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Creek Monitoring

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders conduct a variety of assessments at a local stream to determine if it is a suitable habitat for salmon. They measure temperature, tubidity, dissolved oxygen, pH levels, bacteria and nutrients. In this unit, 6th graders work...
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How Can Librarians Work To Eliminate Cultural Bias In The Organization Of Information?

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students explore the complexities of organizing information and to support librarians in developing strategies for reducing cultural bias. Students extend strategies to help raise solutions. Students list a variety of definitions on bias...
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What do we know about Iraq?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students develop viewpoints on world issues and concerns. Students review facts on historical time periods. Students compare past happenings to present situations in history. Students differentiate between various forms of ethnic...
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Exploring Folk Traditions and Folk Beliefs

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders work together to brainstorm an idea to focus on the similiarties and differences between various cultures. Individually, they interview family members using questions they created based on their topic. They use their...
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A House Dividing: The Growing Crisis of Sectionalism in Antebellum America

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students trace the development of sectionalism in the United States. They explore slavery, freedom and the Constitution. Students identify influential opponents and defenders of American slavery. They explain different solutions to...
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The Five Pillars of Islam

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students work in groups to read and answer questions about the pillars of Islam, copying the worksheet and taking down notes in the appropriate column. They then share what they have learned in their original groups completing worksheets...
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Making "Cents" of Surface Tension

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Learners explore the unique behaviors of water. They investigate surface tension using water drops on a penny and pennies dropped in a cup.
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The Texas Revolution: Exactly Who Were The Texans?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine the Texas Revolution. In groups, they use the internet to research who the Texans really were and the reasons behind the revolution. They discuss the need to discover the world outside of school and work with people...
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Chinese Shadow Puppet Play

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students experience through role-play the art of shadow puppetry and appreciate the role of oral traditions in Chinese history. They research the origins and history of puppetry as a part of a unit on China. They discover what Chinese...
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Same and Different

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore similarities and differences. They name ways they are alike and different from their peers.
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Beaver Ecology

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Students explore the lives of bgeahvers. They identify the physical and behavioral adaptations that help beavers survive in their environment. Students compare and contrast how beavers influence the ecology of both forest and aquatic...
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Changing Circumstances, Changing U.S. Foreign Policy

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students examine how relationships between countries change overtime. They identify the factors that play a role in altering the relationships and contribute to U.S. foreign policy toward their country of research. Groups conduct their...
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Adjunct Materials

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students describe and evaluate adjunct educational materials for their usefulness in social studies classrooms. They identify means of randomly pairing students using social studies content and develop social studies-themed unit plans...
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Must Know Words for Spelling

For Students 9th - 10th
In this spelling worksheet, students learn key words that are must knows for spelling. There are about three hundred words and cover words from A to Z.
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From Cows To Cartons a Look At Milk

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this dairy industry worksheet, learners complete 5 multiple choice and 10 true or false questions based on reading about cows, milk and the dairy industry.
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Worksheet 8. Vocabulary Review

For Students 5th - 7th
In this vocabulary activity, students choose all of the correct words that could complete the sentence. There are 11 sentences to complete.
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Worksheet 7. Words That Are Similar

For Students 5th - 7th
In this word definition learning exercise, students complete the chart by choosing the word from the word pool that is similar to the bolded word or phrase. There are 10 words to fill in.
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Comma Splices and Fused Sentences - Exercise 5

For Students 5th - 8th
For this comma slice and fused sentences review worksheet, students practice their grammar skills as they respond to 20 multiple choice questions.
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A Quick Fix (Private-Religious)

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students consider their contributions to society. In this service learning lesson, students examine Jewish tradition of tikkun olam. Students recognize that the world is imperfect as they participate in classroom activities and write...
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Breaking the Barrier

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners participate in a game based on bullying. In this social justice lesson, students read Taylor's Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry and discuss the mistreatment of African-Americans in the book. Learners then relate the treatment...
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Wanted Dead or Alive: The Entrepreneur of the Year

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate entrepreneurship as it relates to careers. For this career planning lesson, students create goals leading up to their career of choice. They identify the characteristics necessary ti be successful in the business world.
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Napoleon: Giant or Midget

For Students 8th - 12th
In this Napoleon Bonaparte activity, students complete a graphic organizer that requires them to examine 26 events and categorize them as successes or failures for Napoleon.
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The Emerging Political Spectrum

For Students 8th - 12th
In this political perspectives worksheet, students complete a graphic organizer that requires them to put the listed terms, that describe Republicans, Liberals, and Conservatives from 1815-1848, in the appropriate places.
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Russian Leaders and Industrialization

For Students 8th - 12th
For this industrialization worksheet, students read the provided 1-page article about the Industrial Revolution in Russia and then respond to 8 short answer questions based on the information presented.