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Making Cents

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students play a game in which they create monetary amounts using different coin combinations.
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Women in Skiing: Winter Sports, Gender Roles, Discrimination, Women's History

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners create a newsletter about women in skiing, addressing issues of gender discrimination in sports and women's achievements.
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Square Numbers

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders use square tiles to help them explain the concept of square numbers.
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Shapes Are Everywhere

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore pattern blocks noticing their similarities and differences and share their observations with others. They classify shapes by discussing sides and angles and combine pieces to make new shapes.
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Lesson plan: Today's young leaders

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explain teen involvement in integrating society, and determine programs for teens in different organizations.
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Activity Two Teacher Page: Explosions

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify variables that affect the system, and specify which variables are independent and which are dependent.
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Money Division With Whole Numbers Lesson Plan

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students define quotient, divisor and dividend. They divide single digit numbers, with or without remainders, and demonstrate their knowledge with both a group activity and a practice worksheet.
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Geometry Geopardy

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders participate in a game in order to review geometric concepts.
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Gummy vs. Gum

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students explore numbers patterns and write equations to describe the pattern. They apply the equations to further the patterns.
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Picket Fence Around the Garden

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students design different shaped plots and determine the perimeter, area and shape of each. They compare the shapes that have the same area but may have different perimeters.
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Handling Data: Coin Tossing Simulation

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students collect experimental data and record it on a frequency table. After accessing an Internet coin toss simulation site they discover that repetition of an experiment may result in different outcomes. They identify the mutually...
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Economics Lesson Plan #2

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students work together to define key terms related to Economics. They rotate between posters as they discover new terms. They discuss how economies function.
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Turmoils of The 1960's and 70's.

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students engage in the study of the social problems associated with the 1960's and 1970's. They explain how the government made attempts to solve the problem and evaluate the success. This is done through the writing of an essay using...
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Understanding Place Value

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders study place value. After forming teams, they play a game called, "Who Can Line Up the Number." Students observe numbers in expanded form and place representative digits in the correct order.
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A Healthy Start To Every Day

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
Students discuss the importance of having a healthy breakfast to begin their day. Students develop a cause and effect relationship between breakfast and their overall well being. They work cooperatively to plan balanced breakfast menus.
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Water/Hydration

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Young scholars develop an understanding of the role water has in the body and the importance of getting enough water each day. Through the lesson plan, students recognize the risks and signs of dehydration. Also, they identify foods...
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More than One Way of Knowing

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Learners compare the obeservations of traditional people with the oberservations of Western science. They validate Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit (IQ) through comparison and the identification of...
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Tennis Triangle

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers calculate the height of a tree or flagpole. They measure the shadow of the tree or flagpole and the length of a shadow of a meterstick. Using similar triangles, calculate the heigh. Devise two additional ways in which to...
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What Makes Ten

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Learners investigate the concept of ten and how it is part of the real number system. They find the quantity of ten using as many combinations as possible. They can count using manipulatives, write on paper, or by doing mental math.
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Electricity

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students watch instructor present demonstrations of the basic principles of static electricity, and then conduct some of their own experiments. In small groups, students build simple circuits, using batteries, to try to light up a light...
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Integration of Education

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the history of Civil Rights and how the struggle for Civil Rights and the Second Reconstruction, transformed society and politics in the United States in the 1950s. Then they identify why American Schools are integrated...
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Changing Circumstances, Changing U.S. Foreign Policy

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students examine how relationships between countries change overtime. They identify the factors that play a role in altering the relationships and contribute to U.S. foreign policy toward their country of research. Groups conduct their...
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Dichotomous Key: Minerals

For Students 8th - Higher Ed
In this earth science worksheet, students identify various minerals as described in the fifteen questions. They identify the luster and hardness of a mineral. Then, students identify what color the mineral is and whether it has streaks...
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Simple Machines and Mechanical Advantage

For Students 7th - 10th
In this simple machines science worksheet, students read about simple machines, mechanical advantages, calculating mechanical advantage, output force versus input force, and distance effort versus distance of resistance. Then students...