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Farming: It's a Fact!

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students use worksheets, food items, and computer programs to learn about the path of food from the farm to their meals. In this agriculture lesson, students use a provided worksheet to learn facts about farming. They use a bag of...
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What Are the Layers of the Rain Forest?

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students investigate the different levels of the rain forest by comparing it to an apartment.  In this ecology lesson, students practice using forest related vocabulary words and complete a vocabulary data sheet.  Students create...
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Pumped Up Gas Prices

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Learners calculate gas prices. In this transportation lesson, students tally the mileage and gas costs of their car for one months. They figure out how much was spent on gas and create a graph showing average gas prices over time. 
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Breaking News: Nissan to Make Future New York Taxis

For Teachers 3rd - 9th
Students explore current events by completing worksheet activities. In this transportation lesson plan, students read a news article discussing Nissan's new contract to create New York Taxis due to their improved fuel economy. Students...
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The Middle Passage

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore slavery conditions by viewing a video clip on the Internet. In this slave ship instructional activity, 5th graders discuss the transportation of black men and women from Africa to the United States in the 1700's and...
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Linear Motion

For Teachers 4th
In this fantastic physics and math lesson, student pairs create a ramp that will transport a rolling marble in order to learn about linear motion. Students use cardboard, straws, toothpicks, marshmallows, and paper clips in order to make...
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Sustainability Project

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Pupils explore alternative energy sources. In this environmental lesson, students discuss alternative energy sources and construct a plan to incorporate an alternative home technology into a bedroom. Pupils build a model of their...
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Scaffolding Academic Learning for Second Language Learners

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students walk through exposure to material on Great Inventions and Transportation using scaffolding techniques such as: language simplification, pre-reading, graphic organizers, note taking and more.
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Art Savers

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
Need a cheap way to get all those fabulous paintings, collages, and drawings home? Learners use old paper towel tubes to create a handy art transportation device. 
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Sorting and Classifying Worksheet

For Students 2nd - 3rd
For this classifying words worksheet, students read 12 words that are forms of transportation. Students sort these into two groups of two based on a classification of their own choosing.
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Transportation in Canada

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students investigate the effect human activities have on the environment. In this geography lesson, students compose an article using data analysis about the environment. This article requires some homework assignment.
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Transporting Agricultural Commodities

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students propose packaging and handling needs for a specific product, then evaluate the documentation necessary for exporting and importing.
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Ah! Those Horse and Buggy Days!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students discuss contemporary methods of travel and the time it takes to travel to places. They use the Internet to explore 18th century travel. Students work in small group to research the amount of time it would have taken...
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Science Vocabulary

For Students 9th - 10th
In this biology worksheet, students identify and locate various vocabulary terms relating to types of cells. There are 13 biology terms located in the word search.
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Biology Midterm Review

For Students 9th
In this biology activity, 9th graders identify and locate various vocabulary terms pertaining to the study of biology. There are 50 biology terms located in the word search.
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Sustainable Living

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students act out various types of transportation.  In this transportation instructional activity, students practice speaking using the transportation phrases. Students ask each other question about the transportation.  Students discuss...
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"Crossing Brooklyn Ferry"

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars study transportation in mid-19th-century Brooklyn. They look at several photographs of Brooklyn transport from the era and read Walt Whitman's poem "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry." In addition to making critical observations and...
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Working on the Railroad

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students view and discuss "The Transportation Revolution," a lecture by Peter A. Coclanis. They read and respond creatively to brief descriptions of railroad workers and their job responsibilities.
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Jobs, Jobs, Jobs

For Teachers K
Students explore transportation and transportation related jobs as they improve their vocabulary.
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Take a Plane or a Train

For Teachers K
Students listen to the song, The Wheels on the Bus. Instead of a bus, students attempt to sing the song using a different mode of transportation.
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Sea to Sky

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate the Earth's major landforms and how they occur, and how engineers apply this knowledge for the design of transportation systems, mining, and measuring natural hazards. They listen to a teacher-led lecture, match...
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Plants and Roots

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students discuss the parts of the plant and perform an experiment in which they observe a plant's water transportation system. They become familiar with several local plants used for utilitarian purposes.
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Nuclear Power

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students take on the role of members of a concerned citizens group and discuss the transportation of spent-fuel rods from a local nuclear power plant and the safety issues that surround the power plant. Students work in groups to write...
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KEEP ON TRUCKING

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students comprehend and apply concepts of data analysis and distributions by observing modes of transportation for food and fiber products. They are given an activity sheet "On the Lookout for Agriculture." Students discuss the discuss...

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