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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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Walk in My Shoes

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students discover how culture, geography and history affect how someone views an area of the world. They role play the role of a Palestinian, Jew or Briton and examine how they felt about Israel during its formation. To end the lesson,...
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To Honor All Children from Prejudice to Discrimination to Hatred....to Holocaust, Part 1

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students analyze different perspectives of the history of the Holocaust. They experience primary and secondary sources along with pieces from literature, documentaries, songs and letters. A commitment of honor and dedication is expressed...
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Pendemonium: Panic in Paru

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students discover and practice the use of the three types of pronouns. They view and discuss a lighthearted video that describes the proper uses of pronouns. They also participate in a read aloud of the book,"I and You and Don't Forget...
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A Peaceful Place Is Powerful for the Mind

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore, analyze and interpret how schools can become peaceful places to learn and interact with others. They study a wide variety of avenues to achieve this task through classroom, community and career activities...
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Artful Installations: 3D Constructions

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students create a larger than life recreation of a famous painting after becoming familiar with a famous artist's work through reading and exploration. They view and discuss slides from a variety of major art museums. They analyze and...
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We the People: Promise and Practice in our Constitution

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students examine the concept that the constitutional government guarantees that our government is not all-powerful and analyze the purposes of our government that are listed in the Preamble. They assess that equality under the law and...
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Using Effective, Evocative Writing as a Model

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students analyze the author's style to learn techniques for strengthening their own writing. They re-read "Music in the Fields" and highlight images that create vivid pictures in their minds-places where Young "shows, not tells" and...
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Home Work

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students identify and examine domestic work, skills, and crafts, they find various arenas of traditional learning in their homes and daily lives. They identify experts at home and in their region whose skills contribute to building...
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Racism And Discrimination

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students watch and analyze the short film "Broken Dreams" and discuss the causes and effects of racism and discrimination. They answer discussion questions related to the film, then create a leaflet entitled "Racism and Discrimination."
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Can You Hear Me Now? A Study Unit on Cell Phones

For Teachers 6th - 10th
In this comprehensive reading comprehension lesson, students complete an indepth look at the introductions and history of cell phones. Students research, analyze and determine the answers to twenty two questions regarding what a cell...
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Basketball Spelling

For Teachers 4th - 7th
In this basketball spelling worksheet, students study, discuss and analyze a list of spelling words, fill in missing letters in words, complete sentences with basketball terms, unscramble ten terms, complete a word search puzzle and take...
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Johann Sebastian Bach

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this music history worksheet, students read and analyze an article on Johann Sebastian Bach and then answer twelve comprehension questions about the composer.
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Configuration Station

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this vocabulary worksheet, students analyze 5 words from a word bank. Students fit them into a puzzle, generate sentences, place them in alphabetical order and illustrate them.
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configuration station #18

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this vocabulary learning exercise, students analyze 5 words in a word bank and complete 30 questions. Although it is not clear what these words have in common, all are high frequency words which students will encounter in their daily...
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Rooms in the House

For Students Higher Ed
For this ESL worksheet, students will focus on the various parts of a home. Students will analyze six pictures and choose the correct answer to tell what room is depicted in each photo.
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Verbs of Action

For Students Higher Ed
In this ESL verbs of actions worksheet, students will analyze the activities pictured. Students will choose the correct verb that is depicted in each of the ten photographs.
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Is There/Are There

For Students 4th
In this questions and answers worksheet, 4th graders analyze eight pictures in order to ask a question to go along with the answer to the question already stated with each picture.
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The Election of Barack Obama 44th President of the United States

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students consider the historic implications of Barack Obama's election. In this election of 2008 lesson, students research Obama's accomplishments and determine how his election signifies the success of the American Civil Rights...
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The Business of Interest

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students learn about finance and money management and use math to solve problems, communicate, and explore real life situations as they deal with banks. In this financial management lesson, students apply their math skills to real life...
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Bullying and Core Democratic Values

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers explore the concept of core democratic values. After completing a survey of student populations regarding bullying, small groups analyze their findings and present their findings to the Student Council, principal, or the...
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Reading and Activity Suggestions for The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students learn about characterization techniques in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.  In this Adventures of Tom Sawyerlesson, students write a description of one character through the eyes of another character and identify scenes that give...
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Hard Times, Soft Sell

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers analyze art to determine themes for the Great Depression Era. In this Great Depression lesson, students identify themes for the era and research evidence for the themes to present to the class. High schoolers interview...
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Teaching Economics and Rock and Roll: Unemployment

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students explore the consequences of unemployment. For this macroeconomics lesson, students listen to the songs “Johnny 99” and “Worried Man.” Students discuss the socioeconomic costs of unemployment as they analyze the songs.