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What About Us? Women in the Civil War

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students research the role of women in the Civil War. In this Civil War unit, students research the role women played during the war. This unit includes eight different activities including vocabulary, writing prompts and a literature...
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Write Your Own Cultural Connections

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Learners write a cultural narrative. In this multicultural writing lesson, students create an expository narrative to teach others about their lives. Learners complete the narrative and use a buddy editing strategy to revise their papers.
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Everyone's an Author

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners examine variety of written pieces of quality fiction, discuss what different story elements are present and how those elements make stories as effective as they are, and create a class story.
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Coast-to-Coast Book Design-Part 4: Let's Create the Pages!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils work in groups to share their lists of A-B-C ideas they came up with from the previous activity. They review page layouts taught during lesson two. Students complete a rough draft of their page. They create a colored illustration...
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Explain Your Vote!

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students improve their essay writing skills using the subject of voting as a topic. In this writing essays lesson, students write expository essays to increase the weight of their vote in the 'Cast Your Vote Poll' for the Trans-Amazon...
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Movie Music

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Young scholars discover film making by participating in a music performance.  For this performance arts lesson, students perform music and physical acting to convey an already written script for their peers.  Young scholars collaborate...
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A Feat of Daring with Lewis and Clark Jeopardy

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders discover the exploration of the United States by participating in a class activity.  In this U.S. History lesson, 6th graders research the Lewis and Clark expedition and participate in a game of Jeopardy based on the two...
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Ad Creation from Admongo.gov

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Young scholars explore consumerism by completing a worksheet. In this advertisement lesson, students discuss the relationship between the media and consumerism while analyzing advertisements from the Internet, magazines and T.V. Young...
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The Teen Scene

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Pupils explore the methods used by teen magazines to attract a variety of teenagers. They evaluate existing magazines and in small groups, students create their own magazine that is geared toward specific teen demographics.
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Learning Paragraph Structure Through Design

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students examine paragraph structure, the writing process, and then design a model for the process. In this writing skills lesson, students explore paragraphs using the SmartBoard. Students create a class T-chart about paragraph...
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Crossword Review

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students practice using their target language vocabulary by completing a crossword puzzle.  In this foreign language instructional activity, students complete several random tasks based on new vocabulary words in their target language...
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Letters and Photos

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Young scholars practice using a new language by reading letters.  In this foreign language lesson plan, students read a fictional letter by a young person from the target language's country.  Young scholars read the letters separately,...
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Expressions of Frequency

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students practice discussing timely manners in a target language.  In this foreign language instructional activity, students discuss words that represent frequency such as never or often.  Students create a timeline illustrating how...
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Jeopardy Game

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students practice discovering a target language by playing a game of Jeopardy.  In this foreign language lesson plan, students utilize their target language vocabulary to answer Jeopardy style questions they prepared the day before....
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A Look at Geography

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students discover geographical places and terms in another language.  In this geographical identification activity, students utilize their geographical vocabulary to describe to other classmates where they would like to go or where they...
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Telephone Game

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students practice their listening comprehension by playing the "telephone" game.  In this foreign language lesson, students listen to a story read by a teacher in their target language and try to remember the details by writing 5...
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Grooming Activity

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Learners discover the essential items to properly groom for a nice event.  In this cleaning habits lesson, students discuss and identify important cleaning items such as a brush, shower gel, cologne, etc.  Learners create a chart and...
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Transportation Lesson

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students practice using transportation vocabulary in a foreign language.  In this language arts instructional activity, students utilize the vocabulary terms for locations in order to give directions and find a specific place.  Students...
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Planning a Community Service Project

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students practice using a new language to plan a community event.  In this civics lesson, students practice writing a proposal for a community project using their target language.  Students brainstorm in small groups what their project...
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Let's Read the Newspaper

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Learners investigate the format of a typical newspaper.  In this journalism lesson, students read a newspaper from a target language and discover the vocabulary associated with the news.  Learners work together as a newspaper group each...
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Movie Poster: Persuasive Text

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create movie posters based upon short stories they've recently read.  In this persuasive writing lesson students analyze a poster that  is intended to persuade people to want to see the movie and convince Steven Spielberg to...
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Creating a Persuasive Travel Brochure

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers create a county and develop an illustrated travel brochure to persuade elementary students to visit their county.  In this persuasive writing activity, middle schoolers use descriptive language effectively in a travel...
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Writing a Commercial

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students create a product and write a commercial to sell the product. They discuss the differences between ads for television and radio and ads for print. They discuss the persuasion techniques used by ad writers.
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Point of You

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders study point of view by rewriting an existing narrative paragraph (using a different point-of-view). They expand this knowledge by writing an expository paragraph, then rewriting it to reflect a different point-of-view.

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