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I've Never Tried That - Present Perfect Tense

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students choose three items from a list and discuss the cultural importance of each one. They complete a chart, research information, create a presentation and share it with their peers. Students choose activities to in which to...
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Deadly Desires

For Teachers 6th - 12th
A lesson on STD's captures learners with shocking statistics. Small groups create informational brochures on specific STD's, which they will present to the class. The links for research are overall excellent, but should be previewed for...
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Eagles and Other Raptors

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students become familiar with basic facts and behavior of the American Bald Eagle using a combination of classroom presentation, Video, Internet searching, "hands on" computer activity, and touching of feathers and displays.
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Dinosaur Database

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners learn to use a database to share information about a dinosaur they have researched.
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A Penny for Your Thoughts

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students collect pennies to donate to Kiwanis International for their international effort to buy salt for children's bone development. They calculate the amount of money donated, calculate how many children will receive salt, and write...
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Economics Using SimCity 2000

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders build a city and balance a budget for the population.
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Is Temperature Effected By How Close You Are to the Equator

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learners collaborate with other schools to gather temperature data from a large number of locations. They determine how the average daily temperature of a location is affected by how close you are to the equator.
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Baltimore's Jazz Legacy

For Teachers 4th
Explore Marylanders, Eubie Blake, Billie Holiday, Cab Calloway, and Chick Webb.
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Photoelectric Devices

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders view a teacher-made PowerPoint presentation on how photoelectric devices work, and then they answer FCAT-like questions on the material presented. They answer questions about what they viewed in an assignment imbedded in...
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The History of the Pencil

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students research and write about the pencil. They organize the research using concept maps and write an essay using the writing process.
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Whaling Slide Show

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders research a database on whaling. They search for photos that represent the whaling industry. In the classroom they use a projector and give a five-minute presentation.
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Charles Young Photographs

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students analyze photographs as an introduction to the Spanish American War. The concepts of American expansionism are explored through the process.
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Kindergarten Shape Books

For Teachers K - 1st
Students, in groups, identify examples of shapes around the school site. They take digital pictures of these shapes and use them to construct a class book.
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Budgeting & Checking Activity

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders role play office managers and prepare budgets for three given areas.
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Career Unit (NEFE)

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students explore career choices and concept that those choices are directly related to standard of living they have in the future.
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Turn of the Century Snapshot

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Pupils examine photos from the students of the 20th Century website. They record characteristics, details, and similarities and differences from their photograph on Inspiration software program.
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Colonial Flag

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine the reasons for and the results of the US Revolutionary War. They watch a PowerPoint presentation to review the immediate results of the war. They design a flag for the newly free colonies.
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Presidents

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore the electronic encyclopedia, its location, its format, and print an article out about their president. students take note on their article including multimedia information. They access Ed-CD's and utilize the...
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A Number a Day

For Teachers K
Pupils explore the calendar including sequence of the days of the week, and the numbers associated with each day. They conduct research about each number and share what they find with the class.
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Lewis and Clark In Columbia River Country Fort Clatsop

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders complete an online activity about the winter camp of Lewis and Clark at Fort Clatsop. They determine why the vote about the location what significant and make a decision on how they would have voted. They interact a with at...
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Patterns of Settlement in Early Alabama

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders study the settlement of Alabama. They collect data from the U.S. census website and answer questions regarding settlement patterns in the counties of Alabama in 1820. They write a paagraph describing where they would have...
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What Personal Journals Tell Us

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Pupils read primary source journals from the Nebraska Western Trails Project. They work in groups to analyze the journal entries and complete a worksheet. Students then write an individual essay on the experience and consider what kind...
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Traveling Around Nebraska

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars analyze a current or historical photograph from their textbook and as a class complete a worksheet of the analysis. Using the Photographic Analysis Form, they locate and analyze two transportation photographs and use the...
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The Many Faces of Chimney Rock

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students will compare and contrast images of Chimney Rock that are part of the Nebraska Western Trails project. They view postcards, pictures, photos and paintings of Chimney Rock and then observe and chart the differences and similarities.

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