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Words and Pictures Connect Nature and People: The American Conservation Movement

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students research some of the men and women who help to raise the environmental consciousness of the American people through their writings and drawings. They write a persuasive piece about an outdoor place which will connect their...
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Wind, Pressure, Force, Calculus and Engineering Connections

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders solve first order differential equations using the separation of variables technique. In this calculus lesson plan, 12th graders explain the connection between math and engineering. They brainstorm what engineers do in...
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Financing Your College Education

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore sources for funding college educations. They compile a portfolio of information gathered during their research.
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Connecting Translations, Reflections, and Rotations

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Learners differentiate between translation, reflection and rotation. They explore the 3 types of transformation using Cabri Jr. and build on previous knowledge in this lesson plan.
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Virtual Connections

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students use prior knowledge to develop a survey on their peers' habits and preferences regarding video games and online gaming. They examine the social aspect of online gaming by discussing "Where Warriors and Ogres Lock Arms Instead of...
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Sea Connections

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Learners, after locating different marine habitats on a globe, play a card game about ecosystems, food webs and organisms.
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Making Connections

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders relate patterns with higher math. In this 7th grade math lesson, 7th graders analyze different methods of portraying data. They relate the data to real life scenarios.      
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Sea Connections: Marine Ecosystems

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students identify producers and consumers from marine ecosystems and describe the balance among them in the environments. After constructing a food chain from a marine ecosystem, they examine human activities that can upset the balance...
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Character Education: Caring- Oprah Winfrey

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students explore celebrity philanthropy. In this character development lesson plan, students read an article and discuss Oprah Winfrey's involvement in several charitable organizations.
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Connecting to Colonial Music

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students listen to songs from the French and Indian War period. They answer questions about the song and identify any historical terms. They examine the role of music in their own lives.
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All Hands on Deck: A Harbor Education Program

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students build a model of an estuary. For this wetland lesson, students build a model estuary with a paint tray and modeling clay. They use the model to illustrate the impact of non-point pollution on the watershed.
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The Olympic Games Scavenger Hunt

For Teachers 4th - 6th
In this Olympic Games worksheet, young scholars research the Internet to locate a specific website to answer five fill in the blanks statements in connection with the Olympic Games.
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Special Edition: World Space Congress 2002: The New Face of Space

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students experience and study how space offers expanding resources for commerce, science, technology and education. They view how advances in space can and do improve life on Earth. Each student views a geological exploration within this...
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Fundamental Theorem of Calculus

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
High schoolers, with the assistance of their TI-84 Plus / TI-83 Plus calculators, explore and assess the connections between an accumulation function, one defined by a definite integral, and the integrand. They summarize that the...
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Intro to New Technologies in Music Education

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders, while in the computer lab utilizing a Sibelius software, create an eight-measure piece in the key of a minor using the notes A, B, C, D and E. They incorporate quarter notes, eighth notes and half notes. Each student...
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Investigating Segments in a Quadrilateral

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Investigate the properties of the shape formed by connecting the midpoints of adjacent sides of a quadrilateral. For this properties of the shape formed by connecting the midpoints of adjacent sides of a quadrilateral lesson, learners...
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Press Conference on Hurricane Georges

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students reinforce oral communication skills and organize a "press conference" on Hurricane Georges. They demonstrate their comprehension of the following enduring understanding: Where we live influences how we live. No matter where we...
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Track the Path of Coffee From Farm to Store Shelf

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners investigate the cultivation and marketing of coffee. In this global studies lesson, students consider the connections of the 21st century world as they explore how coffee makes it from farms to their homes. Learners consider the...
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Rhythm and Art: Gesture Drawing

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students make connection between music and art. In this integrated arts lesson, students complete gesture drawing activities as they listen to Cuban, flamenco, classical, jazz, and contemporary music. 
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Water: Where in the Watershed?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students become connected to their watershed by exploring a local water body and mapping its features. They focus on how the local watershed fits into the larger scheme of the watershed.
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Colors

For Teachers K - 5th
Students learn about the Impressionist painters' use of color and how it connected to early nineteenth century scientific theories about color. In this colors lesson plan, students explore combinations of primary and secondary colors,...
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Native American Dolls

For Teachers K - 4th Standards
Students examine Native American dolls. They discover the connections between the dolls and the Native American culture and customs. They also use maps to locate the position of different tribes.
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Match Me!

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Young learners explore motion graphs in this lesson. They investigate distance-time plots as they move in a specific way in front of the CBR in an attempt to make a motion plot that matches a given plot. Pupils explore the connections...
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Area Measures and Right Triangles

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Your class will investigate the relationship among different triangles. This geometry lesson, demonstrates how to make a connection between triangles and the Pythagorean Theorem. They identify the missing side or angle of a triangle.