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How Schools Can Successfully Partner with Local Businesses
One school network raised graduation rates to 97% through smart partnerships. Learn how.
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Animal Bingo
Use the much-loved game of Bingo to give your students practice listening for clues and drawing conclusions.
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Biodiversity Memory Match Up
Children learn about cool animals from Asia while sharpening their memory skills.
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Belief Systems Along the Silk Roads
A Silk Roads Encounter Project
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Tet: Let's Get Ready to Celebrate
Learn about Lunar new Year in Vietnam and why it is an especially good time to review good manners. Tet 2010 is February 14.
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Patterns from Nature
Discover Australia, its unique geography and animals, and Aborigine culture through this art-based lesson plan.
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Nim: A Game Played All Over the World
A two-player game said to originate in China, but is played throughout the world. Children practice simple math and gets an enjoyable introduction to strategy.
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Truyen-Truyen: A Vietnamese Game
This game of jacks teaches counting and hand-eye coordination skills...and it's good for lots of laughs!
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Music from the Silk Roads
World music, pattern recognition, and simple math come together in this hands-on activity. Young students learn about a popular instrument found along the Silk Roads, from China to the Middle East.
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Chinese Cut Outs
Teach children about an important Chinese invention: paper! Learn about the history of paper and its many uses (some quite surprising). The lesson concludes with a paper cut-out activity.
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A Museum as Time Capsule
This lesson focuses on using museums, or more precisely, artwork or artifacts as resources to study history and geography. The example used in this lesson is a horse saddle from Mongolia, but any art object(s) or artifact(s) may be substitu
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