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Natural Resources and Transportation in the United States

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Learners study thematic maps (included with the lesson plan) to determine possible relationships. They develop three hypotheses about the relationship. Students choose one of their hypotheses to explain. The explanation is to include...
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Dancin' to the Times

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders work in groups in order to research a specific music era or dance style to share with the class. They have studied different music styles that are included in the instructional activity and now they have the choice to...
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Price Elasticity of Demand

For Students 11th - 12th
In this economics worksheet, students respond to 15 fill and the blank and multiple choice questions about price elasticity of demand.
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Commutative Cubes

For Students 4th - 8th
In this commutative property worksheet, students use number cubes to create equations where they demonstrate the commutative property. Students fill in 8 equations to a chart and answer 3 questions.
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Challenge: Five in a Row with Decimal Numbers

For Students 6th - 9th
In this multiplication worksheet, students play a game with 2 number cubes or dice where they substitute decimals for the numbers on the cubes.  Students multiply the decimals together then find the corresponding product on a 5 by 5...
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Binomial and Polynomial Worksheet

For Students 6th
In this problems solving worksheet, 6th graders write the degree of 4 polynomials, rewrite 4 polynomials in standard form and solve 4 polynomial equations. Students use the distributive property to find 6 products, solve 10 binomial...
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Circle Secrets- Multiplication Puzzles

For Students 3rd
In this circle secrets- multiplication puzzle worksheet, 3rd graders attempt to determine the secret of three factors that are shown in a circle. They find the products of the numbers that are displayed in triangles, look at the numbers...
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Multiplying with Packages and Letters

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students explore multiplication. In this multiplication problem solving lesson, students view a video clip which demonstrates loading a truck with packages.  Students fill in a blank array to represent 1"X 2" and the multiples when...
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Examining What Sharing Really Means

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine the remarkable degree of sharing that the author encounters upon arrival in Africa. They reflect on the enduring understanding, "Attitudes toward sharing differ among different cultures." The respond in their journals...
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Connections to Fine Art: What Happens in a Kiln?

For Students 9th - 11th
In this kiln worksheet, students read about how temperature effects the results of fired pottery. They answer questions using the information and data given.
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Stock Tables: Scavenger Hunt

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students investigate how to read stock tables and research stock tables in newspapers or on the Internet. They discuss how they would invest $1000 in stock, examine how to keep track of their shares online, and complete a worksheet in...
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Integrating Science and Literacy Through Novel Studies

For Teachers 4th - 7th
You can use "The Toothpaste Millionaire" and other outstanding fiction to integrate science and literacy.
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Metabolism; Energy and Life

For Teachers 9th
A number of diagrams are presented. These illustrations are meant to represent certain levels of energy, the complexity of some reactions, and the production of substances that are essential to our body.  Although the information...
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Microorganisms

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Though there are seventy-seven slides in this PowerPoint, only small bits of information are presented on each. It outlines the roles microorganisms play in the environment and spends time listing characteristics of each four different...
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What Is Natural?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Your junior highers will learn about which objects are natural and classify objects as abiotic or biotic. Your class will trace human products to their natural resources using matter cycles and then create their own definition of nature.
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Wild and Wetlands

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Upper graders identify the major characteristics of a wetland. They explore the human factors that change a wetland and write a descriptive paragraph about wetlands. This comprehensive lesson also has an interactive "Watershed Game"...
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Health: Overweight Youth

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Investigate the primary causes for the increase in overweight youth and discover its impact on the health care system. After watching segments from the Bill Moyers Now program, your learners develop campaigns to implement in school that...
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How We Impact the Earth

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students work in cooperative learning groups to create PowerPoint or KeyNote presentations on how humans impact the earth. This lesson can be accomplished in three different parts.
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Writing Exponents

For Students 9th
For this writing exponents worksheet, 9th graders solve 10 different problems that include writing various types of exponents. They write each set of numbers in exponential form. Then, students list the base and whole number to the...
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Grade 5 Math: Factorization 2

For Students 5th
In this grade 5 math worksheet, 5th graders write 8 numbers as the product of their prime factors, using exponents to show multiples of the prime factor when needed.
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Industry and the Environment

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students study industrial processes and greenhouse emissions. In this research lesson students choose a manufactured product, research the life cycle of the product, and present it in a PowerPoint presentation.
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Choose The Operation

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this choose the operation worksheet, students write when they would use given operations, list words or phrases that help them know when to choose an operation, then solve 2 word problems.
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Acid Rain: Where Have All the Rainbows Gone?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers study the pH scale and sources of acid precipitation.  In this acid rain lesson plan students complete a lab on acid rain then complete a handout.
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Dogs & Darwin

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders construct and conduct a laboratory experiment illustrating the transfer of mutations. They compare and contrast natural selection in organisms with long and short reproductive cycles.