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Investigation: Peg Race
Students explore competition by participating in a peg race. In this pattern creation lesson, students utilize an egg timer and pegs or colored cubes to create patterns quickly while competing with fellow classmates to finish first....
Chicago Botanic Garden
Climate Change Around the World
It is unknown if cloud cover increases in response to carbon dioxide levels changing, helping climate change slow down, or if cloud cover decreases, allowing Earth to warm faster. Part four in the series of five lessons has classes...
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American Minority Groups
Explore the contributions individuals have made in the lives of American minority groups. Twelfth graders write a five-page expository piece providing a social history, examples of discrimination, and patterns of assimilation for an...
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Whoa! Slow Down-Some of You!
Students analyze demographic data (growth rate, natural increase, fertility rate, crude birth rates, and crude death rates) and determine which areas of the world contain the fastest and slowest growth rates. They construct population...
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Organizing the Elements
Ninth graders examine the periodic table and discover why the elements in the table are organized the way they are through research. Students infer information about the elements and the relationships among them that leads to their...
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Global Warming Investigation Guide
Students expllore the issue of global warming. They investigate how temperature changes naturally over time and by location. In addition, they explore the different areas where human activities might be affecting
climate and write a...