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Getting Down and Dirty: An Exploration of the 1930's
Students complete an exploration of the 1930s. Using artwork and primary source documents, they compare, contrast and identify cause and effect relationships in the events of the decade. They discover how the events then affect people...
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News
How does broadcast news differ from accounts reported in newspapers? On the radio? Through the Internet? Middle schoolers discuss the news and speak about the differences between news in print and broadcast news. Given a list of six...
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Don't Fence Me In
Ensure that your class has a well-rounded understanding of new inventions, in this case barbed wired. Class members, after researching the history and development of barbed wire, assess its impact on cattle and the development of the...
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Bat Ecology
Students, through hands on games and activities, discover how bats live and how bats benefit ecosystems. They play a game designed to show them how echolocation works and another to show how mother bats locate their young through their...
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Angle Explorations
Third graders observe angles in their classroom and create an angle finder to represent them.For this angles lesson, 3rd graders classify angles as acute, obtuse, right or straight. Students find the differences and similarities in angles.
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Ziplock Chemistry
Students investigate various chemical reactions when creating mixtures in ziplock baggies. In this chemistry instructional activity, students will recognize various chemical reactions and cite evidence. Safety and assessment strategies...
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The Mad Pursuit Search for the Structure of DNA
Students complete a variety of activities as they study the historical story of Rosalind Franklin not receiving credit for her contributions in discovering the structure of DNA.
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Watch the Sky: Observing Clouds and Patterns
Students observe clouds outside of the classroom. In this weather lesson, students investigate and record the clouds above their classroom everyday for three weeks. The students then analyze their data and discuss what causes specific...
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Heeeeeere's Pea O'Vee!
Fourth graders assume the roles of characters in familiar fairy tales and participate in a panel discussion using a talk show format.
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Who's Sharing Our Stories on "The Hill"?
Students explore parliamentary structure. They study the roles & responsibility of key players or representatives. This lesson presents a wide variety of rich activities students can engage in to further their understanding of...
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The Passion has reviewers passionate
Students present in writing their reactions to the given prompts. Students watch some of the trailers for filming online. Students attend a showing of the movie on their own and write a review of it through analysis and utilizing their...
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Executive Orders
Students interpret historical evidence presented in primary and secondary resources. In this foreign policy instructional activity, students examine U.S. foreign policies of Presidents since World War II. Students...
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Native Americans ~ Biomes Web Quest/deserts
Students identify the biomes of each region: mountains, forests, plains, tundra, desert. They identify and describe features of North American desert (Mojave, Sonoron, Great Basin. Chihuahaun). They identify what we are doing today is...
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The Three Worm Phyla
Ninth graders examine the three worm phyla. In this classification lesson, 9th graders observe, compare and contrast the planarian, tapeworm, and fluke.
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Cycle Scheme
Students examine London's cycle scheme. In this transportation lesson, students compare the cycling service in London to transportation services in other cities.
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Electricity and Lightning
Students define important vocabulary words related to electricity and charges. In this physics instructional activity, students examine force created by electricity and lightning. They differentiate between the two forces and how they...
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DC Motors
Twelfth graders build simple electromagnets and small motors using a motor kit in order to illustrate how magnetic fields are produced by a current carrying wire and how an external magnetic field produces a force on a current carrying...
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Multivariable Calculus Bonus Quiz 3, Determinants
in this math worksheet, students practice finding the determinant for each matrix. Then they use the solutions to develop a hypothesis for the determinants.
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Math 312. Harmonic Functions
In this harmonic function worksheet, students use the Cauchy-Riemann equations to find the imaginary part of the function. They explore the harmonic conjugate and solve a 2-dimensional Laplace equation. This two-page worksheet contains...
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Math 312 Spring 98 - Complex Exponential Functions
In this function worksheet, students solve complex exponential and logarithm functions. This two-page worksheet contains approximately six problems.
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Math 312 Spring 98 - Cauchy's Residue Theorem
In this Cauchy's Residue Theorem, students use the theorem to solve given functions. They evaluate integrals. This two-page worksheet contains two problems.
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Math 312 Spring 98: Cauchy's Integral Formula
In this integral formula worksheet, students find the area of odd shapes by using the contour integration formula. They compute the area enclosed by an ellipse. This two-page worksheet contains three problems.
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Math 312 Spring 98. Contour Integration
In this contour integration worksheet, students compute the value of integrals, sketch the contour and list the parameterization used. This two-page worksheet contains three problems.
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John Brown Lesson Plan
Students investigate John Brown. In this U.S. history slavery lesson, students view a PowerPoint presentation about John Brown. Students discuss the North's and South's reaction to John Brown's raid, and determine whether...