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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Trekking to Timbuktu: The Search for Timbuktu

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students explore the factors that contributed to the decline of Timbuktu and the myths and misconceptions about the city. Students study the obstacles that made a journey to Timbuktu a difficult one as well as discover the first European...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

MINI-UNIT on ELECTRICITY

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Pupils identify hypotheses related to static electricity, to begin to test the hypotheses, to begin to develop conclusions related to observations, to demonstrate that like charges repel and unlike charges attract each other, to name...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Nerve Racking

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders study the components and function of the nervous system. They investigate how engineers design biomedical equipment to assist the nervous system and explain how the five senses are affected during spaceflight.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Lesson Plan for a 5th Grade Science Class

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders use the SQ3R reading strategy to learn about the behavior of light. In this behavior of light lesson, 6th graders read a selection about the behavior of light and use the strategy to complete the reading. Students make a...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Amphibians Crossword Puzzle

For Students 9th - 12th
In this biology activity, students complete a crossword puzzle with 24 questions about different types of amphibians and functions of their body parts.
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Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: Books and Movies

For Students 5th - 8th
A look at the literature and movies written and produced in the Jazz Age. See how the writers of the age reflected the consumer society and the emptiness of middle class. Movies appealed to mass culture and millions went to the movies...