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Make That Shot!
Learners figure out basic percentages by shooting paper balls into a basket, recording results, and calculating individual and team percentages for ten shots.
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The "Ad" Survey-What Makes a Print Ad Convincing?
Students develop opinions from a variety of materials, recognize and analyze bias, propaganda and stereotypes, and evaluate effectiveness of print advertisements.
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Azùcar!
Students engage in a instructional activity which honors the Latino community as part of Thirteen/WNET's annual celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month. They utilize worksheets and access websites imbedded in this plan which guide their...
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What Happened to Robin?
Students investigate animal injuries caused by humans. They present their findings to various neighborhood groups.
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What Is in a Rock?
Students identify, sort, and classify mineral samples that make up a common rock.
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Oh, Go Fly a Kite!
Students research and report on aspects of kites including: history, types, building and flying kites. They use Inspiration Software as a graphic organizer. They use gathered research to complete informational booklets.
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U.S. foreign policy in the early Republic
Students research various events during the War of 1812 and then create magazine articles with supporting illustrations, students are in control of their learning.
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Life During the Civil War for Women and Civilians
Students follow an overview of the American Civil War from a film, the text and/or teacher direct instruction. They create a timeline with a large map of the U.S. in the 1860's available for student reference as they do the spider activity.
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Winter Celebrations
Students draw and label pictures about holiday customs and traditions from their countries.
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Who's Afraid of the Big, Bad Wolf?
Students, at the advanced beginner to low intermediate ESL levels, demonstrate comprehension of the play or story, "Little Red Riding Hood." They construct interviews based on knowledge of the characters in the play Little Red Riding Hood.
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Soaring High with Kites
Young scholars make kites from patterns. They write haiku poetry. They listen to stories about kite festivals in different countries.
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How to Use Technology to Teach the Water Cycle
Students answer six content-related questions on reproducible information sheets. They predict how the jury vote at the end of the trial.
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Roll with the Punches: Depression Era Machinery
Students construct models of simple and complicated machines with Legos. Then they design an experiment using the scientific method. ESE modifications included.
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Snow Similies
Learners listen to poems to explain how poets use words to paint pictures. They use hands-on materials to practice using similies and figurative language to write a poem about snow.
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It's Just a Phase: Water as Solid, Liquid and Gas
Students construct models of the way water molecules arrange themselves in three physical states - solid, liquid, and gas. They explain the molecular behavior of ice, water, and water vapor.
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Atmospheric Processes - Radiation
Students investigate how different surfaces absorb heat, and how the physical characteristics of a surface have a powerful effect on the way a surface absorbs and releases heat from the sun.
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Best Friend - Friend from Hell
Students practice in a number of areas: expressing opinions, using comparatives and superlatives, descriptive adjectives and reported speech. The overall concept of this lesson can be applied to many other topics of discussion.
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Translation Lesson to help Students Improve Vocabulary and Writing Style
Students translate an entire Internet page from English into a target language. In small groups, they create a short story or document in their native tongue or find an Internet page in their own tongue that they translate into English.
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Six Games for the FFL/ESL Classroom
Learners participate in games to practice language skills.
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Mixed Verb Tenses: Role Play
In this mixed verb tense worksheet, students pretend they are someone else from a different country and with a new name. Students answer the 12 questions as if they were a different person.
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Vocabulary: Work
In this work vocabulary worksheet, students choose which word does not belong in each set of words. Each word is related to the workplace or to jobs and careers.
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Marriage Vocabulary
In this ESL vocabulary concerning marriage worksheet, students choose a word from each three words that does not fit in with the others. All of the words are pertaining to marriage.
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Ice Hockey Trivia
In this ice hockey trivia instructional activity, students complete 15 trivia questions about ice hockey. Students may click on an answer button for immediate feedback. Worksheet is designated ESL, but is not exclusive.
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ESL: Words about the Bank
In this ESL worksheet, students choose letters from boxes to form a word about going to the bank/banking. Students may click on an answer button for immediate feedback.