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Nutrition and Fast Food: Making Informed Choices

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students identify the components of a balanced diet and their importance to good health. Students research their favorite types of fast food to determine how healthy they really are. Links to websites of popular fast food companies are...
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Collecting Data and Graphing

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders, in groups, count the different colors of M&M's in each kind of package and then draw a pictograph to show the results. Each group writes a program to show their results and then compare the manually-drawn and computer...
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Surveying During a Basketball Game

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders conduct a survey at a high school basketball game. They compile and present the data as histograms or bar graphs.
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Crossroads Cafe: Who's the Boss Act 2

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students watch a video and practice their prediction and discussion skills. Students watch a view of "Who's the boss" and practice pronouncing words from a worksheet. Students describe emotions and facial expressions they detect from...
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Create a Galactic Mobile

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Young scholars create a mobile of the Milky Way galaxy. They discover other galaxies beyond the ones we can see. They share their mobile with the class.
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Who Is My Competitor?

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students brainstorm businesses in their community and which businesses compete for the same business. They view the Yellow Pages as a resource to identify business who compete against one another and offer similar products. They...
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A Cosmic Cafeteria

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Pupils indentify and differentiate between transit and surface food systems. Students measure energy that is released by various foods. Pupils compare and contrast cooking with solar energy on earth and what they might have learned in...
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Destination Reading

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice reading skills and comprehension through the use of computers and the educational software "Destination Reading" provided by Riverdeep in this self-directed lesson.
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Yam and Eggs

For Teachers K - 5th
Young scholars gain knowledge about the different kinds of foods people eat around the world for breakfast. They look at a map and see if they can come up with reasonable answers as to why location may affect what people eat. Students...
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Project EMPOWER: Awareness of Differences

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Young scholars explore the differences of others. They examine ways in which they can respect the differences between individuals. Students explore the ways in which people are similar and they recognize stereotypes they make.
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Boilermaker Geography

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders investigate the geography of central Indiana with an emphasis upon finding the location of Purdue. They make a connection to literature with the reading of a newspaper article to create the context for the lesson plan while...
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Setting Solutions

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students piece together a quilt from leftover blocks. They problem-solve ways to incorporate random block designs into a visually pleasing quilt design. They used sashed sets, coping stripes and triangles to work out the design.
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Fatty Food

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars view various types of food that are listed as bad for all people. Students chart out all findings within this lesson. Young scholars talk in an open forum of ways they could change their eating habits in the future.
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Understanding the Purpose of Provincial Government

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students examine a mixed bag of objects and discuss their relevance to "government." They discuss the three branches of Provincial Government and the purpose of each.
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Minting a New Mint

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Pupils explore why the Founding Fathers felt it was necessary to have a solitary form of money used throughout the land. Students create their own money systems and have a class sale to simulate the confusion of multiple forms of currency.
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Color Description

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students explore the use of description in literature and color. They read Hailstones and Halibut Bones and discuss the description of each color. Students what each color makes them think of and they create pictures for each color.
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Pop Your P's

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars identify the letter and phoneme /p/ in written and spoken language. Students practice the production of the /p/ sound through songs and tongue twisters. They identify the initial placement of the letter and sound using a...
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Mmm, Mmm, Mmm

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students identify the grapheme and phoneme for M. They practice writing the letter M and through listening activities, discriminate the phoneme /m/. They associate the phoneme /m/ with its letter representation and identify it in various...
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"Mmmm... Yummy to My Tummy!"

For Teachers K
Students answer a series of question about different letter sounds. They verbally practice the sounds of each letter following set responses. They write the different letters and find words that start with that letter.
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READY, SET, PLANT

For Teachers K - 1st
Students identify the basic steps a gardener takes in planting seeds. Students identify the many uses of tomatoes. Students examine the seeds and try to identify them. Students place their plants in a sunny window and water them when...
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Pythagorean Theorem Word Problems

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners investigate the concept of the Pythagorean Theorem for geometry by using word problems. The challenge is for them to translate the words into the right measurements for a triangle looking for the longest side known as the...
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Geography: Lesson One

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students pretend they have been chosen to receive an elephant for a pet. Individually, they use the internet to research where elephants come from, their diet and sleeping behaviors. They identify their habitat and their characteristics...
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Graphs Abound

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create a survey for their classmates to collect data on their favorite foods, eye color, pets or other categorical data. They compile the data from the survey in a table and then make a bar graph of each category using a web tool.
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Using Categories With Keywords

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners practice choosing key words when searching for specific topics to start a research assignment or project. They select appropriate technology tools and resources to address a variety of tasks and problems. Each student assesses...

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