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Captions: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students examine a picture for details, write questions they need answered about the picture, create lead-ins and captions appropriate for a picture and write captions appropriate for other pictures.
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Caption Writing Activity

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students explore the basic principles of caption writing and write captions for assigned photographs.
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Promoting Fluency and Accuracy Through Planning, Telling, Transcribing and Noticing

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students promote fluency through planning and noticing language through transcribing and correcting recorded anecdotes. They provide opportunities for long turns in speaking and give intensive listening practice.
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2, 4, 6, 8 . . .What Do We Appreciate-Patterns, Patterns, Patterns

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students recognize patterns in a numerical sequence, create new patterns and predict outcomes to established sequences.
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Hank Williams: Still Singing After All These Years

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers research the life and music of Hank Williams. They take a quiz on country music, watch a video about Hank Williams, research Williams' song lyrics, create a poster and write a bio poem about his life and work.
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Six Billion and Beyond

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students consider the idea of a world with Six Billion people and subsequent results and ramifications. Then students will gather data regarding the state of these diverse nations and then create a presentation as a culminating activity.
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Bioweapons - Are You Safe?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learners investigate bioterrorism and bioweapons as ways to transmit contagious diseases. Student examine the way the US is protecting itself from bioterrorism.
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Lesson 11 - Potable Water

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students investigate the meaning of potable water and water reuse. They define water quality and quantity problems. They complete worksheets, a quiz and design a poster.
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Festival of Flight Special: Opening Space for Next Generation Explorers

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students experience the dynamic skills and processes needed to design the next generation of launch vehicles at NASA. They view how mathematics, science and technology all work together to achieve excellence in human space flights.
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Draw, Pardner!

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Students explore how to draw in 3-D. In this visual arts lesson, students use newsprint and a yard stick to construct three dimensional drawings of objects.
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New Deal Agencies

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify examples of government intervention during crisis. For this New Deal lesson, students play a game to place descriptions and names to abbreviations of New Deal Agencies. Students interview a person who lived through the...
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Cause and Effect

For Teachers 5th - 11th
Students examine the role of the Prince's Trust. In this British charities lesson, students research selected websites to determine the type of charity work that is performed by the Prince's Trust. Students also research the work of...
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Bird Watching

For Teachers 5th - 10th
Students explore the implications of the avian flu. In this personal health activity, students listen to a lecture about the avian flu, its history, and how it spreads.
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Learning Lesson: AM in the PM

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students discover how AM radio signals can travel at night. They listen for a radio station not in their immediate area and log the call sign and the location of the station. They discuss the difference in transmissions during the night...
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The First Televised War

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students view a film about the role of the media in the Vietnam War. They discuss the risks journalists face when covering a war and how the television changed how people at home saw the war. They answer questions to complete the lesson.
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The Role of the Media

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students analyze the role of media in the Gulf War after watching a video series. They participate in a small group simulating a specific group from the film. They discuss issues with their group and then participate in a whole class...
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Communication In U.S. Society; Radio In America

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Young scholars see how radio began the modern consumer society, shaped societal views on peoples and cultures and changed family home life forever. Radio shrank the world by bringing far-away places, events, and individuals into peoples...
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Mummies Made in Egypt

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Pupils use maps to locate information on Egypt, then create their own maps to display knowledge gained from the lesson and Web sites. They recognize, create, and describe the pyramid's geometric shape in three-dimensional forms.
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Outo Rugged Shores: The Voyage of LST534

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars view a film about warships during World War II. They discover the job of a seaman and what impact veterens have on the world today. They also examine the lasting effects of the war.
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Radio Program #14-The Back to the Land Movement

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify the impact of the "Back to the Land" movement on the Appalachian area. They interview people who have moved back or know someone who has moved back to the Appalachian area. Students graph out profiles of "typical"...
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MFL: Dangerous Driving

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students discuss why speed limits are important for safety of others. They examine public advertisements aimed at reducing the amount of deaths on the road. They read an article about traffic accidents and answer questions. They write an...
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Corner of the Carpet

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the socioeconomic conditions in Montgomery, Alabama in the late 1950's including the poverty and living condition of the blacks during this time by watching a documentary. They determine how these living conditions lead...
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Civil liberties: Fundamental freedoms

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners explore civil liberties. They list and describe the fundamental freedoms guaranteed to Canadians. Students illustrate how Charter rights are applies. They examine current issues and suggest how the courts might apply Charter...
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Supreme Court: Background

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students explain the role of the Supremem Court under the Constitution. They explore current evetns related to the Constitution and read about the roles of the Senate and President in selecting the next justice. They create a chart about...

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