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Secrets of Lost Empires II -- Roman Bath
Students build an arch with no mortar following the design of the Romans. They use cookies to represent the blocks used and work to distribute the weight on the stones.
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Secrets of Making Money
Students examine the properties of different materials used to make paper money. They design their own bill and share it with the class. They also watch a video clip and read an article about making money and how it affects the economy.
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Secrets of the Psychics
Students view a video clip about psychics. They practice being psychics themselves. They identify any secrets they think psychics have.
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Shackleton's Voyage of Endurance
Students view a video clip about the voyage of the Endurance. They work together to decide what to rescue from the sinking ship. They compare their decisions with those of Ernest Shackleton.
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Sinking City of Venice
Students view a video clip about Venice's sinking problem. They identify possible solutions and discuss the difficulity in solving it. They also complete a worksheet to end the lesson.
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Spies That Fly
High schoolers view a video clip about spy planes. They identify the challenges engineers face in building small aircraft. They complete a worksheet to end the lesson.
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Sultan's Lost Treasure
Students view a video clip about a sultan's lost treasure. They examine artifacts and determine their characteristics. They complete a worksheet to end the lesson.
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Special Effects-Titanic and Beyond
Students view a video clip about special effects. They use geometry to determine how it changes one's perspective. They work together to construct their own room and comparing their room with other groups, noting the type of...
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Survivor M.D.: Tattooed Doctor
Learners view a video clip showing different medical careers. They complete a worksheet to discover careers they might have not heard about. They discuss the amount of education and training needed.
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Time Travel
Students view a video clip on time travel. They work together to complete a worksheet on measuring time. They discuss the different perceptions of time.
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Terror in Space
Students view a video clip about the role of satellites in space. They examine the concept of center of mass. They participate in an experiment showing how altering the location of an object's center of mass can change its motion.
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Vanished!
Students view a video clip about the Stardust crash site. They discover how hypothesis change based on new evidence. They research unsolved plane crashes as well.
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Volcano's Deadly Warning
Students view a video clip on volcanoes. They work together to discover the concept of sine waves. They plot points on a chart and connect them to create the complex wave. They answer questions to complete the lesson.
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Volcanoes of the Deep
Students discuss how organisms relate to one another. They work together to research a specific organism and how it relates to other organisms. They present their findings to the class.
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What's Up With the Weather?
Students examine raw data about temperatures throughout the world and record their observations. They work together to graph a specific year of data. They calculate an average temperature and discuss their findings.
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Voyage of Doom
Students view a video clip about cofferdams. They work together to design and construct their own. They discover the advantages and disadvantages of creating a model.
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Much Ado About Something
Students view video clips of Shakespeare's plays. They discuss issues in his plays that challenge his authorship. They discuss the concept of a genius and identify what qualities a writer has.
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Much Ado About Something (Lesson 2)
Students view more video clips of Shakespeare's plays. They answer comprehension questions over the video. They are introduced to the language Shakespeare used as well.
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Much Ado About Something (Lesson 3)
Students view a documentary on Shakespeare. They answer questions during the film. They discuss their observations and opinions about the documentary.
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Much Ado About Something (Lesson 4)
Students view a film about Shakespeare and his poetry. They complete a worksheet while viewing. They discuss how to properly read a poem and practice reading his sonnets.
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Much Ado About Something (Lesson 6)
View a video clip about Shakespeare's work. Identify the ambiguities in his texts. Practice reading well-known soliloquies.
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Parodies of Shakespeare
Students view a video clip about parodies. They identify the characteristics of a parody in Mark Twain's work as well. They practice writing Shakepeare like verses.
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Further Activities with Language
High schoolers chose a favorite passage from a Shakespeare play. They write a letter from one character to another in a novel they have just read. They take a scene from a movie and write it in Shakespearean language.
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Grappling with Trade-Offs
Learners are divided into groups representing different departments of the United States government. They identify the goals and needs of their department. They present their information to the class and answers comprehension questions.