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Defining Leadership
Learners use their experience with leadership, as well as a thought-provoking quote and discussion with their classmates, to help them define the concept of leadership.
Career Tech
Career Activity File
Pupils design career portfolios, which will demonstrate the skills and knowledge they have acquired during their schooling and personal endeavors, using the wide variety of worksheets and activities provided in this resource.
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Leadership
Students identify the main types of leadership styles. They research different theories of leadership and discuss. They participate in scenerios using the information they gathered throughout the lesson.
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High Performance in Agriculture Science: Graduates Outperform Others
Students plan for their future by exploring occupational experience programs.In this career activity students list activities that they will participate in in the future and complete a career exploration project.
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Abraham Lincoln and the Five-Dollar Note
Students study Presidential history by researching Abraham Lincoln. In this U.S. history instructional activity, students discuss the changes in the 5 dollar bill and create a timeline of Abraham Lincoln's life. Students...
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Bridge Building
Bridge the gaps in your knowledge of bridges. Individuals learn about bridge types by building models. The activity introduces beam bridges, arch bridges, truss bridges, and suspension bridges.
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The Physics of Bridges
Stability is key when building a bridge. Scholars explore the forces acting upon bridges through an analysis of Newton's Laws and Hooke's Law. The activity asks individuals to apply their learning by building a bridge of their own.
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Making a Battery
Don't be shocked when your class has a blast making their own batteries! Science scholars examine a dry cell battery, then design and construct a wet cell battery. The activity guides them through the parts of a battery, the variables...
Listening Library
The Sign of the Beaver
Extend a class reading of the novel The Sign of the Beaver across all subject areas with this literature unit guide. From basic discussion questions and writing prompts, to a research project about tracking animals, this...
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Saving the Sandhill Cranes
Students explore environmental awareness by participating in movie making. In this endangered species lesson, students discuss the problems dealing with sandhill cranes at a nearby beach and the impact our environment is having on them....
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Twelve O'Clock High
Students are introduced to the Air Force Core Values before watching the movie, "Twelve O'Clock High". While watching the movie, they take notes on the leadership qualites of the pilots and the use of the Air Force in World War II. ...
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Bedrock Learning
Learners test and identify soil and rock samples. In this rock and soil lesson, students video themselves gathering samples. Learners test the samples and create graphs showing the results.
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Shackleton's Voyage of Endurance
Students view a video clip about the voyage of the Endurance. They work together to decide what to rescue from the sinking ship. They compare their decisions with those of Ernest Shackleton.
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Measurement
Students measure angles, perimeter, area and volume. In this geometry activity, students define different ways to measure and solve for the perimeter, area and volume of geometric shapes. They analyze and process information to help them...
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Yard Sale
Learners complete activities to discover spending, goods, services, price, advertising, choice, alternatives, criteria and opportunity cost.
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Warm and Toasty
Learners are introduced to the concepts of specific heat and heat capacity. In groups, they design an experiment to test these two topics on various fabrics. They compare and contrast the amount of heat loss on the different materials...
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Meet Molly An American Girl
Students examine concepts of personal finance. In this personal finance lesson, students use Valerie Tripp's, Meet Molly, An American Girl, to learn about saving and spending after World War II. They compare financial decisions after...
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Coral Reefs
Students research coral reefs and identify their benefits to humans, threats to the reef, how to reduce and eliminate threats, and more. In this coral reef lesson plan, students research the reefs, and take a field trip to an aquarium.
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Pizza Muffins & Podcasting
Students investigate life skills by participating in a voice recording activity. In this baking lesson, students identify the ingredients needed to create pizza menu items and the steps which should be taken to bake them. Students...
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Why Is North Korea Going At It Alone?
Students examine the division of North and South Korea. They identify the ideological differences and the tensions between the two countries. They discuss the threat of nuclear weapons as well.
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Nano What?
The size of a nanoparticle is difficult for pupils to grasp. A hands-on experiment is designed to give your classes perspective. Learners analyze different sports drinks for the content of electrolytes as an introduction to nanoscale....
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Electroplating
Silver pennies and copper nickels are made possible by applying some chemistry. Learners use electrolysis to coat a penny with zinc sulfate and a nickel with copper sulfate. Their investigation builds an understanding of electroplating...
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Group Dynamics
Young scholars define the purpose of different groups. Using photographs, they practice identifying the group affiliation to one another and describe their characteristics in the picture. They discover the similarities and differences...
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Civil War: Generals at the Battle of Stones River
Students explore U.S. history by creating a computer presentation in class. For this Civil War battle lesson, students read assigned text about the Battle of Stones River and research individual generals from the battles. Students...