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Colors, Characters, & Clues: White Socks
Students examine the process of making inferences. They define inference, view a Powerpoint presentation, and as a whole group locate clues in the pictures of a short story, locating written clues to reinforce their conclusions.
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Saving the Titanic
Students research the Titanic using fiction, nonfiction, images, and Internet based resources. They determine if it is appropriate to raise and save the Titanic and its artifacts before planning and writing an opinion piece which defends...
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Gerunds, Infinitives, and Emergencies
Students identify gerunds and infinitives in emergency-related scenarios. They replace gerunds with infinitives in written and spoken exercises. They create and perform an emergency dialogue using gerunds and infinitives.
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Character Education: Integrity
Eighth graders write about a quote given to them to reflect on the concept of integrity. In this integrity lesson plan, 8th graders connect personal experiences to the concept of integrity and write about it.
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Feeling Alone
Second graders listen to the story, The Whispering Cloth and discuss the message of the story. In this feeling alone lesson, 2nd graders make connections about what feeling alone means to them. Students define and interpret experiences...
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How Animals Bond
In this animals lesson plan, students students write a description about a pet or animal that they know. They include details that would help someone who has never met their animal feel like they know it already. Artwork about their...
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The Language of the Civil Rights Movement:
Tenth graders study the poetry of the US Civil Rights movement and the Black Arts movement over a 12 day period. They author a website showing works of poetry that students have chosen to analyze and relate to these movements.
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Writing
Fourth graders review the writing process by using the English Language Arts Writer's Checklist. They examine a piece of writing for the key elements of composition. They help to make the writing pieces more interesting by correcting...
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Brochure Writing: Severe Weather Patterns
Students observe weather patterns. They reserach important facts about severe weather. Using computer technology, students create a detailed brochure explaining six severe weather patterns.
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A Story of Philanthropy
Help your class define philanthropy and recognize philanthropic activities. Ask them to identify examples of philanthropy in literature and explore the philanthropic deeds of themselves and others. To wrap up, create a class display with...
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Sally's Silly Somersaults
First graders engage in an emergent literacy lesson based upon the skill of phoneme awareness. They practice recognizing different sounds from prior knowledge for practice and then work on the new phoneme.
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The Language of the Civil Rights Movement
Tenth graders develop a website documenting poetry integral during the civil rights movement in the United States. Working in pairs, 10th graders research the people and poetry of that was prevalent during the civil rights movement. ...
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Poseidon's Protectors to the Rescue
Students explore the concept of philanthropy. In this environmental stewardship lesson, students explore the Greek mythology story of Poseidon. Students write letters to Poseidon that address water pollution today and express how they...
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Teaching Guide: Can You Make a Piggy Giggle?
Students explore the book Can You Make a Piggy Giggle?. In this language arts lesson plan, students focus on a variety of aspects within the book. Students study the illustrations, listen for rhymes, and attempt the tongue twisters in...
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Where Are The Verbs?
In this grammar worksheet, students search for action verbs in a word search and write them on the lines provided. Students are timed for 3 minutes to do this.
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Law of the Land
First graders explore how the rules and responsibilities are different at school and at home.
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And Tomorrow's Forecast Is...
Students create original short stories that feature distinctive weather phenomena, such as rainbows, snowstorms, tornadoes, thunder and/or lightning. They use a story map, imbedded in this plane, to help them organize their story.
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Writing: Wall of Peace Bulletin Board
Students discuss holidays dealing with patriotic national holidays or remembrances. After choosing a teacher-provided prompt. they write responses to it. They write their paragraphs on paper shaped like bricks and pin them to a "wall...
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Spain and Bullfighting
Learners research Spain and bullfighting. They use the Internet and other reference materials. Spain's bullfighting festivals and activities will be used as a springboard for inspiring students to write creatively.
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Using Is and Are
First graders discuss when to use "is" and "are" in a sentence. They practice using is and are correctly in sentences and practice writing sentences using "is" and "are" in their writing. Students complete a worksheet using is and are.
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Haiku, Limerick, Acrostic
Students brainstorm about favorite types of movies and why they are liked. They investigate different types of poetry from examples given in class. Using the examples they attempt to generate their own poems.
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Total English Upper Intermediate: Using "If"
In this using if worksheet, students practice using if and can do statements as they complete 8 sentence starters using if and their own ending. Students also work in pairs to write a diary entry of 100 words following the provided...
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Analyzing Health
Third graders analyze their health. In this analysis lesson plan, 3rd graders rate their health on a 1-10 scale. They then tally the scores from the class and create a data chart. Then they answer true and false questions based on...
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What Goes Around, Comes Around!: Art from the Heart
Students identify the relationship between an artist and their community. In this serial reciprocity instructional activity, students listen to a story called Camille and the Sunflowers by Laurence Anholt and discuss how the community...