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Government: War Powers Limitations

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students examine historic examples of authority during wartime. They interpret the Fifth Amendment. They debate the merits of the Patriot Act.
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The Dirt at Your Feet May Limit Your Growth

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students examine how soils within a community may enhance or inhibit development. In small groups, they analyze county soils maps, and develop a prospectus for a construction company looking to construct a housing development site.
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Learning From Leaves: Adaptation Scavenger Hunt

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students participate in an adaptation scavenger hunt at. They obtain various plant specimens, and sort the plants based on whether they came from a desert, tropical rainforest, or wetlands.
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Lesson #94 Exact Area Under a Curve

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students research Riemann Sums. In this area lesson students listen to a lecture on finding the area under a curve. Links to a song about Riemann Sums, and a song titled "Failing My Calculus" are included.
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Math 155 Worksheet 4

For Students 10th - 12th
In this derivatives worksheet, learners solve 6 short answer problems. The first three problems, ask students to use a given definition of a derivative to solve the problems. The final three problems ask learners use the basic...
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Magnify It!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explain that there are limits to what the eye can see and that a magnifying glass can help extend those limits. They examine an object with the magnifying glass and draw the size and shape of what they see as accurately as they...
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ANTI-WAR DEMONSTRATION

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students analyze what can cause conflicts between nations, what the benefits of non-violent conflict resolution are, and what the limitations of non-violent conflict resolution is.
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Geography and Its Five Themes

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Geography is not limited to just learning about the Earth and its physical features.
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We the People... How Does Government Secure Natural Rights?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the Founders' ideas about what kind of government is most likely to protect the basic rights of people. They distinguish between limited and unlimited government.
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How Can We Live Here? Life In Extreme Environments

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the limits of life on Earth to extend their beliefs about life to include its possibility on other worlds. They investigate three hypothetical environments and the bacterial life forms that could exist on Earth.
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Analysing a game

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students play a game called 'Limit 2' and analyse their moves in order to establish a winning strategy. The subtraction game in this activity is one of a number of games in a unit called 'Analysing games' in the above publication.
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Separation of Powers

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders research the three branches of government and examine the effect that the separation of powers has on the presidency. They explain the importance of the rule of law in establishing limits on both those who govern and the...
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Velocity and Acceleration

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders look at local speed limits and traffic controls and see if they are reasonable. They plot the displacement and time to represent velocity, develop a plan for improving the current system, and organize experimental...
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The First Amendment

For Students 4th - 5th
In this government worksheet, students read the First Amendment to the United States Constitution before reading about the limitations of the laws. They answer 2 short answer questions about the freedoms, and write an essay on the back...
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Online Search Techniques: 6 Keys to Success

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Learners examine Boolean operators, truncation, exact phrase searching to retrieve information from search engines. They discover how using limits enhances their searches.
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Basic Workplace Rights

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students study basic workplace rights and the limits of those rights. They determine how many of the rights guaranteed in the Constitution only regulate governmental actions, not private actions. They examine the concept of at-will...
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Respiration Challenge

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students use limited data and their prior knowledge to solve problems focused on various inhibitors of respiration in this lesson on cellular respiration in a molecular level. This lesson includes a student handout and a pre-activity...
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Calculating Impervious Cover in the City of Austin

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers use GIS to calculate park impervious cover in Austin, TX. They consider that there are different types of impervious cover from hard, packed dirt to cement paving. Students consider the limitations of data in several areas...
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Population Density In Fish

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate how a population of fish multiplies in an ecosystem and the kinds of things that must be done to maintain a healthy population balance with other organisms that live there. They conduct an experiment to test the...
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What Is Sustainability?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners discuss environmental preservation and sustainability and their role in consumption and preservation. After a brief demonstration of how limited our resources are, students determine which natural resources they use most...
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Separation of Powers

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders explore and explain the responsibilities and limits of our national system of government. After reading various selections documenting the viewpoints of the federalists and anti-federalists and the separation of power,...
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Feeling for Answers

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students consider the legal issues related to a suicidal or depressed college student by reading and discussing the article, "Laws Limit Options When a Student Is Mentally Ill." They write essays considering how the events at Virginia...
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Block the Shock Jock or Not?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars examine their own experiences with racist and sexist speech by deciding whether or not they agree or disagree with statements related to this subject. They explore the limits of public speech by reading about the...
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The Slope of a Curve

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Pupils graph the slopes of a line using the intercepts. In this precalculus lesson, students identify the properties of a curve slope. They find the limit and use a graping calculator to graph their lines.

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