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Harvesting the Produce

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students investigate vegetables. In this multi-subject instructional activity, students learn about vegetables and participate in several activities using vegetables. A list of 7 materials is included.
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Treacherous Trash

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners recognize the harmful effects people have on the environment. For this environmental lesson, students simulate water pollution clean-up by using tangled objects and untangling them in a cooperative group. Learners identify why...
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Simulation: River Cruise: Rivers of the World

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students identify major rivers in the world. In this geography lesson, students form teams and play a whole class board game in which clues are read and rivers are identified.
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Rhyme Around Baseball

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students use word family endings to create rhyming words for that word family. In this rhyming lesson, students divide into teams and play a game of word baseball where they create rhyming words for a specific word family.
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Body by Design: Form and Function

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students study symbiosis and its association in nature.  In this organisms lesson plan students divide into groups and research organisms that have a symbiotic relationship.
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Brain Brands

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore the advent of neuromarketing as a means to assess the effects of certain brands on the brain activity of prospective buyers. They design their own experiments that test the power of certain brands on a sample population.
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Decorate-a-Cookie

For Teachers K - 5th
Students use cookies and candy to practice finding the sum of three single-digit numbers.
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Bench-Pressing Issues

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine some of the issues that may be facing the changing United States Supreme Court. With further exploration, they formulate their own opinions and deepen their awareness of these critical topics.
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Food, Meals, and Cooking

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine the eating habits of people in other countries and learn new vocabulary. They also practice using nouns and the passive voice.
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Process This

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students chart the steps, including the problem-solving tangent, and discuss the idea of procedures serving to give us a "road map" or guide to help tackle tasks with preparation and forethought.
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Fireign Language: Getting to Know You

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners, using their foreign language of study, role-play as two people meeting for the first time. They use courtesy expressions and respond to questions and prompts with correct intonation, pronunciation, and inflection. Students...
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Firemen Fighting For /F/

For Teachers K
Students complete a variety of activities related to the /f/ sound. As a class they recite a tongue twister, and trace and write the letter F. Students then listen to the book "One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish," and identify the...
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Introducing Psychology

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the concept of observable behavior. They watch someone for three to five minutes and record everything that is seen. Students must be as objective as possible, avoid any value judgments about physical appearance or...
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Our Successful Traits

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners investigate the traits necessary for classroom success. They brainstorm in order to find different traits while creating lists. Then students work in groups to create simple definitions for selected character traits of success...
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Archery

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students are shown proper stance, nocking, targeting, and release techniques of archery. They follow basic safety procedures involved in handling and using archery equipment. Students practice shooting aluminum or fiberglass shaft arrows.
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Human Rights & Equal Opportunity Commission

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students consider what human rights are. They comprehend the origins of modern human rights. Students appreciate the meaning and significance of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. They appreciate the relationship between...
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Unequal Unemployment

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students examine unemployment in the United States. In this statistics activity, students examine data and primary sources regarding unemployment in the United States.
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Language, Communication, and Successful Conflict Resolution

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers consider how communication skills may diffuse conflict. In this conflict resolution lesson, students play a word game and discuss how vocabulary may contribute to creating conflict of diffusing it.
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Biodiversity

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore the diversity of different marine sanctuaries.  In this biodiversity lesson students work in groups to explore a sanctuary.
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Biodiversity

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the biodiversity of the national marine sanctuaries. In this science lesson, students view a video about Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary and Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary. Students work...
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Perspectives from the Present

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students use the Learning Network's '1999 Year in Review Quiz' to revisit significant news events and examine the impact these news events had. They create their own quizzes based on news topics of their choice.
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Book Report Bingo

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students choose books based on their interests. They complete book reports and share their ideas with the class. They participate in a book bingo game to complete the lesson.
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Brochure Writing: Severe Weather Patterns

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students observe weather patterns. They reserach important facts about severe weather. Using computer technology, students create a detailed brochure explaining six severe weather patterns.
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Great Expectations - 1st Stage

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students read and examine the novel Great Expectations. They work on receiving a certain grade in class and complete only those assignments underneath that grade. No objectives are listed for this lesson.