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Getting Started With PowerPoing: What Is PowerPoint and Why Should I Know How To Use It! All About Me

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Young scholars create a nine slide show about themselves. Each slide requires a different bit of information. Students use transitions and animations on each slide. The rubric has criteria for organization, content, visuals, mechanics,...
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A View Of Home From The Front Door and From Space

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students discover how distance can change how our view of an object. Students build a representative model of where their home is located from different distances. They create three drawn models of their home from various elevations as...
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Voyage of Discovery

For Teachers 5th - 10th
Young scholars develop a sense of the scale of our solar system by creating a one to ten billion scale model. They calculate the relative sizes and distances for the planets and asteroid belt using a guiding worksheet. To create the...
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Korean Table Manners

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students eat a Korean meal with proper table manners. They compare American table manners to Korean with at least 3 similarities and 3 differences. They write a brief essay and describe, list and demonstrate the proper Korean...
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Metals vs. Non-Metals

For Students 9th - 12th
In this elements worksheet, students compare and contrast the characteristics of metals and non-metals. Students practice drawing Lewis dot diagrams and writing ion notation. This worksheet has 9 word problems, 8 matching questions, and...
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Metals vs. Non-Metals: Dot Diagrams; Ions

For Students 9th - 12th
In this metals, non-metals, dot diagrams and ions worksheet, students read about each of these topics and they identify if 8 elements are metals or non-metals, they draw electron dot diagrams for 5 elements, they write the charge of 3...
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Reliving History Through Slave Narratives

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students read slave narratives and retell the stories to the class, identifying sensory details. In this slavery lesson, students discuss the importance of sensory details, then read the slave narratives looking for specific examples. ...
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Continuing Gandhi's Legacy of Cross-Cultural Understanding: Central Asia and the Middle East

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students investigate the lifestyle of Gandhi by creating a Venn Diagram.  In this biographical lesson, students compare the philosophies of Martin Luther King Jr. and Gandhi while discussing their teaching methods.  Students...
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Bluebirds Project: Mapping Species

For Students 4th - 6th
In this bluebirds project:  mapping species learning exercise, students create a map based on data for bluebirds in their area, then answer 5 questions about the mapping of the species.  This page has numerous links to helpful...
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Derivative Analysis

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Students analyze the derivative of a graph. In this calculus lesson, students identify the different behavior of a graph. They label concavity of the graphs as increasing or decreasing.
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Limit of a Sequence

For Teachers 10th - 12th Standards
Young scholars solve problems using limits in this calculus lesson. They calculate the solution to a problem by substituting in positive integers and relate the sequence output as it relates to the limit of a function.
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Cartoons for the Classroom: Humor Helps Hammer a Point Home

For Students 8th - 12th
In this current events worksheet, students analyze a political cartoon about the use of ridicule in cartoons and respond to 3 talking point questions.
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What is Science?

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Young scholars explore physical science by conducting a plant experiment. In this scientific method activity, students discuss questions scientists ask in order to properly explore certain subjects. Young scholars utilize two plants and...
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Wildfire Lesson Plans

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Learning about wildfires and how they start, and engaging in fire safety lesson plans can be interesting and educational.
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No Name-Calling Week

For Teachers 2nd - 7th
Your can help reduce bullying in the classroom and on the playground with this activities during No Name-Calling Week.
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Colonial North America

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Showcase the religion, conflicts, daily life, and politics of Colonial North America. A very well-done presentation highlights all the major colonial groups, social norms, demographics, and political struggles of the time. Perfect for an...
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Redistricting: Drawing the Lines

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
Difficult redistricting concepts are covered in a context that will make it understandable to your government scholars. They begin with a KWL on the term redistricting and then watch a video to answer some questions. They...
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Gotcha Covered, Pardner!

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young geometers use the interactive website Cyberchase to practice calculating both area and perimeter. Real world problems encourage learners to discover that we use math each and every day. 
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Planet PowerPoint Lesson

For Teachers 4th
Looking for a good, technology-based science lesson for your 3rd graders? This lesson is worth a look! They will utilize PowerPoint to create a presentation for the class on a planet of their choice. They also use document cameras, a...
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Youth Obesity: Schools Fight Back

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
Kids fight obesity by comparing the USDA food intake suggestions to what they personally consume throughout the day. They watch a video, read texts, and explore related vocabulary which they use as they compose an oral presentation. 
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Immigration Debate

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
The 2010 immigration bill passed in Arizona provides class members with an opportunity to examine various perspectives of the immigration debate by watching news videos, reading interview, editorials, and viewing images. Discussion...
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Teaching Construction in the Field

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Valuable skills and knowledge are acquired by building framed structures in the school parking lot.
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Comparison of Snow Cover on Different Continents

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students use the Live Access Server (LAS) to form maps and a numerical text file of snow cover for each continent on a particular date and analyze the data for each map, corresponding text file to determine an estimate of snow cover for...
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Cultural Change

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
High schoolers research the passage of the 19th Amendment as an illustration of the mutual influence between political ideas and cultural attitudes. They also read the Seneca Falls Declaration and explore the cultural shifts it both...

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