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R U Talkin 2 Me?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners discuss how they use communication devices. They read an article about communication technology. They create a poster depicting the impact of such devices on future generations. They also write a paper about what they have...
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Behind the Cover

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students develop questions they would have liked to ask an author about their written works. They read an article about their forefathers and research a back story to a written work of their choice. They create posters to illustrate the...
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The Human Skeletal System: Inside and Out

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students study bone size, structure and shape. They use various geometrical shapes to make a skeleton and produce a poster depicting the skeletal system and its functions. They arrange the pictures into the five sections, glue on...
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What Sticks from '06

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students identify significant events that helped shaped 2006. Completing a news quiz, they discuss the importance and impact of each event mentioned. They create their own news quizzes to be used as a class. They create a poster...
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The Buzz about the Buzz

For Teachers 6th - 11th
Students examine the content of popular energy drinks by conducting research about stimulants and sweeteners. They create posters outlining how these compounds affect consumers. They compare and contrast energy drinks with soft drinks...
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NEWSCAST

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students present a 2-3 minute version of a newscast. They include three of the following: news, current events, weather and sports. They design a poster to include at least four pictures to be referenced in the report. They review and...
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In The Zone

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders identify ways that ocean animals grow, survive, reproduce, and adapt. They use computer Internet skills to acces and collect information. They create a PowerPoint presentation. They demonstrate writing skills throughthe...
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Changing Climate, Changing Animals

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students review teacher-provided background materials on impact of climate change. Students then work in small groups to make poster on possible impacts of climate change on one particular northern animal, and how it might affect people...
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Space Science: Zodiac Track

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students create posters of the constellations using glow-in-the-dark glue and black paper. They hang their posters around the room starting with Aries and moving through all the signs. Students create a jingle or acronym to help them...
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2004 Better and For Worse

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students identify the significant events that helped shape 2004. After reading an article, they take a 2004 news quiz and discuss the impact of each event. They create their own quizzes to be given to their classmates on the same...
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Plasma 101

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine the definitions and characteristics of plasma. After reading an article, they analyze new technologies to study plasma. In groups, they create a poster on how the different types of plasma work and write letters to their...
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Appliances with Minds of Their Own

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars examine how everyday appliances might soon possess the capacity "to think" as a result of recent technological advances. A display of their knowledge of this new technology by creating a poster design of a "smart" machine.
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Who Are You?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars explore the concept of self and analyze the Human Organization Theory. Individually, students write poems about themselves. In small groups, they create a poster related to the 14 categories of the Human Organization...
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Geometric Shapes

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Young scholars identify polygons.  For this geometric shape lesson, students explore the characteristics of polygons.  They identify polygons, and classify triangles according to their sides and angles.  Young scholars...
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Wattle and Daub Using Natural Resources to Survive

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders create list of materials that family of four would need to live and survive in the forest, identify four natural resources used by Cherokee Indians to build shelter, create poster that depicts Cherokee hamlet in summer or...
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Digestive System Journey

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students explore what happens to the food they eat as it passes through their body. They demonstrate their understanding of the digestive system functions by choosing to create a poster, build a model, produce a multimedia presentation,...
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Sub-Sahara Africa

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students listen to a lecture on the geography of sub-Sahara Africa. They then make a poster that illustrates the various landforms and climates that can be found in Africa. Students listen to a lecture on the diversity of African...
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Why Do We Have Libraries?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners investigate the reason and origins of libraries and conduct an information search using a variety of resources. They are divided into groups that have a specific set of questions they are to answer. Each group will then complete...
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Road Safety Online Research Worksheet

For Students 5th - 7th
In this road safety online research worksheet, students use the given links to answer 23 questions about pedestrian safety, and safety in the car. They design a poster using Microsoft Word which highlights one of the slogans. They use...
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Biodiversity in an Estuary

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the biodiversity in estuaries. In this estuary lesson plan, students use Google Earth to explore the Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. They produce a biodiversity concept map and portray the life of a...
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Looks Like Respect, Sounds Like Respect, Feels Like

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars explore philanthropy through art. For this service learning lesson, students discuss the diversity in their community and use their senses to create tolerance posters.
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Scientific Inquiry

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students create a poster. In this recycling lesson, students discuss pollution and the ways humans negatively affect the environment. Students describe examples of litter or pollution they have experienced. Students collect litter from...
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Frozen Seas

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers research animal life in the frozen seas. In this researched based lesson, students use the Internet to create a poster about an animal that lives in an Arctic or Antarctic environment. Middle schoolers will focus on the...
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Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Tragedy

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners research the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. In this labor reform lesson plan, students research the fire and write a newspaper article report from the perspective of the time. Learners evaluate the perspective of the workers and...

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