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Interpersonal Nonviolence: Using MLK to Teach Conflict Resolution
Students develop conflict mediation and resolution skills by applying the nonviolence philosophy of Dr. Martin Luther King. In this conflict resolution instructional activity, students watch a video about Dr. King and review quotes from...
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Enzyme Activity: An Inquiry Based Approach
Students explore biochemical reactions mediated by enzymes in an inquiry approach. They are given two questions about the types of living materials that contain the enzymes that break down hydrogen peroxide, and under what conditions the...
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School Violence: Answers From the Inside
Learners examine the issue of school violence, bullying, and cliques. They watch and discuss a video, answer discussion questions, create a poster, role-play mediation techniques, identify conflict resolution techniques, and sign a...
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Family Law -- Marriage and Divorce
Young scholars examine the many rights involved in family law. In groups, they identify the laws in marriage and divorce in Washington. They discuss the reasons an annulment might be granted and how property is divided. They discover...
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A Postcard from America by Robert Olen Butler
Pupils read "A Postcard from America" by Robert Olen Butler and complete comprehension activities for the text. In this close reading instructional activity, students view postcards and read the example text. Pupils complete close...
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Enzyme Activity: An Inquiry Based Approach
Using an inquiry approach to studying biochemical reactions, cooperative teams of students investigate hypotheses about living materials that contain enzymes which break down in hydrogen peroxide. They perform experiments, practice...
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Comparing the Oneota of Wisconsin to the Aztecs of Mexico
Learners study the Oneota Indians of Wisconsin. They compare and contrast them to another group of natives in the Americas around the same time. They conduct intelligent discussion of the Oneotas that gives evidence to support statements.
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Images, Empathy, and the Humanitarian Impulse
Students study humanitarian intervention and its role in society. In this politics lesson students view a video on Darfur and discuss what they learned.
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An Enzyme- Substrate Model
Students explore reaction rates of an enzyme-mediated reaction. They examine the effects of environmental variables on enzyme function. Students collect, graph, and analyze data relating to the reaction.
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Fighting Infection
Pupils study immune responses and the structures that are related to immune cells functions. In this fighting infection lesson plan students construct antibody complexes and model the interaction of the immune system when it is...
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HIV/AIDS, iChat, and the Immune System
Young scholars study HIV and model the course of an infection. In this immune system lesson students examine HIV and AIDS and learn that it is a preventable disease.
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Three ways into the play 'Stone Cold'
Tenth graders, in groups, write pieces of a script in a particular style that they are introduced to. They also study how tension and irony work together in scripts.
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Headlines of the Past
Students study the lives of four Native cultures. They examine the people that inhabited Wisconsin over the last 12,000 years. They create a newspaper and imagine themselves as a reporter living during this time period and sharing a day...
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Wall to Peace: Deconstructing Divisions Among People and Cultures
Students analyze quotes and poetry related to relationships in society. In this civics lesson, students participate in small group debate game and focus on communication skills that reinforce civil discussion. Students reflect and...
Safe Teens
Teen Game Plan
Don't let the teenagers in your class begin their life without a plan. A brief but inclusive booklet takes high schoolers thorough various aspects of their lives, including financial literacy, vaccinations, and sexual health, and lets...
Advocates for Youth
Can I Keep Violence out of My Life?
Many teenagers in your class have not experienced violence in their lives, much less as a daily occurance. But some pupils are not so lucky. Bring hope to your class that violence is not an inevitable part of life, and that they can...
US Institute of Peace
What Does Conflict Mean?
Is conflict always bad? Learners begin a unit on conflict resolution with an exercise that defines conflict, reviews common words associated with conflict, and encourages partners to brainstorm conflicts that may have positive results.
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Hog Farming in North Carolina
Learners assume the role of a scientist hired by the North Carolina Pork Council to mediate legislative reform and farming needs. Students work with the research group to design a more efficient yet cost effective hog lagoon. Designs...
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Pieces of an Artifact
Students review what an artifact is and discover what happens when only pieces of the artifact are found. In groups, they are given a picture of a small piece of an artifact found and they are to make the entire drawing of the artifact...
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Fear and Trembling
In this online interactive philosophy worksheet, students respond to 10 short answer and essay questions about Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling. Students may check some of their answers on the interactive worksheet.
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Many Ways to Resolve Conflict
Students examine a number of possible conflict resolution techniques and the vocabulary associated with conflict resolution. They read a number examples of conflict and determine the best type of resolution for the situation.
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Mapping the Mediasphere
Students compare/contrast the media messages they see in two different communities in their city. They list the elements of art and the principles of design in the photographs they have taken in those two different communities. They...
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Understanding the Sociocultural Perspective
Enhance your understanding of basic principles and best teaching practices as they are viewed through a sociocultural lens.