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World Hunger - A Cultural Crisis
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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Electric Field Activity
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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The Scramble for Wealth And Power
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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Cracking the Code
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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Ocean Currents
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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ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION: JAPAN
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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Sediment Study
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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Spring Collecting and Identifying Bumble Bees
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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Bitlaw: Rights Granted Under Copyright Law
An article on the exclusive rights granted under the Copyright Act.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Introduction to Descriptive Statistics
A series of explanations of statistics terms based on the statistics from a dice game.
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Class Flow: Cumulative Frequency Data Handling
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students draw conclusions and engage in tables and charts involving cumulative frequency; a wonderful review of student's knowledge.