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Environmental Assessment Course
Students explore how the campus is linked with the larger environment. They investigate how to collect data by interviewing and researching, analyze findings, and make recommendations. Students explore how to present their findings to...
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Architecture: The Badge of Identity for Our Society
Students prepare a "camera's-eye" view of the local architecture and then analyze their findings from an historical perspective.
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Report Writing in Primary Grades
Students learn how to read a short section and parepare a sentence to share with the group. Students listen to the reading of expository text, restate, in sentence format, one fact learned from that text, and produce a report.
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Group Portraits: Then and Now
Students use photographs to examine ship masters and shipyard workers. As a class, they explore other group portraits and discuss the information that can be found from the photos. As a group, they create their own group portrait mural.
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Paulo Coehlo's The Alchemist
In the allegory worksheet students analyze Paulo Coelho's novel, The Alchemist. Students analyze allegorical elements by answering guided questions.
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A Media Literacy Unit on "Turn Beauty Inside Out"
Learners become aware of the importance of distinguishing between inner and outer beauty. They explore how the media's opinion of beauty is biased and should be evaluated rather than just accepted. Each student also assesses how the...
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Pumpkin Carving for K-2 Students
Students engage in a variety of pumpkin activities. This lesson is especially rich for ESL students, who probably have little experience with this holiday and custom.
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Writing a press release
Pupils scan through a selection of newspapers or online stories from the Newsround website and chose one story each. They use the top TWO paragraphs of the story to complete the grid of the four W's.
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Sowing Seeds of Service
Third graders use metric measuring for model and actual plan in designing a roof garden. They photograph the process, record results in a journal, and plant seedlings in small containers. Finally, 3rd graders complete an acid rain...
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Migration
Students explore migration using the Internet and several pre-chosen websites. In this animal migration lesson students divide into groups and complete a lab activity.
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Watercolor Landscapes
Students explore watercolor paints as a medium for landscape paintings. They use watercolor paints to create landscape paintings.
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Variations
Sttudents examine populations of living things and identify variations in physical features.
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Bugsicles (A Frozen Insect Larva You can Find!)
Students explore how animals survive in the winder. After attending a gall-collecting field trip, students place them in a freezer. Once frozen, the students open the gall flay larva and observe it as the larva revives. Students...
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Pigment Plucking
Students examine pigments found in different fruits and vegetables and practice the processes for extracting the pigments. Pigments are used to create artwork and a class PowerPoint presentation is made on the different types of plant...
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"NSN, Fractions/Decimals" Investigations
Fifth graders engage in a "layered" unit of discovery. There are three levels of potential learning opportunities, in the spirit of the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver (bronze, silver, gold). The lesson plan is based upon fractions.
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Karst Topography
Students observe a movie about karst topography over the Internet and note nonpoint source pollution. They discuss ways to manage pollution and their experiences with any polltion sources.
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Knowing Where You Are
Fifth graders research place names of one section of their state and create a chart to show their findings.
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A Scientific Approach to Teaching about Evolution
Middle schoolers examine fossils and analyzing their significance in relation to theories of evolution. Hand-outs are provided. This instructional activity could be supplementary to a broader unit on evolution or geology.
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Isolation of Synthetic Chemicals from Plant Leaves
Young scholars isolate and identify a dye, which represents a synthetic pesticide, from plants.
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City Streets in One-Point Perspective
Young scholars examine the basics of drawing forms in one-point perspective, and linear perspective. They transform their drawings into city scenes using one-point perspective.
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Teaching Listening to Advanced Learners
Students provide input on listening tasks and provide practice in listening for specific information in an exam type format.
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Hats off to you!
Students learn about cultures through hats. Students complete "hat" writings, puzzles, and language games around the theme.
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Knowing Where You Are
Learners work together to research the names of places in their state. They divide up their state so that each group can research a different section and complete a chart of the different names. They create a key for the map to explain...
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Salmon and Steelhead Life Stories Web Search
Students conduct an Internet investigation to discover the natural history of local salmon and/or steelhead. They then write a story that describes the life of a salmon or steelhead from the local creek, including a description of each...