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Financial Planning For Catastrophe
Students explore the concept of financial planning for a catastrophe. In this financial planning instructional activity, students discuss the devastation that Hurricane Katrina wrought on the Gulf Coast. Students create budgets to plan...
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Words in the News: New Orleans Job Losses
Students discuss what they know about Hurricane Katrina and the city of New Orleans. In groups, they use they match the new vocabulary words to their definitions. They read an article about Hurricane Katrina and answer questions.
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It's a Gas! Or is it?
Oceanography enthusiasts are given a series of thought experiments to consider in order to relate the solubility of gases and solids to underwater volcanoes. It is not particularly engaging to perform these thought experiments. Choose...
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Words in the News
Here's an "old-school" lesson plan on an event in US history. High schoolers look into the massive layoffs that occurred in New Orleans in 2005. Discussion and debate take place, and groups of learners must cut and paste a series of...
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Hoaxes, Scams, Chain Letters and Urban Legends
Students explore the evacuation of New Orleans due to Hurricane Katrina. Using the internet, they research stories they may have heard and verify a story's authenticity. Students discuss rumors and urban legends. Given a worksheet,...
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Slave Culture during the Age of Jackson
Students consider slave culture during the time of Andrew Jackson. In this instructional activity on slavery, students watch a PowerPoint presentation, take notes, then analyze an extensive list of primary sources in order to understand...
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Is FEMA a Natural Disaster?
Students develop an understanding of FEMA and reflect about the consequences of a natural disaster. In this natural disaster lesson, students are asked specific questions after reading several stories. After class discussion on the...
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Surface Area and Measuring
Tenth graders explore volume and surface area through percentages. For this geometry lesson, 10th graders analyze the surface area of two and three dimensional shapes, then use percents and ratio to compare the two.
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This Life Stinks
Chemosynthetic communities of cold seep areas are considered in this lesson. Working in collaborative groups, marine biology or oceanography learners research and prepare a report about oxidation-reduction reactions involved with...
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Life is Weird
Separate your science class into small groups and assign each a specific deep-sea organism to research. The class will learn about all of the organisms as each group presents their assigned animal. Following their presentations, you can...
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In the Eye of the Storm
Learners share opinions about what information the public needs about an impending hurricane. They research and report on a major U.S. hurricane and compare different reports about Hurricane Katrina.
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Using Excel to Reference and Graph Live Data from a Web Site
Students collect live buoy data about water temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico from the Internet and work individually to organize their data and create a line graph using Excel Spreadsheet. Students analyze their data and examine any...
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CSI on the Deep Reef
Students read about, discuss, and research chemotrophic organisms. In this chemosynthesis lesson, students discuss the differences between photosynthesis and chemosynthesis. They learn that chemosynthesis includes a variety of chemical...
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How Diverse is That?
Students discuss biological diversity in ocean communities. In this diversity activity, students examine the variety of organisms compared to relative abundance. They will write an analysis and discuss their findings with the class.
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Federalism
Students become familiar with the Federalist papers and the work of the federal government. In this federalism lesson plan, students find similarities and differences between state and federal government.
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Rebuild Your Community
Young scholars explore the concept of rebuilding a community after a disaster. For this rebuilding after a disaster lesson, students discuss the role of government in rebuilding a community. Young scholars discuss financial issues that...
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Bees: The Invaluable Master Pollinators
There is nothing in the world quite like a bee. Here is a video that explains the importance of bees to pollination. Scholars consider possible solutions to the declining population of bees in the ninth and final installment in the series.
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This Life Stinks
Students study how organisms that live in cold seep communities get energy from methane. In this organism lesson plan students write a brief report and identify oxidation reduction reactions and explain if these are dependent of...
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What's in That Cake?
Learners explore the depths of the Gulf of Mexico. In this deep-sea habitat lesson, students construct edible models of deep-sea habitats as they bake cakes that include representations of the habitats and the organisms that live there....
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Life is Weird
Students describe features of cold seep communities and list organisms that can be found in these communities. In this exploratory lesson plan students complete an activity and describe the process of chemosynthesis.
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Breakdown
Learners read reports and watch a video about World War I. For this World War I lesson plan, students discuss how the government has to take charge on many levels including the oil shortage during World War I.
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Kids With Cameras Make a Difference
Students use cameras to take pictures of their community and create an exhibit to raise money. In this cameras lesson plan, students learn basic photography techniques and send their money to the "kids with cameras" project.
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Cool Corals
Students explore corals and polyps. In this coral reef instructional activity students divide into groups and prepare a written report.
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The End of Shopping as We Know It
Students explore trends in consumerism. In this current events instructional activity, students examine e-commerce as they browse selected websites to learn more about the phenomenon.