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\nThe Blues, B.B. King, Muddy Waters\n

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\nB.B. King and Muddy Waters are two of the most famous blues performers of all time. In this music lesson, middle schoolers study the early careers and lasting musical contributions of both artists, each of whom carried the blues on to...\n
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\n\"Muddy\n\n
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\nMuddy Waters\n

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\nStudents read the book the Dirt Boy. In this design and problem solving instructional activity, students create a way to clean muddy water. Students give their ideas and discuss them. The teacher shows a filter and demonstrates what it...\n
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\nFollowing Muddy's Trail\n

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\nStudents view the AMERICAN MASTERS film \"Muddy Waters: Can't Be Satisfied\" and research him using the Guided Reading strategy. They examine the influential musician's childhood and trace his journey from the Mississippi Delta to...\n
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\nFiltration Investigation\n

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\nScholars build a simple filtration system to remove impurities from muddy water and rate the filtered water to a grade of clarity scale. The focus is on teamwork and problem solving. This instructional activity would be effective in your...\n
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\nMuddy Water!!\n

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\nInvestigate water pollution. Learners start out by completing the know and want to know portions of a KWL chart on water pollution. They read a story that stimulates thinking about water pollution and view an online resource related to...\n
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\nWater Filtration\n

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\nAs an example of nature's water filtering system, young ecologists conduct an experiment in the lab. They construct a funnel out of a plastic bottle, fill it with specified layers of materials that simulate layers of soil, then run muddy...\n
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\nSolar Distiller\n

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\nExplore the sun's ability to distill contaminated water with this simple set of classroom experiments. After filling two glass bowls, one with muddy water and the other with salt water, they are covered with plastic wrap and placed...\n
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\nMuddy Waters: A historical view of land use patterns, water quality, and the conservation movement\n

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\nStudents research the impact that human activity had on Pennsylvania's water supply over time. For this water quality lesson plan, students research, discuss, and write about how Pennsylvania's water quality has been affected and what...\n
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\nBob Dylan: No Direction Home\n

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\nStudents hold panel discussions on selected topics about the 1960s and their impact on modern-day events. As visual reinforcement, they watch the film about Bob Dylan and research the music of the period as well as his musical...\n
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\nWetlands in a Pan\n

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\nFifth graders explore the wetlands to discover its benefits in removing pollutants in the water.  In this wetlands lesson, 5th graders discuss how stormwater wetlands are created to purify water. Students test the water.\n
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\nWorld Literature: \"One Evening in the Rainy Season\" Shi Zhecun\n

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\nDid you know that modern Chinese literature “grew from the psychoanalytical theory of Sigmund Freud”? Designed for a world literature class, seniors are introduced to “One Evening in the Rainy Season,” Shi Zhecun’s stream of...\n
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\nThe Day Jace Kelly Popped\n

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\nAnger can creep inside and build up in all of us. Prepare your youngsters for this feeling by reading the story of Jace Kelly through this series of storytelling printables, and discover the strategies he would eventually...\n
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\nBlack History Month Report\n

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\nAs part of Black History Month, class members investigate in depth the life and work of an African American musician.\n
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\nDesigning a Water Treatment Plant\n

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\nHow does dirty water get clean enough to drink? After viewing a PowerPoint that outlines the process water goes through at a water treatment plant, groups work together to design a chlorination chamber for a treatment plant.\n
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\nMaking Clean Water\n

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\nStudents examine water samples assess the quality of each sample by examining the color/clarity, smell, pH, etc. of each Then they filter the water samples once and assess water quality a second time. finally they filter the samples a...\n
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\nKatrina Case Study\n

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\nStudents explore the impact natural events have on the environment, specifically the wetlands. They view a video about the impact of Hurricane Katrina on the Mississippi Delta and answer discussion questions.\n
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\nLanguage Arts, Social Studies, African Americans, The Blues, To Kill A Mockingbird\n

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\nAfrican American history during the Jim Crow era includes encounters with poverty, racism, disrespect, and protest. Harper Lee develops all four of these themes in her famous 1960 novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. To help students understand...\n
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\nWater Treatment Plant\n

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\nSecond graders create their own water treatment system. In this water treatment activity, 2nd graders create the water treatment system and record how it works. Students list materials they used and write about what they saw. Students...\n
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\nSolutions, Suspensions, & Colloids Lab\n

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\nIn this solutions, suspension and colloid worksheet, students complete a lab experiment in order to determine if a given mixture is a solution, suspension or colloid. They are given six vials and they record their observations of each...\n
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\nSocial Studies, Gender and the Blues\n

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\nThis lesson shows how the blues can be used to enable students to explore gender divisions in the United States, both in the past and the present. Most blues songs are about the relationships between men and women, as are many songs in...\n
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\nSocial Studies, Music, The Blues, Urbanization, and Technology\n

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\nEnable students to use the blues to explore urbanization, technology, and their effects on everyday life in the 20th century. Musicians were among the large number of people who, between 1914 and 1945, participated in the Great Migration...\n
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\nMusic Education, Playing the Blues\n

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\nThis lesson enables students to gain a broader awareness of the basic blues scale and the harmonic structure of the standard blues progression. Students will be given introductory exercises on blues improvisation and will also...\n
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\nThe Beat of the Blues\n

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\nThis lesson focuses on how students can learn basic blues percussion patterns by considering the polyrhythms of African drumming and investigating how and why such drums were banned during slavery. Students will listen to several blues...\n
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\nMatter in Solution\n

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\nIn this solutions instructional activity, students review types of solutions, concentration and saturation of solutions, and suspensions and colloids. This instructional activity has 10 fill in the blank, 7 multiple choice, and 6 short...\n
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