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Pollution Solution
Students explore the topic of oil pollution and how it affects the global ocean. They discuss oil spills in recent history and use problem solving skills to decide what strategies could be used to actually clean up an oil spill. Students...
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Women's Brains
Students experience an example of bias in science dealing with women and gender.
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The Road to Democracy
Eleventh graders examine the road to the American Revolution. For this American Revolution lesson, 11th graders read Thomas Paine's works and identify the issues that the colonists had with the British government.
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Freak the Mighty: Chapter 18 Semantic Feature Analysis
Intelligent? Arrogant? Obnoxious? After completing Chapter 18 of Freak the Mighty, individuals fill out a semantic feature chart for characters in Rodman Philbrick's novel. Group members then use their charts to discuss relationships...
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The Eye; Structure and Function
Middle schoolers research the structure and function of the eye. In this anatomy instructional activity, students write a report about the eye and draw an illustration. They research a particular animal's eye then present their findings...
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Working for Water
Students examine the ways that government works to help improve aquatic habitats. In this water habitats lesson students view a video and plan a school restoration project.
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The Living Constitution
Students investigate why the Constitution is a living document and dissect the document to discover why it has survived while so many other charters have not. Students use James Madison's constitutional admonition concerning checks and...
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Shall We Go Dutch?
Learners examine the language and cultural differences that were encountered by the Indians and the Dutch leading to disaster for the first European settlement in Delaware.
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The Right Chemistry
Students see that chemistry is the study of matter, how matter reacts and combines to create new chemicals, the changes that take place in matter and what makes up matter. This lesson provides many good ideas across the curriculum to...
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"Home Sweet Home?"
Students research an endangered animal's habitat, investigate the survival problems. They research the animal's zoo life. They research some programs of reintroduction and chart the pros and cons of each.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Teacher Serve: Cities and Suburbs: Nature Transformed
Essay on the history of cities and suburbs and how nature has been transformed in the U.S. Author Christopher Sellers guides us with informational text, questions and scholars debate.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Teacher Serve: Reconstruction and the Formerly Enslaved
What are the "big questions" of Reconstruction? Article provides an overview of the Reconstruction period when Americans debated rights and the nature of freedom and equality. It focuses on who was an American and how citizenship should...
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National Museum of Natural History: Does Our Background Shape Our Thinking About Environmental Issues? [Pdf]
A lesson where young scholars explore the positive and negative impacts of human activities on the environment today and in the distant past, and examine how attitudes towards the environment might be shaped by one's experiences growing...
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Teacher Serve: History With Fire in Its Eye: An Introduction to Fire in America
This site from the National Humanities Center provides an interesting look at the history of fire in America, how we use it to control natural resources and how it controls us.
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: John Stuart Mill
Detailed discussion from the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Mill's thought including biographical summary. Although it chiefly addresses his achievements in logic, Mill's opinion on religion are also presented in closing.
Philosophy Pages
Philosophy Pages: John Locke (1632 1704)
This site offers a brief biography of philosopher John Locke and highlights of his accomplishments. The summary traces the development of his political beliefs through contrast with other writers of his time. Site includes a bibliography...
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Pictures of the Year
For over 63 years POI has offered photographers to submit their images to be judged on an international level. It also provides an archive of incredible images for all to see.
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Monthly Review: Why Socialism? By Albert Einstein
This page provides access to the essay "Why Socialism?" by Albert Einstein originally published in the first issue of Monthly Review (May 1949). Einstein argues for socialism as the way to rise above the predatory phase of human...