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Connected by Art

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students inspect visual arts by exploring images on-line. In this art analysis lesson, students discuss the history of art and the its ability to communicate with people through images. Students utilize pencils and charcoal to create...
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Egyptian Weather Lesson

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students chart temperatures in Egypt on spreadsheet to determine how weather conditions affect lifestyles.
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Making A Colorado Brochure

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Pupils create a Colorado brochure. Given a variety of brochures, students explore the aspects of an attractive brochure. In groups, pupils explore tourist attractions, important people, major cities, and statistics of Colorado. ...
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Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders use a variety of information resources to identify local environmental issues and examine the ways that people have tried to solve these problems. They read "Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs" and create a list of three...
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Mini-Economy

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders perform jobs in order to sustain their classroom community. After completing a brief overview of how local economies are sustained, they complete job applications for classroom jobs. Students perform their jobs throughout...
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What the Tijuana Estuary Does For You

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils discover what the estuaries do for the environment. In pairs, they create an advertising campaign to educate others in their local area about the benefits of estuaries. They share their poster with the class and possibly the...
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Written Report How Music Motivates

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine the role of music in their lives. They listen to songs from the Civil Rights movement. They explain how music effects their thinking.
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Local Leaders and Why They are Successful

For Teachers K - 12th
Young scholars discuss the concept of being successful. The class produces a web page that showcases leaders from their community. They describe their contributions to the community and state the qualities that led them to success.
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Media and Society

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students rank public figures and decide what makes a good citizen.Working in pairs students design their own way of assessing contributions to society. The following contributions are examined for evaluation: Helping others, obeying the...
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Markets of Africa

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students identify one advantage and one disadvantage to open air markets in Africa. students create a mural on paper to be hung on the classroom wall. Small groups make a stand of something that would be sold at an open air market.
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Caring for a Dog

For Students 1st - 4th
In this dog worksheet, learners learn about how to care for and feed a dog. They discuss the differences between big dogs and small dogs and complete an activity in which they portion out biscuits for two different dogs.
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An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away

For Teachers K
Students share their ideas about doctors and relate to their classmates. Then they refer to their prior knowledge and information discussed to explain and support their ideas and prepare for a visit with a doctor by charting ideas,...
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Mapping Your Local Community

For Teachers 1st
First graders take a walking tour of their community to discover the names of numbered locations on a premade map. They then, create their own map of the community on the computer using Kidspiration software.
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Who Am I and Who Are You?

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students document their unique characteristics through photography. In this self-discovery lesson, students take photographs of themselves and others. As a class, they discuss similarities and differences, and sort, graph, and find...
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Timely Tolerance

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders work together to focus on an oppressed group of society. Using the information they gather, they create a museum exhibit to educate their community on the group. They present their PowerPoint presentation to the class to...
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Vocabulary Activity

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this vocabulary worksheet, students select the word from a drop down list that correctly completes a sentence, 20 total. Students may check their answers and score online.
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Bird Bulletins

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students, in groups, create a survey to investigate how much their community knows about birds. They graph their findings using a bar graph. Using the data collected, they develop an advertising campaign to increase community awareness...
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he Inauguration and the Media

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers read, review, and write about the presidential inauguration as it appears in the media. They use local local and national newspapers to gain information about the inauguration. Students develop their own editorial on the...
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Life Comparisons Through Letters

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners review the concept of letter writing and investigate the country of South Africa by communicating to another class there. The questions covered in the letters is finding information about the community, environment, schools, and...
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Anasazi/Mesoamerican/Andean: Time and Cultural Passages

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders role play the position of someone in one of six different civilization groups. They research the group's development, advancement and fall of their civilization. They create a presentation to share the information with...
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Human Rights Issues Around the World

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders begin the lesson plan by comparing and contrasting the Bill of Rights with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. For each document, they highlight the material that is the same for both and discuss the items that...
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No Place Like Homelessness

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students complete a unit of activities that help them understand homelessness, its causes, and ways to better the situation. In this homelessness lesson, students complete five activities that help them to define homelessness and its...
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Education of the Heart

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders compare and discuss a given set of quotes by Pericles and Cesar Chavez and how they relate to a peaceful society. They respond to a variety of quotes and discuss the animal issue of animal tested cosmetics then discuss...
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Trace Your Waste*

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students examine waste disposal programs in the area and record the information on a map along with ideas on where garbage should go.