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Far-out Astronomy in a Suitcase

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders engage in a web-based research activity. They use a teacher provided worksheet to guide their research through the website. This activity provide a excellent opportunity to showcase Canadians astronomy and space science...
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Number: Rounding Off and Approximating

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Young mathematicians access a website that leads them through three activities that enable them to practice their rounding and estimation skills when it comes to numbers and math word problems. There is also a very good worksheet...
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Crime

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Crime and punishment! Learners discuss the law, civics, and crime in the UK. They brainstorm lists of crimes and possible punishments, complete activities on a website, role-play a Juvenile Court scenario, and try to think of ways they...
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Publishing Book Reviews

For Teachers K - Higher Ed
After reading "How to write a good book review" and browsing some book reviews, class members generate a list of things they would like to see in a book review. Then young reporters read a book, write a review and post their polished...
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Who Wrote That?

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students explore the Project Gutenberg website and conduct a webquest to answer questions about well known literature and authors.
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Let's Count! (Teachers' Page)

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners practice counting using a website "Let's Count". They point to each object and count and pull down a tab to check their answers.
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Hotels in Acapulco

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students explore a website for a hotel in Acapulco, Mexico, answering questions about hotel offers, prices, and special activities. They prepare a skit between family members, or prepare an ad for a hotel.
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Puerto Rico

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students research Puerto Rico and famous Puerto Ricans on the Internet. They complete a website worksheet, create a brochure about Puerto Rico, and write about Puerto Rican cuisine.
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Los Volcanes Mexicanos

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students conduct Internet research on Mexican volcanoes. They explore various websites, complete a website worksheet, answer questions in Spanish, and create a timeline of a volcano's eruptions.
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Museums, Museums, Museums!

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students explore the websites for museums in either Paris or Madrid. They complete a website worksheet, answer questions about each museum, and create an ad for one of the museums.
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Wagner Festspiele Bayreuth

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore a German website to research the Wagner Festival. They complete a worksheet, identify a performance they would like to hear at the festival, and write an imagined incident from their visit to the festival in German.
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Exploring With the Anza 1775-1776

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders conduct research on the Anza Colonizing expedition utilizing the Web de Anza website. They read diary entries, answer questions, and create a poster highlighting an event that symbolizes the Expedition.
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Human Embryo Development and Birth Defects

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Open this lesson with a discussion on birth defects. Break the class into groups to visit a website and learn about what happens at each stage of human embryo and fetal development. Assign each group a particular birth defect to...
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Get the Drift?

For Teachers 6th - 9th
The anticipatory set is clever: give groups five minutes to work on the puzzle and then discuss what strategies they used to match the few that connected. This introduces middle schoolers to the concept of continental drift. A portion of...
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ExplorA-Pond: 4th Grade Perimeter Estimation

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Your geometers are used to finding the perimeter of a square or rectangle, so give them something different this time! With this lesson, small groups will receive a picture of a shoreline and calculate the perimeter. The website listed...
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Lotto or Life: What Are the Chances?

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Though the website does not seem to have the mentioned video, a reding and lottery style games simulate the chances of finding intelligent life somewhere other than Earth. Without the video, this lesson is short, but it can be a useful...
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Construction of Food Chains and Tracing Energy Changes

For Teachers 5th - 9th
If you need a few basic activities for teaching food chains to your emerging ecologists, here they are. Three sheets of organism cards are included for learners to cut out and arrange according to trophic relationships. To make the most...
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Cyanobacteria Races: Cyanobacteria Motility Experiment for a Classroom

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students experiment to determine the effect of light on cyanobacteria movement. They graph the data of the experiment for further analysis. They watch a time-lapse video of cyanobacteria motility at a NASA website.
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Looking At A Department Store

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discuss the types of department stores they have visited. Using the internet, they take a virtual tour of a spanish department store and answer related questions. They practice using new vocabulary and navigating through the...
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Week 3: Pollution Source and Effects

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Lab groups set up an experiment to observe what happens over time in collected pond water when fertilizer, representing pollution, is added. This website does not include student lab sheets, but background information, materials, and...
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Animal Behavior - Why Do Dogs Drool?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore types of studied behavior animals acquire. Using a Smart Board file, students simulate rewarding a studied behavior. To further reinforce studied behaviors, students play "Pavlov's Dog" on an internet website. Students...
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What do Maps Show: How to Read a Topographic Map

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers identify the characteristics of topographical maps. Using examples, they practice reading them and describing the information they gather from them. They also discover how to use the website from the U.S. Geological Survey.
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Poetry Cyberbook

For Teachers 8th
Emerging poets design a website and then post seven original poems as well as their written critique of these poems. Although the resource mentions Inspiration and FrontPage technologies, any software could be substituted. 
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Soccer - Lesson Plans Page

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Twenty lesson plans can help you plan a soccer unit. Each of these can be clicked on individually to bring up the specific instructional activity. All lessons have been individually reviewed on our Lesson Planet website. This is worth...

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