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Poetic Expression

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders evaluate the effectiveness of literary techniques including figurative language. They demonstrate an understanding of the main ideas, events, or themes of a variety of novels, stories, poetry, other print material, and...
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Scientific Theories

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders compare and contrast how different models can be used to represent scientific understandings. They evaluate the use of data when considering scientific claims. Students debate a variety of socio-scientific issues and the...
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Designing Your Future

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders demonstrate an understanding of the transitions and changes that they(the students) face in the future and evaluate their own strengths and weaknesses in managing change.
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PEOPLE OF THE FERTILE CRESCENT

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students evaluate how technology changed life in Mesopotamia. Students summarize the link between agriculture and religion in Sumer. Students classify the Sumerians according to social classes. Students classify the causes and effects...
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Absolute Value of Linear Functions

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students identify and interpret how absolute value affects linear functions. They also graph linear functions and reflect them in a line of symmetry. Finally, students evaluate the absolute value of a constant using technology to...
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Fossil Evidence

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students evaluate each other's fossil imprints and they try to identify the original object. They comprehend the importance of accuracy in identifying a fossil imprint. Students create an answer sheet that has space for the names of the...
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Holidays

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders use a wide range of strategies to interpret, evaluate, appreciate, and construct meaning from print materials. They use appropriate reference sources with assistance for a variety of purposes and use the writing process...
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Get a Clue: What is There and What Isn't

For Teachers 5th - 10th
Students practice the ability to examine and analyze evidence and extract information that eventually leads to deductive conclusions. After evaluating the objects discovered in a box, students write a one-page reflection paper of their...
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Lesson Plan 4: Political Advertising

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students observe a political advertisement and evaluate the views promoted in the ad. After exploring governmental policies, students create their own 30-second ad to promote a specified cause and publicize their views. Students share...
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MOBILITY, Traveling Lightly: What’s My Footprint?

For Teachers 5th - 10th
Students calculate their carbon footprint. In this environmental technology lesson, students listen to a lecture on climate change. Students brainstorm solutions to reduce environmental impact based on travel options. Students calculate...
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Removing the 'Junky' Words

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore was to comprehend a story through summarization. They are introduced to a instructional activity by explaining that when we read there are a lot of extra, unnecessary, junk words. Students explore ways not pay to...
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How We See: The First Steps of Human Vision

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students notice how various images and colors update constantly as they are affected by factors such as distance, background and lighting. They also examine how optometrists developed a standard to evaluate eyesight.
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Space-Age Experiments

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners evaluate the notion of aging by reviewing some of the studies that occurred on John Glenn's space shuttle mission.
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Responsibility: Lesson 7: How Can You Decide Among Competing Responsibilities

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine a set of considerations used to make decisions about competing responsibilities. These considerations form part of the procedure, or intellectual tools, useful in analyzing and evaluating an issue involving competing...
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Transporting Agricultural Commodities

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students propose packaging and handling needs for a specific product, then evaluate the documentation necessary for exporting and importing.
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Presenting..... Prefixes! Hold Down the Applause, Please!

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders read and consider a list of common prefixes and their meanings. They complete a worksheet which asks them to read and define a prefix in context. They switch and evaluate each other's papers.
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Making Sense of Things: The Human Body and Senses

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners conduct an experiment to evaluate the accuracy of their senses.
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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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Distribution of children living at home

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine census data to evaluate the number of students of certain ages living at home. This data is then used to determine the need for day care, or other social programs. They use this information to explore social policies.
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Successful Resource-based Learning Strategies for the Geography of Canada Course

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students conduct a statistical research project on population changes. They evaluate demographic issues, such as the size and location of native people. immigrant groups, and the age and gender of the population.
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Shark Report

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students report on a recent shark attack. They collect and record data, and evaluate research.
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Hoover and the Depression: 1929 - 1933

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders explain the process whereby historians write history. They acquire the ability to analyze, synthesize and evaluate the primary documents to determine bias, relevance, fact-opinion and usefulness in decision making.
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Zora Neale Hurston:Fighting Jim Crow through the All-Black Community

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Pupils explain the importance of equality of opportunity and equal protection of the law as a characteristic of American society and evaluate the validity and credibility of different historical interpretations.
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Pesticide Use: Environmental Awareness and Impact of Conservation Organizations

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders examine the history of public concerns associated with pesticide use, and identify conservation organizations that examine pesticide use. They write reports to evaluate conservation organizations.