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Media Education Lab

The Ethics of Propaganda

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
What are the short and long-term consequences for consumers and producers of modern media propaganda? Class members ponder this essential question as their unit study of ethics of propaganda concludes. After examining two case studies,...
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ReadWriteThink

A High-Interest Novel Helps Struggling Readers Confront Bullying in Schools

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Paul Langan's novel The Bully is the core text in a six-session unit plan that engages high schoolers in an in-depth examination of bullying and its effects on bullies, victims, and bystanders. The richly textured and carefully...
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Center Science Education

Looking Into Surface Albedo

For Teachers 5th - 10th
How does the color of a surface affect the heating of the earth? Middle school science classes experiment with color and surface albedo to determine the relationship. The website has tabs for an overview, teacher's instructions,...
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Curated OER

Symmetry

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders explore symmetry and discuss the difference between a rotation and reflection. Using hands-on activities, such as folding paper shapes, they discover how to find the lines of symmetry and symmetrical characteristics. As a...
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Curated OER

How Light Moves

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners study the movement of light. For this light lesson, students work in groups to participate in a light and shadow walk around their neighborhood. Learners brainstorm rules for light movement and watch videos about light travel,...
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Curated OER

Investigation 3 - What is Moonlight?

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders observe a demonstration explaining that the moon reflects sunlight in ordr to shine.
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Curated OER

Plane Mirrors

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners investigate the law of reflection by using mirrors. In this physics lesson, students operate a robot using IR controllers. They explain the path of light as it reflects through a surface.
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Curated OER

Rotations

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Young scholars discuss the concepts of reflection, rotation, and translation. In this rotation activity, students investigate rotations through examples on an overhead projector. No additional worksheet or student assignment is included.
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Curated OER

Optical Images

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders study optics and the law of reflection.  In this optical images lesson students use a laser and conceptualize the law of reflection.
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Curated OER

Polarized Light

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Young scholars examine polarized light and that it can be done through reflection.  In this reflection lesson students develop a model that accounts for differences in light behavior. 
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Curated OER

The Sound and Feel of the 1920s

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders comprehend the 1920's. They analyze examples of art from 1920's to build an comprehension of the times. They are asked if art reflect or transcend the time in which it was created? Students discuss the common element...
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Curated OER

Modeling Permutation Group

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students explore the concept of transformations. In this transformations lesson, students construct an equilateral triangle and a square with a circumscribed circle. Students reflect and rotate their constructions.
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Curated OER

Frozen Film

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students are introduced to the topic of light interference through this hands-on activity. They observe how light reflects off two surfaces and then meets to form an interesting variation of color on a film surface.
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Curated OER

Lenses and Mirrors

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students investigate lenses and mirrors showing how they bend and reflect light waves.
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Curated OER

Look What We Did Together!

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students reflect on and record what they do together as a class each week. They record it on a strip of butcher paper and draw a picture and write what they did.
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Curated OER

Chalk Talk

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students complete a "Chalk Talk" as a way to share their insights, perceptions and observations of the working world. They then express their personal insights of the working world in a piece of reflective writing.
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Curated OER

Africa: What's in a Name?

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students research the Yoruba Tribe and names. In this names lesson plan, students read the story 'Don't Call Me Names' and discuss how people get their names. Students discuss the importance of names and learn about the Yoruba Tribe....
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Curated OER

Reflections

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders perform reflections on different geometric shapes. In this geometry worksheet,students define the concept of geometric reflections and find the coordinates of the reflection on a coordinate grid.
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Curated OER

Reflections in the Plane

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Have your class explore the concept of reflections as they use Cabri Jr. to construct a triangle and reflect it over a line. Learners reflect shapes across the coordinate plane and across the lines y = x and y = -x.
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Curated OER

Kaleidoscope

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students explore energy by creating a light project in class. In this kaleidoscope lesson plan, students discuss the properties of light and how mirrors can reflect the energy in different directions. Students view a diagram of light...
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Curated OER

The Geometry of Real Images

For Teachers 9th - 12th
In this math worksheet, young scholars read the examples for using the techniques of mathematical modeling. They draw the angles in order to simulate the reflection of light while using a concave mirror.
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Curated OER

Where Were You?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars examine various New York Times readers' reflections on the life and death of President John F. Kennedy, by reading and discussing "Readers Reflect on President John F. Kennedy." Students then write their own personal...
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Curated OER

Virginia Colony and England

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students identify how cultural landscapes reflect beliefs, customs, and architecture of people living in those areas. Then they identify that Virginia developed a unique culture different from that of England. Students also research...
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Curated OER

Tantalizing Tangrams: What Are Transformations?

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students use the Internet to learn about transformations and tessellations.  In this geometry lesson, students use the Internet to define the meaning of reflections, translations, rotations, glide reflection and symmetry.  Students...

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