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"A Christmas Carol" Novel Study

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Lesson plan ideas for the story "A Christmas Carol."
Activity
Kate Stickley

Reading the World: Latitude and Longitude Lesson latitude and longitude, maps, coordinates on a map, prime meridian, reading maps, equator, globes

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
Find five activities all about longitude and latitude! Use oranges to show the equator and prime meridian, plot birthdays on a map using coordinates, and plan a dream vacation.
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Recycling Vocabulary

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students engage in activities to increase their vocabulary. They record new vocabulary words in notebooks. They explore word bags to revisit vocabulary words. They use the words in context, create circle stories, play pictionary and...
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Transportation Lesson

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students practice using transportation vocabulary in a foreign language.  In this language arts lesson, students utilize the vocabulary terms for locations in order to give directions and find a specific place.  Students answer...
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Let's Play Scrabble!

For Teachers 3rd - 12th Standards
What do Alfred Mosher Butts, James Brunot, and Jack Straus have in common? They were all instrumental in the development of Scrabble. Class members will discover these facts and many more as they conduct a WebQuest to gather, organize,...
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Caesar II

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students create virtual Roman Empire by playing Caesar II CD-ROM game to support class reading of Julius Caesar.
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Junior High School Lesson Plan

For Teachers 3rd - 9th
Students play a board game in order to review the details from a travel essay. In this board game lesson, students listen the a story about a trip, ask questions regarding it, and review the story by playing the board game on the...
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History Jeopady

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students play a game of History Jeopardy.
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All's Fair in Sport And Competition

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Learners design a physical activity contest or game that has no cultural or gender biases which includes an assessment that ranks competitors according to the competitors abilities. They participate in and evaluate the newly designed...
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Athletic Reader

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students research the history of the sport they are participating in. They conduct research and write a report, create a timeline of the sport, and investigate the history of the sport in other countries. Students then observe and...
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Cuentos

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students revise Spanish mystery stories. They sequence the events from a group's mystery story and suggest revisions for the setting. They revise their stories using the suggestions from classmates and describe characters in folktales....
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The Classic Songs of Paul Simon

For Students 7th - 8th
In this Paul Simon songs learning exercise, students read the word parts of the classic songs by Paul Simon. Students complete the song titles for the fifteen classic songs.
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American Music Advocacy - Lesson 7

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students identify various uses of music in their daily experiences and describe characteristics that make certain music suitable for each use. They explore some of the ways that music study contributes to their lives.
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Words in the News: England Wins The Ashes

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students discuss what they know about the game of cricket. In groups, they match new vocabulary words with their definitions. They read an article about England winning the Ashes and answer questions.
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Test Your Speaking And Listening Skills: Role Playing- Family

For Students 7th - 8th
In this speaking and listening worksheet, students improve their oral language skills by collaborating with a classmate in a dialogue. The subject of the dialogue is "my dad's new girlfriend" and would be best suited to older students.
Worksheet
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Who's Who? Subject and Object Pronouns

For Students 4th - 8th
In this subject/object pronoun worksheet, students play a game, choosing cards with pronouns written on them and placing the pronoun in sentence. Other players determine whether it has been correctly used in the sentence to score points.
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An Opening Time Line Project

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students create a time line of their life starting at birth and each year after that up to their current age. They write and illustrate one important thing for each year, and place their time lines on poster board.
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Let's Relate It

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars relate pirate history to present day locations. They stimulate background knowledge established through the research project. Students exercise communication skills as a means of discovery. They create their own trading...
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REVIEW BASKETBALL

For Teachers 6th - 11th
Students write questions from a text or resource. They play in teams and ask questions of the other team. If a team answers correctly, they may "shoot" for an additional point by answering another question.
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Radio Broadcasting Before Television

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students compare the radio to other forms of mass communication. In this Radio Broadcasting Before Television lesson, students learn the different types of radio shows in the 1920s and 30s. Students write and perform radio scripts...
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Test Your Grammar Skills: Conjugate a Verb Today!

For Students 7th - 9th
In this conjugating verbs worksheet, students are given definitions for the infinitive, gerund, and past participle forms.  Present, past, and future tenses are also identified and defined.
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Day Five - Bible A Noble Cause - Thessalonica

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Young scholars analyze, compare and contrast success and failure inside the kingdom and  outside the kingdom.  In this Bible study instructional activity students read Act 17:1, plays games, engage in discussions and...
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More Famous Horses Quiz

For Students 4th - 8th
In this online quiz worksheet, students answer a set of trivia questions about horses. Page has a link to submit answers for review.
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Arthropods

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Are spiders related to crabs? Study the order of arthropods with a reading selection about animal diversity. It provides details about each class within the order, as well as vivid pictures and explanatory charts.