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Decorating Objects... and Re-decorating

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create decorative objects and discuss their importance in form and function. In this art history lesson, students discuss Chinese porcelain objects with mounts later added by the Chinese. Students recreate an example of this art...
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Eating Senegal Style

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students demonstrate how to eat as the people do in Senegal. Students present information to the class about an individual eating tradition in their family.
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Regions of Utah - Mapping

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders draw a rudimentary map of the state of Utah, dividing it into the three regions: the Great Basin, the Colorado Plateau, and the Rocky Mountain Region.
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Relief Block Prints

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders design a space using line and shape and recognize relief block prints from Japan and appreciate their design.
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Molecules And Temperature

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explain that molecules are in everything living and nonliving. They explain that molecules are too small to see but we can watch their movement.
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Making Layered Hail Stones

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore how hail forms in the atmosphere, why hailstones are layered, and what accretion is. They also learn what supercooled liquids are.
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Latin American Relief Map

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students, in groups, research, design and construct a relief map of a section of Latin America using papier-mache. They show major landforms, elevations and notable bodies of water. They present their maps to the class.
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Not Just an Average Class

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders work together to find the median, mode, and mean of their first and last names using a numerical code in this fun, interactive lesson. After a lecture/demo, 4th graders utilize a worksheet imbedded in this plan to gain...
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Precipitation - Pot of Ice/Pot of Boiling Water Experiment

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Pupils observe an experiment where a pot of ice is held over a pot of boiling water. They predict what will happen and then share what they see as the experiment takes place. Then the concept of condensation and precipitation is explained.
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Solid Waste and Recycling

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this unit of lessons, students examine solid waste and recycling. They discover how litter is a major part of human waste. They also collect newspaper for recycling.
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Pioneer Farm Cooking

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Learners explore pioneer farm life and the types of cooking and ingredients available. They recreate a pioneer version of a sno-cone and discuss why crushed ice was used more often than snow in this recipe.
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Making Tough Decisions about the Energy We Use

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Student examine ways we use and conserve energy. They discover the choices one makes concerning excessive energy use.
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Comparing Chinese And Japanese Ceramics

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students discuss the conception of beauty by considering and contrasting the appearance and use of Chinese and Japanese ceramics in this lesson for the middle or high school classroom.
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Exploring the Food and Dining Patterns of Cameroon: Dining Patterns

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine the cultural differences in the dining patterns of Cameroon and the United States. Identifying food items in their own lives, they explore differences within the United States. They brainstorm about what they already...
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Sliding Games (Marbles)

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students play a game of marbles outdoors on an iced area. They begin by playing a warm-up game of tag and proceed to sliding their marbles on an iced surface into holes. They attempt to gain points by sliding the marble into holes of...
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Pancake Day Instructions

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students write a set of instructions for making a pancake. Students recognize features of certain types of instructional texts. Students understand the steps into the preparation of the making of a pancake.
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It's Still Polaris

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students observe the changing night sky over the course of an evening and chart the circumpolar stars as they traverse the sky in a progression around Polaris. They infer and discuss the cause of the changing star positions.
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Finding Coal Products in Your Home

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students identify items in their homes that come from coal. They divide into groups and decide as a group which items are made from coal by-products. They then divide their poster board into three columns and label the first - items made...
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Shrink to Fit

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders review the characteristics of living and non-living organisms. After viewing a transparency of a forest scene, they complete a worksheet to identify what would be needed to make a small model of the forest having the same...
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Eating Senegal Style

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students demonstrate how to eat as Sengali people. They present information to the class about an individual eating tradition in their family. They prepare a recipe and eat it Senali style.
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Can You Open the Creaky Door?

For Teachers K - 1st
Students recognize the short vowel e in written and spoken language. Through matching and listening activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /e/ from other phonemes. Students identify the phoneme and letter in words and pictures.
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Fire Triangle

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students discuss what humans need to stay alive. They observe a candle that is lit and talk about candle safety and controls. They think about what a candle needs to keep burning and relate it to what people need to stay alive. They...
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Lend Me Your Ear

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students engage in a instructional activity to investigate some of the properties of sound. They create sounds and listen to the vibrations that are made while listing all the sounds that are heard. This is done while the eyes are closed...
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Navvies/ Canals

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the concept of water permeability in order to help find the best material to line a canal. The goal is to find a material that does not allow water to escape. They also conduct an experiment and record the observations.

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