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Water Safety: Grades 9-12
Make a big splash with a lesson about water safety. After reading three articles related to water safety, high schoolers first choose one water safety rule to research and write a report summarizing their findings. They then use an...
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Water Safety: Grades 6-8
Taking care of younger children is often the first job for many middle schoolers. Learning how to keep themselves and their young charges safe, especially around water, is essential. Two activities teach teens, and tweens water safety...
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Safety First
Fourth graders engage in a instructional activity which provides a better understanding of safety rules outlined by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. They submit a written report from the Safety Briefing Handout which...
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The Info Gang
Students explore personal safety by participating in an Internet activity. For this internet security lesson, students identify the uses of passwords and screen names in order to hide and secure their digital identities. Students...
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BEWARE OF POISONS
Students research and explore all the safety conditions to being exposed to poisons in real-world situations. They review/discuss/investigate about types, sources, effects and responses of poisons by creating general questions to pose to...
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The Ongoing Debate: Crime Control v. Due Process Protection
Students investigate the Exclusionary Rule and other ways of to enforce the protections found in the Bill of Rights. They study how effective criminal control and public safety is carried out while citizens Constitutional rights are...
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Safety in the Auto Shop/Laboratory Environment
Young scholars evaluate typical auto shop sectons and layout. They identify safety hazards in the auto shop. Students examine measures to prevent common shop accidents. They discuss general safety rules for the auto shop. Young scholars...
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Finding the dress code balance
High schoolers write a persuasive essay, expressing their opinions of how the school dress code should be changed. Students investigate their own school's dress code, developing their own opinions of whether the dress code should be more...
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STAR Deputies
Second graders engage in a lesson that is about the sharing of following rules to follow the law. They concentrate on the making of safe choices. Students use the examples to have class discussion. They also role play scenarios of making...
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Who Takes Care of the Maya Forest Corridor?
First graders explore the work of conservationists and how they make sure animals and people are safe in their habitats. They identify the rules, laws, jobs, and people who help them feel safe and keep them healthy. Students explore who...
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Belt-Abouts Lesson 4
Students continue to examine the importance of wearing a seat belt. After identifying new vocabulary, they discuss the ways in which wearing a seat belt can better people's lives. They write a letter to the newspaper to state why the...
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Tell Me a Train Story
Second graders write a short story based on train track safety and make a train-shaped class book.
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Cyberbullying
Students investigate internet safety by discussing harassment on the web. In this cyber safety lesson, students identify the causes and effects of cyber bullying behavior. Students discuss actions to take if they or their...
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Jungle Survival
Students make a chart with columns for water, food, shelter, fire, and other needs.Then list whatever each person thinks they might need in each column to survive for at least a week in the outdoors during that season.
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Toxic River
Young scholars explore environmental safety by participating in a class game. For this toxic chemicals lesson, students discuss the effect chemicals have on our environment and how to best protect against their dangers. Young scholars...
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Arthropods At "Home"
Learners discover what an arthropod is and how they survive in our world. In this insect lesson, students read the book, A House Is A House For Me, and compare a home for a person with the type of habitat an arthropod lives in....
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Cultural Riches
Students examine culture and how immigrants adapt to American culture while contributing elements of their various cultures to that of the United States.
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Class With Character
Third graders participate in a variety of activities in order to promote the concept of being a good citizen. The foundation of this unit is found in the character trait of respect for self and others in society.
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Lessons in Legal Ethics: Ethical Dilemmas
Students study the importance of ethical guidelines in professional decisions. They examine legal situations to determine appropriate behavior based on ethical standards.
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Fly Away Home
Second graders investigate the human right of having a home. They listen to Eve Bunting's, "Fly Away Home" before looking a pictures of different types of homes around the world. They write sentences about the homes before writing an...
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The Roots of Our Rights
Students examine the Preamble to the Constitution. In this government lesson plan, students read the Preamble of the Constitution and define the meaning of unknown words. Students write about examples of how the Constitution protects our...