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Uen: Utah History Encyclopedia: Butch Cassidy
This resource features an article on the life and exploits of the outlaw Butch Cassidy.
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Uen: Utah History Encyclopedia: Jedediah S. Smith
This resource provides a biography about Jedediah Smith, centering primarily around his explorations of the West in the 19th century.
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Uen: Utah History Encyclopedia: Donner Party
This article recounts the tragic Donner Party, a wagon train bound for California in 1846 whose members resorted to cannibalism after getting stuck in the winter snow.
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Uen: Utah History Encyclopedia: Pony Express in Utah
This resource provides concise historical information concerning the Pony Express in Utah.
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Uen: Utah History Encyclopedia: Joseph Smith, Jr.
Biography of the Mormon leader Joseph Smith.
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Uen: Utah History Encyclopedia: Utah War
This resource provides information about the Utah War.
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Uen: Utah History Encyclopedia: Golden Spike National Historic Site
This resource provides information about the first transcontinental railroad, which was built by nearly 30,000 Irish, German, Italian, and Chinese laborers.
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Uen: Utah History Encyclopedia: Ute Indians Southern
This resource provides information about the southern Ute Indians in Utah.
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Uen: What Are Mental Maps
Explore the concept of mental maps to organize information about people, places and environment.
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Uen: Iste Nets: Creating a Heroic Character (Lesson Plan)
This lesson sequence, provided by the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), encourages students to develop a fully realized heroic character and then, through the use of multimedia software, communicate that hero's...
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Uen: What's My Structure?
Explore two and three dimensional geometric shapes by creating shapes based on descriptions.
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Uen: Community Map
This lesson focuses on helping students understand the location of their physical community and the relationship they have with the community and the neighborhood.
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Uen: Fort Sumner and the Navajo Long Walk
Help students learn more about the Navajo Long Walk and the forces that led to and through Fort Sumner through research and discussion with this lesson plan.
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Uen: 2nd Grade Act. 04: What Time Is It?
Second graders will place hour and minute hanks on black clocks. Then studens will complete a "My Day" chart where students will record what they did during the times shown on their clocks.
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Uen: National Symbol Patterns
Lesson plan suggests many ways to improve young scholars' patterning skills and investigates how symbols unite families and classmates.
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Uen: Lesson Plan: Patricia Polacco's Family Stories
Lesson that helps students understand that families have both differences and similarities and reinforces the concept that family traditions are part of a student's heritage. Students discuss stories by Patricia Polacco and make...
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Uen: Lesson Plan: Crayon Box: Family Diversity
Lesson that helps reinforce the idea that families are diverse and have many different types of traditions. Students discuss The Crayon Box That Talked by Shane DeRolf, talk about their family traditions, and draw and write about their...
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Uen: I'll Build You a Rainbow
In these three activities, students explore the colors of the spectrum in white light.
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Uen: We Are Alike and We Are Different
Lesson that helps students understand the features that make people alike and different. Students to create a paper face and a paper face book.
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Uen: Trb 6:6: Activity 4 Lemon Light
An exploration of light refraction using lemon gelatin.
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Uen: Formulate a Career Plan
This lesson will engage students in career research. Each student will use the I-Search process and then write a 3-5 paper about a career of interest.
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Uen: Diaper Inquiry
Young scholars investigate the technology of a diaper. They consider various physical traits of a diaper and then come up with an investigation to test some of these traits.
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Uen: Can You Do It? I Can Do It!
In this lesson students focus on physical movement while they make the same movements different animals would make.
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Uen: Lesson Plan: Map the Path in My Father's Dragon
Lesson that helps students understand map concepts. After listening to the teacher read aloud each chapter of My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett, students discuss the book and use a map and general direction terms to describe the...