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Buying in Bulk
Students investigate buying purchases in bulk. In this buying in bulk lesson, students consider ways to cut costs and reduce waste in landfills by making bulk purchases.
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Lesson Plan 10: Writing Really Good Dialogue
Boring dialogue can run a great story into the ground; get your novelists using dialogue as a tool to move their story into deeper and more developed territory. As part of a larger writing series, this lesson has a worksheet that can...
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Balance in Visual Art
Students examine works of art to develop an understanding of the importance of visual balance in works of art and nature. Students research artists and their artwork for examples of visual balance. Students create works of art showing...
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Speak Out!
Students are introduced to Yvonne Ranier's "Trio A" dance and investigate how to express concern over social issues through choreography. They research important issues from the 1960's, choreograph and perform original dances.
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The Dirt on the Workplace
Students examine health and safety issues in the workplace. They, in groups, discuss how health and safety issues effect their lives.
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Fire Brigade
Young scholars examine how a community works together to protect them from fire. They work together to design a functional tool that could be helpful in fighting fires. They share their tool with the class.
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ESL Advanced Level- English Grammar Cloze Worksheet
In this ESL open cloze worksheet, students fill in the blanks in 8 sentences. They use words related to English grammar, not vocabulary words, to fill each blank.
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Work and Power: Waterwheel
Students investigate a waterwheel and the physical properties of energy. In this waterwheel lesson students create a model waterwheel and calculate the amount of power produced.
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Catch a Wave
Learners study low tides and how to calculate for fresh water. In this ocean science activity, students pretend they are stranded on an island and must calculate low tide in order to source the fresh water aquifer. Learners calculate how...
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Fireworks
Fireworks are the focus of this presentation. The history of fireworks, types of fireworks, uses of fireworks, and safety guidelines for fireworks are all included in this interesting PowerPoint. This would be useful for older students...
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The Pledge of News
Young scholars explore the fundamentals of news-gathering, the etiquette of reporting, and the rights a news writer/reporter has. They review the parts of a news story and write an article discussing their beliefs about the Pledge iof...
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What Do We Do With A Dirty Bomb?
Students examine composition of dirty bomb and its possible effects on a city, and investigate simulations of such an event; students use computational and problem solving skills to assess damage and prepare report proposing solution to...
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Wilma Unlimited: Ambition and Goal Setting
Students listen as the teacher reads a book about an Olympic Gold Medal runner who made her big dream come true despite her hardships with polio. In this Wilma Rudolph lesson, students think about and discuss what big dreams are...
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Math and Architecture Lesson
Students examine relationship between architecture and math, explore importance of inventions to humanity and relate math and architecture to their school and home by creating graphs, tables, and presentations showing development of...
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The Three Billy Goats Gruff
Learners complete activities with the story The Three Billy Goats Gruff. In this literature instructional activity, students listen to the story and then participate in shared reading. This instructional activity offers three...
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Combination Factory
Fourth graders use cut-outs of clothing to illustrate the numbers of combinations of articles of clothing they can create. Students create a tree-diagram and count the number of possibilities. They practice showing the information in...
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Bat Ecology
Students, through hands on games and activities, discover how bats live and how bats benefit ecosystems. They play a game designed to show them how echolocation works and another to show how mother bats locate their young through their...
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From Trees to Paper
Sixth graders investigate logging and the process of paper making. In this forestry lesson, 6th graders analyze pictures of trees being processed into the paper they use everyday. Students solve and create math problems based...
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Touring Delmarva
Young scholars plan a trip. In this trip planning lesson, students use a map to find where they would like to visit with a pretend family of 4. They get a specific amount of money and time and need to decide where they will stay...
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The Quarter Fold
Little ones identify the US quarter and explore the concept of one-fourth or one-quarter. Using real coins or coin manipulatives, they divide a square piece of paper into quarters, discuss halves and quarters, and create a design that...
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Move My Way: A CBR Analysis of Rates of Change
Learners match a given velocity graph and sketch the corresponding position graph using a graphing calculator. After collecting data from their everyday life, students use specific functions on their calculators to create graphs and...
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Building a Model Springbox
Students examine ways to protect fresh drinking water. In this clean drinking water lesson, students listen to the story of Lauren Fry about building a springbox to collect groundwater. Students build a springbox.
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Everyday Math
Students discuss word problems involving time and money. In this mathematics instructional activity, students solve word problems as a class focusing on addition, subtraction, multiplication, and simple fractions. Students then make...