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Confident Commute: Increasing Safety for Teen Drivers
High schoolers brainstorm possible causes for motor vehicle accidents involving teen drivers. In this biology lesson, students study national data regarding teen driving behaviors. They create awareness materials to help promote safe...
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China - Dragons
Students compare cultural practices, products, and perspectives to understand commonality and diversity among cultures. They analyze examples of interactions between cultural groups and explain factors that contribute to cooperation...
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Exploring Graphs
Students are introduced to connecting graphing in a coordinate plane to making scatterplots on a graphing calculator. Working in pairs, they connect points plotted to make a sailboat and complete questions on a worksheet as well as plot...
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Graphs
In this graphing worksheet, students read information and study diagrams about graphing. Students complete 3 graphing activities.
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5th grade social studies geography
In this geography worksheet, 5th graders complete multiple choice questions about hemispheres, maps, cities, ecology, and more. Students complete 25 questions.
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Modeling an Oil Reserve
Students conduct an experiment. In this oil and natural gas instructional activity, students learn how geoscientists identify and explore reserves of petroleum. Students make a model of an oil reserve, record how much it...
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What Kind of Volcano Is This?
In this volcano worksheet, students are given five pictures of volcanoes and descriptions of each. They determine what type of volcano each is and how they determined their answers.
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GODDESS WORSHIP IN A MODERN PERSPECTIVE
Students examine careers that are not traditional for their gender.
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Charge-Coupled Devices (CCDs)
Young scholars explore CCDs or Charge-Coupled Devices. In this digital devices lesson plan, students examine how CCDs are constructed, collect light, and create a digital signal.
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Math Club #5: Miscellaneous II
In this math club #5: miscellaneous II worksheet, 6th graders work in groups to solve 10 miscellaneous word problems using logic and problem solving skills.
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Graphin' and Glyphin' Utah Weather
Fourth graders use glyphs as a way to visually represent information about Utah weather. These nonverbal representations help students collect and interpret data in a visual format.
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Memory Book - A Cooperative Learning Experience
Students document sections of their life through pictures, stories, and video to create an English "memory book". They use photographs, video and edited video which includes their history, includes calculated growth, and genetic...
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Does Dye Die...? : Foreign Chemicals In Our Environment
Students work as scientists to simulate testing on soil, plants, and water for foreign chemicals through this series of experiments.
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Using Publisher
Students, in groups, design web pages that highlight and promote awareness about a particular endangered animal.
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Ballroom Dance
Learners are introduced to ballroom dancing and are encouraged to continue with ballroom dancing as a lifetime activity. They are introduced to ballroom dancing to heighten their locomotor and motor skills, etiquette and social...
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Avogadro's Law
Students study Avogadro's law and what it means in science. In this gaseous instructional activity students complete an Avogadro's law experiment.
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Metrocosm: 7 Maps to Help Make Sense of the Middle East
Keep up to date with the everchanging Middle East Region. The Middle East has been a tangled web of alliances since WWI. These maps attempt to make sense out of the this often confusing area. The 7 maps show the relationships among...
Middle East Policy Council
Mepc: Teach Mideast: Comparing Maps of the Middle East
A lesson plan to explore the Middle East region via maps and classroom discussion to better understand the Middle East. An Internet connection is needed to utilize the links provided.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: The Middle East in the 20th Century
Examining the history of the Middle East from the Ottoman Empire through to the present. Enhance lessons with these resources.
Choices Program, Brown University
Choices: u.s. Policy in the Middle East: Analyzing Political Cartoons
Multi-media resources including video, PowerPoint, articles and maps from which students explore current issues in the Middle East and their relation to U.S. policy and interpret political cartoons on Middle East politics.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Middle East During and After Wwi
Test your knowledge of the Middle East during WWI with this five question self-correcting quiz from Khan Academy.
University of Chicago
University of Chicago Library: Teaching the Middle East: Foreign Eyes
Two related learning modules consider Western perspectives on the Middle East, beginning with the Persian invasions of Greece (fifth century BC) and moving forward into the present time. Useful background on the history of wartime and...
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: North Africa and the Middle East
With the establishment of the Vichy regime in France and pro-Hitler leaders in Iraq, the persecution of Jews fanned out to North Africa and the Middle East. Peruse background information and examine primary sources such as photos,...
University of Chicago
University of Chicago Library: Teaching the Middle East: Question of Identity
Learning module considers questions of identity among populations of the Middle East, both ancient and modern, in terms of their ethnicities, language spoken, religious affiliation, and gender.