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CSI: Chemistry Student Investigators
Students study chemistry. In this laboratory lesson students watch the CSI episodes and investigate their laboratory techniques and discuss what they saw.
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Radon Alert: Understanding Odds
In this radon alert: understanding odds worksheet, 5th graders predict results of rolling dice and record data in a chart, then compare odds of events and occupations, then compare that with radon exposure.
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Class of 2000 - Student Loans
Young scholars determine how they will finance their postsecondary education. In this student loan lesson, students create spreadsheets that help them budget their first year of college. Young scholars identify methods to fund the...
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Youth vs. Adult Employment
Students investigate the unemployment rate in Canada. In this statistics lesson, students collect data on youth finding jobs, graph and analyze the data. This assignment raises awareness of the employment problems in Canada.
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Ratio
Students calculate the ratio and apply it to construction. In this geometry instructional activity, students convert between different units and use decimals and fractions interchangeable. They find the fraction of a given amount...
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Graphing Dairy Production Statistics
Students collect data about dairy production. In this geometry lesson, students formulate and model problem solving. They collect data and plot it on a graph.
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Chors, Secants, Tangents
Young scholars identify the relationship between chords, secants and circles. For this geometry lesson, students calculate the length of the chords. They sketch the secant lines on a circle.
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Running a Student Cooperative
Students form a classroom cooperative. In this service learning lesson, students explore how to form and run a cooperative and decide as a class how to implement their cooperative plan. Students use funds raised from the cooperative's...
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Slow Times Mean Pay Cuts For Many
Students explore the concept of a slowing economy. In this slowing economy lesson plan, students discuss the trickle-down effects of a slowing economy. Students create an estimated budget for living expenses after high school. Students...
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Plants and Animals: Partners in Pollination
Students describe the complementary relationships between pollinators and the plants they pollinate, identify adaptations that flowers have developed to "encourage" pollination, and create and draw their own "designer" flowers.
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The Cost of Life
Young scholars research the salary for a career of interest. They consider what kind of lifestyle that career would provide and graph their information for comparison.
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Everyday Is Agriculture Day
Students examine the role of the modern farmer through an interactive CD. Once they identify the role of farmers, they create typical farm schedules using math skills. In this instructional activity about Alaska agricultural products,...
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If You Were a Community Helper for a Day, Which One Would You Like To Be?-- Class Bar Graph
In this math worksheet, students collaborate to make a class bar graph. Students choose from a list of 12 occupations they are interested in and plot the information on the graph.
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Earning and Spending
In this earning and spending worksheet, 2nd graders look at 4 jobs and how much they pay and circle two things they could do to earn exactly $5.00. Students then look at 8 items and circle what they would like to buy with $5.00.
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Conveyor Belt Production
Students design a system that will move their glass product across a room in the plant. They must move the product 12 feet and their items cannot fall off at any time.
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Fabulous Felines- Lesson 2- Your Cat's Health
Students explore cats. In this pet care lesson plan, students participate in a discussion with a local veterinarian about proper health care for cats. Students name reasons it is important to protect against pet...
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Marshmallow Towers
Young scholars explore geometry by completing a marshmallow activity in class. In this architecture lesson, students identify the jobs of civil engineers and architects while identifying different geometric shapes as well. Young scholars...
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Issues, Issues, Everywhere
Students identify different opinions related to an issue as well as the things that influence those opinions. They analyze how engineers use an opinion spectrum to identify the differences of opinions in a large group to investigate how...
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Librarian
Students read books, learn about the letter l, and eat pudding all to learn about how to act in a library. In this library lesson plan, students also practice tip toeing around the room.
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Firefighters
Students read books, learn about the letter f, and eat ice cream all to learn about firefighters. In this fire fighters lesson plan, students also string beads to look like fire hose and visit a fire house.
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Nursing Test with Solutions
In this nursing test activity, students review prescription calculations as they respond to 60 multiple choice equations with the solutions provided below each question.
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Florence Nightingale
Learners describe the contributions made by Florence Nightingale to the medical profession and to her community. They describe ways that they have helped or could help people in their community. They identify a person in need of...
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Highway Link Design
Discover a renewed appreciation for the highway transportation department. with a lesson that has scholars design a highway route that meets certain conditions, including traffic flow, curves, speed limits, financial costs, and...