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Stimulating Narrative Writing

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students create an art project and write a process paper  as a response to literature.  In this literature response lesson plan, students listen to Lynn Ehlert's, Snowballs before decorating a construction paper snowman. They write a...
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The Branding of America (And Your State)

For Teachers K - Higher Ed
Students investigate about the origins of some major U.S. brands. They explore local products that stimulate the economy. Students create a map showing where those products originate. Students discover the products that their local area...
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Constitutional Rights Foundation

What Is an Independent Judiciary?

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
While justice is supposed to be blind, it doesn't always follow the rules. Using a reading on the independent judiciary and case studies, learners consider what to do with judges who rule in their own self-interest rather than on behalf...
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Talking with My Peers: Carousel of Reading Superheroes Around the World

For Teachers 3rd Standards
In many places in the world, people go to great lengths to get books to read. This beginning-of-the-year activity uses pictures of people reading in extraordinary situations to stimulate effective listening and speaking using the...
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Pyro Innovations

Get into Shape

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Shapes are so fun! Little ones explore, identify, and create shapes using tangrams or pattern blocks. The activity is intended to stimulate critical thinking while engaging learners through play and shape identification. Each child will...
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Come Fly with Me . . . Open a Book: Travels through Literature

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This detailed overview of a curriculum unit suggests using travel literature to engage and stimulate your third graders’ interest in reading. The suggested reading list includes fiction and non-fiction materials and offers urban children...
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Virginia Department of Education

The Writing Process for Persuasive Writing

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Get your junior high writers stimulated with the strategies and ideas available in this activity. Learners discuss and debate controversial subjects, and outline their reasons with an online graphic organizer (link included) that creates...
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Perkins School for the Blind

Letter Confusion

For Teachers K - 6th
Teaching a child with low or no vision how to read is the same as teaching a sighted child how to read — it all starts with letter recognition. This is a simple way to provide your learners with an opportunity to practice reading and...
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Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

Learning English through Poems and Songs

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
Exposing learners to the power of words in poetry is a stimulating way to learn languages. Songs, haikus, rhyming words, and narrative works are all employed in a resource for teaching English as a Second Language.
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Scarf Juggling

For Teachers K - 8th
Students participate in an activity that promotes self-confidence, concentration and improves hand-eye coordination. They choose a scarf to throw up into the air and catch with one hand and then the other hand. Stimulation of the brain...
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Lesson 5- Symme "trees": Understanding Same

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Pairs of socks can be the same and they can be different. Use socks to emphasise the meanings of the words same and different. Your special ed class will examine each pair of socks you provide to determine if they are the same or...
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Lead Me On - Writing Lively Leads for Book Reviews

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders use the concepts found in a PowerPoint presentation, and write leads for book reviews that attract readers and stimulate book interest. They are graded on their ability to engage the reader with their writing.
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Is That a Bird in Your Hat?

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders imagine they find an injured bird. They create a clay bird and nest to stimulate creative writing. The lesson plan includes an integrated week-long art, science, and writing activity.
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Get a Job.....Build a Battery!

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students design and construct a battery (electrochemical cell). They works in a team to design and construct a working battery and is responsible for a labeled diagram of its operation. This engaging lesson stimulate their creative juices!
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Rock & Roll through Literary Terms: An Upbeat Lyrical Adventure

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students participate in a variety of activities surrounding Rock & Roll music, lyrics, drama and visual art and how they all help demonstrate examples of literary terms. They use Rock & Roll as an effective aid to stimulate their...
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Picture Bride

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students share their views and opinions on the state of racism in America. Stimulate discussion by asking if there are specific groups who seem to be the target of racism more then others; also students consider what the true causes of...
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Four Year Plan Essay

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students complete a personal vision, a four year plan essay, meant to stimulate their thinking process. They set a foundation for what they hope to strive for in the next four years to come.
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Using Prominent Personalities With Identifiable Social Causes to Stimulate Writing

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students write a friendly letter to a Maya Angelou, describing their response to her poetry and short stories.
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The Me Book

For Teachers K - 5th
Young scholars relate to the pictures as symbols so that they come to point to named pictures, explain what pictured objects are for, match pictures to real objects, categorize objects, and recognize words.
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Folktales (African American, Chinese, Japanese and Korean)

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers participate in a variety of activities that are concerned with comparing different cultures through the literary genre of folktales. The stories are used to stimulate student interest and provide a context for how a...
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Simple Simon Went A-Fishing

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students investigate the concept of reading a story with the help of the teacher to pronounce words with the singing of a song that is used to stimulate memory. They read the story while singing and review which words are rhyming.
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Introduction to Creative Thinking and Dr. de Bono's Thinking Methods

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars become more familiar with the setting of the lesson. They know who Dr. de Bono is and what he invented. Students know the lessons ground rules. They have sparked their creativity to be stimulated.
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A CLOSER LOOK

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students group objects by their physical characteristics and various compositions using literature to stimulate recall.
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Self Reliance

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students thinking is stimulated and has them reflect on looking after themselves and to not always rely on others for your needs. A story is read to them or they read it and reflect on the it. They put on a play in a small group and...

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