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Cutting Athletics = Cutting Scholarship Chances

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify athletic programs to be cut from school district budget, find out how many students have received college athletic scholarships in past, and interview students and coaches to find out how scholarship search is going if...
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Athletes Make the Grade

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Young scholars read a story called Athletes Need to Make the Grade to Play and answer vocabulary and comprehension questions about it. In this current events college athletes and academics lesson plan, student respond to literature by...
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Playing Vocabulary Basketball

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners view a slide show featuring famous athletes and educational institutions that have played a part in the history of basketball. They participate in a game in which a basketball is tossed from person to person as facts and...
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LAND-GRANT COLLEGES

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students will explore the Morrill Acts and how the agricultural system is involved in education through the land-grant colleges.1. Have groups find the addresses of the land-grant universities in their assigned states and write a letter...
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Going to Bat for Girls

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore gender equality. In this Teaching Tolerance lesson plan, students listen to a lecture regarding a family's struggles with inequality. Students respond to discussion questions following the lecture.
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Abraham Lincoln

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Learners, in groups, use the Internet to research Abraham Lincoln. They role-play the part of a newspaper journalist and write an article about him.