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Outdoor Action Caving Trip Protocols

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students They engage in a positive group building experience that requires extensive trust and communication between participants. They explore basic spelunking, study appropriate first aid and review general rules for safety in caves.
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- Making Metaphors with Munchies

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students brainstorm independently first, then ask their best friend on the team, or seat partners, depending on the year & student mix, to add to their list of personal characteristics and/or to name three words they think of...
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Lessons: Food Web

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students use an interactive web-based food web game to gain familiarity with tropic levels and interactions. They already understand that in an ecosystem there are four basic tropic levels: producers, primary consumers, secondary...
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Current Events

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students research current events and simulate a newscast of a current news story. They watch the evening news and write a summary of a story of interest, conduct Internet research and complete a worksheet on a current event, and...
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Immigration and Identity

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students will analyze four historical events: The Annexation of U.S. Southwest, The Mexican Revolution, The Great Depression, and World War II. They determine how each event affected immigration to the U.S. from Mexico and Central...
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Scopes Trial Activity

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners are able to prepare arguments for a moot court case. They know how the Scopes Trial impacts academic freedom today. Students know what constitutional amendments are applicable to this issue (including the Butler Act). They...
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Gauging Beijing

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine the responsibilites of country's chosen to host the Olympics. After reading an article, they discuss how China is preparing for the 2008 Summer Games. They focus on the country's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities...
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The Candy Conundrum

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers design a candy container that contains a specific amount of candy. They demonstrate how an engineering problem can be solved with math and that there are multiple answers to the problem. They compute volume of spheres.
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A Peaceful Place Is Powerful for the Mind

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore, analyze and interpret how schools can become peaceful places to learn and interact with others. They study a wide variety of avenues to achieve this task through classroom, community and career activities...
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iRock

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore, listen to and analyze songs that helped define rock and roll music. They read and discuss the article, "They're All Oldies, Dad Included." Research on contemporary artists is conducted and then the students choose who...
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Enemy or Ally: America's Response to the Russian Revolution

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the events related to the Russian Revolution. In groups, they use the internet to discover the concerns of Woodrow Wilson during this time period and relate them to the origins of the Cold War. To end the lesson, they...
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Gotta Dance

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students share dance moves that reflect their personalities or depict how they are feeling, explore popularity of recreational and competitive social dancing by reading and discussing the article "Follow the Flying Feet," present...
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Character Trading Card

For Teachers 7th - 8th
In this character trading card worksheet, students utilize a trading card template to develop more details about their favorite character from a novel they have read. Students interview their fictional character.
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Spanish Phrase Picture Dictionary

For Teachers K - 5th
Students illustrate Spanish phrases. For this Spanish language development lesson, students work in pairs to illustrate phrases, then copy the phrase in Spanish and English. The class uses the illustrations to create a dictionary.
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Setting the Stage for Service Related Learning Relationships

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students understand the stereotypes and realities of older people. In this philanthropic lesson, students in groups read and report on the positive images of older people in children's books. Students address the needs and wants of older...
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Life in a Forest Stream

For Teachers 7th - Higher Ed
Young scholars assess macro-invertebrates from a stream. In this science lesson plan, students observe, classify and identify organisms found in a stream. A lab station is constructed at the stream sight and young scholars study the...
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Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice: The Novel as Historical Source

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers examine historical fiction as historical sources. In this historical fiction lesson, students analyze excerpts from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice as well as Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of...
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Improving Elementary Reading Literacy

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Learners enhance their literary skills through phonemic awareness. In this reading development instructional activity, students read several storybooks and analyze the phonetics, vocabulary, and overall story. The learners then rewrite...
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What We Learn From Women and Girls

For Teachers Pre-K - 5th
Role models are all around us! Young learners celebrate Women's History Month by selecting two female role models in their lives, and writing or drawing a short description about why they admire that girl or woman.
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Create a Slide Presentation

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students create a PowerPoint presentation. In this technology lesson, students create an autobiographical six slide presentation. This lesson includes worksheets explaining how the slide layout should be and a storyboard to help the...
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A Triangle Expansion

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students review the foil method used to multiply two binomials. In this lesson plan on evaluating algebraic expressions, students are able to identify the coefficient in an algebraic expression, "act out" the foil method of multiplying...
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Is FEMA a Natural Disaster?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students develop an understanding of FEMA and reflect about the consequences of a natural disaster.  In this natural disaster lesson, students are asked specific questions after reading several stories.  After class discussion...
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Rate of Change

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders solve problems dealing with rate of change. In this algebra lesson, 11th graders graph their rate of change problems and analyze it comparing their data with each other. They solve problems dealing with percent and rate...
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Gymnastic Skills

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students compete in a variety of games. In this gymnastic skills lesson, students play tag, participate in a challenge course, and practice gymnastics moves to increase physical fitness. 

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