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Cartoons: How Have Society's Views of Women Changed Over Time?

For Teachers K - 4th
Students explore women's rights by viewing cartoon images. In this women's history instructional activity, students view several images depicting women in a certain way while discussing the meaning of the imagery among their classmates....
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Johnny Be Good

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore the Johnny Appleseed story. In this service learning lesson, students listen to the story of Johnny Appleseed and discover how he was a philanthropist.
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Our Neighborhood as a Community

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners understand that they are a part of a community with helpers that make a difference. In this community service lesson, students explore the diversity in a community and how its members make it a nice place to live. Learners sing...
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Linguistic Diversity

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students complete a handout dealing with the languages spoken most frequently at home in Canada. They interview a person with a home language other than English or French. Students contribute to a bulletin board display representing...
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Literature: "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" by J. K. Rowling

For Teachers 1st - 8th
Students examine websites about the fourth book in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series.
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Long Vowel Phoneme -IGH

For Teachers K - 1st
Students listen to a poem and discuss the rhyming words. They complete worksheets focusing on the long vowel phoneme -igh.
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Whales

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students compare the differences between whales and fish. They examine the differences of toothed and baleen whales. They identify behavioral and physical characteristics of animals that help them survive in their habitat.
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Celebrate Wheat

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students compose a thank you letter and a time line about the history of wheat. For this wheat lesson plan, students learn and discuss the origin of wheat, and the differences between einkorn, emmer, and wheat.
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Be a Manners Detective

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students fill out a sticker chart and identify behaviors for completing nice manners. For this nice manners lesson plan, students discuss behaviors that are nice.
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Creating and Preserving a Tradition

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students explore folk art and tradition. They work in small groups and produce an essay about folk art or traditions practiced in their community. Students discuss the creation and preservation of a tradition. They discuss various...
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Where Do I Live?

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students study the characteristics of communities. Students identify similarities and differences in communities. Students identify that all people have basic needs, understanding that these needs are met through the community. Students...
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Water Quest

For Teachers K - 5th
Students visit the Hydrology Study Site, conduct a visual survey to discover info about local land use and water quality, and document their findings by mapping the water body. They use this investigation to raise questions for further...
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Water Walk

For Teachers K - 5th
Students follow the appropriate sampling protocol and take two measurements of a local water source. These measurements are Transparency and Temperature. This info about local land use and/or water chemistry issues may require further...
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THE FOODS WE EAT

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students discuss the five food groups and the seven basic nutrients. They decorate Food We Eat booklet pages with pictures of foods found on background, rubber stamp and animation tools in KidPix. (Booklet has a page for each food group.)
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Drawing Two

For Teachers K - 2nd
In this number 2 worksheet, students practice tracing the number 2 four times, writing the number 2 two times and drawing 2 wheels on the picture of a car.
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Protest Signs

For Teachers K - 4th
Learners make their own chalk art or poster that represents a protest sign. In this protest sign lesson plan, students look at signs from the Civil Rights movement and then make their own.
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Making a Difference Globally

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars discover what the common good is and how to be a part of it. In this community instructional activity, students discuss the war in Iraq and how people are working for the common good. Young scholars then discuss the term...
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Be a Whale

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students explore the body shape, behavior and history of gray whales by creating origami whale hats. Students role-play whale behavior as they listen to a story.
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Watch the Birdie

For Teachers K - 8th
Young scholars complete a six-week unit on North American birds. They conduct research, develop fact sheets, create labeled bird drawings, write a dictionary of bird vocabulary words, create a Concentration game, and observe birds in...
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Coming to America

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students discover their families' reasons for coming to America. They view the video "Molly's Pilgrim" and discuss the story. They interview family members as to why they came to America.
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RIGHT TO EQUAL OPPORTUNITY

For Teachers K - 4th
Students learn the importance of fairness and come up with strategies to create this type of environment in their classroom.
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MUSICAL MYSTERIES

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore the orchestra and identify the sounds of common musical instruments.
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Phonics and Letter ID

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners identify at least 46 of the 54 upper and lower case letters of the alphabet by name, sound, or example of a word that letter starts.
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First Grade Writing Lesson #1/ Narrative Prompt

For Teachers 1st
First graders write a descriptive paragraph about a friend.