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Inventors and Innovators

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners explore the scientific enterprise and the contributions of diverse people. They explore some of the more practical applications of the scientific enterprise. Students describe how the cast cooler works, and discuss how inventor...
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Jurassic Research and Presentation

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders are introduced to the Jurassic period. In groups, they use print and electronic resources to research the Mesozoic Era and discover the shape of the Earth when dinosaurs roamed. To end the lesson, they present their...
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Understanding the Nature of Work

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students analyze case studies of child labor situations and differentiate between developmental labor which can benefit children and exploitative labor which can harm children. Then they look closer at forms of exploitative labor to...
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The Media and You

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create a system to approach news articles. They analyze media content for main ideas and overall themes and summarize key points. Students draw upon personal experiences to build on ideas presented in news articles.
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Consumerism and the Consumer Society

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students read an article titled "How Much Is Enough?" by Alan Durning. They work in small groups to summarize the author's main point for each paragraph and then identify and discuss further questions they may have in response to the...
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Do More, Watch Less

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students are challenged to omit all screen-based activities for 3 days during one week followed by committing to no more than 2-hours of screen-based activities a day. They also participate in a "Walk Claremont" in which each student is...
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Fact and Fiction in Little Women

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students read excerpts from the novel "Little Women." Students work in groups to research, analyze, and answer the questions included in the lesson. After research, students write a paper and include a bibliography. The students also...
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Meeting in a Fishbowl: Consensus vs. Democracy

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers analyze the democratic and consensual decision-making process. They review the distinctions between decision-making and consensus and simulate a town meeting and a tribal meeting. They select an issue and research the...
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Clean Coal?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students determine, based on their knowledge of coal pollutants, the effectiveness of clean-coal technologies. They state and defend a position on whether power plants in the United States should be required to upgrade to available...
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Nomination Speech

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners research and American author and nominate them for an award. They determine significant accomplishments of their author's career and life. They access the Biography Resource Center and research their author.
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A Media Literacy Unit on "Turn Beauty Inside Out"

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students become aware of the importance of distinguishing between inner and outer beauty. They explore how the media's opinion of beauty is biased and should be evaluated rather than just accepted. Each student also assesses how the...
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Healthy Snacks

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders examine teen attitudes towards snack food merchandising in schools and what contributes to successful food merchandising. The context for the lesson is found in the research conducted from the Health Canada Website.
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Writing and Literature

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students participate in a layered unit that includes activities like: Write a character study (minimum 250 words) of a character you are familiar with from a book or play. What is their personality like? Who would you compare them to (in...
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"The Wounded" by Lu Xinhua

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders read and discuss the story, "The Wounded," by Lu Xinhua. They explore the theme of choices in this story as well as its Chinese cultural history. The backdrop for this story is during the Cultural Revolution and the...
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Keypals and You

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students collect and compare data received from keypals. They use electronic mail to exchange information with keypals and rrite a paper comparing similarities and differences between themselves and their keypals. In addition, use a...
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Vocabulary: Talking About Your Family-2

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this foreign language worksheet, students fill in the blanks for ten sentences. Each sentence is missing a word that describes a family member.
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The Resistance

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this social studies worksheet, students read about the resistance of the Dutch people during the time of the Jews captivity.
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Neither/Nor-- Either/Or

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this ESL quiz worksheet, students read 5 sentences and select the correct words to fill in the blanks. Students choose the positive or negative words neither/nor or either/or.
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London Police Station- Transcript of Witness Interview (ESL)

For Students 12th - Higher Ed
In this ESL vocabulary building worksheet, students read a pretend transcript of a witness interview by the London Police. Students fill in the missing word blanks with any words that will make sense.
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Classifying Toys

For Students K - 2nd
In this classifying worksheet, students cut out fifty seven squares, each containing a different picture of a toy. Students classify the pictures of toys into groups of their own choosing (uses, material they are made of, who plays with...
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The Banana Doesn't Fall Far From the Tree!

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students research their family history and make a family tree. In this family tree lesson plan, students are given an example of a family tree with names, pictures, and descriptions of each person. They then are instructed to research...
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Wilderness Training

For Teachers 4th - 10th
Students explore how to prepare for a wilderness journey. In this wilderness survival instructional activity, students construct a compass from a magnet and a sewing needle.
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Late Bloomers

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students demonstrate an understanding that individuals grow at various rates. In this health instructional activity, students read Leo, the Late Bloomer and identify ways to be tolerant of others. Students record the height of classmates...
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Descriptive Statistics

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students demonstrate how to use frequency and scatter diagrams. In this statistics instructional activity, students are introduced to different techniques of representing data. Students sort and graph data on a worksheet and use a...

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