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What Should I Purchase?
Discuss commercials, advertisements and junk mail and how each can influence their audience. Through these materials, kids examine persuasive writing. Which key words indicate that it's an advertisement? Young learners include these...
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Life Sentence
Students investigate a vocabulary word by holding a fake auction. In this word visualization lesson, students are assigned a vocabulary word through a class auction and must illustrate its meaning and find its definition. Students...
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Fractal Fraction Fun
Students discover the interesting patterns and shapes referred to as "fractals." For this geometry lesson, students utilize pieces of colored construction paper to create the branches of a fractal tree. Students discuss the rules and...
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In the Loop
Students practice comparing items by using a Venn diagram. For this diagram lesson, students divide a group of similar buttons by the small details that separate them using a Venn Diagram. Students compare and contrast shapes by their...
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The Magic Words
Students investigate the truth behind several magic tricks by conducting the illusions in class. In this slight of hand lesson, students create an illusion using a coffee can and shoe box. Students perform their trick for friends and...
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Preparing to Write
Students practice writing techniques by creating a draft of a story. In this creative writing lesson, students discuss organizational techniques writers use to plan out a story they wish to write. Students have the option to write...