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How Things Fly
Students, by drawing on their own experiences, discuss and examine the basic physics of flight. They participate in a variety of activities regarding flight.
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Stories of the Wrights' Flight
Students examine and compare primary and secondary source accounts of the Wright brothers' first flights on December 17, 1903.
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Money Talks
Students move from fact finding to interpretation as they examine paper money from the time of the American Revolution. In the final exercise, they use the issue dates of the bills to construct a chronology of political changes during...
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Pictures Telling Stories
Students see the importance of primary sources in the study of history, but also the limitations of relying only on primary sources of taking the money, as it were, at face value.
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The Rocky Shore
Young scholars compare a realistic landscape painting with a photograph of the same place.
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Spy on a Spider
Students view slides or live specimens to name and describe the distinguishing features of groups of arthropods, especially spiders and insects. They complete worksheets, observe webs and then search for and record where spiders can be...
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Creatures from Planet X: Spiders
Students are given a description of some fascinating animals from "Planet X". They follow the descriptions given to illustrate one of these animals paying careful attention to introduced vocabulary such as 'appendages', 'receptors', and...
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Facts, Feats and Folklore: Spiders
Students review and discuss a variety of sayings, folklore and superstitions about spiders. They discuss this information and choose either an interesting fact or appealing foklore tradition to illustrate.
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Letters from the Japanese American Internment
Students make deductions about life in an internment camp by reading and comparing letters written to Clara Breed. Along the way, they consider the advantages of looking at a historical event from the multiple points of view of...
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Baga Drum
Pupils examine a Baga Drum in order to explore the history of the Baga people of West Africa. In this art history lesson, students recognize figures used in Baga Drum design that represent aspects of Baga culture. They also design and...
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Harry Potter: Upper Grades Activity
High schoolers interpret symbols and metaphors from Harry Potter that refer to real-life political and social issues.
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Harry Potter: Early Grades Activity
Students analyze labels and explore the social hierarchy found in Harry Potter. They expore inclusion and exclusion in social groups.
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Energy Efficient Homes
Students evaluate their home to see how energy-efficient it is. In this energy efficiency instructional activity students complete a worksheet and search the Internet to find ways of making their home more energy-efficient.
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The Segregated Pencil Sharpeners
Students explore racism through pencil sharpeners. For this civil rights lesson, students utilize a pencil sharpener with one of two colored pencils and explain how some people were not allowed to use certain items because of the...
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Winter Animal Match
Students play a game. In this matching lesson, students learn about animals and their winter homes. Students match cards of animals with the cards of winter homes.
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Friendship Poster
Students use WordArt to create a friendship poster. In this friendship lesson, students use Microsoft Word to create a friendship poster. Students create phrases using the WordArt program and arrange the phrases on construction paper to...
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Box of Chocolate Adjectives
Students practice using descriptive words. In this adjectives activity, students are given a piece of candy and write as many descriptive words as they can about the candy. Students make sure to use descriptions that include all...
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A Day in the Life of a Leprechaun
Students investigate creative writing by reading Leprechaun stories. In this Irish culture lesson, students listen as their teacher describes what a leprechaun is and where the idea for the creature came from. Students write a fictional...
Curated OER
Mapping It Out - Great Lessons For Geography
Through geography lesson plans students can learn about history, science, and a variety of other subjects.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Figure This: Does Drinking Soda Affect Your Health?
Try this "Real world," challenge taken directly from the today's health journals. Use your problem solving, data analysis, and number sense skills to figure out if soda intake among teenage girls is related to incidences of broken bones....
CNN
Cnn: Cnn 10
CNN 10 provide quick news segments from around the world organized into subject categories. Content includes world events, U.S. government, science & technology, economics & math, language & fine arts, and health.
University of Arizona
Pulse: Dawn of New Revolutions
A cross curricular unit focusing on how much and what kinds of foods are produced because of pesticides and genetically engineered foods. Students will investigate the impact on humans due to the new technology in food production. Topics...
University of Arizona
Pulse: From Global to City Air: Air Quality, City Design and Disease
Students are challenged to design a healthy city in this unit plan. The cross-curricular unit covers content standards for ninth grade in science, language arts, world geography, and math. Students explore air quality and the impact it...
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Fisher Science Education: Headline Discoveries Archive
What's new in the world of science? Find the latest articles about the newest discoveries and research in all the science disciplines: anatomy, astronomy, biology, biotechnology, chemistry, consumer science, environmental, forensics,...