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Traveling Cart Activity

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students explore the relationship between distance and elapsed time. After writing a quadratic equation to exemplify the relationship discussed, students use inverse matrices to solve the unknowns. Using a motion detector and CBL...
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Elasticity

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students are introduced to the topic of elasticity. As a class, they identify demand as being either price elastic or price inelastic when given examples. They discover the relationship between percentage changes in the quantity sold...
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Coup to Revolution: U.S. foreign Policy in Iran

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students read and discuss the Iran country Profile from the CIA World Factbook. They describe the current relationship between the United States and Iran. Students complete additional readings, and answer questions about them. They...
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Area and Measurements

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Young scholars measure the area using feet and yard. In this algebra lesson, students draw and manipulate shapes to calculate the area. They measure the relationship of area between the two units.
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Moving Straight Ahead

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students analyze the relationship between speed, time and distance. In this math lesson, students plan a school trip. Students determine the efficiency and cost effectiveness of a trip.
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Biography and Portraiture

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students determine the relationship between biography and portraiture. In this biography and portraiture lesson, students decide upon the differences and similarities between biography and portraits and whether or not biographical...
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Wild Animal Science

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Young scholars discover how environmental factors impact the survival of a population. In this landscape design lesson, students create a new animal and discuss the relationship between the animal and its environment before creating a...
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Geometry, Measurement & Reasoning

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students complete worksheets involving rotational symmetry. In this geometry instructional activity, students complete worksheets to identify rotational symmetry and rotations. They compare and contrast rotated figures. Students examine...
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Dimension and Rank

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students determine the dimension of a subspace.  In this dimension and rank lesson, students explore the dimension of a vector space.  They compare and explore the relationship in a matrix. 
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You Gotta Know the Territory

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students examine the relationship between Native Americans and those who settled the Iowa territory. In this Iowa history lesson, students investigate the process for settling the territory and how intercultural relationships developed...
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"Where Does Pi Come From?"

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore geometry by exploring Pi. In this circle measurement lesson, 5th graders identify the relationship between the radius, diameter and circumference of a circle and how Pi is the key to unlocking any circular...
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Introduction to Biology

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
Students examine the study biology and explore the relationship between biology and daily life.  In this nature of biology lesson students study articles and answer the given questions. 
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Archimedes' Principle

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students examine the relationship between density and buoyancy.  In this physics instructional activity students use Archimedes' Principle to complete calculations on buoyancy and a lab activity.
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Short Story Framework

For Teachers 6th - 8th
The class gets creative after listening to a short story containing a definitive structure. They are required to think about character, relationship, and setting, while attempting to show rather than tell, in their writing. Dialogue,...
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Bathtub Physics - Density, Buoyancy and Flotation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers study Archimedes' Principle, flotation and the reaction of buoyant forces and explain the relationship between density and flotation.
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How Far To Mount Katahdin (Part V)

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explain the relationship of hiking/backpacking and caloric consumption as well as to develop an understanding of diet, nutrition, cooking and planning skills.
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Lesson Exchange: Polygons (Middle, Mathematics)

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Young scholars discover the relationship between the sides of a polygon and the number of diagonals that can be drawn from one vertex, the number of triangles that those diagonals form, and the sum of the interior angles of that polygon.
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Investigation 5 - Balloon Rockets

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders make a ballon rocket to study the relationship between the force applied to an object and the resulting motion.
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How Shall We Rule China? Role Play

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders analyze what relationship the Mongols established with the Chinese, how the Mongols governed, from what political center and what their policies were toward land use in China.
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Connecting Characters and Themes in Julius Caesar

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders prepare for the literary analysis. They locate, interpret, evaluate and analyze the relationship between a character and the theme. After a lecture/demo, 4th graders write topic and detail sentences, then correctly put...
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Taxation Without Representation

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders empathize with how colonists felt when they were taxed without representation. They use a metaphor of students and a school principal to describe the strained relationship that developed between the colonies and Britain.
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We're On The Air!

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students use the CBC Archives Web site to explore the relationship between television and print news and create television news reports based on print news.
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More About Water Below the Ground

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students examine groundwater and its relationship to springs, artesian wells, ordinary wells, and sinkholes. They describe the process by which sinkholes are formed. They investigate saltwater contamination and its causes.
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Re-Presenting Race in the Digital Age: "Who Can Pass"

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders examine the relationship between race and class in historical and societal settings. They read and discuss the poem, "Passing," by Langston Hughes, analyze photographs by Yinka Shonibare, answer discussion questions,...