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Against all Odds

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders appreciate the role of probability in understanding everyday situations. They Communicate a summary of financial projections in appropriate reports, tables, and graphs after creating a new game of chance.
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Body Part Tag

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students participate in a game of tag using body parts. They are dodgers and taggers in this game. Dodgers try to avoid having teacher-named body parts tagged by the taggers.
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Cause and Effect

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students examine the concept of cause and effect. They participate in a class discussion, play matching games, and play a memory/concentration game with cause and effect as the focus. Students complete an evaluation chart as an...
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Sounding out accuracy, Bam!

For Teachers K - 1st
Students play a game with index cards to build reading  and speaking accuracy.  In this sounding out game, students look at cards and pronounce the word on them.  They keep the card if they are correct. the person with the...
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Cooperative Hoops

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students participate in a game similar to musical chairs, but use hoops to walk around while music is playing. When the music stops, students jump inside the nearest hoop.
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Latitude & Longitude Bingo

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students practice map reading skills through a reinforcement game of bingo. They select any 24 of 30 listed cities to write on blank bingo cards. Then using atlases, locate a city based on the latitude and longitudinal coordinates...
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Give Us A Clue

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students practice the vowel phonemes ow/ou, oy/oi, ar/a/al, oo/u, air/are/ear, or/ore/oar/war, aw/au/augh/al, ir/ur/er, ear/eer/ere in a game with two to four players. They extend their practice over and over to identify the phonemes in...
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Going to Greenland

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students play game in which they identify different-colored objects to take on an imaginary trip.
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Soccer #1

For Teachers 1st - 9th
Students demonstrate physical skills. They perform a pylon weave, wall pass, and dribbling. Students participate in touch touch passing and mini-games. Students explain the importance of warming-up before participating in physical...
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Sight Word Soup

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students explore language arts by completing a vocabulary activity. In this sight words lesson, students discuss the commonly used words that are seen often in writing and define 10 new words each week. Students utilize flashcards,...
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Addition Practice - Activity

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders play a number strategy and addition game.
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Magician Tag

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners participate in a creative version of the game freeze tag.
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Butterfly Surprise

For Teachers K - 1st
Students make a butterfly from art materials. In this butterfly project lesson, students use tissue paper, pom poms, wiggly eyes, and tongue depressors to make a butterfly. There are games, songs, and a recipe on the same page.
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Human Body Simon Says

For Teachers K - 12th
Students display their new knowledge of human body parts' names and locations, by playing an adaptation of the game Simon Says. A more sophisticated version of the game can be played with older students as they learn more specific names...
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Hockey Problem

For Students 9th - 11th
For this algebra worksheet, students rewrite a word problem using algebra. They play a game using algebra to help them win and find the answer. There are 4 questions with an answer key.
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In the Global Ballpark

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine reasons for and against American baseball teams playing in international exhibition games by debating pros and cons of the issue from the perspectives of designated personas.
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Bat Ecology

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students, through hands on games and activities, discover how bats live and how bats benefit ecosystems. They play a game designed to show them how echolocation works and another to show how mother bats locate their young through their...
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Recycling Concentration & Go Fish

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students play a game based on concentration or memory to place recyclable items into one of 4 groups. In this recycling lesson, students work in groups of 1-4 to place cards with pictures of various items into a Composting, Recycling,...
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Lesson Ten: Your World Without Oil

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars participate in the World Without Oil game as they examine the effects of a prolonged oil shortage. In this oil shortage activity, students play the online game, World Without Oil, before making an audio clip based on the...
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Classroom Environment Review and Test

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students play a Jeopardy type review game regarding the physical classroom set up for preschool. They review the positive guidance techniques learned in prior lessons such as redirection and time outs. Following the review, students...
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Word Clue and All About Me Problem Solving

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders practice solving word problems using highlighted strategies. In this word problem instructional activity, 5th graders brainstorm and  use words as clues that indicate the math operations that will be used to solve...
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Sounding out accuracy, Draw Two

For Teachers K - 1st
Students participate in a card game to read words with a particular sound correctly.  In this sound card game instructional activity, students students keep a word card if they correctly pronounce the word on it. Additional...
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Word is to Analogy as...

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers complete verbal analogies by playing a group game.
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I Think, Therefore I See

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students participate in a memory experiment to discover how the eye works. After reading an article, they analyze a new technique which examines how the brain registers sight. They develop their own memory game and conduct trials using...