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Thanksgiving Verbs

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd
Bake, cook, eat, serve, travel. Five verbs associated with Thanksgiving are introduced to learners with autism. This is a presentation that features one printed word and an illustration of that word on each slide.
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Just How Big is this Place?

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Learners are introduced to the the formula for calculating travel time. They listen to different scenarios relating to long distance travel into space and calculate travel time using the formula.
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Exploring and Comparing Other Communities

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders search TDC database for images of physical geography maps, weather maps, natural resources maps, and old travel brochures. They create a new travel brochure of an area of their choice using the information they gathered.
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Planet Vacation

For Teachers 5th - 10th
In this planets worksheet, students fill out a chart where they fill in the distance each planet is from the Earth, and how much travel time in years and hours it would take to get there. Students do this for 8 planets.
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Scale Problem

For Students 6th
In this scale problem worksheet, 6th graders solve 9 different problems that include reading a map scale of a neighborhood. First, they determine the distance between each person's home as illustrated. Then, students determine the...
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Planning a Trip

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Young scholars plan a trip to from 3 to 5 cities of their choice. They design a brochure to travel to the chosen cities. It should be of a quality that it could be used by a customer to decide if they would like to take this trip.
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How Big is Your Footprint?

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students create awareness for ways in which the "Western" lifestyle negatively impacts the Earth. They create awareness for alternatives to our current ways of living, eating and traveling. Students are challenged to talk with their...
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How Will We Get There?

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students discuss and make a T chart of how to travel in Hawaii and understand that it is a group of islands that you cannot drive to. In this Hawaii lesson plan, students also discuss the kinds of transportation we use on the main land.
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To Travel or Not to Travel: Locomotor andNonLocomotor Movement

For Teachers K
Students develop dances. In this movement lesson, students play action and stillness games and learn motif writing symbols that communicate dance moves. Students use locomotor and non-locomotor movement to create their own movement phrases.
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"One Giant Leap for Mankind"

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore the significance of the Apollo 11 lunar landing by interviewing an adult for memories of the mission. They incorporate their interviews into news articles as 'journalists' in July 1969 to document this historic 'step for...
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Strange New Planet

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students choose a spherical object to decorate with stickers, scents, etc to make it interesting. They write a key to the features for future explorers. Students use viewers to observe mystery planets. Students simulate NASA missions by...
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Online Exploration: Telescopes From the Ground Up

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore a web-based illustrated text and interactive graphics to determine the relationship between the operation of telescopes and light. optics. They work in small groups to become an expert on one of the ten eras of telescope...
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Mush! Tracking Travelers on the Trail

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students get to know Alaska and the Iditarod route that is run by dogs as they track the mushers' progress on a map that they create specifically for the race. They learn about latitude, longitude, plotting on a map, checkpoints, and...
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Mission Survival

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students determine ways to survive the extreme conditions of Antarctica. In this space and earth sciences lesson, students work as a group to determine how to survive after a plane crash in Antarctica. They relate survival...
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Trade and Travel Along the Silk Road

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine the religions that developed along the Silk Road. In this compare and contrast activity, students visit various stations within the classroom to learn about the Silk Road and the two religions that developed. Using a...
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Investigating Planetary Life

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students research about the search for life in Mars. In this space science lesson, students develop a creative visual display of their findings. They present their project in class.
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Vocabulary: Traveling/Travel Plans-Part 1

For Teachers 7th - 8th
In this foreign language worksheet, pupils read ten sentences about traveling. They select the best fit to fill in the blank from three given options.
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Create A Travel Brochure

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students identify the different landforms in the State of Oaxaca, Mexico and create a travel brochure highlighting Oaxaca's attractions.
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Investigating How Pollutants Travel Through Groundwater

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students determine how pollutants can travel though sediment and explore methods of pollutant removal. They conduct an experiment on porosity and permeability of soils and simulate an EPA "pump and treat" method for removing subsurface...
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MOBILITY, Traveling Lightly: What’s My Footprint?

For Teachers 5th - 10th
Students calculate their carbon footprint. In this environmental technology lesson plan, students listen to a lecture on climate change. Students brainstorm solutions to reduce environmental impact based on travel options. Students...
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Travel the States

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students work together to virtually travel the United States. In groups, they are assigned a monument to research and use a checklist to check them off once they find them. They create a book about the monument and share it with the...
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ADULT ESOL LESSON PLAN--Transportation and Travel

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students practice identifying pictures and words that represent different signs and symbols that deal with different types of transportation/travel (enter, exit, push, pull, men, women, caution, no smoking, no swimming, arrows,...
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Traveling Cart Activity

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Learners 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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Why Not Visit My Country?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students research a country using the Travel Languages Web site. Using MS Publisher, they create a travel flyer about the country. Using Inspiration, they develop a concept map of what they learned about their country.