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The New Digital Citizenship
Boost digital citizenship with an engaging infographic that promotes the importance of being a positive digital agent, self, and interactor.
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Cleveland debates: Port or Park?
Students perform research on the Web and in books or newspapers the planning going on recently in Cleveland. They read the longshoremen's objections. Students choose sides and prepare your arguments, using visual aids and facts and figures.
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1920s Consumer Culture
Students are immersed in the following goals of learning: The importance of consumerism in the 1920's. Also have learners recognize the connections between commodities and culture in the American past and present. Finally the ability for...
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Water, Water Everywhere: The Johnstown Flood
Students analyze the events that lead up to the failure of the South Fork Dam and the impact the flood had on the region. In this historical lesson students develop presentations on the Johnstown Flood.
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Where In the World Are the Resources?
Students use the internet to research the amount of natural resources in a specific area on Earth. In groups, they locate the supply of each natural resource on a map in that area and what can be done to reduce their usage. They also...
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Making Your Local Ethical Shopping Guide
Students write a research action plan on how to buy products that are environmentally friendly even in tough world conditions. In this ethical business lesson plan, students learn that the economy, food prices, natural disasters, and...
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Supply and Demand
Students access a tutorial website entitled "Supply and Demand," and participate in interactive activities in the computer lab. They read two articles and complete a post test experience.
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WOMEN'S AND MEN'S ROLES IN DIFFERENT CULTURES
Students examine careers that are not traditional to their gender.
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Real Family Genetics
Students research genetic disease and mutation causing traits in family pedigrees simulated in a class activity. Students are each assigned a genetic trait and a "spouse" and must conduct research on their traits and the probability of...
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European Explorers of North and South America
Sixth graders explore the connection between the geography of America and the migration of the Native Americans to the American continents to the future conquering of the continents by the Europeans. They discuss the causes and effects...
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Rainforest Resources
Students explore products of the rainforest. In this environmental stewardship instructional activity, students discover the resources that the rainforest holds and examine products from the rainforest used around the world.
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A Lesson on Reconstruction Legislation and Amendments
Pupils study the legislation and Amendments of Reconstruction period in America. For this Reconstruction lesson, students work in groups to dissect the Black Codes, an article in the US Constitution, as well as the 13th, 14th, and 15th...
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Infusing Equity by Gender into the Classroom
Twelfth graders examine the different gender roles in the workforce. In this Social Studies lesson, 12th graders participate in a class discussion on their roles in society. Students write an essay.
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Transformation of Energy
Sixth graders explore and discuss how several electrical devices work and what energy conversions occur in each device. They connect a zinc strip to a copper strip with alligator clips and wire, immersing each strip in lemon and check...