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Scale Model of the Earth

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students work together to create a model of the Earth. They label and identify each layer and describing its properties. They discover how engineers use models to test different concepts.
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Marketing Occupations

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students investigate the practice of sexual harassment in the workplace. They watch a video of a sexual harassment situation and classify the different categories of behavior that are included in sexual harassment. Then students take a...
Worksheet
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Match It!

For Students K - 1st
For this ESL transportation vocabulary worksheet, students analyze 7 pictures that depict different body parts. Students match these pictures with the words that describe them.
Worksheet
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Question Making

For Students 6th
In this ESL question making worksheet, 6th graders look at 7 pictures and read the answers. Students write an appropriate question for each answer.
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Quiz: ESL Career Vocabulary

For Students 5th - 6th
In this ESL careers vocabulary worksheet, students examine 7 pictures that depict different careers. Students read each question and write a sentence that answers it.
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Journeys from Afar

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the significance of their own and other's life journeys. They appreciate the differences and similarities between migrants' and refugees' journeys. Students identify obstacles faced by migrants and refugees when arriving...
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Graphing With Young Children: Math

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students create a template for a quality graph. They graph from scratch to match these criteria. They evaluate, in writing, the data represented in their newly created graph.
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Legal Definitions of Childhood

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers examine how various cultures define childhood. Using the internet, they research how countries around the world determine who is a child. They identify the sources they most relate with as a child.
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Children's Rights/Child Labor - Photos & Posters as Instruments of Change

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students research the use of students for labor around the globe. Using magazine pictures, they create a poster showing the various conditions they are subject to. They compare and contrast the differences in regions and evaluate the...
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A Mixed Bag of Apples

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students recognize that individuals and groups have both common and different attributes and that each individual may be a member of many different groups. They recognize, appreciate and value individual differences and perspectives.
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Quebec

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders to examine the past to find out why Quebec has been so determined to protect its cultural heritage. They access primary resources on the Internet to promote their engagement with the past.
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How Many Wives?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore how religious texts are often used to establish cultural norms and rules of behavior. Through research and discussion, students explain how religious texts can be open to interpretation. Students can apply their research...
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Global Citizenship: Our Links Around the World

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students study the world's cultures and learn about various country's values and beliefs. In this cultures lesson, students use the worksheet and work in pairs to discuss each culture question. Students then discuss the worksheet as a...
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Sarkozy Suggests Roma ‘Should be Sent to Luxembourg’

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders examine the role of Nicholas Sarkozy in the European Union. In this European Union ESL lesson, 10th graders read an article and answer guided questions. Students participate in a radio conversation on what they have read....
Worksheet
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Comparative and Superlative

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this ESL worksheet, students read 15 sentences and complete them by filling in the missing comparative or superlative. A word bank is included in this worksheet.
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Cornell University

Cornell University: Law School: Overview of Marriage

For Students 9th - 10th
This web page, which is provided for by the Cornell University Law School, explains the process of getting married and its origin.
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Gaslight: The Mystery of Edwin Drood

For Students 9th - 10th
This uncompleted novel by Charles Dickens is reproduced here in its 1912 edition. The thorough transcription indicates the revisions that both Dickens and his executor made. Be sure to read the message about copyright and permissions.
Article
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Blackstone Institute: Bashing Blackstone

For Students 9th - 10th
Sir William Blackstone, prominent English attorney, is featured in this article. Discover critical points to Blackstone's view of common law and why it may be "dangerous" to bash him for what his Commentaries on the Laws of England...