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An Adventure to the New World

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders role play the position of an explorer traveling to the new world. They research the explorers journey and create their own explorer's notebook. They complete different activities and then present their evidence to the class.
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5 Themes Awareness of Current Event Issues

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students analyze newspaper articles for the 5 themes of geography. They create a colorful portfolio explaining how each theme: location, place, etc. is relevant in a chosen current event.
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New Hampshire and the Five Themes of Geography

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore the location, place, human-environmental interactions, movement, and regions of the New Hampshire landscape through the use of visual representations.
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Tough Boris Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students practice their expressive voices. In this Tough Boris lesson plan, students read the story by Mem Fox, discuss feeling, and use their own voice to express emotions.
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Chinese Folktales

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars examine Chinese folktales. In this literature and philanthropy instructional activity, students read Chinese folktales and analyze their literary elements. Young scholars consider the effects of generosity in the tales and...
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Learning to Give: Generosity of Spirit Folktales

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students read two Inuit folktales about life and death. In this language arts instructional activity, students study the models of giving found in these Inuit tales about life, death, grief, sacrifice, and generosity. As the class reads...
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Early Explorers

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students answer short answer questions and participate in a role play where they are explorers being interviewed. In this early explorers lesson plan, students discuss why it is beneficial to be the first one in a place.
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Where Do I Live?

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students gain a better understanding of the population of the region they live in by comparing U.S. census data on the internet.
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Where is ? ? ? ?

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students explain and explain the concept of a grid system. They define absolute and relative location and develop an imaginary city on graph paper using a grid system.
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Navigation

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Young scholars explore the concept of navigation in these two activities.
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Phases of Charon

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Charon, the largest of Pluto's moons, was discovered in 1978. Lesson is a walk through of how to solve for the phases of Charon. It uses two different points on Pluto and takes into account the tilt of the pole, the rotational axis, and...
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El Nino Lesson

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students compare graphs of weather occurrences. In this environmental lesson plan, students will being using the website to gather weather related information for a certain time period. The students will then graph the data that will be...
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The Sun and the Earth

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders study and diagram the positions of the Earth and sun during the four seasons. They predict weather for cities in the northern and southern hemispheres.
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The Earth Moves Under My Feet

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students study earthquakes, monitor seismic activity using the Web, and plot real-time activity. They examine movement of the Earth's tectonic plates. They create an earthquake preparedness project.
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'Tis a Long, Long Way to Tipperary!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners practice finding the location of cities across the world by using an interactive Web site, and figure out the world's time and the value of time zones the world over.
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Volcanoes and Plate Tectonics

For Students 6th - 9th
In this earth science instructional activity, learners read and study about divergent and convergent boundaries, tectonic plates and volcanoes to complete 1 data chart 7 short answer questions.
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Fostering Geospatial Thinking: Space to Earth: Earth to Space (SEES)

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students locate and access data to help them with their science inquiry.  In this geographical positioning activity students evaluate and compare data sets. 
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Biomes: Coastlines and Seas

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students study the different types of coastlines and their territories. In this marine coasts lesson students identify life forms that are in the coastal regions. 
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Tectonic Plates, Earthquakes, and Volcanoes

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Challenge geography classes to locate the major volcanoes and earthquake faults on a world map. In groups, they identify the pattern made and examine the relationship between the locations of the faults and volcanoes and tectonic plates....
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Finding the Way

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify and research navigational tools used in deep sea explorations. They are introduced to a compass, the Global Positioning System and sonar technology and then describe their uses in underwater exploration.
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An Age of Exploration

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students investigate U.S. history by examining North American timelines. In this American exploration lesson, students research the events that led to Columbus finding America and participate in a jeopardy game regarding his adventure....
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Analysis of Atmospheric Conditions for a High Mountain Retreat

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners examine the relationship between altitude, atmospheric pressure, temperature and humidity at a particular location. They practice science and math in real world applications. They write reports detailing their scientific...
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Understanding Hurricanes and the ER-2

For Teachers 5th - 10th
Students study hurricanes; in particular, what they look like, how they are formed, how they are categorized, how they are named, and how they are tracked. They examine the science of hurricanes as well as the mathematics of hurricanes.
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High Mountain Retreat

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners explore and analyze atmospheric conditions for a high mountain retreat. They examine the relationship between altitude, atmospheric pressure, temperature and humidity at a particular location. In addition, they write reports...

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