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Spelling List 12: Sight Words, Homographs, and Academic Vocabulary

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this spelling list worksheet, students practice spelling words that are sight words, homographs, and vocabulary. Students practice spelling 21 words total.
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Understanding by Design

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders examine the origins, structures, and functions of the Colorado government. In this understanding by design instructional activity, 4th graders explore the three branches of government. Students identify the roles...
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Working in the World

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders read a selection of "Behind the Scenes" and other websites. They use a list of characteristics of effective citizens in the U.S. to identify characteristics represented in the work, "Elizabeth Keckley: Mrs. Lincoln's...
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Working In The World

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders engage in research about the life of Keckley. They examine specific events that display the characteristics of good citizenship. The effectiveness of using different tactics by Keckley is discussed in small group to measure...
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Reading Food Labels

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students investigate the concept of phonemic awareness in order to help increase reading comprehension. The reading of food labels creates the context for the practice session. They pay particular attention to certain sounds that must be...
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Computer Matching

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students practice using the Internet through computer matching.
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Play Reporters

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students are given an article from a local newspaper. They summarize the article and participate in a broadcast over the articles.
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Bless Me, Ultima: Dialogue Journals

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders read Chapter 1 of the novel "Bless Me, Ultima" and respond to the text. They answer and ask questions and record their impressions of different aspects of the book in a dialogue journal format with a partner. Students...
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Launching Your Ship with Citizenship Lesson 4: Hoisting the Flag

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discuss the U.S. electoral process and brainstorm solutions to increase voter turnout in their community. In this democratic citizenship lesson, students identify keywords in speech and video related to freedom of speech and...
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The US-Taiwan Textile Trade Case

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Young scholars explore the issues of free trade and protectionism by role-playing. In particular, they will learn how these terms apply to an understanding of U.S.-Taiwan trade in textiles. After a lecture/demo, students break into...
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They Have Issues

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners examine the different campaign styles and political platforms of the nine candidates vying for the Democratic Party nomination for the 2004 presidential election. They graph and compare candidate platforms and write an essay...
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Deerfield Debates Its Future: Education

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Learners consider the effect of technological development, industrial growth and changing population on education in historical Deerfield Connecticut. They review many primary resources to investigate history and write a response to...
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Deerfield Debates Its Future: The Colonial Revival

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students analyze why the Colonial Revival came as a response to cultural changes caused by technological development, industrial growth, and changing populations in Deerfield and the Connecticut River Valley.
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Graphing With Young Children: Math

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students create a template for a quality graph. They graph from scratch to match these criteria. They evaluate, in writing, the data represented in their newly created graph.
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North Korea and Nuclear Weapons

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers deliberate on the merits and tradeoffs of North Korea and Nuclear Weapons.
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Let's Clean the Beach!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students volunteer their time to clean a local park. They estimate the amount of debris they collect and make observations. They write a poem and draw an illustration about their experience.
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The Self

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers practice using new vocabulary while using adjectives to describe people and feelings. They watch and participate in demonstrations on how to pronuciate certain words. They also complete writing assignments in Spanish.
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Curator's Report

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners write a curator's report in order to persuade a board of directors to purchase an artwork for a museum.
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Coastal Quandary

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Pupils explore the debate among development and environment experts on evacuation coastal areas and take part in their own debate on "evacuation versus redevelopment".
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Introduction to Keith Haring

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students experience a dance club-like environment one would find in Haring's 1980's. They dress in 80's clothes and learn break dancing moves. They relate the experience to Haring's artwork and explain his influences.
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Everyday Objects as Art

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students interpret works of art by Keith Haring, Robert Rauschenberg, and Marcel Duchamp.
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A Wing and a Prayer

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders improvise missing harmony accompaniment for a soloist performing "The Star Spangled Banner." Groups select several familiar melodies that they can produce while individual students take turns improvising a new harmony part.
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Sticky Situations

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders identify and solve problems where railway safety is involved. They defend their solutions based on current safety information.
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Songs of Protest/Songs of Unity: 1865 to the Present

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students study song-poems from 1865 to the present. They explore the works of Woody Guthrie and the Almanac Singers (including Pete Seeger).

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