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Solid Waste and Recycling

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this unit of lessons, students examine solid waste and recycling. They discover how litter is a major part of human waste. They also collect newspaper for recycling.
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Pioneer Farm Cooking

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students explore pioneer farm life and the types of cooking and ingredients available. They recreate a pioneer version of a sno-cone and discuss why crushed ice was used more often than snow in this recipe.
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Making Tough Decisions about the Energy We Use

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Student examine ways we use and conserve energy. They discover the choices one makes concerning excessive energy use.
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Comparing Chinese And Japanese Ceramics

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students discuss the conception of beauty by considering and contrasting the appearance and use of Chinese and Japanese ceramics in this lesson for the middle or high school classroom.
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Exploring the Food and Dining Patterns of Cameroon: Dining Patterns

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers examine the cultural differences in the dining patterns of Cameroon and the United States. Identifying food items in their own lives, they explore differences within the United States. They brainstorm about what they...
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Sliding Games (Marbles)

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students play a game of marbles outdoors on an iced area. They begin by playing a warm-up game of tag and proceed to sliding their marbles on an iced surface into holes. They attempt to gain points by sliding the marble into holes of...
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Pancake Day Instructions

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students write a set of instructions for making a pancake. Students recognize features of certain types of instructional texts. Students understand the steps into the preparation of the making of a pancake.
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It's Still Polaris

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Learners observe the changing night sky over the course of an evening and chart the circumpolar stars as they traverse the sky in a progression around Polaris. They infer and discuss the cause of the changing star positions.
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Finding Coal Products in Your Home

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars identify items in their homes that come from coal. They divide into groups and decide as a group which items are made from coal by-products. They then divide their poster board into three columns and label the first -...
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Shrink to Fit

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders review the characteristics of living and non-living organisms. After viewing a transparency of a forest scene, they complete a worksheet to identify what would be needed to make a small model of the forest having the same...
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Eating Senegal Style

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students demonstrate how to eat as Sengali people. They present information to the class about an individual eating tradition in their family. They prepare a recipe and eat it Senali style.
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Can You Open the Creaky Door?

For Teachers K - 1st
Students recognize the short vowel e in written and spoken language. Through matching and listening activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /e/ from other phonemes. Students identify the phoneme and letter in words and pictures.
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Fire Triangle

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students discuss what humans need to stay alive. They observe a candle that is lit and talk about candle safety and controls. They think about what a candle needs to keep burning and relate it to what people need to stay alive. They...
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Lend Me Your Ear

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students engage in a lesson to investigate some of the properties of sound. They create sounds and listen to the vibrations that are made while listing all the sounds that are heard. This is done while the eyes are closed to strengthen...
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Navvies/ Canals

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners investigate the concept of water permeability in order to help find the best material to line a canal. The goal is to find a material that does not allow water to escape. They also conduct an experiment and record the observations.
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Home Census

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students count sets and sort and classify groups.
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Our Country's Environment

For Students 4th - 5th
In these environment worksheets, students complete several multiple choice questions that teach them about the Earth's landforms and water.
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Alaskan Eskimo Collection

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students analyze mystery photographs to determine key characteristics about the Alaskan environment and Eskimo culture. In this Eskimo lesson, students read an Eskimo folktale and write their own in response. Lastly students complete a...
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Compound Nouns 2

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this compound nouns worksheet, students choose the correct words to complete each of the compound nouns. Students use the clues for help to complete the 25 exercises.
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Literature is Alive and Everywhere

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discuss things that are valuable and things that are beautiful.  In this ode lesson plan, students look for something beautiful that inspires them and take a picture of it. Students write an ode to one of the beautiful objects...
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Plaster of Paris Puppets: Construction of the Head

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students create a model puppet head. In this model making instructional activity, students follow step-by-step directions to create a head for their puppet made out of plaster of Paris.
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The Formation of Soil

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars identify the different components that make up soil. In this earth science lesson, students create a pamphlet for next year's class. They analyze how erosion and weathering shape the Earth.
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2D Kinematics w/ String Racers

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students calculate the speed of string racers. In this physics activity, students measure the time in several trials and get the average. They graph their results using a spreadsheet.

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