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Roald Dahl

The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me

For Teachers 3rd - 7th Standards
Follow up a reading of The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me by Roald Dahl with this collaborative lesson on teamwork. Starting with a fun team game, learners go on to investigate examples of teamwork in the story before working in small...
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Activity
Computer Science Unplugged

Kid Krypto–Public-Key Encryption

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Class members have an opportunity to experience how to use a public key to encrypt information and a private key to decrypt it. Groups create their own public key and encrypt information then develop private keys to decrypt this...
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Assessment
Noyce Foundation

Mixing Paints

For Teachers 6th - 7th Standards
Let's paint the town equal parts yellow and violet, or simply brown. Pupils calculate the amount of blue and red paint needed to make six quarts of brown paint. Individuals then explain how they determined the percentage of the brown...
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Newton's Method

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
Does the accuracy of the first guess make a difference down the line? Learners investigate the effects of the iterative process of finding roots, using Newton's Method. By moving the initial guess of a root on a graph, pupils observe the...
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Workforce Solutions

Egg-streme Sports

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Here's a new twist in the egg drop competition. Using only six inches of tape, four straws, and 2 pieces of newspaper, teams build a structure that keeps an egg from breaking when dropped. What's different about this project is that the...
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Workforce Solutions

Networking BINGO

For Teachers 9th - 12th
A Networking BINGO game asks participants to find scholars who share a variety of the same interests and characteristics. Categories include everything from shoe size, to biggest fear, to intended college major.
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Unit Plan
Curated OER

Anthropogenic Biomes

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
If you teach a man to fish, he will never go hungry—or he will overfish and permanently damage the ecosystem? Address the traditional biomes as well as the human-included ecosystems and contrasts the biotic and abiotic factors in each....
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Curated OER

Arithmetic and Geometric Progressions

For Students 8th - 9th
In this arithmetic and geometric progressions worksheet, students solve and complete 8 different types of progression problems. First, they determine whether each progression is arithmetic, geometric, or neither. Then, students find the...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Linear Equation Experiments

For Students 8th - 9th
In this linear equation worksheet, students solve and complete 2 different experiments that include using linear equations. First, they determine the difference between independent and dependent variables. Then, students graph their...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Calculating Profits from Selling Virtual Lemonade

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students set up and collect data for a virtual lemonade stand. In this entrepreneurship, economics, and technology lesson, students purchase ingredients, determine costs, and set up a virtual lemonade stand. Students consider weather...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

String Games

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders show that they can follow directions by successfully making "The Worm" with a string. They reate a string game that they can share with students in Africa.
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Fittest of the Survivors

For Teachers 6th - 12th
learners consider the reality television show 'Survivor' as a means to contemplate what it means to be a survivor. They create fictional characters and explore how different personal qualities would help and hinder their success on...
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Curated OER

Double Self Portrait

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students meet an artist who overcame learning and physical disabilities and became a successful artist. They use a digital camera to imitate the style of one artist; and explore the connection between the use of technology and art.
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Curated OER

Order in the School

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students consider goods and services that might be at the base of successful Web-based delivery services geared to students their age while they are in school. They act as entrepreneurs to develop plans for such services and create...
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Lesson Plan
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In Good Company

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students research and write a radio or television news special on some of Silicon Valley's most successful companies. For homework, they write lead-ins commenting on new developments and reactions to them.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Cooperation

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students, in groups, "Build An Animal where they need to cooperate in order to be successful and then make a storyboard for a Powerpoint presentation.
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Curated OER

Flight of the Imagination

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students study the success of video games by reading an online article. They work in groups to design settings, storylines, characters and technical features for their own fantasy video games. Finally, they write scripts for previews of...
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Climbing Mount Everest

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Young scholars use the Discovery Channel's webstie to take a virtual tour of Mount Everest. They read about different people who have climbed the mountain successfully. They also compare the gear used today and in the past for climbing.
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Strategic Planning - Lesson Plan: 2 x 1 hour lessons

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students view a Powerpoint presentation about strategic planning. Students use a case study to analyze the strategies used by Tesco, a successful UK business.
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The Chinese economic and political model.

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders study the unique and economic and political model of modern day People's Republic of China. They make an effort to determine if the unique brand of socialism with a market-type economy as currently practiced is ...
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Curated OER

Immigration into an Urban Industralized Northeast: 1879-1914

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students study how three ethnic groups were introduced to urban, industrialize, northern cities. They examine how these groups were greeted and accepted be the 'native born' Americans and how successful they were in assimilating with...
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Curated OER

Bombs Away!

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students design and build a device to protect and accurately deliver a dropped egg. They review and study a number of vocabulary words that are associated with this lesson. They work in a small group in order to develop a successful...
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What's a Kid to Do?

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students participate in an environmental action letter-writing campaign. They conduct Internet research on the Global Response website, discuss various successful Global Response campaigns, select a campaign they are interested in, and...
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Irregular and plural -ar verbs

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students prepare for a Spanish quiz by practicing irregular and plural -ar verbs. This lesson offers excellent resource links and practice quizzes (found at www.quia.com) to enhance student success.

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