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Know Yourself!
Deaf students view segments about autobiographies. They are to answer questions about themselves and write their own autobiography.
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Group Dynamics
Students define the purpose of different groups. Using photographs, they practice identifying the group affiliation to one another and describe their characteristics in the picture. They discover the similarities and differences with...
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The Absolute Truth
Students solve problems of inequalities and equations. In this algebra lesson, students add, subtract, multiply and divide to solve inequalities. They graph their solutions on a number line.
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The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash
Students read the story The Day Jimmy's Boa At the Wash and put the event boxes in order from the beginning to end of the story. In this sequencing lesson plan, students do this on the computer.
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Concrete Canoes
Students explore and analyze the relationship of buoyancy and displacement needed to make an object float. They examine various boat designs, then design and build clay and aluminum boats that hold a cargo of marbles.
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Putting Your Money to Work
Students create a collect data on expenses. In this algebra lesson plan, students create a spreadsheet to solve scientific equations. They incorporate math, science and technology in this lesson plan.
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Insects: Bugs, Science, Entomology
In this lesson, insects are explored through reading of children's literature, classifying insects versus non-insects, drawing and painting various insects, and learning how to clap to certain rhythms while reciting insect names.
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Designing Another Juilliard
Students investigate the vision and history of the Juilliard School. They develop a personal mission statement, watch a video, conduct Internet research, and create a PowerPoint presentation about a fictional school that also promotes...
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Dew Point
Fourth graders investigate saturation conditions and measure the dew point. They conduct an experiment, record data on a worksheet, and measure the dew point in the experiment.
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Sex & Reproduction
Students examine animal reproduction by interpreting data and making arguments and then create their own graphs to explore relationships of organ systems. This lesson plan includes an individual worksheet and a reflective review...
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Interpreting Christopher Columbus
Students compare historical interpretations. In this research skills instructional activity, students use Internet and print resources to research the controversy regarding Christopher Columbus's work as an explorer. Students use their...
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Don't Just Do It - Talk About It!
Students investigate a scientific problem while documenting their research with a video camera. For this scientific method lesson, students hypothesize over a science question and conduct an investigation to find an answer. Students...
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Congruent Triangles Postulates
Students discover three lettered postulates that prove triangles congruent.
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Does Humidity Affect Cloud Formation?
Young scholars use NASA's S'COOL database to identify factors that affect cloud formation.
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Strawberry and Chocolate Milk
Students listen to the math problem and discuss. They work alone or in groups to come up with the possible solutions and put their pictures of the bottle arrangements on the wall so that the class can refer to them.
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Introduction to Forces and Inertia
Young scholars explore the basic underlying concepts of Newton's first law of motion. They discuss forces and brainstorm different examples of force and what they act on. Students examine force by observing springs and gravity. They...
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Keys and Classifying
Young scholars classify plants and animals. In this organisms lesson, students define classification and sort various objects according to its attributes. Young scholars then research wildlife of Utah and group the organisms into...
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Confederation Comparison
Students compare and contrast American and Canadian plans for government. In this government instructional activity, students analyze the text and impact of the Articles of Confederation and the Confederation of Canada. Students compose...
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Boxplots Introduction
Students describe the pattern of a bell curve graph. In this statistics lesson, students move data around and make observation about the mean, and the quartiles. They define boxplot, outlier, range and other important vocabulary words...
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Mean, Median and Mode
Students define mean, median, mode and outliers. In this statistics lesson, students analyze data using the central tendencies. They follow a path through a maze collecting data. They analyze the data using the mean, median and mode.
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An Introduction to Public Key Cryptography
Young scholars secure information online using cryptography. In this algebra lesson, students use RSA technology to encrypt information on the internet. They use modular reduction of natural numbers to understand prime number theory.
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Making Decisions
Students experience how to make decisions other than by default, by whim or chance, on the basis of emotions, or because of influence from others. They can make sound, healthy decisions by using a modification of the scientific method.
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Body Keyboard: Technology, Computer Skills
Learners demonstrate their knowledge of keyboard functions in a 'hands-on' (or body-on) way. They stand in the order of a keyboard (with assigned functions) and physically show what function each key performs.
