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These Lakes are Great

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine the Great Lakes Basin and water conservation. In this Great Lakes and water lesson, students study the location of the lakes before reading the book, The River Ran Wild. They discuss the associated vocabulary and in...
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Discovering Language Arts: Introduction to Research

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students research plants. In this researching lesson, students watch a video about the different ways to research a topic before writing about it. Students use the information gathered in this video to learn more about plants. Students...
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What's Your State Symbol?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore their state symbols. In this symbolism lesson, students use a variety of resources to research the symbols that represent their state. Students discover the state flower, state flag, and state bird.
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Courage of the Heart

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students research discrimination and how people fought against for the common good. In this discrimination instructional activity, students watch a movie about Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas. Students generate a list of words about...
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Day Three: Reading menus; writing letters

For Teachers K - 12th
Students practice English vocabulary in menus and food items. In this ELL lesson plan, students look at pictures of people eating and describe what they are doing.  They talk about the food that they like and dislike and describe...
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On the air! Interviews

For Teachers 4th - 7th
In this mock interview activity, students view pictures of famous personalities and determine which of these personalities they would like to interview. Students follow the three step interview process and conduct a mock interview...
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A Peaceful Classroom

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students complete activities to analyze and create a peaceful environment. In this peaceful living lesson, students read about Sadako and how she is associated with peace. Students practice making paper cranes, discuss their beliefs...
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Life Cycle

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders make a collage of the human life cycle. In this life cycle lesson students study the human reproductive system and the general concepts of pregnancy. Students receive detailed information about the human life cycle and...
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Animal Habitats

For Teachers K - 4th
Students explore animal lifestyles by researching their characteristics. In this animal habitat lesson, students read the story Over in the Jungle and analyze the animal illustrations in the book. Students create clay animal characters...
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Writing Serendipitous Fairy Tale Tabloids Using Fairytale News

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students create tabloid articles based on the story Fairytale Land. In this tabloids lesson plan, students read the story Fairytale Land, discuss the newspaper in the story, and then create tabloid stories.
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Caterpillars in the flowers

For Students 1st - 4th
In this maze worksheet, students complete a maze where they help caterpillars get through the flowers. Students complete 1 maze total.
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Golfing is a fun game

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this maze learning exercise, students complete a maze where they are trying to help the golfer get the ball in the whole. Students complete 1 maze.
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Acorn in the Tree

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this maze worksheet, students complete a maze where they help a squirrel get through the tree to find the acorn. Students complete 1 maze total.
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Bugs Lost in Tulips: maze

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this maze learning exercise, students complete a maze where they help bugs get through the tulips. Students complete 1 maze total.
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Jane Goodall

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Pupils read about Jane Goodall and complete discussion questions after they read about her. In this Jane Goodall lesson plan, students discuss questions as a group or write answers individually.
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Rhyming With Pancakes

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Pupils listen to the book The Great Pancake Escape as an introduction to rhyming and its use in storytelling. Provide examples of simple words that rhyme with other simple words and come up with rhymes with an end word from an earlier...
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Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders engage in the reading of a non-fiction text in order to acquire character traits as displayed in the text.The story builds reading fluency through the teacher modeling correct style and speed.
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Color My World

For Teachers K - 1st
Students identify colors created by mixing primary colors and describe the process. They then design a book using the colors of a given season entitled "Colors of the Season".
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Putting It Together

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students read aloud the book "Courage" by Bernard Waber and discuss the examples that compromise the defintion of courage. They describe another word such as joy and work with a partner or group to brainstorm and write sentences of...
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Use the Distributive Property

For Students 5th - 6th
In this distributive property worksheet, students read 6 story problems and write the appropriate equation or expression to solve. The distributive property of multiplication will be used.
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Caldecott Medal Winners

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders identify Caldecott Medal winners. In this library media lesson, 2nd graders view an overhead transparency of Caldecott Medal winners from 1987-2004 and answer questions based on the data that is displayed.
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Writing Original Adventures About Imaginary Sidekicks

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students explore storytelling by conceptualizing a story with classmates. In this publishing instructional activity, students identify the idea development process and discuss word choice when writing a story. Students utilize a graphic...
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Ready? Set. Punctuate!

For Teachers 1st
First graders read Yo! Yes?  with the teacher, and and discuss the period, questions mark and exclamation point. In this languge arts activity, 1st graders practice motions to go with each mark, listen to the story again, and...
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Adolf Hitler

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students explore facts about Hitler's life and the historical events that occurred in that time, his view of history, his theory of race and his political goals. They explore his use of anti-Semitism to advance his career and consolidate...

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