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Career Planning

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students search and evaluate information on available career opportunities. After creating questionnaires, students develop a list of pros and cons of the job, and search for necessary training for the vocation, then create a summary of...
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Quilt Squares

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students research the history of the quilt in American History and view a PowerPoint Presentation. They create a quilt square with colored paper using polygons, transformations, rotations, and reflections on the computer and on a...
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Protective Services/ "Dump Busters"

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students tell,write and show the importance of following correct procedures to promote safety of self, others, property, and shared resources. They determine a crime suspect through systematic inquiry and objective information gathering.
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Self Advocacy

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students develop the skills necessary to advocate for themselves through adulthood. Through class discussion and creative projects, students create a portrait of themselves as adults. They develop an action plan for their adult years and...
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You Scratch my Back, I'll Scratch Yours

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students explore the concept of interdependence. In this integrated interdependence lesson, students interpret graphs and charts that require them to analyze the relationship between Mexico and the United States. Students also...
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War in the News

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners consider the portrayal of war in the news. In this lesson on Journalistic perspectives, students will work in groups to critically examine news articles written during war times throughout history.
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The Changing Me

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders study the human body. In this health lesson plan, 3rd graders discuss that everyone's body is growing, measure body parts using a tape measure, and color the body worksheet.
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Musical & Linguistic Lesson Plan

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders study songs and music of the US Civil War period. They use technology to compose a song that highlights an event or concept from the war.
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GI's, Gals & Gardens

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners, in groups, design a war participation campaign for a specific audience during WWII. They design posters and prepare an oral presentation for the class.
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My Health Plan

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders discuss various ways they can help out at home. After exploring the various members of their families and how they are comprised, 2nd graders identify ways they can get along with their family members. They create an...
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Bon Voyage - Literature Travel Unit

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders locate and interpret information about the culture of another country using multi-media tools. Students read and interpret literature about characters and cultures from a foreign country. Students create a travel guide...
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Tallahassee Project

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders gather information from technological sources such as TV, radio, and Internet as well as from newspapers and maps and produce a final printed report. They use the data to create a spreadsheet and read a Florida state...
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Mystery Box

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders engage in a icebreaker activity that is meant to introduce curriculum areas at the beginning of the school year. The teacher prepares several different boxes filled with items that are to be studied during the year. Then...
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Coping With War: Diversions in a Century of Global Conflict

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders analyze photographs representing leisure and transition during a global conflict. Working in groups, 11th graders review pictures from a web exhibit. The group completes a graphic organizer analyzing the photograph for...
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Parenting Styles

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify the traits of different parenting styles and discuss how they effect the students that are raised in that manner. They present their observations to the class.
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Class Book

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders review how they can save their work on a computer once they are finished. As a class, they complete various assignments based on a rubric they are given and save them to a disk. Using the assignments, they combine all of...
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Water Testing

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students work together to design their own experiment to test developed hypothesis about the minerals in water. As a class, they discuss the main components of water quality and describe the chemistry behind the hardness assay. They...
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Traverse City Trouble Makers

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students investigate how to become advocates in an authentic environmental issue, in this case the invasion of the zebra mussel invasion of the Great Lakes. They complete graphic organizers during Internet research, while reading...
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Bon Voyage: Travel and Exploration

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use the internet and other media to locate and collect information about travel. They interpret the information they collect and convert American currency to foreign currency. Students create scale drawings of travel cards.
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Society, Cyberspace and the Future

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students locate information on the rapid growth of world population and consumption needs through the use of Internet, Cd-ROMs, laser dics and other media. They use spreadsheet to present data gathered on world population growth between...
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Business Geography

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders identify the various types of industry involved in the production of a product. Using various methods and activities, 10th graders working in groups explain the function of each individual industry and their contribution...
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Olympic Flyers

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students watch videos, conduct research, and apply their previous knowledge of respiration, breathing, drugs, alcohol and diet to prepare a presentation (pamphlet, poster, PowerPoint) to give advice to athletes going into the Olympics.
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What Is It?

For Teachers 3rd
 Students explore the likelihood of events.  In this logical thinking activity, 3rd graders are given several scenarios and determine whether the possibility of the described event actually happening is likely, unlikely, or impossible. ...
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Fact Families

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore fact families. They solve simple math problems. Students determine which mathematical property is used to solve the given problem. They are given five minutes to complete as many mathematical facts as possible.