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Chemical Changes

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students compare types of chemical change. In this chemical reaction lesson, students use a variety of household items to investigate different types of chemical change. Students will engage in a discussion about the dangers of chemicals...
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Let's Make Stew!

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students investigate how to create a vegetable garden and complete related activities. In this vegetable garden lesson, students receive agriculture notebooks to complete vocabulary for the gardening lesson. Students read 'Still-Life...
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Comic Book Project

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students write a fictional story into a comic book format. In this creative writing instructional activity, students analyze example comics and discuss the format. Students create a comic book using imaginary characters that find a...
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Research and Technical Writing

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students summarize information from their research on to note-cards. For this technical writing lesson students examine examples of note-cards that contain main ideas from research previously conducted.  They will then compose their own...
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Reporting Live From...

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students examine the many disasters in West Virginia. In this US history instructional activity, students write about and give an oral presentation of one of the disasters as if they were reporters.
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Become a Logophile

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students practice power writing to develop fluency.
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Attic Hunting

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders investigate how journal writing helps preserve past, present and future history. They discover how different groups of people keep different types of journals and what the journals show about the lives of the writers.
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Dear Character

For Teachers K - 12th
Students think about a character and how this character feels about life. This lesson can be used with virtually any grade level. They better explain a character, and identify character traits.
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Dear Wife & Children Every One

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers explore the struggle that Kansans had over the slavery issue. They read a letter from John Brown to his family, and write a newspaper article about the Battle of Osawatomie from John Brown's perspective.
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Hard News to Hear

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students compare the news angle, information sources and construction of different news reports about the Russian school hostage crisis. Based on what they explore the event and about reporting breaking news, they write an analysis of...
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Stories in the Sky

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students discover the concept of combining constellations and tall tales. In this tall tale lesson, students compare constellations to tale tales. They create their own tall tale and constellation.

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