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Paving the Way

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students explore how to take action to improve their town's transportation routes -- and make a small but significant difference in their community. They first examine some of the different ways people get around their area.
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Conducting A Survey

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Young scholars identify the types of information gathering styles and different surveying styles. They distribute a survey around your school to determine the different forms of transportation used to get to school.
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Lesson L - Hit The Road Jack (or Jill)

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discuss forms of transportation in Delaware during 18th Century, find approximate area of court order on current map of state, draw layout of their school, and decide where new hallway or outside pathway would be most needed.
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Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students use drawings, maps, readings, paintings and photos to consider how the topography of Pennsylvania led to the construction of the Allegheny Portage Railroad. They also investigate their own community's transportation history.
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How We Get From Here to There

For Teachers K - 4th
Students recognize various types of movement people rely on to get from one place to another, locate the forms of movement on a map and choose one form of movement and research its path.
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Traveling Apples

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students locate countries in which different apples are grown. They discuss and illustrate different types of transportation that would be best for traveling between the United States and New Zealand. They share their stories and...
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Ancient Highways-Native Byways of Salmon Lake State Park

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders investigate the concept of the trail system used by the Native Americans. They compare and contrast the trails to modern transportation roadways of today. Students also define the types of information archaeologists use to...
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Town Planning

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders consider factors in making road transport planning directions. They write a short speech for a presentation at an inquiry. They debate and analyze the information presented in the debate.
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Let's Build a Truck

For Teachers K - 1st
Students study the basics of trucks and transportation vehicles. In this transportation vehicles lesson, students study pictures of basic key truck components and recognize differences between various product transportation vehicles....
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Connect the Dots

For Teachers K - 1st
Students practice counting to ten. In this coloring worksheet, students learn about the different types of trucks that transport goods by counting to ten and connecting the dots to complete the picture.
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Food Travels and Preservation

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Young scholars complete a worksheet. In this food distribution and preservation lesson, students learn about the transportation of agricultural projects. Young scholars list foods that they buy at the grocery store and then identify how...
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Timeless Totems

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students respond an email from Roger Totem, who is the curator of a new museum opening. students discuss with the art teacher to explain the project and get support. Students, in accordance with the guidelines, divide into groups...
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How Should Our Gardens Grow?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine different types of land use by humans and evaluate the ways land is used in their local community. They also consider the environmental effects of the different types of land use. Students assume the role of community...
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Do As the Romans: Construct an Aqueduct!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore how the Romans engineered and built aqueducts. They read a manual, explore the Construct a Roman Aqueduct online activity, and construct an aqueduct that will transport two liters of water across a short distance in the...
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Colors of our Earth

For Teachers K - 8th
Learners are introduces to soil profile classification. They remember that classification of soils is an important aspect of studying soils as it aids in predicting how soils react to weathering, transport nutrients or pollution. ...
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Carve That Mountain

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate major landforms (e.g., mountains, rivers, plains, hills, oceans and plateaus). They build a three-dimensional model of a landscape depicting several of these landforms. Once they have built their model, they act as...
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Unlikely Communicators: Carrier Pigeons

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explore information about carrier pigeons and other means of communication. They describe different types of communication and transportation and identify their advantages and disadvantages They develop a Communication...
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Value of Education: Education and Earning Power

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Students explore the concept a higher education yields higher earnings. Throughout the class, students visit six workstations and examine occupations, education, salaries, spending, banking, and taxes. As students rotate through the...
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A Bridge is for Crossing

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students examine the bridges of Washington State. They focus on the suspension bridge between Tacoma and Gig Harbor. They see how three different types of bridges work by rotating students through bridge stations.
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This Land Is Your Land, This Land Is My Land

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students review and evaluate the ways land is covered and used in their local community. They consider the environmental effects of the different types of land use. Students act as community planning engineers to determine where to place...
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Water Cycle and Its Movement in the Soil

For Teachers K - 9th
Students are introduced to the water cycle and water movement in soil. In this water cycle instructional activity, students explore how water moves through the water cycle and discuss water sources, natural reservoirs, soil infiltration...
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Resource Sharing Between Chemistry Labs

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students assume the role of community college instructors researching the feasibility of resource (chemicals, supplies, equipment) sharing between community colleges. They explore safety issues pertaining to chemical transport, storage,...
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A Model of the Rock Cycle

For Teachers 7th - 9th
In this rock cycle worksheet, students use different colored crayons to represent different types of rocks. They follow step by step procedures to model the rock cycle with the crayons. Students draw the rock cycle, show weathering,...
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Where In the World is the Dominican Republic?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students begin the lesson by discussing how where they live affects how they live. As a class, they add examples to each category such as home types, clothing, jobs and food. Using those categories, they write about their life in the...

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