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Making Connections to Text

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Making connections to text is an important skill that students can practice in fun and motivating ways.
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Domino Math

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students solve addition and multiplication problems using dominoes. Students use the dominoes as a game to help reinforce the concepts of addition and multiplication.
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Changes through the Choices

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students maintain an on-going self-assessment of their use of Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills as discovered in the Choices class. In addition they keep an on-going journal of their responses to an essential question web about...
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Newspaper Research

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders use newspapers in order to perform research. The literacy skill of finding facts is reinforced. The students play a game of scavenger hunt by finding specific facts prepared in advance in the newspaper.
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Moral Development and Gender

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students participate in a class discussion about moral development based on Kohlberg's and Gilligan's moral orientations.
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The Case of the Crooked Cartoon: Newton's Laws Set the Standard

For Teachers 8th - 9th
Students have the opportunity to use higher-level thinking skills and to apply their talents to previously learned material. It provides an opportunity for visual, auditory, and tactile/kinetic learners to utilize their particular...
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Friends in the Snow

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students practice reading a story in order to develop character recognition skills. They participate in reader's theatre in small groups to increase cooperation and fluency skills.
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Planetary Poster

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Young scholars engage in a study about the planets and create a poster as one of the projects during the study. They create individual charts for mapping the solar system so the locations can be found in mock space missions to other...
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Types of Energy Word Search

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Intended for science instruction, this word search could be used to reinforce vocabulary. Class members find the following words: electrical, potential, heat, chemical, gravitational, kinetic, mechanical, nuclear, and radiant. While the...
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Air Pressure

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students watch a demonstration on air pressure, discuss it, and do a worksheet to reinforce it.
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Long Vowel Phoneme -ee- 1 of 4

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students apply word-level skills through shared and guided reading. They use poems of parts of poems as models for own writing. They read texts aloud with pace and expression.
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Interior Designer for a Day

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders organize a 20 x 17 room with a given set of furniture pieces. Arrangement is to be based on maximum comfort and practicality. This lesson is a good way to teach and reinforce the mathematical concept of area.
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Be a Power Eater: Good Food World Tour

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders learn why certain foods grow better in some places as opposed to others. They study the climate of the world's continents, and locate the continents on the map below:
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Body and Media Reconstruction

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars use discussion and activities to create a message about body image. They discover their voice in the media and discover how the production process affects the final message from the media.
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Mercer Mayer 1: Guided Reading and Using Concept Maps

For Teachers Higher Ed
Pupils observe a model classroom of children working in a cooperative group activity. After the video, students discuss how cooperative group learning is used to be most effective. They explore the effectiveness of giving well thought...
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Community Fire Safety Officer's Talk

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students are visited by a community fire safety officer. Through class discussion, role-playing, video resources, and relevant true-life stories, the CFS Officer will explain and cover the key aspects of fire safety in the home.
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Planetary Trading Cards

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students research facts about each of the nine planets and record them on Planetary Trading Cards. Students use these cards to later construct a poster that is part of their mission day. Students use a variety of resources to research...
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Floppy And the Puppies

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders reinforce and focus on the meaning derived from the text as a whole and identify and describe the main characters, events and settings in a fiction piece of writing. They incorporate a wide-range of adventurous vocabulary...
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Sesame Street Letter Recognition

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students study the letters of the alphabet, explore different shapes, rhyme, and listen to the different sounds of the alphabet to help them sound out words and begin elementary level reading.
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Hot Hoops

For Teachers K
Students work on jumping and landing skills and cooperation. This lesson plan enables students to better use in space, while learning different colors. In this game, everyone is a winner.
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SEXUAL LIFE CYCLE DEVELOPMENT USING MONOCYSTIS

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners perform a lab to becoe familar with scientific concepts. The skill of inquiry is essential and this instructional activity furthers its development. The intelligence of kinesthetics is used as learners perform the many aspects...
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Fire Safety Message

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students review what they have discovered from the lesson on House of Fire Hazards writing a list of fire hazards on the board and discussing. They also are reminded to tell an adult if they see a fire hazard and not to correct things...
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Examining Infiltration Rates of Various Soil Types

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students formulate their own hypothesis, determine which variables are important to test their hypothesis, design an experiment in which they collect data. They utilize instruments and tools to measure, calculate, and organize data.
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Garden of Letters

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young scholars learn a game of tag that is delivered in the format of a garden with a queen bee that is the tagger. They work on the skills of locomotor movements, spatial awareness, and letter recognition. The lesson includes a...