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How We Use Rocks: Part 2

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students explore the uses of rocks.
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Human Body Parts:

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students locate and label body parts. After having their picture taken with a digital camera, students cut out their body and label body parts.
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Letter Writing With the Jolly Postman

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Pupils need to know how to write a greeting letter.
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Space Settlement Design Project

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students design a space settlement to live in and give an oral presentation of their creation.
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Long Division

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders acquire number sense and perform operations with whole numbers, simple fractions, and decimals.
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Dances of Mexico and the U.S.

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders experience cultures of Mexico through music and dance while showing the ability to others and their boundaries. They research cultures through music and dance. They perform a dance from each country.
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The Bill of Rights and the News

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students examine current news stories and from them develop "BIG" questions related to individual and group rights. They then relate their questions to the U.S. Constitution and supreme court decisions.
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Math in My World

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders record in their journals the many ways in which mathematics is part of their world.
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Department Duties

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders identify three kinds of health or safety workers and explain how they help protect the health of the people in a community.
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Utah's Judicial Branch

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders explain that the judicial branch of Utah's government interprets laws and reviews the consitutionality of laws.
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Holiday Celebrations

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore three cultural holidays and compare and contrast the ways varied cultural groups celebrate their heritage. They participate in activities that promote cultural understanding and good citizenship.
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Pioneer Currency in Utah: Have you got change for a 5?

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students explore the need for money in a society and the artificial value of coin and paper currencies. They design their own coin and paper currency.
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Mapping the "Utah War"

For Teachers 11th
Student-generated maps help students explain geographical and spatial relationships when discussing important events such as the Utah War.
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Heritage: Pioneer Job Application

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders write a job application letter for a job of the pioneer era, either specifically for Utah and the West or for any job current in America at that time.
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Experiment: How acidic is rain in your area?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students collect water samples from around your home and school, check the pH level of each water sample, and record the pH levels in a chart that looks something like this:
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Ship of Gold

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students research the events that were taking place in the U.S. during the time period when the SS Central America sank, and explore the adventurous, innovative, and individualistic traits that often define the American spirit.
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Postcards Across America

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders increase knowledge and awareness of the location and physical features of each of the fifty states in America.
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Alphabet Review Activities

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners practice the alphabet using a variety of songs, books and activities.
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The Planet Wakyabi

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explain how organisms' specialized structures and variations work with the environment to help them survive.
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Honesty In Reporting Research

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students view and discuss a video on dishonesty. Then they have a homework assignment to apply this discussion to household products that have resulted from scientific research which was falsified in order to get the product approved for...
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Investigation 1 - Identify & Compare Fossils

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders examine different items to see if they can recognize fossils. This be an introduction to the different fossils they be studying later and help them make inferences about past environments of Utah.
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Investigation 7 - Interpreting Weather Data

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders interpret the weather data they gathered in Investigation 6. They take an average of each component in each season. They compare the same components of each season and write the differences they see between the seasons.
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Investigation 6 - Collecting Weather Data

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders collect data for two weeks. They start seeing patterns and make predictions. They can predict what the weather be like the next day and for the next few days. They see if their predictions were correct from the previous day.
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Investigation 5 - Severe Weather

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders examine severe weather in Utah. They utilize a variety of sources; websites, newspapers, TV coverage and perform research to study the severe weather patterns ffound in Utah.