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Who Works for Nonprofits?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners explore career opportunities in the nonprofit sector. In this character development and career instructional activity, students identify job opportunities in a nonprofit organization and research the necessary skills needed for...
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Let's Try Various Calculations

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students explore math facts.  In this calculation and math facts lesson, students play a board game in which addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division math facts are practiced.  A copy of the game is included.
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Estimating With Fire

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students solve problems with percents, decimals and fractions. In this algebra lesson, students convert between fractions, percents and decimals. They estimate their answers and calculate their answer.
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Problem Solving

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Scholars will learn to solve word problems using addition, subtraction, multiplication or division. Using a grocery store theme, they will identify the best way to solve real-life problems. There are many ways this basic lesson can be...
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Worth a Thousand Words: Depression-Era Photographs

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students view images of New Deal programs to see its successes. They work in groups to create captions for the images and suggest captions that might indicate different meanings.
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Finding a Way to Cover a Student Death

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students read articles and discuss how to cover student deaths and consider developing a policy about how to cover deaths of students and/or faculty. Students also interview counselors, especially those who deal with grief counseling,...
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Perimeter All Around

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore perimeter and area of regular and irregular polygons. They experiment with color squares and create different arrangements using the same number squares. Then they compare the area and perimeter measurements of each.
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Operations with Decimals

For Teachers 6th
Help your learners get practice with operations involving decimals. They will follow prescribed steps that require them to use mixed operations to solve problems with decimals. Great for practice after pupils have had comprehensive...
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Citizenship Worksheet 5 - Local and State Government

For Students 8th - 9th
The Tenth Amendment of the United States Constitution delegates rights that have not been defined by the federal government to the states. But what are the responsibilities of state governments? What about county and city governments?...
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Family Member

For Students 4th - 8th
In this worksheet on family members, students describe what is meant by family, their duty to family, and family meetings. In addition, they create a budget for their family for one month keeping track of all expenses for 7 days....
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A Community of Givers

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explore charitable organizations. In this character development lesson, students read about children who have contributed to charitable organizations, research a variety of these organizations, plan a project, and prepare a...
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Watching Minds Bloom

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Educators can use the Principles of Bloom's Taxonomy as a Guideline for Differentiated Instruction.
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Nerve Cell Informercials

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students research the structure and function of the nervous system. They prepare a model or representation of neural transmission. Students create an infomercial about nerve cells.
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Sounds Like Science- Bottle Organ

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students investigate the relationship between pitches and notes. In this musical pitches and notes instructional activity, students use different sized bottles, water, and sugar to demonstrate different sounds. Students create musical...
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How Good Is Green?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the amount of electricity used and wasted in homes and at school using kilowatt meters. In this environmental energy lesson plan, students compute power usage by appliances over time and identify ways in which...
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Serfs and Lords

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students determine what the roles of serfs and lords were in feudal society. In this feudalism lesson, students examine what life was like for the different classes by looking at farm and manor life. They listen to Till Year's Good End,...
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Understanding Cladistics

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore cladistics and create a cladogram of their own. They are shown how the scientist at the American Museum of Natural History use a method called cladistics to group animals. Students are asked how the animals (lion,...
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Inspirational Mapping for the Corps of Discovery

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders use a computer software entitled, Inspiration, in order to create a map or web of what Lewis and Clark should have packed for their journey west. They are given the expectations of the teacher and a scoring guide is...
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Learning to Give

For Teachers K - 2nd
Pupils design advertising posters for a snack sale. They study the concept of philanthropy and write friendly letters asking for volunteers.
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Where the Red Fern Grows: A 4th Grade Literary Focus Unit

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore the human and animal connection along with the idea that death is a part of the life cycle. They read "Where the Red Fern Grows." Students examine the feelings and emotions surrounding death and they discover the...
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Estimating the Cost of Shopping

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this math instructional activity, students choose 20 items from a shopping list that includes the price of each food. Students estimate the cost of the list and then figure out the actual cost.
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United States-Japanese Relations in Post World War II Era

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders analyze political cartoons and posters relating to the United States and Japan in the period following World War II. They discuss the positive and negative consequences of the United States occupation of Japan.
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Introductory Excel Lesson involving Problem Solving

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders analyze an introductory instructional activity for Microsoft Excel. They go step by step through the creation of a basic spreadsheet and the use of simple formulas in a problem solving format.
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Costs of Living

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners consider the effects of rising oil and natural gas prices on family spending and saving habits. They design a board game intended to help people save.