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Roles, Rights, and Responsibilities of Community Members
Students identify the roles, rights and responsibilities of a specific community. They conduct research, brainstorm ideas and prepare an illustrated booklet to present the gathered information.
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Brainstorming: A Strategy for Creative Productivity
In this brainstorming worksheet, students read directions on how to brainstorm with a group or as an individual. Students read 7 tips total.
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Outlining Essays (Grades 3-6)
Students brainstorm story idea in preparation of writing an expressive essay. They study how to outline essays to assist them in writing an expressive essay. Each students conclusion should summarize their main idea and restate their...
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Writing Strategies: Descriptive Words
Students discover the importance of using descriptive words in good writing. They brainstorm words to describe elephants and dogs then watch a video that describes different items. Each student writes a paragraph using descriptive words...
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Haiku: Lesson Plan for Teachers
After examining winning entries to the Nicholas A. Virgilio Memorial Haiku Competition, young poets try their hand at this fixed form.
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Team Building Activities
Need some ideas for team-building activities? This 27-page packet contains a wide variety suggestions, everything from back-to-school bingo to positive comments name charts. There's even an inspirational poem by David Roth...
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Creature From The Deep
Students become familiar with oceanography terms by writing an oceanography horror story.
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Halloween Tales
At the beginning of this Halloween lesson, learners generate a list of spooky characters and words that they will use when creating their original stories. Teams of 3-4 members create the stories together. The lesson includes a handy...
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Acting for the Common Goods
The first of a three-part series on bullying, this plan has class members present skits about bullying, write and sign an anti-bullying pledge, and complete a service project. For the skit, learners use information from previous lessons...
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Play-Doh and the Writing Process
The art of writing is very similar to that of creating a sculpture. They both follow a familiar process.
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A Day at the Beach: How to Keep Our Planet Clean
Students write a persuasive essay based on cleaning up the coast and other philanthropic values. In this writing instructional activity, students determine what is needed in order to keep the planet clean, and offer solutions to the...
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Dear Future Writing Assignment
Students write a letter to future residents of their town to complete a time capsule activity. In this letter writing lesson, students discuss the ideas of past, present, and future and review writing conventions. Students study images...
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Free Verse
Students write free verse poems. In this poetry lesson, students use a three-step method to create a free verse poem. Students brainstorm ideas, let their ideas "incubate," and write a free verse poem.
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Brainstorm This!
Young scholars discuss the advantages and types of brainstorming as a prewriting tool. They experiment with different styles of brainstorming and produce prewriting samples for assessment.
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Writing Prompt- Think Pack Cards- The Principal and The Perfect Pizza
In this writing prompt think cards worksheet, learners receive bookmark sized cards that contain a writing task, a word storm, and writing hints. They write essays entitled, The Principal, and The Perfect Pizza. Parents receive tips for...
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Movie Maker: Retelling a Story
Using Movie Maker, sixth graders make an eight frame movie based on a story they have written. They choose music clips, select pictures from PowerPoint, and make their movie. The lesson should take about ten days to complete.
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A Whale of Importance to the Arctic People
The bowhead whale of the Arctic region is of great importance to the people that live there. Your class will brainstorm all they know about this wonderful whale and create an informational video, which they will share with the children...
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Harmony Day - Listen In
Here is a great idea for building cultural awareness and good listening skills. The instructional activity suggests having a guest speaker come to the classroom to share his/her experiences. Prior to the visit, the class will generate a...
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What is Bullying?
Students brainstorm ideas or create a definition of what bullying is. They write their ideas on the board. They then break into cooperative groups giving each group a form of bullying from a list and discussing it among themselves.
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Making a Difference #1
Students study homelessness. In this homelessness activity, students brainstorm ideas about the well-being of individuals. Students write a letter to parents and their community asking for donations for homeless care kits. Students also...
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Being an Active Family
Students brainstorm ideas that will help them to be more active. In this activity lesson plan students select an indoor activity they can do as a family and other ways they can get moving.
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Crazy Critters Creative Writing
Young scholars brainstorm animals with unusual characteristics such as a giraffe with a short neck or a zebra without stripes. They write paragraphs about their animals and work in peer editing groups to refine their stories.
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Monster Mash
Students brainstorm ideas for an original product with the same name, "Monster Mash" and find a unique way to market their invention. They create a prototype of the package in which their product could be sold and focus on marketing...
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Sami and the Time of Troubles
Students read Florence Parry Heide and Judith Heide Gilliland's, Sami and the Time of Troubles before discussing it as a class. They brainstorm ideas for a letter to the main character, Sami. Next, they write a rough draft of a letter to...