival. They use critical thinking and inference skills to place animals and insects in the different...
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Those Particular Plants in Particular Regions

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders, acting as a botanist, analyze information on different plants in different regions of California. They characterize each plant for each region and answer a variety of question for each plant while doing this study.
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TECH: The Trading Game

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Property ownership, restricted trade, and free trade are the topics of this game. Kids play a trade game to better understand the interrelationship between technology, economics, and personal choices. Rules to the game and a series of...
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Pardon Me, Your Modifier is Dangling

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
Lost! (or misplaced) a modifier. Last seen dangling at the end of a sentence! Reward offered! To underscore the humor, class members are each given a sample sentence to illustrate (A woman passed by, leading a Springer Spaniel, in a long...
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Unions Today

For Teachers 6th - 10th Standards
Three scenarios that examine the role of unions in the fast-food industry and pro sports are used to launch a discussion of present-day union influence.
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Edgar Allan Poe and Anna Katherine Green

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students go over the summary of the story by Edgar Allan Poe and answer questions to predict what they think happens in the story. They then read the story, read the summary of Anna Katherine Green's story and do the same. They finally...
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Images in Action

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students explore the concept of tolerance as variety of images and words are probed for expressions of misinformation and stereotyping. Advertisements, textbooks, public monuments, historical markers, TV shows, Web sites, logos and...
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Trekking to Timbuktu: The Geography of Mali - Student Version

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders locate Mali on a world map, describe the landscape and climate of Mali, and locate the city of Timbuktu and describe the local weather. They compare life along the Niger in ancient times to that of today
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Making Connections

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students draw connections between ideas and images that normally aren't put together, and combine a wide variety of words to form new images.
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Mechanism of Our Eyes

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students study the eye as the organ of vision, They look at a drawing of the eyes and study the names of the parts. While working with a partner, they observe what happens when the lights are turned lower and lower. Finally, they look at...
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Upper-Intermediate English Grammar Review # 3

For Teachers 6th - 10th
DUPLICATE students complete grammar worksheet.
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A Day Without Ag

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students investigate the concept of agriculture. They focus upon the presence of agriculture and the personal implications of it. Students generate lists related to the concept to encourage group discussions. The products of agriculture...
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Rock Families

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Young scholars study the three types of rock characteristics; igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic. They are divided into three groups and each group takes one of the rock characteristics. They then act out the characteristics of...
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Respect

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students, in groups, exchange their opinions and experiences on issues around respect and anti-social behavior. They come up with approaches to youth crime prevention and discuss and present their own solutions.
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Relating Algebra to Geometry

For Teachers 10th
Learners investigate the connection that exists between Algebra and Geometry. They classify two and three-dimensional figures. Pupils use formulas to solve problems in geometry and use appropriate measuring devices in the right contexts.
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Creative Writing: Haiku

For Teachers 8th
Haikus by Basho, Buson, Issa, and Shiki are used as models for a brief lecture on the importance of poetry in Japan's history and the structure of this poetic form. Students then go on a nature walk, record impressions, and return to the...
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Photojournalism: A Record of War

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers explore who has photographed war and why. They examine Mathew Brady's process for photgraphing the Civil War. Students investigate how photographic equipment has changed and improved through time. They analyze primary...
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In the Rain Shadow

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students, while utilizing a large wall map, experiment recording the annual precipitation for cities on the east and west sides of the Cascade Mountains. They discover that volcanic mountains do not have to erupt to affect the atmosphere.
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Protecting the Environment

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explain what biodegradable materials are and list examples of them. They design, with online partners' feedback and input, a product made of biodegradable materials and develop a marketing campaign to best sell their product.
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Healing Art: Health and Illness

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students examine African artifacts relating to health and illness
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Galapagos - Discover the Diversity

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Pretend you are exploring a newly discovered species of fish in the Galapagos. Your budding marine biologists access FishBase Database's list of marine/brackish fishes and choose one to research. The link through this website does not...
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What's the Story?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore how the same news story can be presented differently through various journalistic styles. They discuss the unique characteristics of each style and find articles on the same event in each of the different styles.
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Ice Breakers and First Day Activities

For Teachers 1st - 7th
Build rapport and engage students with get-to-know-you activities