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EngageNY

Piecewise Functions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Show your class members that if they can graph a linear function, they can graph an absolute value function. Groups create an absolute value graph using a table, then entertain the idea of an absolute value function defined as two...
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US Institute of Peace

Responding to Conflict: Nonverbal Communication

For Teachers 6th - 8th
What does your posture say about you? How can it affect the outcome of conflict resolution or negotiation? Show scholars the importance of nonverbal communication during the sixth in a series of 15 peacebuilding lessons. Learners work...
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National Gallery of Canada

Urban Desire

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Urban spaces are often overlooked and broken down. Offer your pupils the opportunity to reimagine an urban space. Learners examine and discuss works of art related to this theme and consider their own communities. Small groups then...
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Poetry Class

Writing a Monologue

For Teachers 4th - 9th
The works of Carol Ann Duffy, Scottish poet and Britain's 2009 poet laureate, serve as a model for a writing activity that asks class members to select a character card, brainstorm lists of words, phrases, actions, and items associated...
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EngageNY

Solve for Unknown Angles—Angles in a Triangle

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Assist your class with each angle of geometry as they use exterior angles to form linear pairs with adjacent interior angles. They cover multiple vocabulary terms and work practice problems, complete with justifications, before...
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Manchester College

What’s Your Point of View?

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Work on deciphering the point of view of various pieces of literature. As readers review the concepts of first, second, and third person perspective, they apply what they know to different passages.
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Code.org

Encoding and Sending Formatted Text

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Introduce your class to encoding text. Pairs work together to create a protocol to send text prior to learning ASCII encoding. Groups then collaborate to send and translate ASCII codes creating a formatted text message. 
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West Contra Costa Unified School District

Quadratic Equations — What We Know

For Teachers 8th - 10th Standards
Everything you could possibly want to know about quadratic equations, all in one resource. Instructors demonstrate how to translate between different forms of quadratics (equation, table of values, graph, verbal description) and finding...
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West Contra Costa Unified School District

Polynomial Division

For Teachers 10th - 12th Standards
Multiply the ways your scholars can find the quotient with polynomial division. A lesson plan introduces polynomial division via long division, synthetic division, generic area model, and using the definition of division. Learners...
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EngageNY

Modeling with Quadratic Functions (part 1)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Relevance is key! The resource applies quadratic modeling by incorporating application of physics and business. Pupils work through scenarios of projectile motion and revenue/profit relationships. By using the key features of the graph,...
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Lesson 2 James Madison: The Second National Bank—Powers Not Specified in the Constitution

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
How much power is too much power for the federal government? Scholars use primary documents and constitutional research in groups to analyze the creation of the Second National Bank under James Madison. This is the second lesson of a...
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Library of Congress

The Conservation Movement at a Crossroads: The Hetch Hetchy Controversy

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed Standards
Should wilderness areas be preserved or managed? Class members examine primary source documents, including lecture notes, articles, essays and congressional records to better understand the Hetch Hetchy controversy that created a split...
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Pimsleur

Culinary Culture

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Italian culture and italian food go together. Have small groups find out all about food-related culture through research and translation. Class members conduct online research, create glossaries, find and translate recipes for a...
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Shakespeare Uncovered

Suits of Woe: Grief and Loss in Hamlet

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
“Thou know’st ‘tis common; all that lives must die/Passing through nature to eternity.” Grief, and the response to grief and loss, is the focus of a series of activities that uses Hamlet as a launchpad. Groups examine Act I, scene ii to...
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Rational Number Project

Rational Number Project: Initial Fraction Ideas

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Deepen the fractional number sense of young learners with this introductory lesson on equivalent fractions. After completing a short warm-up activity, children go on to work in pairs using fraction circles to complete a table of...
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ARKive

Species Discovery

For Teachers 6th - 8th
How do you classify a newly discovered species? Learners view a presentation and complete research about biodiversity and the classification hierarchy. The lesson includes activities with dichotomous keys and work on classifying both...
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Shutterfly

Shutterfly Photo Story Lesson Plan

For Teachers 5th Standards
A reading of Peggy Parish's Amelia Bedelia launches a study of idioms. Groups then select several idioms, write the meaning of the expressions, draw or select images, and use GIMP or Photoshop to create an idiom book. 
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Food a Fact of Life

Getting to Grips

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Fruit fusion or dippy divers, anyone? Here's a delicious way to introduce young cooks to aspects of safe food handling and the use of food handling tools. Groups create fruits and/or vegetable salads to share with the class.
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EngageNY

Grade 9 ELA Module 1, Unit 1, Lesson 14

For Teachers 9th Standards
Karen Russell's short story "St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves" has a unique structure that adds value to the story. With the fourteenth activity in a unit about literary analysis and textual support, analyze how Russell has...
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School Improvement in Maryland

Socio-Economic Goals of the Government

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Equity. Increased productivity. Price stability. Environmental protection. Decreased poverty. Governments establish socio-economic goals and then must design and fund programs to address these goals. Groups investigate various...
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School Improvement in Maryland

Regulatory Agency

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Five governmental regulatory agencies are tasked to respond to market failure. Groups investigate the roles of each of these agencies as well as the social, economic, and political impact of their actions.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Being the “Host” at This Party is No Fun

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Discuss the symptoms and variations from infectious diseases from one person to the next. After a class discussion, small groups complete research on the topic. 
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Rochester Institute of Technology

Artificial Eye

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Scientists in California developed a bionic eye that allows blind people to see edges of objects in black and white and costs $145,000. In the activity, groups of scholars discuss bioengineering, focusing on the human eye. They then...
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NOAA

Exploring Potential Human Impacts

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Arctic sea ice reflects 80 percent of sunlight, striking it back into space; with sea ice melting, the world's oceans become warmer, which furthers global warming. These activities explore how humans are impacting ecosystems around the...

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