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Checking Account

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students keep track of finances in a check register. In this checking account instructional activity, students practice writing checks and deposit slips as they add and subtract decimal amounts in order to balance a checkbook in a register.
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Boy Scout Merit Badge: Nature

For Students 8th
In this boy scout merit badge:  nature instructional activity, 8th graders research the topic using the websites listed, answer 4 detailed questions about plants, animals, and the environment, then perform specific tasks of...
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Boy Scout Merit Badge: Law

For Students 8th
In this boy scout merit badge:  law worksheet, 8th graders research the topic with websites listed, answer 11 detailed questions about the definition, functions, history, role in society, and careers in the field of law.
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Boy Scout Merit Badge: Landscape Architecture

For Students 8th
In this boy scout merit badge:  landscape architecture instructional activity, student research the topic with the websites listed, answer 6 detailed questions about related careers, job description, education and qualifications,...
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Houses and Cars and Loans

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students create a spreadsheet to track their spending. In this algebra lesson, students use loan formulas to calculate the payback amount plus interest on a loan. They calculate how much money they would need to buy a car and house.
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Assignment Checkoff Sheet

For Teachers K - 8th
Straightforward and simple, this checkoff sheet is a great addition to your classroom toolbox. It has space for 21 names on the left side, and 10 categories on the top of the page.
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Animal Trackers

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students use space technology to monitor migratory species, map their movements, and gather data about their habitats and possible responses to climatic shifts.
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Clay Hill Animal Sampling

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create animal print casts from molds in the classroom. They use the cast patterns to identify animal prints on a field trip in which they locate animal tracks, identify the location with GPS and create field casts of the...
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Watchable Wildlife Checklist

For Students 2nd - 6th
In this wildlife activity, students will read over a list of 28 native animal species, their needs, and interesting characteristics. This list can be used as a checklist when out on a hike or in the school yard to identify common wildlife.
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Water Quality Survey: Monitoring the Sustainability of Pigeon Creek

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students research the History of Pigeon Creek (or any watershed in your area). In this environmental science lesson, students conduct field tests such as pH and nitrates. They collect data and compare what they collected with other groups.
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Twister Redux

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students pick up science knowledge as they track and examine natural disasters. They keep a daily journal of results and reflections. Students get to follow a real tornado chaser and learn thunderstorm formation. They incorporate how...
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Product Line

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Young scholars research products imported from Europe and use a map to show the routes the products might have followed to reach this country. They take a field trip to a store that carries imported products and take note of how many...
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Birding Basics

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders understand the bird identification by sight and sound. In groups of 3-4, they use binoculars, field guide, checklist, and pencil and hike around the pond and through the woods, pointing out birds along the way.
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Browsing Music

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Young scholars survey how the Internet has changed the way we listen to music. Research the powerful new music browser called SIMAC. Test the music field and see if this new concept helps to put in words on a sound track what couldn't be...
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Observing Fall Migrants

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Pupils keep a detailed data collection log of the different types of monarch behavior. They track the weather conditions daily and link it to the migration of the monarchs. They summarize their data using either a graph or a computer...
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Occupational Fieldwork Survey

For Students 8th
In this fieldwork worksheet, 8th graders record observations at a job site. Fields for notes include: occupation observed, workspace description, equipment, etc.
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Sanitarium Times

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students learn about the Sanitarium Times as they look into how they lived, what they ate, how they were entertained, etc... For this Sanitarium Times lesson, the students do research and create papers as well as look for living members...
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Exploring Racism in America

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students compare racism today to racism that existed during the nineteenth century. As a field research project, students individually keep track of examples of racism, biases, and stereotypes illustrated throughout the US media over a...
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Every Day Edit - Jesse Owens

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this everyday editing worksheet, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Jesse Owens. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and spelling.
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Go for the Gold!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young athletes practice various locomotor movements. They use locomotor skills as directed by the teacher to move between "Olympic rings" (hula hoops). Young scholars participate in a discussion about Olympic events prior to playing the...
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Council for Economic Education

Specialization and the Decathlon

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Michael Phelps, the economist? Scholars research the economic advantages of specializing in one kind of service, and how it relates to athletes doing the same in their respective sports. They evaluate absolute advantage, production, and...
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Creating Plural Nouns

For Students 3rd - 5th
How to craft the plural form of nouns ending in "y" is the focus of this learning exercise. Following the directions at the top of the page, users provide the plural of the listed nouns in 10 sentences.
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Estimation and Measurement

For Teachers 2nd
Get second graders outside to estimate and measure how long 800 meters is on their school campus. They then measure the actual distance in yards to see how close their estimate was. An interesting teaching idea!
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Squigly’s Sports Crossword

For Students 4th - 6th
In this Squigly's sports worksheet, students explore researching all the aspects of all types of sports and then answer the forty clues going across and down in a crossword puzzle.

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