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The Changing Times of The Future
First graders share their wishes for the future and discuss changes that have taken place. They observe a puppet who describes life in the future and identifies positive and difficult challenges he may face. Individual students draw a...
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Setting Life Goals
By filling in this chart, participants identify in what ways they are successful, where they need to improve, and what their goals are in 6 areas of life ranging from family and friends to body and spirituality.
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Building Challenges
Students work together to complete different building challenges. They use prior knowledge to build tunnels and different types of bridges. They share their creations with the group.
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Beat the Ball
Students play a cooperative game. In this health and fitness lesson, students organize a ball game and keep score. Students get into groups and try to make it to around all bases.
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Parenting Challenges
In this career instructional activity, students identify and describe what challenges are the most difficult for parents to deal with today. Then they identify and describe what they think the most difficult challenges will be when they...
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What If It Happened To Me? A Look At The Disabled in Society
Students examine what it would be like to be disabled. They read literature with characters who have disabilities and discuss how society treats people with disabilities. They write an essay explaining why they are "normal."
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Large & In Charge
In this career learning exercise, students create a checklist of skills or traits that they want each of their new employees to have. Then they identify which traits are the most important and if they have those particular skills or traits.
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Challenges Faced by the New Nation's Presidents
Sixth graders, while in the computer lab utilizing the internet, locate primary sources to interpret and analyze the struggle of the new nation to gain the respect of European countries. They interact with a worksheet that organizes...
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Challenges in Changing the Face of a City
High schoolers examine a video in which people want to change the city of Oakland, California. They decide on the best course of action.