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NASA

Earth, Earth’s Moon, Mars Balloons

For Teachers K - 8th Standards
Very specific diameters are given for blowing up three different balloons to represent, in scale, the moon, Earth, and Mars. In groups of three, amateur astronomers explore scale measurements and distance in space.
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Lycoming College

An Author Study of Jan Brett

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Jan Brett, the author of many beloved children's books, is well worth a study. Try out this winter-themed unit, which covers areas of language arts as well as art, math, science, and social studies.
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Homeschooling Chronicles - Educational Vacations

For Teachers K - 6th
You can make a vacation an educational and fun experience.
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Virtual Vacation

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars select a foreign city, research the city using the Internet, and plan an eleven-day vacation to that city. This instructional activity is ideal for a social studies classroom and includes ideas for using iMovie, Excel, and...
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National Wildlife Federation

Sensory Discovery Walk: Connecting With Your Place

For Teachers K - 6th
Take a blinded tour. Pairs take turns leading each other on a blindfolded exploration of the natural world and take stock of their surroundings using their remaining senses. After the tour, pupils try to map their paths and follow them...
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High-fliers

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students take a closer look at Heathrow airport. In this current events lesson, students visit selected websites to learn about the history of Heathrow Airport and the current opening of terminal 5.
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Learning Your Chosen Mode Of Transportation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students engage in a lesson that is intended for them to practice riding the bus. They are guided through each step in the classroom and some may need to be taken on a field trip to practice riding the bus one time. Students reflect upon...
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Express Yourself

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders write to Key pals. In this description instructional activity, 6th graders describe a place to their key pals and the pal has to draw a pictures based off their description.  They also create a Fun Facts Worksheet about...
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Currency Conversion

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use the World Wide Web to research and convert US dollars to foreign currency and create a budget for a trip.
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Downhill Race

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students observe washers of different weights roll downhill and observe what happens and what rate each of them travels. In this rate of travel lesson plan, students see the cylinders and discuss what happened after the race.
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Eating Away from Home

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students consider the implications of eating out. In this family budgeting lesson, students determine how to make better meal-budgeting choices as they play a game called "Let's Eat Out".
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Passport to Globalization

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Young scholars discover how to live on a low budget. In this economics lesson plan, students investigate how the value of money in different countries affects market exchange. They should be familiar with money exchange policy.  
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Seeing Seattle

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students read an article from English Teaching Forum to learn about Seattle, Washington. In this Seattle research lesson plan, students make words from the letters in Seattle, Washington. Students read a fact sheet about the city and...
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Major Transport Routes 2

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify different transport routes used in travel and tourism. They research alternate forms of traveling instead of flying. They plan trips to a destination of their choice using alternate transportation methods.
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Primary Activity: Transport Sort

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this transportation worksheet, students cut out the pictures and place them in the correct category based on wheels, school transportation, energy, and energy. Students then make up their own category.
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Pack Your Bags for a Trip to Another Planet

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Student investigate and understand the planets and their characteristics and create a hypothetical travel brochure through the solar system.
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Silk Roads Big Map: A Silk Roads Encounters Project

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students are introduced to the Silk Road and its purpose. Using a map outline, they create an oversized replica of the Silk Road from Europe to Asia. They add political and physical features to the map along with the routes of travelers.
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Describe a Journey

For Teachers 5th - 8th
 Students describe the sensory experience of a character's journey in an essay.  For this precise details writing lesson, students explain the effects on the senses of weather, time of day, landscape, and other experiences.  Students use...
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PBS

Journalism in War Time: What Does the Public Need to Know?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
A viewing of the documentary War Feels Like War, launches an exploration of the importance of accurate and comprehensive war reporting. Groups investigate various news agencies and assess the factors that influence their stories. A...
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Tintin and I: Primary and Secondary Sources

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Mickey Mouse, Elmo, and Tintin? Belgian cartoonist Georges (Herge) Remi’s famous comic character launches a study of primary and secondary source material and the impact these sources have on storytelling. Class members also examine the...
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The Color Spectrum: How Does it Work?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Create models of the infrared, visible, and ultraviolet portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. Working in small groups, your class can investigate metric conversions calculations. They will find the length of the waves in nanometers,...
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California Academy of Science

Ocean Acidification Mock Conference

For Teachers 7th - 12th
In a comprehensive role playing activity, teens play the parts of different stakeholders in the realm of acidic oceans. They research, debate, and create a presentation from the perspective of either ocean organisms, the fishing...
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California Academy of Science

Kinesthetic Astronomy: Mars Opposition Dance

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Your class will watch as one child orbits the sun as Earth, while another orbits as Mars. If the timing is right, they will see the repetitive dance between the two planets and discover how often they are opposite from each other. For...
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A Little Horse Sense

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
How have horses evolved over time? How do horse skulls reveal this evolution? How have the roles horses play changed over time? What kind of social structure do horse herds have? How should wild horse populations be managed? To find the...

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