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Climate in the Pacific Region

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students examine the main features of the climate of the Tropical Pacific region by looking at maps and charting the tracks of one or more recent cyclones. After a brief discussion, they answer questions bout convergence zones and the...
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Around Avonlea's Green Gables

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students create an Avonlea landscape that takes their breath away. They read Anne of Green Gables, students look at pictures of Prince Edward Island, Canada. Students use their Crayola Erasable Colored Pencils to list and sketch the...
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Color Lifting

For Teachers 4th - 10th
Students brainstorm and describe why far-away landscape features look less clear than nearby objects. They become aware of and recognize the effects of atmospheric perspective in realistic paintings and then create a realistic landscape...
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Golden Landmarks

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students examine several golden landmark structures and architectural features found in cultures worldwide. They compare and contrast the buildings they explore and then draw an architectural structure that incorporates elements of...
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Inside Out

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Young scholars examine a variety of x-ray paintings from aboriginal peoples. As a class, they brainstorm what happens to the food once one eats in it. Individually, they draw an outline of a body and the shapes of food inside of it. To...
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Inner Planet Properties

For Teachers 7th - 10th
For this planets worksheet, students complete a graphic organizer by determining their weight on that planet, its distance from the sun, the days it would take to travel from the Earth, and any other special features.
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Thesaurus Practice

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners practice consulting a thesaurus to find synonyms for each of 14 words on a list. They circle one of three choices as a synonym to match the target word. The list features adjectives you might call esoteric. 
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Foreshadowing and Situational Irony in Kate Chopin Short Stories

For Teachers 9th - 12th
This resource contains summaries of the stories featured, but limited procedural detail. Readers compare Chopin's stories' use of situational irony and foreshadowing. High interest content (questionable paternity, missing persons) for...
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Critical Thinking & Writing: Brainstorming

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Have your young writers organize their thoughts before writing. They generate ideas through various brainstorming activities prior to writing a mock feature news story for USA Today. A series of USA Today articles debating the level of...
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Introduction to eBay

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Beginning eBay users may benefit from this scripted procedural for using the popular online marketplace. The step-by-step directions lead class members through the various features of the site. The 2004 publication date might make some...
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Common Themes

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders test usefulness of a model Earth by comparing its predictions to observations in the real world.  In this landforms lesson students construct an island from a contour map using model clay then analyze the landscape features...
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Classifying Triangles Based On Properties of Angles

For Teachers 5th Standards
The interactive lesson featured here calls for the use of a Smartboard for sorting and classifying shapes. Then, pupils discuss the rules they followed for sorting their shapes, particularly focusing on the properties of angles. While...
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Kinesthetic Astronomy: The Meaning of a Year

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
How many times have you traveled around the sun? Aspiring astronomers grasp what a year is and they differentiate between orbit and rotation by walking around the sun right within your classroom. Place a lamp in the center of the room to...
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Teaching with Aesop's Fables

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Bring the applicable morals of Aesop's Fables to your classroom with a series of reading comprehension activities. With 12 different fables with activities and exercises, the packet focuses on the ways learners can apply the fables and...
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Mathalicious

Pic Me!

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Finally! Math and Instagram have come together to discuss the correlation between likes and followers. High schoolers can't help but want to discover what makes one account more popular than another by developing a line of best fit and...
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Global Oneness Project

Citizen Photojournalism

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Matt Black's photo essay, "The Geography of Poverty" provides a shocking reminder of the poverty that exists in the United States. The resource not only focuses attention on poverty but also conditions that have given rise to situation...
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Literacy Design Collaborative

American Dream: Reality, Promise or Illusion?

For Students 10th - 11th Standards
Dream or nightmare? Class members craft a synthesis essay with textual to determine to what extent the United States has fulfilled the ideas embodied in the America Dream.
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Focus on Saturn's Fascinating Features

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students identify and discuss the characteristics of Saturn. They create a book using those characteristics. They also develop diagram to show Saturn and its moons.
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Becoming Comfortable with the Navigation Features

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students, while in the computer lab, log in and go to the American Education System to complete a lesson on the American Education System unit. They review all the terms they may see pop up on their screens (link, save, shift, space,...
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Reader's Theater

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
Young scholars perform a reader's theater. In this analyzing text lesson students perform Master Man: A Tall Tale of Nigeria, a play by Aaron Shepard.  The young scholars are assessed on their performance.
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History and Architect Through Digital Photography

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students examine architecture. In this digital photography lesson plan, students recognize architectural features, housing styles, housing characteristics based on the era of homes in their community. Students create PowerPoint...
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Making Your Own National Park Geologic Tour

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers research national parks. In this geology lesson plan, students identify the geological features of selected national parks and create PowerPoint presentations that feature their findings.
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Ape Cave Exploration

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students simulate online the formation of Ape Cave, in order to better explain its construction. They observe, illustrate and discuss geological features of this lava tube.
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Victorian Architecture from Heather Fitzgerald

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders compare housing in the United States during the Industrial Revolution. In this Industrialization lesson plan, 6th graders compare and contrast Victorian and Tenement style housing as they research primary sources gathered...

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