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Exploring Ecosystems

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders investigate ecosystems. In this ecosystem lesson, 4th graders explore producers, consumers, and decomposers and study the interdependence of each.
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BLAST Algorithm

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students explore a series of activities on using BLAST. In this biology lesson plan, students explain the significance of BLAST in DNA query. They give real world applications of BLAST.
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Settler's Shopping List

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Learners browse through catalogs from the 1890's and 1900's and make a list of items needed for a year in the wilderness.
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Harvesting of Trees: Library Media Center Resources

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students research harvesting of trees in the United States and write a summary.  For this informative lesson students state whether they agree or disagree with an article and write a summary on why. 
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Metaphorical Gold: Mining the Gold Rush for Stories

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Learners complete a history and research lesson about the Gold Rush using selections from Jack London. In this Gold rush research lesson, students research the Klondike/Alaska Gold Rush and use details from the history in their own...
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Eyes on the Estuaries

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students study estuaries and compare several ones in the U.S. In this estuary instructional activity students interpret data and compare the distribution of different species. 
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Grade 9 - Personal Development (Substance Abuse Prevention)

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders evaluate peer, cultural, mass media, and social influences related to substance use and abuse. Define available support and describe use refusal skills.
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Interviewing a Historical Figure

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students examine a historical figure by designing an interview for them.
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Canada

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders sample the rich diversity of Canada's people and cultures, glimpse the vastness of Canada's lands and waters, and get an idea of the wealth and variety of its resources, wildlife, and history.
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Data Processing

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore the application of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in a variety of businesses and organizations. They present proposals, representing different businesses and organizations, that support how GIS technology could...
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Forming Groups

For Teachers K - 8th
Students create groups (teams) the way a teacher hopes they -- various different ideas are presented.
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Which Graph is best?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use commercial software to organize and visually display data to draw conclusions; students use graphing software to create several types of graphs illustrating the number of each color of M&M's in one bag.
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Texas Native Americans

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders research the Native Americans of Texas using the Internet. They create a Power Point presentation over the four Indian tribes of Texas - Caddo, Jumano, Karankawa, Apache.
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Research Paper on Orators

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders identify the difference between a primary and a secondary source, and use writing as a tool for learning and research. They compile information from primary and secondary sources using available technology.
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Polygons and Plane Figures

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students choose a polygon to define and describe, and use Power Point and the Internet to present their polygon.
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How Animals Meet Their Needs

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders research the Internet for facts relating to the animal of their choice. They use information from their Internet search to complete their animal project. TLW use his or her own words when writing their report.
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Cause and Effect

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders identify the causes and effects of the story, "If You Give A Pig a Pancake" and "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie", by Laura Numeroff. They write a cause and effect story using Kidspiration.
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Tracking a Legislator

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students track a member of the Connecticut legislature whose political life and choices during the course of the semester provide the opportunity for students to gain greater civic literacy and understanding through in-depth,...
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Anne Frank: Timeline

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders become acquainted with major events, especially related to the life and times of Anne Frank and compare personal and family chronology to Twentieth Century events. They examine how discrimination existed in the past and...
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Weather Watchers

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students practice using objective and quantitative means to describe and compare the weather. They compile weather conditions and create a spreadsheet to record their findings.
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Catalog Display for the Novel : The Family Under the Bridge by Natalie Carlson

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explain the novel through creative descriptions, learn importance of word choice in descriptive writing, and implement technology skills of searching the Internet, typing, cutting and pasting, graphic designs, and...
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It's 'ELEMENT' ary

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students, using a Web site about the periodic table of elements, create spreadsheets representing elements and their properties. They also create graphs that compare the physical properties of the elements.
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Awesome Adjectives Postcards!

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students create a postcard by illustrating a place they would like to visit and using ten adjectives in a short message describing the pictures.
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Learn About Centers -- An Introductory Activity

For Teachers Pre-K
Students discover how to travel from one learning center to another by participating in a human train activity. They sing a song which highlights the center activity as they travel along from center to center.

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