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Getting Fired Up

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore first-person accounts of volcanic eruptions throughout time and use second-hand information about volcanoes. They use both types of accounts to write news articles covering the events of a historic volcanic eruption as...
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International Custody Battle

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students research the relationship between the United States and Cuba by identifying key players and events in Cuban/U.S. history. They also focus on a battle waged between Cuban-Americans in Miami and a father in Cuba over the custody...
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Press-ing Freedom

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students consider how free speech applies to journalistic practices in light of a legal case involving two reporters. They participate in a fishbowl discussion about journalism codes of ethics and write response papers.
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True Tales of Adventure for Young Part 3

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore the Passageways website. They read to compare and contrast the motivations and accomplishments of two explorers.
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Read More Than Words

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students, in groups, visually read photographs from the Farm Security Administration taken during the Great Depression. They analyze the photos and present their observations to the class.
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Letters to the Government

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders examine how to be active participants in their local, state, or federal governments. They create a powerpoint presentation and write a letter to one of their governmental representatives about a problem and solution of...
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Aztecs Meet the Spanish

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students simulate an Independent Counsel to represent the Spanish and the Aztecs to formulate a policy for the Roman Catholic Church in 1527. They conduct research, graph the similarities and differences, create a poster, and write a...
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Raton Pass and Glorieta Battlefield

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students complete a variety of activities that go along with the study of and possible fieldtrip to Raton Pass and Glorieta Battlefield on the Sante Fe Trail in New Mexico.
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Local Weather And Location

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students explain how uneven heating of Earth affects wind and water currents. They describe the limits on current technology in predicting weather and how the Water Cycle is related to local weather.
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Master in Training

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students identify and examine their own areas of expertise. After reading an article, they discuss the evolution of three opera high school students. They create a timeline collage showing their mastery of their field of interest and...
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Story Problems - Math

For Teachers K
Students participate in hands-on, computer activities to demonstrate the addition and subtraction of mathematical situations. Given a story problem, students determine when to add or subtract. Using word processing technology, students...
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Lending Discrimination and the Community Reinvestment Act

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Write about economic and banking issues of concern to the public. Investigate lending discrimination and the impact of the 1977 Community Reinvestment Act. Use a guide to do research and write an essay.
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Alphabet Mittens

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this alphabet awareness activity, students cut out fifty-two mittens with uppercase and lowercase letters on each one. Students shuffle the pictures and practice matching up the uppercase letter to its lowercase letter.
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Organic Chemistry-Isomers

For Students 9th - 12th
In this isomer activity, students learn about the structures of isomers and then they draw the isomers for six organic compounds.
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Working with Scientific Notation

For Students 8th - 10th
In this scientific notation activity, students are given directions to add, subtract, multiply and divide using scientific notation. They complete twenty four problems and express their answers in scientific notation.
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Being Spontaneous

For Students 9th - 12th
In this spontaneous reactions worksheet, high schoolers read about entropy, enthalpy and Gibbs free energy. They complete a table with reaction conditions and determine if the reaction is spontaneous or not. They solve three problems...
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Calculating Joules

For Students 9th - 12th
In this calculating joules learning exercise, students read about the relationship between mass, temperature change, specific heat and energy. They find the number of joules needed to heat water in five different problems using the given...
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The Treaty Trail: U.S. - Clothing That Talks: Meaning and Material Culture

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students investigate the cultures of Native Americans and Euro-Americans through their clothing.  In this photograph analysis lesson, students observe historic photographs and analyze the style of clothes people wore and how it...
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In Remembrance of George Washington

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the contributions of George Washington. In this early American history instructional activity, students analyze the provided eulogy for George Washington written by Henry Lee and then write their eulogies for the first...
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George Washington's Foreign Policy

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students compare George Washington's foreign policy to the policies of presidents who followed him. In this primary source analysis activity, students compare Washington's Farewell Address to the Roosevelt Corollary, the Monroe Doctrine,...
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What Made George Washington a Good Military Leader? Powers and Problems

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students list qualities they believe made George Washington an effective military leader. They discuss difficulties Washington faced as Commander-in-Chief and how he responded to the difficulties he faced as the leader of the Continental...
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Understanding the Context of Modernist Poetry

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the historical, social, and cultural context of modernist poetry. They explore websites, complete a chart, compare/contrast rural and urban life, watch a video of early New York, and complete a writing assessment...
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Literature: Esperanza Rising

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students read and discuss the book, Esperanza Rising. After analyzing and identifying the novel's structural elements, they examine working conditions for migrant workers in the 1930s. As part of the lesson, students in groups choose...
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Collecting Ball Bounce Data

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Learners investigate quadratic equations as they use a CBR to collect and analyze data regarding a bouncing ball. Pupils explore different methods for determining the equation of the parabolic path including quadratic regression and...

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