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Energy Efficiency at Home: An Interdisciplinary Module for Energy Education

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students examine energy efficiency and how they use energy at home.  In this energy conservation instructional activity students complete several science activities that give students a better understanding of energy.
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Field of Dreams

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students study several of Marc Chagall's paintings with an emphasis on his use of symbolic color and of space. They explore learn basic techniques for using Scholar colored pencils, and create an artwork using a baseball theme.
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Window Coverings

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders examine different types of window coverings and complete a window covering assignment. They identify window treatments and factors that lead to their selection. They create 2 window treatments for a window opening.
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Pinhole Viewer

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Young scholars make a pinhole viewer to demonstrate how it inverts light passing through it which produces inverted images.
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Magic Wand

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students observe how an image falling on a CCD array is divided into individual pieces, by the property of persistance of vision.
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Robert Boyle and Oxford

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students investigate seventeenth century sources that reveal why Oxford became an outstanding centre of science during Boyle's residence. They write a summary of the information found on Oxford and Robert Boyle's accomplishments.
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Soundtrack to War

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students discuss the important role of music in lives of soldiers stationed in Iraq. They identify and demonstrate skills in creating compositions with limited resources, similar in concept to the soldiers viewed in the documentary.
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All Men Are Created Equal

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students evaluate and compare events in history using famous quotes. They create a bulletin board of famous quotes dealing with equality. They create a multimedia presentation using famous quotes on the theme, All Men are Created Equal.
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Fireplace detail

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students investigate the different type of architectural designs for fireplaces. They participate in a discussion that starts with several key questions. The lesson progresses and students complete the worksheet accompanying the lesson.
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Student Investigation on the Immune System and Hemeagglutination

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners study laboratory protocol for hemagglutination experiments.
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Parabola (Lab Version)

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students develop definition for parabola, explain relationship between properties of the graph of a parabola and its equation, explain how the equation of a parabola can be written in different forms, and solve problems that relate the...
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Parabola

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers develop a definition of parabola and explain the relationship between the properties of the graph of a parabola and its equation. They explain how the equation of a parabola can be written in different forms and solve...
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Bringing Math to Life with Laserdisc Technology

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Pupils explore various problems. They present their final results and explain the path they followed in order to obtain their answers. Students show their written work as well as orally explaining their work.
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Room Balance

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students will be able to identify a symmetrical furniture grouping from an asymmetrical grouping. They will also be able to judge the visual weight of an item and use it to create a type of balance in a composition.
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Drawing On Gray Toned Paper

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars create an artwork that uses organizational principles and functions to solve a visual arts problem. The piece creates the illusion of transparency used to unify a work of art that demonstrates that light advances and darks...
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A River Runs Through Our Town

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students conduct an interview with a town resident, asking them to describe the history, use, and their memories of a river common to their community. They create a drawing of the river using information from the interview, and write...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Three Principles of Civil Disobedience

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Both Mahatmas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. were influenced by Henry David Thoreau's essay, "Civil Disobedience." Have students research and read, using the Internet, the first part of Thoreau's essay. Then have students write an...
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Professional Doc
The College Board

College Board: Ap u.s History Ubranization [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
By 1900, America had become an urban nation in its dominant tone, in its economy and work, and in its culture and aspiration as well as its demography. Gradually-and then seemingly suddenly-cities emerged as the focal points of the...