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Environmentalism: Then and Now
Tenth graders examine the history of the conservation movement and how it relates to contemporary issues.  In this Environmental Science lesson, 10th graders research the roots of the environmental and conservation movement and...
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Exploring Air Issues
Students collects survey data from their community on air pollution. In this environmental science lesson, students consider the opinion of the community on air pollution and create a plan to reduce it.  Students plan on creating a...
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Creating Adinkra Symbols
Students discover examples of adinkra cloth. They explain the history of the symbols themselves. They create a larger pattern using geometric symbols. They discover how the symbols can be used to communicate with one another.
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Soybeans in Space
Students work together to design an experiment that compares and contrasts differnet plant cultivation systems.  In groups, they evaluate the results of the experiment to discover if the cultivation system could be used in space.  They...
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Measuring Water Temperature
Learners measure the temperature of three water sources.  They collect data points every second for twenty five seconds for each sample using Lego Robolab temperature sensors, complete a worksheet, and analyze the data.
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Children in War and Strife: Case Studies
Students examine the lives of students in war torn countries.  After reading case studies, they work together to answer discussion questions.  They review the roles of the Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International and develop a museum...
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Investigating daylight
students investigate a natural factor affecting their everyday lives: daylight. First, they collect data on sunrise and sunset in their hometown, create a Microsoft Office Excel chart to help them understand the data pattern, and offer a...
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Store Wars: When Wal-Mart Comes to Town
Learners watch video clips about the effects of Wal-Mart coming to towns.  They develop a cost-benefit analysis related to the proposed store.  They write their mayor listing their recommendation for the new store.
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Waterworks In Braintree
Students examine how water affects the community of Braintree.  Using a map, they locate main resevoirs and rivers in the area and research the history of one of the resevoirs.  They use charts and graphs to show how land use has changed...
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Clean Coal?
High schoolers determine, based on their knowledge of coal pollutants, the effectiveness of clean-coal technologies. They state and defend a position on whether power plants in the United States should be required to upgrade to available...
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Mars Pathfinder Egg Drop and Landing
Students construct a pathfinder that could land an egg safely. For this physics lesson, students explain the factors affecting the dynamics of falling objects. They evaluate their pathfinder design.
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Dividing Fractions
In this middle school mathematics instructional activity, students divide fractions.  The instructional activity provided step-by-step instructions.  The one page interactive instructional activity contains six problems. ...
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Pedal Power Goes Global
Students role play as a consulting firm that has been hired to research various countries and determine if and how the Pedal Power bicycle company should sell its bicycles abroad.
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Dividing with Fractions
Fifth graders explore the strategies to solve word problems using multiplication and division.  In this problem solving instructional activity, 5th graders recognize the relationship between multiplication and division to solve...
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Least Common Multiples
For this math worksheet, middle schoolers find the least common multiple of sets of numbers. Students factor each number to their prime factorization. They use the primes to find the least common multiples. This is a worksheet generator,...
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Supply and Demand
Students define economic terms, list three conditions that must be present in order for demand to exist, define law of supply and demand, differentiate between buyer's and seller's markets, examine concept of elasticity, view tutorial on...
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Radicals
For this radicals worksheet, 9th graders identify and solve 21 different problems that include various simple radical forms. First, they determine if there is a radical in the denominator. Then, students rationalize the denominator by...
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Growing Money
Fourth graders sell plants. In this business lesson students propagate plants from cuttings. Students create a business to sell the plants they grow.
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I'm in Business, Now What Do I Charge?
Students determine what price must be charged in order for an entrepreneur to breakeven and to make a profit. They calculate the breakeven price, identify opportunity costs, and write a paragraph explaining what costs should be used for...
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Human Population Growth
In this human population growth worksheet, students create a graph of human population growth and predict future growth using the data given in a chart. Students identify factors that affect population growth.
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Polynomials
In this polynomials worksheet, students solve and complete 16 different types of problems. First, they solve each of the fractional expressions shown. Then, students factor each polynomial and find their roots. In addition, they write an...
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Microfinancing Works for Local Citizens and Foreign Business
Students define social responsibility. They describe examples of social responsibilities businesses have to society. Analyze special challenges in operations. Identify entrepreneurial opportunities available in international business.
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Algebraic Fractions
For this Algebra I worksheet, 9th graders find the product or quotient of algebraic fractions and reduce to simplest form.  The two page worksheet contains a combination of eleven multiple choice and free response questions. ...
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Mental Math Blocks 4
In this math worksheet, students solve eleven math problems.  These include circling the product in a multiplication problem and writing a seven-digit number into words.