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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Puzzlemaker

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this free tool to create various kinds of puzzles like wordsearches, criss cross, math squares, mazes, etc. Select the puzzle type, follow the simple direction, enter your words, and print out the finished puzzle with an answer key.
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: The Alamo

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This project is designed to help learners recognize that even though the Battle of the Alamo took place in 1836, people today still think about and debate questions and issues surrounding the event.
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Comparing Countries

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Excellent lesson in which learners make predictions and collect information about the United States, China, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. After collecting data, students compare the information and create graphs to display the data.
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Catch 22

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan designed around Heller's novel includes a research component for collaborative work with a librarian, comprehension questions, extension activities, vocabulary, some suggested reading, a few web links, and correlation to...
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Asian and Other Cultures

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students learn about Asian cultures through national festivals and compare them to other cultures around the world.
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Thomas Jefferson

For Teachers 6th - 8th
A 6-8 grade level lesson plan on the many accomplishments of Thomas Jefferson.
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Puzzlemaker

For Teachers 9th - 10th
At this site create your own puzzles, build your own maze and print them out for yourself or others to enjoy.
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: The Middle Ages

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson focuses on the importance of record keeping, in journal or diary form, by people in the past. Young scholars learn much about their lives from these documents and they study the Middle Ages as they create journal entries in...
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: What Artifacts Reveal About the Past

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This site provides a lesson plan to teach the importance of analyzing artifacts, past and present.
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Understanding Computing

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This lesson provides activities to demonstrate how "A pebble calculator works in a way similar to an abacus," which will allow learners to increase their understanding of how computers work. The lesson also provides discussion prompts...
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Glaciers and Icebergs

For Teachers 6th - 8th
A lesson plan for simulating glacial scraping with extensions that investigate iceberg towing and iceberg melting.
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: The War of the Worlds

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Contains a lesson plan that incorporates audio and video resources to help teach the book "The War of the Worlds" by H.G. Wells. Also includes a number of discussion questions and links to additional information.
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: All Quiet on the Western Front

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Teaching wartime literature through "All Quiet on the Western Front" is made easy with a 2-day online lesson plan that covers: procedure, writing, discussion questions, extension activities, strong links, vocabulary, and Colorado state...
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Cities

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This lesson plan shows that by studying the population of the U.S. through census figures, students can learn about interesting cultural and economic trends.
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: The Big Wet

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This lesson plan surveys the climate of Australia and compares it to the climate of other regions around the world.
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Brothers Grimm

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
Start with "The Fisherman and His Wife" and then expand criticism skills to include other Grimm's Fairy Tales. Here you'll get an art project and discussion questions and then further instruction for teaching young students literary...
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Path to Mars

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students use websites and other resource materials to compare and contrast features of Mars and Earth.
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Website
Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Your Daily Learning Platform

For Students K - 1st Standards
An index to the Discovery Channel. Find resources for teachers, students, and even parents, from science experiments to math help, to virtual field trips.
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Discovery Education

Your Digestive System

For Students 9th - 10th
What do you know about your digestive system? This site feature factoids and more interesting information concerning this human body system. Trace the path of food from one end to the next.
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Activity
Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Web Math: Find a Derivative Using the Quotient Rule

For Students 9th - 10th
WebMath offers an-line solver that allows the student to input a function have it automatically differentiated using the quotient rule.
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Web Math: Convert Improper Fractions and Mixed Numbers

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Converts an improper fraction to a mixed number that you enter. Explains in detail the process of converting the improper fraction to the mixed number.
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Web Math: Solve a Linear Equation Involving One Unknown

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This WebMath site explains how to enter your equation with one variable and solve for that variable. It explains step-by-step how to solve the equations and gives the final solutions.
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Web Math: Subtracting Complex Numbers

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
WebMath offers a program that explains and calculates the subtraction of complex numbers.
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: The Phenomenon of Sound Waves

For Teachers 1st - 5th
A lab activity on sound waves is presented on this website. Students will learn about sound waves produced by different objects in this activity. There are also a set of discussion questions and two other variations of the lab exercise.