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Job Hiring...Who's the best candidate?

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students, working in teams, assume they are the newly hired research director of a biotech firm interviewing the top two candidates for the position of research scientist. They evaluate the candidates and decide who should be hired based...
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Celebrating African Americans and Coins

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students examine the Booker T. Washington commemorative coin and listen to a biography of Washington's life. They develop a list of reasons why his life was commemorated with a coin. They examine other coins and the lives and work of...
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Cave Conscious

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students examine the concept of stewardship as it applies to land use. Working in small groups, they read case studies about finding caves on their land and make decisions about what they would do based on the case of the Arizona State...
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Take One

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students review strategies used to read unkown words. They listen as the teacher reads sentences using a variety of reading fluencies and expressions. They read assigned parts of the play, "Peddler Polly and the Story Stealer" by Aaron...
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Picture This...

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore the concept of visualization as a means of comprehending what they read. Through modeling, they discover how to create mental pictures of what they read from both poems and books. As a class, they create a story quilt...
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THE TRAVELS OF BABAR: An Adventure in Scale :Interpreting the music of Raphael Mostel's Dance/Movement exercise

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore how dance/movement tell a story. They analyze the elements of dance through interpretation of the story. Students exercise how the feelings and moods of the music suggest certain body movements and actions.
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Healthy Eating

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders discuss healthy eating choices. They explore the components of a balanced diet and the importance of a balanced diet to growth and wellness. Students discuss the types of nutrients in fruits and vegetables that are...
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The Five Food Groups

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore the five food groups. They discuss the importance of the five food groups in their diets. Students research each of the five food groups using a WebQuest. They use the information from the WebQuest to make healthy...
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Presenting Your Case

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students research a famous person of their choice in this lesson. They research the person's life, feelings, and character through a series of written activities. They compile their research into a creative project called a character's...
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The Air Up There

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students engage in a lesson that is concerned with the average daily weather patterns. They collect data over a five day period and then write a summary of the observations made from it. Students record the mean and graph it on a simple...
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Who's There: Acting in the Dark

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students participate in a performance of Macbeth using the lighting techniques that were employed during the Shakespearean era. Working in groups, student reenact a scene. Afterward they discuss the challenges of working with limited...
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Great Philsophers Revisited

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students work together to research the great philsophers of literature. With a focus on Emerson or Thoreau, they describe his ideas of transcendentalism or civil disobedience, respectively. In groups, they create a short video clip to...
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Great River Bend Adventure

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students use their imagination. They discuss the 4 C's of teamwork: Concentration, Communications, Coomperation, and Consideration. Students discuss the safety guidelines of the project. They complete a rope maze. The group walks...
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Up Up and Away

For Students 4th - 5th
In this technology worksheet, students find the words that are related to machines that fly and the answers are found through clicking the link found at the bottom of the page.
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Animal Artists

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students read a current events non-fiction article and answer vocabulary and comprehension questions about it. In this animal artists paint for fun lesson plan, students also work on dictionary skills, geography, and creative thinking by...
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Aspects of Weather

For Teachers K - 5th
Students recognize and observe weather phenomena. In this four part weather lesson, students are introduced to weather symbols through a story, then use a thermometer to measure water temperature. Next, students observe the formation of...
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Motion and Gravity

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders make parachutes to learn about gravity and the science process. In this gravity lesson, 3rd graders create parachutes and observe their flight in air. Students discuss wind and gravity for the activity.
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PowerPoint Probability

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders investigate film making by creating a video about probability.  In this math visualization lesson, 6th graders create a presentation for their class demonstrating the probability of random events taking place in the...
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Safety With Animals

For Teachers K - 3rd
Young scholars investigate and become aware of when a dog is about to bite. In this safety and dogs lesson, students discuss dog bites and when they occur. Young scholars complete a related worksheet and create a bulletin board about...
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Historical Perspectives

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders watch episodes of Star Trek and analyze the works of it that pertain to the theory of relativity.  In this creative instructional activity students also write and illustrate a children's book about the special theory...
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Performing a Play

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Young scholars discover logical deduction by participating in a play.  In this reasoning lesson, students act as characters from a play who's words must be analyzed to see if they are true or not.  Young scholars perform parts...
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: Movies: How do they work, how does the science world use them?

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students explore how movies are made and what equipment is involved in making a movie.  In this movie instructional activity students view video on film making and brainstorm ways to make a film.
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Wall Street Journal: California Votes for Prop 8 Outlaws Same Sex Marriage

For Students 9th - 10th
Proposition 8(Prop 8), a ban to overturn gay marriage in California, passed; thus outlawing the legality of gay marriages in that state. Pros & cons of this new law, statistical information, and links to additional sites are included...
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Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Stage Props, Blocking, and Graphs

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
In this lesson, learners will block a scene on a graph and act out the scene. Media resources and teacher materials are included.

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