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Map Creation

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders identify a map, symbol, key, and compass rose. Students create and print a map for teacher evaluation using the computer. Students identify the symbols on their map and orally present them to the class.
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Understanding Zoning: Its use on the High Line in West Chelsea

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students are introduced to zoning. Evaluating information and reading a land-use map is enclosed in this lesson. List new development projects that they could propose for a given area.
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PEMDAS

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders use the mneumonic device to help them remember orderof operation. In this algebra lesson, 6th graders apply PEMDAS to help them equations. They evaluate equations through PEMDAS.
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Contemporary Immigration

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders analyze the patterns and waves of immigrants that have come to the United States from 1850 to 2000. They participate in a class discussion about immigration, and in small groups conduct research analyzing and evaluating...
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Segregation in Prince Edward County

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders examine the history of integration as it applied to Virginia high school in Prince Edward County. They evaluate a map of Virginia counties, read and analyze a first person narrative of a young girl involved in a boycott...
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Using Mass Balance to Understand Atmospheric CFCs

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars use an interactive online mass balance model to observe levels of chlorofluorocarbons over the past few years. Students evaluate the influence protocol emissions will have on the future levels of CFCs.
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Introduction To Fractals: an Inquiry

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners evaluate a playful case study about a dog searching for fetching sticks to identify the steps in the science inquiry method. They read the case study and fill in a worksheet with the examples of questions, observations and...
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Semantic Webbing

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students reflect upon the last four weeks in a review session involving semantic webbing. They offer opinions, likes, and dislikes about the lesson. They will discuss the instruction and evaluate the information presented.
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Workin' (More Than) 9 to 5

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore the roles of men and women in the work force. They explore how each one should balance family life. They develop questions that are about men and women and how they perceive their roles at work, home and in leisure...
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Language Arts: Predicting and Clarifying Techniques

For Teachers 1st
First graders discover predicting and clarifying skills while reading "The Old Woman and Her Pig." During the reading, they check their predictions while evaluating the characters, setting, problems, and solution. On the second day,...
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My City

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the job of a city mayor. Using a predetermined website, students participate in a simulated city. Acting as mayor, they are faced with problems and issues which they must solve. Students observe the popularity pole as...
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Genetics 4 Mutations

For Teachers 7th - 11th
Students identify and illustrate how changes in DNA cause mutations and evaluate the significance of these changes. They illustrate a chromosomal mutation such as duplication, deletion, inversion, and translocation.
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Reading Partnership Book Project

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students choose a book and read it with a partner throughout the week. They discuss and evaluate the text with their partner as well as complete a question form. They desing and choose a way to present their book to their peers in the...
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Vox Populi: Brutus's Speech and the Response of the Plebeians

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders explore two rhetorical strategies (ethos and audience appeals) to analyze their effects in Brutus's speech in 3.2. They are given the opportunity to participate as members of Brutus's audience by assuming the roles of...
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Who Killed the Red Baron?

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students explore, examine and analyze how to apply deductive thinking to evaluate evidence and draw conclusions. They view and critique a handout called "Who Made the Mess?"and a facts sheet on the handout. They divide up into groups and...
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Iwo Jima: Forgotten Valor

For Teachers 4th
Students explore the nature of island combat on Iwo Jima during World War II. They examine the association between the Pacific Theater of World War II and Iwo Jima. Students evaluate Charles Lindberg's oral history, propaganda posters,...
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PETA Pressure

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine what a "target audience" is and evaluate the PETA website for tactics that exploit the characteristics of their target audience. They read and discuss a handout, analyze the PETA website in small groups, and participate...
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Monty Python and the Quest for the Perfect Fallacy

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students study ten fallacies that represent the most common mistakes in reasoning. In groups, students evaluate given arguments and identify the fallacy and/or bobby-trap in each one. Students study larger arguments and discover...
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MT-A141 PreCalculus: Worksheet 6.5/6.6

For Students 10th - 11th
In this precalculus worksheet, students investigate functions and determine which functions are sinusoids. They estimate the amplitude, phase shift, and period of each function. Students explore the sums of sine and cosine functions....
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Complex Analysis: Independence of Path

For Students Higher Ed
For this independence of path worksheet, students evaluate contour integrals using anti-derivatives and the Cauchy-Goursat Theorem. This two-page worksheet contains four problems.
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Complex Analysis: Applications of Cauchy-Goursat Theorem

For Students Higher Ed
In this Cauchy-Goursat Theorem, students sketch and classify domains. They evaluate integrals and explore the analytic function. This two-page instructional activity contains approximately ten problems.
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Complex Analysis: Residue Theorem

For Students Higher Ed
In this residue theorem, students classify singularities of functions and use the Cauchy Residue Theorem to evaluate integrals. This two-page activity contains approximately 14 problems.
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Complex Analysis: Contour Integration

For Students Higher Ed
In this contour integration worksheet, students identify and explain theorems used with evaluating contour integrals. This two-page worksheet contains ten problems.
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Complex Analysis: Cauchy's Integral Formula

For Students Higher Ed
In this integral formula worksheet, students evaluate integrals. This worksheet contains examples and explanations of Cauchy's Integral Formula, as well as higher derivatives of analytical functions. There are nine problems on this...