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Stayin' Alive

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students pick an object of their choice based on their ability to kick. The object is not to touch the ground. Group sizes vary within the lesson.
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Oscar's Garbage Can

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students are arranged in a circle with two students inside the circle. They try to clean out Oscar's garbage can while the ones outside the circle try to throw the objects back in.
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Place Values-Adding

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students find place value. In this place value lesson plan, students are shown examples on the board by their teacher. A ten-problem worksheet is included. Problems involve only the hundreds and ten thousands place.
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Seven Quacks Me Up

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore the day and night sky and add a page for the number 7 to their countiing books.
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Tech Number Patterns

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders, using concrete objects or drawings, explain the difference between odd and even numbers.
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Pronouns

For Students Higher Ed
In this ESL activity, students focus on personal pronouns.  Students complete 36 fill in the blank questions and then click the "done" button on this interactive website..
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Bottle Cap Basketball

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars play a simple game to practice the fundamentals of a bounce pass and aiming the basketball.
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Pattern People

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students describe a wide variety of classification schemes and patterns related to physical characteristics and sensory attributes of people. They recognize, extend and create a wide variety of those patterns and relations.
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Question of the Day Counting

For Teachers 1st
First graders answer daily questions, then count to see how many responded with yes or no. They record their answers in math journals and discuss the results.
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Hula Hoop Hullabaloo

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders use hula hoops to represent the zero as they count objects into ones, tens, hundreds and thousands. They complete an activity to after they have practiced counting objects.
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Safe from the Storm

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders read the poem "Snowbound" after brainstorming what a place of refuge is and why it's needed. They, in pairs, meet and write a list of ten attributes that describe a refuge. They write a paragraph describing the look, feel,...
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Bounce to Spell

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students are in their own personal space with a playground ball and a partner. They are given a spelling word from their classroom or shoolwide list. They bounce the ball to their partner saying a letter as they pass the ball.
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Diagonal Lengths

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students collect, organize, and analyze data while studying the Pythagorean Theorem, measure length and width of several rectangular objects, and compare the measured results to the calculated results.
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Shake It Up!

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students shake a bottle of water to a CD of "Twist and Shout". They shake the bottle high, low, right, left, two hands, one hand, under the leg, etc.
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Frogz

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students perform jumps and leaps from one lily pad to another to add to a study of frogs.
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Noun Fill In

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
In this noun usage activity, learners review the definition of a noun and some examples. Students then complete the sentences with one of the nouns from the list of choices.
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Noun Fill In 4

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
In this noun usage worksheet, students review the definition and examples for nouns. Students then complete the sentence with one of the nouns from the list.
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Physics on the Playground

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explain how friction affects the motion of moving objects. In this physics activity, 2nd graders investigate how different materials move down the slide. They share their observations with each other.
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Shark Attack

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students develop the different jumping patterns (hopping; jumping using 2 feet take-offs and landings; leaping; 1-to-2 foot jumps; 2-to-1 foot jumps)
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Basketball Mania

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students practice dribbling and shooting with the hands. They be on a group of two or three players; each group stand behind one of the ten frisbees or hoops.
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21 - Football

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Pupils practice catching and throwing while being defended and defending areas of a field.
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Balanced Students

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars investigate the relationships between weights, and construct a balanced first class lever. They formulate a general equation for the relationship explored in the experiment and perform calculations.
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Creative Cats

For Teachers K
Students solve joining problems by using cat counters, pictures, and numbers. First, students listen to the story "Pretend You're a Cat" by Jean Marzollo.
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students rotate through four workstations that reinforce the concept of symmetry

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders, in pairs, use arrays to explore the relationship between multiplication and division.