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To Be Or Not To Be Armed

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students assess the role of an armed security gaurd. They identify specific objections to the guard being armed. They formulate an argument to present to administration.
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Role Playing Free Speech

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students conduct research into looking at a free-speech issue. They role play the events surrounding a court case. The lesson includes guiding questions to help create context and determine areas of further study. The presentation...
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Understanding Tax: Your Role as a Tax Payer

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Every adult should know that it is their responsibility to help fund public goods and services by paying taxes. Help young people get a handle on the history, evolution, purposes for, and reasons why they should pay taxes too. 
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Columbine Tapes: The Media's Right To Know

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students research the Columbine tragedy. They read about the media role of watchdog on the government. Students discuss and debate how the media has been involved in the latest release of Columbine videos and other material.
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Human Fingerprints: No Two The Same

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students will be offered numerous opportunities to further enhance their observational skills as well as the integration of math with their continual exposure to the metric system, measurement, and graphing to represent their data....
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Vocab-u-lous! Build a Fabulous Vocab

For Students 9th - 10th
For this vocabulary worksheet, students decipher the best word choice to complete the sentence. All words begin with the letter U.
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Violence Prevention

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Compare and contrast the ideologies of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. Middle schoolers conduct research regarding civil rights and rhetorical strategies used in political speechs. They examine the strategies that both men employed...
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National Crime Prevention Council

For Teachers K - 5th
Learners explore appropriate lessons on crime prevention and safety. They encounter how to recognize bullying behavior and how to deal with it. Students access fair methods for settling conflicts. They identify trusted adults and access...
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Participles: Proposition 215

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this participles usage worksheet, students read the incomplete sentences and the verbs in parenthesis and write the correct form of the verb. Students write 15 answers.
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Statistics and the Truth

For Students 11th - 12th
In this math instructional activity, students solve a word problem related to illegal use of a firearm arrests in Hemlock County. Students read two candidates' statements and decide which is mathematically correct.
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Road Safety- Alert Communications and Emergency Response

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Learners examine the effectiveness of road safety organizations. In this road safety lesson plan, students identify three road safety watch agencies that aid truck drivers to keep them safe. They look at the skills that truck drivers...
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Breaking News English: Medicine

For Students 5th - 10th
In this medicine worksheet, students read the article, answer true and false questions, complete synonym matching, complete phrase matching, complete a gap fill, answer short answer questions, answer discussion questions, write, and more...
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Dangerous Roads in Your Community

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students interview police and city officials, find out what makes these places dangerous. Students develop a plan to get the city or county or state +++ whichever is in charge of these spots to make changes that would make them safer for...
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Pressing Cases

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students investigate famous criminal cases in which the media has played a significant role and reflect on how the news helps to shape attitudes and behaviors in their own lives.
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Do the Right Thing

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students consider the relationship between gang violence and the factors that can contribute to its increase. After researching the issues behind one such factor, students make recommendations that may help reduce gang violence.
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Drugonyms

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students research information about the effects of drug abuse. They take a quiz, conduct Internet research and write a "drugonym" where each letter in the name of an assigned drug begins a new sentence or paragraph describing properties...
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Your Safety and Security or Your Civil Liberties - Which is More Important?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine provisions of USA PATRIOT Act and controversies that led the ACLU to take legal action against the legislation. They create, conduct, and document results of a survey related to the PATRIOT Act and controversies...
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True Crime

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students discuss reasons for the increase in violent crime across the country. They examine the factors to which increases in violent crime can be attributed. Students brainstorm consequences of the forces that have led to the decrease...
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Viruses Released

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders assume different roles to determine the cause of a possible virus outbreak in their school. They must investigate the symptoms reported and determine the virus causing these conditions, analyze the body systems affected...
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NUMB3RS Activity: Regular Ploygon Centroids

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students investigate geo-profiling.  In this secondary mathematics lesson, students use geo-profiling to determine the most probable location of a criminal.  Students find the centroid of a polygon where the vertices represent...
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Automobile-Accident Reconstruction

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students investigate an accident and relate it to math. In this trigonometry lesson, students measure the accident scene, the friction produced, and the speed from the skid marks. They create a poster of their findings.
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Human Fingerprints: No Two the Same

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders explore scientific observations by analyzing a group of data. In this fingerprint identification lesson, 6th graders identify the reasoning behind fingerprinting and create their own ink fingerprints. Students discuss the...
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Our Town by Thornton Wilder

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
In this literature worksheet, learners respond to 14 short answer and essay questions about Wilder's play Our Town. Students may also link to an online interactive quiz on the play at the bottom of the page.
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Yemen Cargo Bombs Foiled

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore an international terror alert originating in Yemen.  In this instructional activity, students read an article that explains a terror alert in Britain, then complete several activities that reinforce the reading,...

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