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Guest Speakers

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students identify a guest speaker to come to their class and discuss potential careers. In this career exploration lesson, students identify a career they are interested in and invite a guest speaker to visit their class. Students write...
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Create Your Own Service Project

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students develop a community service project. In this service project instructional activity, students identify a concern within their community, set a goal, from a plan, and carryout a service project using the project guidelines.
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No Texts = No Wrecks

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students explore ways to prevent texting while driving. In this driving safety lesson, students research information about texting and driving. Students identify an audience to present the information to in the three given formats....
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Confetti Eggs

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
Students create a confetti filled egg. In this art lesson students use multiple steps to decorate and fill an egg. The result is an egg that has been hollowed, filled with confetti, and has a decorated shell. The students break them open...
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Alexander Who Used To Be Rich Last Sunday

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students read a book titled Alexander Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday and discuss how saving money can help you lead a certain lifestyle. In this money lesson plan, students chart the money spent in the book and decide if they were smart...
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Celine Dion

For Students 4th - 6th
In this famous people worksheet, students read about the life of Celine Dion and complete a variety of comprehension activities including but not limited to matching, sequencing, writing and spelling activities. An answer key is included.
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Gone to Texas

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders role play as empresarios attempting to bring colonists to Texas in the 1800's. They create an advertisement that encourages the immigrants to come to Texas.
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Moon Journal

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders observe Moon and its features, and record results both in written form and in a drawing on the given template.
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Pysanky Eggs

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers explore Ukrainian culture and the additive dye process using wax as a resist. An original design is created displaying Ukrainian symbolism and placed onto an egg.
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Breakdown

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students brainstorm the causes of breakdowns in relationships, learn the main factors of interpersonal attraction and discuss these factors through learning from each other. Students also explore how the pressures of having a busy life...
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Sextant Measurements

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create a sextant. Using their sextant, students measure the height of tall objects. Students explore how sailors used sextants to identify their location on the ocean. They research how sextants are created.
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Pluto a Planet No More

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Learners help to create a list of planets in the solar system. They review the terms in the news section and complete the sentences given. They then read the article together and discuss.
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Wheel of...Geology!

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students participate in a group review activity in order to prepare for an exam. Students study together in their teams prior to the review activity. During the game, the teacher spins a wheel with subject categories written on it and...
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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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Planets in Our Solar System

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders are introduced to the various planets, stars and moons in our solar system. Using photographs, they place the planets into the correct order from the sun. In groups, they research one planet, create a fact sheet and make...
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March Madness Poetry Tournmament

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students are exposed to a variety of poems, know elements of poetry, analyze poems, and make decisions by voting. They also share their own thoughts and opinions and listen to and respect the thoughts of their classmates as well. 64...
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Jumbo Roald Dahl Quiz

For Students 4th - 5th
In this Roald Dahl quiz worksheet, students complete a 15 question multiple choice quiz about the works of Roald Dahl. Included are detailed questions about events in his books.
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Practice Writing and Evaluating Conclusion Paragraphs

For Students 8th - 10th
In this writing conclusions worksheet, students practice writing and evaluating paragraphs written at the end of an experiment. They are given a hypothesis and a results sentence and they write a conclusion.
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Winter Lights: A Season In Poems & Quilts

For Teachers K - 1st
Pupils read the book Winter Lights: A Season in Poems & Quilts and do language arts and math activities that go with the book. In this language arts and math lesson plan, students read the book given and do activities that include...
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Color A Rhyme: Mitten Lost & Found

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this rhyming word worksheet, students listen as the teacher reads each of 10 phrases. They complete each of the little poems with the missing rhyme. They color the mitten that fits the rhyme.
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Solar Storms: Sequences and Probabilities

For Students 7th - 9th
In this sequences and probabilities activity, students read about solar storms and determine the probability that none of the events occurred on the same day.
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World of Quadrilaterals

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students define the importance of the properties of quadrilaterals. In this quadrilaterals lesson, students identify the general properties of and compare and contrast the properties of convex and concave quadrilaterals. Students also...
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CSI: Chemistry Student Investigators

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students study chemistry.  In this laboratory lesson students watch the CSI episodes and investigate their laboratory techniques and discuss what they saw.
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Heads or Tails? Studying Regeneration in Planaria

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students view a video on stem cells and regeneration.  In this investigative lesson students complete a worksheet while viewing the video.