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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

World Hunger - A Cultural Crisis

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the problem of world hunger and starvation. After a class discussion, students use a map to identify specific areas where populations are starving. In groups, students research reasons for the lack of food. They prepare...
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Worksheet
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Electric Field Activity

For Students 12th - Higher Ed
In this physics worksheet, students identify and describe the correct and incorrect features in electric field lines. Then they qualitatively sketch field lines for a charge distribution and a charge given the field lines.
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Lesson Plan
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The Scramble for Wealth And Power

For Teachers 4th - Higher Ed
Students participate in a simulation activity involving the distribution of the world's wealth and power. The activity starts when 100 pennies, representing wealth and power, are spread on the floor and students must grab as many...
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Lesson Plan
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Cracking the Code

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students explore encoding systems and decoding technology. For this barcoding lesson students examine how coding impacts society including distribution, and inventory. 
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Lesson Plan
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Ocean Currents

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Young scholars label the names, relative temperature, distribution, and direction of flow of major ocean currents on a world map. They also explore and model the natural forces that affect the movement of ocean currents through...
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Lesson Plan
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ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION: JAPAN

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Young scholars explain conditions and motivations that contribute to conflict, cooperation, and interdependence among nations; and analyze the causes, consequences and possible solutions to resource allocation, conservation, and economic...
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Lesson Plan
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Sediment Study

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders study sediment and the factors that effect its distribution.  In this sediment study lesson students complete a lab activity on sediment distribution. 
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Lesson Plan
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Spring Collecting and Identifying Bumble Bees

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students collect bumble bees in the field, record data, pin and label specimens, answer conclusion questions, and send specimens to research leaders for verification. They improve their ability to work in research teams. Students...
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Article
Other

Bitlaw: Rights Granted Under Copyright Law

For Students 9th - 10th
An article on the exclusive rights granted under the Copyright Act.
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Handout
University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Introduction to Descriptive Statistics

For Students 9th - 10th
A series of explanations of statistics terms based on the statistics from a dice game.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Cumulative Frequency Data Handling

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students draw conclusions and engage in tables and charts involving cumulative frequency; a wonderful review of student's knowledge.