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Stress Less: Understanding How Your Mind and Body Respond to Anxiety

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
What could be more relevant to teens and preteens than experiencing stress? Use an article from the New York Times website to practice valuable Common Core skills for informational text reading, and also get a discussion going in your...
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Lesson: Painting The Unknown

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Finally an art instructional activity that incorporates the act of creating art. After analyzing the abstract emotionally driven piece, Blue Mysteries Near the Sun, No. 4, learners discuss feelings related to an anticipated event or to...
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High Anxiety

For Teachers 6th - 12th
The Learning Network section of the New York Times produces high-quality teaching materials. This issue gets middle or high schoolers reading an article about how people use art to express their response to high-stress events. They work...
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21st Century Social Skills

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Explore communication techniques by using the latest video technology.  In this special education instructional activity, students create a video discussing their own social goals for the future.  Students utilize Flip Video cameras to...
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Clay Ants: Insect Anatomy

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students examine anatomic structures in order to identify insects from other living organisms. They gain a level of comfort from anxiety when observing and handling live and pinned insects. They create clay models of an insect.
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Charlotte's Web

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students compare the differences in insects and spiders and design a worksheet that teaches the differences. Students record on chart organizing the information about the pet, its food, habitat, exercise, and other ways to care for...
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Back-to-School Meet & Greet

For Teachers K - 2nd
Student are welcomed into a new learning environment through reading and age-appropriate activities that help relieve the anxiety of beginning school in a new place and with new friends. In this Clifford-themed lesson plan, students...
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Key to Good Health: Sleep and Mental Relaxation

For Teachers 4th - 10th
Students investigate the effect good sleep and rest has on the human body.  For this health lesson, students discover the different stages of sleep and discuss ways they can ease their own tension through exercise or meditation....
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Capturing the Reader With Vivid Images

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine the use of imagery to hold a reader's attention in an excerpt from John Deever's memoir "Mr. John and the Day of Knowledge". They are introduced to background information about the Ukraine and create original imagery.
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Nutrition, Hydration, and Health

For Teachers 5th - 12th
NFL football in science class? Yes, please! In an engaging and motivating three-day activity, kids take a look at their own nutritional habits and needs compared to those of an NFL player, then experiment with the effects of hydration on...
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Master of the Airwaves: How FDR Used Radio to Ease the Public’s Fears

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
The political and economic climate during the 1930's was uncertain and tumultuous. But Americans' minds and hearts were eased with the reassuring words of their president, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and addresses over the radio. High...
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First Day Protocol

For Teachers 6th - 10th
While this is not really a step by step lesson, it's a fabulous idea to do a presentation instead of the usual drone lecture on the first day. This project takes a little work each year to take digital pictures throughout the year to use...
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On the Scene: Analyzing Scenes in Film and Literature

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine how a scene in a movie or in literature is constructed. In this film and literature lesson students answer questions based on film clips then create storyboards depicting a scene from their life.
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Identity: A Path to Self-Esteem

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders participate in a brainstorming activity in which they identify the types of decisions they make everyday. Individually, they complete a worksheet on making decisions effectively. After reading a poem, they identify the...
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"Taming the Bicycle"

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders discuss invention of bicycle and early obstacles to riding, listen to and discuss short story "Taming the Bicycle" by Mark Twain, define vocabulary words from story, and create and present humorous "how to" project to...
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Simple/Complex Machines

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students make a simple machine. In this physics lesson, students learn about six types of simple machines and the purpose of each and brainstorm examples of simple and complex machines in the classroom. Students create a simple or...
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Middle Ages Timeline

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students research a historical figure from the Middle Ages.  In this Middle Ages lesson, students present important events of their characters life and of the time.  Students write a time card for each significant event.  Students must...
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Criticism - The Great Inhibitor

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students explore how to handle criticism in the work place. In this conflict resolution lesson, students examine how criticism deters assertive behavior and role-play on how to respond to criticism in the work place.
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Vision Disorder

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Young scholars design a morning routine for a 60 year old female senior with vision disorder. In this biology lesson, students collaborate with their team to come up with possible solutions. They present at least two ideas of their...
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Teaching Radicals in Less Than Five Minutes

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners simplify complex radicals following a specific technique. In this math instructional activity, students simulate the process using several decks of cards. They explore real life applications of radicals.
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Education in Translation

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students reflect on their own language learning experience and interests. They research language learning and brainstorm ideas in preparation for creating brochures on language learning technology.
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Different! Diverse! Dynamic! Lesson 1: Late Bloomers

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine how people grow and mature at different rates. They create a graph and a timeline to organize the data they collect.
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Grandma Thinks It's Cake Baking Weather

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders listen to a read aloud of Patricia Polacco's book "Thunder Cake" to explain how daily life has changed over the past 150 years.
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Pinwheels for Peace

For Teachers K - 12th
Students create their own pinwheels to celebrate World Peace Day. They follow directions carefully and discuss what peace means to them. They share their pinwheel with the class.

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