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Restoration Channel Islands Debate

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Introduce learners to the debate format with an activity that uses the National Park Service's controversial Channel Islands restoration program as a topic. Class members learn how to generate provocative debate questions, how to prepare...
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Water Filtration Challenge

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Can the class think like the scientists on the International Space Station? Engineers design, test, collect data, and improve a water filtration device similar to a system found on the ISS. Participants use pH strips, optional...
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Rain Forest Research

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explore the Rain Forest. In this research activity, 2nd graders go online to gather information about Rain Forest animals. Students print and use the information to write about the many parts of the Rain Forest. Students...
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Life Skills Lesson Plans

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Sometimes the most important things teachers can teach their students are life skills.
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Estimation and Your TV Diet

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students develop estimation skills by using real life situations. In this estimation lesson students collect data about their television watching habits. They make hypothesis about the number of hours they watch, how many...
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Your Story

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students discover ways to learn about the past. In this writing lesson students use a writing web to organize their ideas about how we learn about the past. The students then start a time capsule about their lives....
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Organizing Life

For Students 7th - 12th
In this taxonomy worksheet, students learn about Linnaeus' system for classifying living things. Students complete 2 fill in the blank and 2 short answer questions based on what they read.
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Exploration of Utopias and Dystopias

For Teachers 11th Standards
If you are considering adding or expanding a unit on utopian and dystopian literature you simply must check out this fabulous resource. Packed with plans, activities, project-based and 21st century learning opportunities, the unit...
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Introduction to Representing and Analyzing Data

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Represent data graphically. Allow your class to explore different methods of representing data. They create foldables, sing songs, and play a dice game to reinforce the measures of central tendency.
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Iowa’s Social-Emotional Learning Competencies

For Teachers K - 12th
Whether new to social-emotion learning, or familiar with the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning competencies, this packet is a must-have. The resource contains detailed information about the purpose of the...
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Organization 1: Look at What I Organized!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students recognize that organizing things can make it easier to find things later.
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Organization: Look at What I Organized!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore organization by participating in an object sorting activity. In this indexing lesson, students examine their classroom and identify materials that should be organized in order to make the room more efficient. Students...
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Class, At-ten-tion!

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students explore alphabetical and chronological organization through geography. In this lesson on ancient India, students use computers to create and publish autobiographical time lines to illustrate important events in their lives....
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Just the Facts, Ma'am

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students use tables of content, chapter titles, and key words as a strategy for organizing non-fiction information. They write a paragraph with a partner using information from a graphic organizer.
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Organizing Main Ideas and Supporting Details

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students read given information and identify the main ideas and specific detail of the story. In groups, they read a historical title and create a "book talk" for each one, summarizing the story. In addition, students create a...
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Geography for Life: Using Five Skills

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students use the five skills of geography to reflect on a favorite learning activity. They consider if the activity had all five skills and if it didn't what could have been done to include those that weren't in it. The five skills are...
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Balanced Literacy Project

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders review all the materials they've studied about the rain forest and begin to organize their research paper by choosing a topic. They begin by rereading the introductory book, "The Great Kapok Tree," by Lynne Cherry as well...
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Civics

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students study community organizations and learn about the types of power used to create change. In this community study lesson, students learn about the three sectors at work in a community, public, non profit, and private....
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Maps and Lines

For Students 5th
In these organizing data worksheets, 5th graders complete four worksheets of activities that help them learn maps, graphs, and lines. Students then study images of maps, lines, and graphs.
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Doing Dewey

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students discuss the Dewey Decimal Classification System and how it works. They organize ten books according to the Dewey Decimal Classification System.
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A New Political Party

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers participate in a Political Spectrum Analysis, then align themselves with other students with similar scores. In groups, they develop political parties, policies, philosophies, and organize political campaigns.
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Ticktacktoe

For Students 5th - 6th
In this graphic organizer worksheet, students use the blank ticktacktoe board to organize notes. The directions on the page instruct the students to "Write notes in each section." It is unclear why students would do that.
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Data Analysis

For Students 4th - 5th
In these data analysis worksheets, students complete 4 worksheets of activities for analyzing data. Students use the mean, median, mode, and range to organize the data.
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Sorting and Graphing Animals

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students inquire about animals using SIRS Discoverer or eLibrary Elementary.  In this organizing data lesson, students sort pictures of animals in various ways and develop graphs. Students locate a mammal, reptile, fish, insect or...

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