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Conflict Resolution Trade-book

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students discover ways of dealing with conflicts at school by reading a guide.  In this psychology lesson, students identify how conflicts are started with fellow classmates by reading a trade-book with their class.  Students read each...
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Mixing Metaphors with Politics

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Students discuss different literary devices and use them to write summaries of New York Times articles dealing with international news. They reflect on the effectiveness and appropriateness of sports metaphors in the political arena.
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Schools of Thought on Segregation

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students read a New York Times article in order to explain how American courts and communities are dealing with the unanimous Supreme Court decision to end "separate but equal" education. They analyze how this affects the nation's youth.
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Ice Age Challenge Game

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students use a website to do various projects about the ice age and discover the route taken by the first arrivals are unknown and are the subject of a great deal of debate and research.
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Neural Pictionary

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the nervous system. They pictorially illustrate terms that deal with the nervous system. Students play a "pictionary" game to review nervous system vocabulary words.
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Mapping the Lost World of Urassi

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create a mental map of Russia and its surrounding Republics. They create mental pictures through oral and/or written instructions. They experience a wide variety of new terminology in their quest to mentally map.
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Alligator Craft Paper Bag Puppet

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students make paper bag puppets. They use the puppets as a story teller and reader. Students use the puppets to ask questions during and after reading. They assemble their own puppet. Students use the puppets to introduce new themes,...
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Google Goes Public

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students investigate how to invest in the stock market. They research how to be a smart stock investor by visiting a variety of websites that deal with the topic.
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Children in the Labor Force

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students, after reading the articles "Historical Background" and "Progressive Era: Child Labor," create a two to three page document using Inspiration that deals with either the reasons children worked, child labor laws and Lewis Hine's...
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Word Meanings From Context

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read a passage on the United States "new president", George W. Bush. They then answer 7 questions on what they read. This information is not current.
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Building from the Ground Up

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders research the interdependence of communities within different countries. In this community lesson, 3rd graders create a new community from a preselected country in South America. Students use the findings from their research...
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Describing Family - Lesson Plan

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students describe their family in their new language French. They use adjectives, and proper gender. Then they describe how the family is alike and different.
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Augustus: First of the Roman Emperors

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students explore how Julius Caesar's military brilliance forged a new Rome, but Augustus' political genius made it an empire for the ages. Despite being Caesar's nephew and adopted heir, Augustus struggled for thirteen years to...
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Analyzing a Science Fiction Movie

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders watch the movie "Contact" and write a review. They discuss in their review how scientists deal with technological problems, the movie's connections to the nature of science and how technology affects science. They share...
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American Genre Painting in the Nineteenth Century: Teaching Artistic Interpretation as a Tool for Critically Viewing History

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students view a variety of artwork to determine the history and lifestyle of people from New Haven, Connecticut. In groups, they develop their individual hypothesis about why the paintings were created and share them with their group...
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Lead Contamination In Our Environment

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students identify the sources of lead in their local community and how to prevent further contamination. As a class, they watch a video about the effects of lead on the body and use the internet to discover any new technology that can...
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Perpetual Motion

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars are introduced to the concept of Energy Conservation with the example of: Tony Hawk seems to defy the conservation of energy as he keeps reaching new heights on each pass on the halk-pipe. Actually, Tony is supplying the...
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Science Quiz: Plants

For Students 4th - 5th
In this science quiz instructional activity, students match words or phrases to their definition. Students explore topics dealing with parts of a seeds, traits of plants, and uses of seed plants. Students solve 12 multiple choice...
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Geography Terms

For Students 5th - 6th
In this geography learning exercise, students match vocabulary words to their definition. They identify words such as valley, peninsula and others dealing with land formations. Students solve 23 matching problems.
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Societal Issues Super Ethics

For Students 6th - 8th
In this technology worksheet, students find the answers to dealing with the two scenarios that focus upon the practical use of computer ethics.
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Total English Advanced: A Challenging Situation?

For Students 7th - 10th
In this communicating the nature of situations worksheet, students complete a graphic organizer with details regarding how they and their partners would deal with the 8 situations described.
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Web Puts Undiscovered Musicians, Listeners In Tune

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students read an article from USA Today about technology and the music business. In this news article lesson, students read an article about failed musicians and their new roles in music and technology. Students discuss the article and...
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Inspiration for and Application of the Bill of Rights

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students examine individual rights. In this case law lesson, students discuss the from and function of the Bill of Rights prior to investigating several cases that deal with Constitutional rights. Students discuss the outcome of the...
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Pocahontas

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students, after studying about Pocahontas, identify ways they can deal fairly with others. Given various scenarios, students demonstrate proper social skills. They describe their contributions of peace to their family, school and community.

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