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Service Learning--A School Violence Prevention Strategy

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students analyze school violence issues. In this service learning lesson, students listen to their instructor present a lecture regarding school violence issues. Students examine service projects to prevent school violence.
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Decision Making and Teen Parenthood

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students inspect psychology by completing a worksheet in class. In this sexual health lesson, students discuss the responsibilities and maturity necessary in order to have a child and to also be sexually active. Students answer study...
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Sexual Exploitation: Day 2

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students evaluate human psychology by answering sexual health study questions. In this exploitation lesson, students identify the main causes for sexual assault, the best ways to deal with it at the time and how to prevent it from...
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Student Self-Esteem

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students investigate human psychology by completing a worksheet in class. In this self-esteem instructional activity, students identify the importance of confidence in life situations and discuss why they should feel good about...
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Petition of Amelia Bloomer Regarding Suffrage in the West

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the role of Amelia Jenks Bloomer in the struggles for suffrage and political reform. They consider the factors involved in political socialization and compile webliographies of their research materials.
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European Union Law

For Students 9th - 12th
For this European Court of Justice worksheet, students respond to 17 short answer and fill in the blank questions about European Union law.
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Bulldozers at the Door

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students investigate current event issues in Zimbabwe. In this global issues lesson, students visit selected Web sites to determine why thousands of citizens were evacuated from their homes. Students examine the bureaucratic upheaval and...
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Transpiration

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students interactively explore the term transpiration. In this science/ecology lesson, students discuss what they would do if they were thirsty while conducting research in Brazil. Additionally, students write descriptive words to...
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English Settlement

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students study the development of the New England colonies, their rationale for settlement, and the importance of Puritan theology in this development. They research towns in England and their copies in Massachusetts.
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Populating Deerfield: A Workday for Researching the Colonial families

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders explore who were the colonial families that populated Deerfield and what evidence can be gathered that reveals a part of their life stories to the researcher.
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Modern Counterculture Movements

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students prepare a presentation examining anti-establishment activity by groups in society today. They prepare a presentation, on poster board or presentation software, about one contemporary protest group.
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Sexually Transmitted Diseases: Lesson 4

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students participate in a class discussion which includes categorizing sexually transmitted diseases into various groups such as "always have symptoms/often don't have symptoms" and "curable vs. not curable" to reinforce the idea of...
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Birth Control: Deciding

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Learners take part in class discussion and complete handouts dealing with different methods of birth control (emphasis on abstinence)to help students make informed decisions.
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Reproductive System

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students view and discuss transparencies and worksheets of the male and female reproductive systems. They read the key vocabulary terms, complete a homework assignment, and label and identify the various reproductive parts.
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The Empires of Africa

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students, in groups, compare and chart the different African kingdoms and city-states. They write a short essay detailing the aspects of African history that most fascinates them.
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Learning to Love

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discuss the different kinds of love and the characteristics of a healthy relationship. They examine types of behaviors that could make a relationship unhealthy and name components of love. They evaluate their current...
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Communication 3: Taking "No" For An Answer

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Pupils play a rejection game and fill in sentences about taking and accepting "no" for an answer. In this taking "no" worksheet, students also discuss how asking more than twice is aggression.
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Abstinence

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars identify positive reasons why people choose to practice abstinence and complete communication that is successful in this practice. In this abstinence lesson plan, students view videos and fill out worksheets provided.
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Poisoned Chalice

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Learners explore espionage. For this current events lesson, students research various Web sites for information about the history of spy work, Anglo-Russian relations, and spy gadgets. 
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The Heat is On

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Young scholars investigate climate change. In this current events lesson plan, students research the listed Web sites that include information about the effects of greenhouse gases on the Earth. Young scholars discuss how to combat the...
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The Statistics Sampler

For Teachers 7th - 11th
Students define sample, describe a random sample, and discuss what compromises a sample. They determine a sample size to estimate a population characteristic with confidence.
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Hiv/aids, Year 1, Day 1

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students listen to an explanation distinguishing non-communicable and communicable diseases and the difference between concern and unhealthy fear. They describe the transmission modes for HIV and determine that casual contact can't pass...
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Pregnancy

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students discuss facts and myths associates with pregnancy and how conception can and cannot occur. They study fetal development and review terminology. They play a review game.
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Reproductive System: Lesson 6 & 7

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Pupils participate in a class discussion "game" in order to help them determine how to take care of themselves and keep their bodies healthy, as well as develop a healthy, mature attitude.