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Wild Animal Science

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students discover how environmental factors impact the survival of a population. In this landscape design lesson, students create a new animal and discuss the relationship between the animal and its environment before creating a habitat...
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Harvesting the River Lesson Plan: Taking an Oral History

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students practice researching history through oral traditions.  In this U.S. History lesson, students examine an online exhibit titled Harvesting the River, in which students interview someone from the story.  Students utilize Internet...
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Minimal Pair Pronunciation Lesson

For Teachers 6th - Higher Ed
Students distinguish minor differences between English vowel sounds.
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Can You Hear Me Now?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students demonstrate their ability to give and follow verbal directions. They explain steps to guide another student to reproduce a drawing, and evaluate their partner's articulation abilities.
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Carbon Dioxide Heats It Up

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students design an investigation to test whether vegetation in an area helps regulate the ambient air temperature. They make comparisons between the investigation and global changes in climate. In groups, they present their findings to...
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American Idols

For Teachers 2nd - 7th
Students design a biographical web for a famous American figure. They identify key research questions and organize information as a prewriting strategy. This can be done individually or as a class, depending on your needs and students.
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Butterfly Metamorphosis Booklet

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students study the four different stages of butterfly metamorphosis, In this butterfly life cycle lesson, students construct a metamorphosis booklet by recording and illustrating the butterfly life cycles in the booklet. Vocabulary and...
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Making Greeting Cards

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students produce greeting cards. In this art lesson plan, students discuss ways to make people smile and use art supplies to construct greeting cards.
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57 Varieties of Interdependence

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners examine the life of Henry J. Heinz and how he began his career in food service. For this economic history lesson,students study how Henry J. Heinz started his business. Learners will create and answer key questions that that...
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Living With the Heat: The Ring of Fire

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students investigate the planet Earth's infamous ring of fire and the life that thrives from it.  In this ocean environment instructional activity, students investigate hydrothermal vents and how organisms thrive off their heat....
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Infusing Equity by Gender Into the Classroom: A Handbook of Classroom Practices

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students match their natural proclivities to possible future careers which are nontraditional for their genders.  They further examine gender stereotypes through other activities.
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Immigration/Migration

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders investigate the immigration into America by researching Ellis Island. In this United States History lesson, 6th graders research the Internet to view photographs and find information about the immigration to Ellis Island....
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Pinwheel Modern Art Styles

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students explore artistic design by creating pin wheel models in class. In this modern art lesson, students examine historic art work of Van Gogh, O'Keeffe and Mondrian before emulating their work on construction paper. Students utilize...
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Bryant Creek Watershed Project - Making a Karst Dictionary

For Teachers 4th - 10th
Students explore the definitions relevant to Karst topography. They develop a Bryant Watershed Dictionary of the special words and terms that are used to talk about the topography and hydrology of the area they live in.
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Build a Journal

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Pupils prepare for field journaling at Yosemite Institute. They create and decorate their Institute journal giving them both a place to journal and ownership of it.
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My Wilderness Adventure

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers use a story starter and given questions to continue their adventure. They use the Internet and books to research about winter survival skills, how to find food, water and shelter in the snowy mountains and discover...
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Past, Present, and Future

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students explore school history by documenting daily life. For this time capsule lesson, students discuss the impact a fire had on their school during the previous year and identify ways to preserve information about their school by...
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Pendemonium: The Italian Job

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students identify prefixes, roots, and suffixes. In this grammar rules instructional activity, students analyze word parts to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words.
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Collage

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders construct a unique collage that he or she believes represents his or her "SHAPE" (Spiritual Gifts, Heart, Abilities, Personality, Experiences).
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Class Conservation Corps (CCC)

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students investigate how the loss of soil, a valuable natural resource, affects their lives through loss of productive land to grow food, loss of coastal land mass, and poor water quality from runoff. They design a project to keep soil...
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Postcards from the Past

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students create postcards from the past by summarizing a historical event. Then they design illustrations for their postcards and send them off to another teacher at their school.
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Putting Together the Confederation Newspaper

For Teachers 6th - 11th
Learners create a four-page newspaper that represents their assigned region/province of Canada. They assess their individual contribution to the group in the creation of their newspaper.
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You CAN Make a Difference!

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Young scholars identify environmental issues affecting their community and determine ways they can address the issues. They explain that they can be catalysts for change regarding the environment in their own communities.
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The Day the Water Ran Out

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars explore ecosystems by researching desert characteristics. In this drought instructional activity, students identify the potential impacts of a drought on their home state and interview people who are familiar with water...

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