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Cartoons for the Classroom: Seasonal Symbols

For Students 8th - 12th
In this current events worksheet, students analyze political cartoons featuring Santa Claus as a symbol. Students respond to 3 talking point questions.
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Transportation Unit

For Teachers K
Students maintain a journal and write about various types of transportation.  In this transportation lesson, students write using flash cards to describe vehicles. Students listen to stories and sing a song...
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Hi, Deer!

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students collect, organize by table, and examine census data in a simulation, estimate the size of the population in the simulation and make predictions based on the collection of census simulation data.
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Stand Up And Sing

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students examine pieces of sheet music and identify context, purpose, and perspective with regard to the political, social, and economic conditions existing at that time. They create a cover illustrating a topic of the Progressive Era.
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Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate how Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium is established and what assumptions and conditions are necessary to reach Equilibrium. They model alleles using materials such as index cards, M & M's and goldfish.
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Making an Illustrated Dictionary with Geographic Terms

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students construct a geography dictionary. In this geography lesson, students work in small groups to construct a dictionary of geographic terms. Students use illustrations and descriptions to develop their geographic dictionaries.
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Family Newscast

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students report on family trends, functions of the family and various ways of selecting marriage partners. In this family lesson plan, students act as editors, commercial skits, and writers for a newscast about families.
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INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders identify causes and effects of the Industrial Revolution, analyze the benefits and negative consequences, describe the operation of British government, and identify British social and political reforms resulting from the...
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Drugs Change the Way Neurons Communicate

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine that certain drugs interfere selectively with neurotransmission, and realize that the effect of a drug is dependent upon dosage and route of administration.
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The West "The People": The Lewis and Clark Expedition

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders become familiar with the conditions facing the members of the Expedition in the early 1800's, as well as the causes and consequences of the Expedition. They describe the conditions of the land in the 1800's and during the...
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EASY (AND CHEAP) CRYSTAL GROWING

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students grow salt crystals by making a saturated solution of table salt and let the solution sit around and evaporate.
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Looking at Human Struggle Through The Language Arts Curriculum: The Faces of Slavery

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders examine the use of slavery in the United States. Using a map, they draw the route of the Tecora and Amistad voyages. Individually, they write an essay describing their opinions on whether the Africans on the ships should be...
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Creepy, Crawly Critters

For Teachers K - 4th
Students study characteristics of insects by creating models from an assortment of materials. They create rubrics showing what an insect must have and create an insect, using a bag of materials. They cut out the puzzle insects included...
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THE TRAVELS OF BABAR: An Adventure in Scale:Saving the Elephants and Other Endangered Animals

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students comprehend the concept and causes of extinction and endangerment. They identify extinct and endangered animals. Students coordinate a plan to help endangered animals through a poster and letter writing campaign.
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Good Diet, Fad Diet

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students play a role of a registered dietician to examine low carbohydrate diets and diets currently on the market and compare them to a balanced diet. They determine a strategy for weight loss for a patient that meets specifications...
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Virginians in the Revolutionary War Era

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students identify the varied roles of Virginians in the Revolutionary War era and define the terms patriot, loyalist, and neutral. They then pretend they are patriots and list reasons on a chart why they are fighting against England and...
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National First Ladies' Library

Politics! Politics! The Emergence of Political Parties in the U.S.

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers are split into six small groups which focus on one of six websites, that tell the story of the emergence of the Federalist and Democratic-Republican parties at the end of the 18th century. They compile a chronological list...
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Reading Comprehension

For Students 5th - 6th
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read for information and assessment. In this true and false worksheet, students answer six statements.
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Comma Exercise 5

For Students 5th - 9th
In this comma exercise worksheet, students are given seventeen sentences to proofread and edit inserting commas where necessary.
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Coke, Soda, Hot VS. Cold

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore chemical reactions in hot bottled soda and cold bottled soda. In this lesson about chemical reactions, 1st graders observe an experiment and discuss the results as a class. Students determine why bubbles are...
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Round and Round-The Water Cycle

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students explore the water cycle. In this earth science lesson, students work in small groups to read various books on the water cycle and take notes on chart paper. Students share their notes and teach a younger audience what they have...
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African American Inventors Society

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine the inventions of African Americans and how their inventions contributed to the common good. In this African American inventions instructional activity, students research the inventions of African Americans and reflect...
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Independence Day

For Students 5th - 10th
In this Independence Day worksheet, students complete activities such as reading a passage, phrase matching, fill in the blanks, correct words, multiple choice, spelling sequencing, scrambled sentences, asking questions, take a...
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19 Chains and 50 Links

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students investigate surveys as it relates to chains and links. In this math lesson, students relate math to history and surveys done above, below and on the earths' surface. They review vocabulary pertaining to this lesson before moving...

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