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Place Value

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore number meanings and their relationship. Using place value clues and base-ten blocks, 5th graders build a models of numbers and determine their value. To reinforce number relationship, students participate in a...
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Water Awareness Portfolio Instructions

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners participate in a water awareness portfolio.  In this water conservation lesson students create a portfolio to help make them aware of current water conditions. 
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Wetland Ecosystems: Non-living and Living Components and Brine Shrimp

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students explore wetland ecosystems. In this wetland lesson, students discuss and observe salt ponds and the organisms that live there. They explain how abiotic and biotic factors of species are important to survival.
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Immigration

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers explore the concept of immigration. In this immigration lesson, students read literature, analyze photographs, and evaluate political cartoons that reflect feelings about immigration in America during Industrialization....
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The Basilica of the Assumption-A Symbol of Freedom

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore the importance of the Basilica of Assumption and the development of the Catholic Church in Maryland. In this social studies lesson, 4th graders discuss the Basilica of the Assumption and the Catholic Church.
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The Fractal Coast

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Learners investigate measuring as it relates to the real world. In this geometry lesson, students measure distances as they discuss fractals and how it relates to measuring. They measure both linear and non-linear distances.
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Continents of the World

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders participate in a lesson about how people are the same, how people are different and where the continents are located. They go on a trip around the woworld to visit a country in each continent.
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A Colony is Born : Lesson 2 - Sez Who?

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders increase their baseline knowledge of primary and secondary sources and the likenesses and differences of them with regard to a selected historical event.
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Publishing an Alphabet Book

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students research, write and publish an A,B,C book based on research of their own.
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Lesson 24: The Great Chicago Fire Survivors

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students, in groups, explore the Great Chicago Fire. They decide which moment from the fire is significant and create a story corner.
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Local Traffic Survey

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Young scholars conduct a traffic survey and interpret their data and use graphs and charts to display their results.
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Reading Puzzle

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders examine the elements of literature. They each read a chapter of a novel, sequentially list the main ideas, present a summary of the chapter to the class, sequence the events, and review the novel by summarizing the timeline.
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Beside & Besides

For Students 7th - 9th
In this grammar worksheet, students choose the appropriate preposition for ten sentences to make each one grammatically correct.
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Past Tense Verbs- Fill In the Blank

For Students 5th - 8th
In this past tense verbs worksheet, students fill the blank lines with the correct form of the verb which is given in parentheses at the end of the sentence. They complete 30 examples.
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The London Underground Alphabetical Order Worksheet

For Students 2nd - 3rd
For this alphabetical order worksheet, students examine the 30 listed subway (tube) stations in London. Students list the stations in alphabetical order.
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Edit Sentences

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this sentences editing worksheet, students mark sentences as either being grammatically correct or incorrect, then underline mistakes in sentences. A website reference is given for additional resources.
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Tracking the Storm

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Young scholars discuss the different types of storms that can hit land. They locate specific coordinates on a plane grid. They discuss lonsgitude and latitude to plot the coordinates of a tropical storm. They practice finding...
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The Chemistry of Water / Industrial Waste at My High School

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students gain factual knowledge of the nature of industrial waste at on their school site. They gain process knowledge of the laboratory techniques and collection procedures for wastewater samples.
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Introduction to Biometrics

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use the internet to research how biometrics is being used in the real world today. They work together to research hand geometry applications. They share their findings with the class.
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Water Above the Ground

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students create a river drainage basin using a plastic tub, sand and a pitcher of water. They simulate the flow of water through the basin then add chocolate syrup to model what would happen if stormwater pollution entered the basin.
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The Way to Work

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students make oral and/or written presentations describing results of interviews with professionals and their transit experiences traveling to the interviews.
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Fish Now or Later

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students describe the effects of over-harvest on a salmon population. They explain the importance of salmon to many communities in Alaska. They manage harvest levels to maintain a sustainable population.
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Exploration of Civil War Webquest

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students use the internet to research what life was like for Confederate and Union soldiers in a specific battle of interest to them. In groups, they complete a webquest on the battle in which one represents a Confederate soldier and the...
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Routing Explorers

For Teachers K - 4th
Pupils read excerpts from an explorer's journal and then become investigators and navigators themselves. Students answer questions about the difficulties and time it took for the explorers to travel from Washington to New Orleans and...