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Your Brain Map: Strategies for Accelerated Learning

For Students 9th - 12th
The brain is a complex organ with many different structures and functions. An interactive diagram allows learners to explore the different structures while pop-ups describe their functions. Secondary interactives show the structures of...
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My Feelings

For Teachers 1st
First graders examine and discuss different emotions and feelings, and how people can react when they are in an unsafe situation. They discuss a feelings thermometer, and complete a worksheet involving identifying how they feel in...
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President LBJ

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Here's a quick look at the Johnson presidency. Each of his major acts are discussed with images and video web links. The Voting Rights Act, Tet Offensive, Civil Rights Act, and War on Poverty are defined.
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Fluency Passages, 6th Grade

For Students 6th Standards
Prompt your class to examine their own negative cycles with a short reading passage. After they finish reading, they answer two questions about concepts that they can find in the text.
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Night: Vocabulary Activity, Magic Square

For Students 9th - 12th
As part of a study of vocabulary found in Elie Wiesel's Night, readers complete a magic square using the provided words and their definitions.
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Things Fall Apart: Problematic Situation

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
If you could pick characteristics you would want your child to possess, what would they be? To better understand Okonkwo, one of the key characters in Things Fall Apart, class groups engage in an activity that asks them to consider this...
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Problem Solving

For Teachers K
Students identify problem solving strategies and demonstrate the ability to make choices using those strategies. In this problem solving lesson plan, students are introduced to vocabulary and strategies by playing a hula hoop game, then...
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Responsibilities

For Teachers K
Students identify different responsibilities they have at home and at school. For this responsibilities lesson plan, students identify the responsibilities they need to follow through on and what happens when they don't. They put...
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Seat Belts and Bike Helmets

For Teachers K
Students answer questions on seat belts and bike helmets. In this seat belt and bike helmet lesson plan, students watch a demonstration with eggs and simulated seat belt and bike helmet about why some eggs broke and some stayed safe...
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It's Time to Call 911

For Teachers K
Students demonstrate how to get help in an emergency. In this 'In Case Of An Emergency" lesson plan, students listen to a story called It's Time to Call 911, describe emergencies using their senses, practice writing/saying important...
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Congress of Vienna

For Students 7th - 11th
In this Congress of Vienna study guide worksheet, learners read a brief overview pertaining to the topic and then respond to a reflection question.
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Laughing is Good for You and Your Child: Reading Comprehension

For Students 6th - 8th
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read a passage pertaining to laughter and then respond to 5 true or false questions regarding the passage.
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Dodging Responsibility

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students examine what makes people be responsible. In this responsibility lesson plan, students chart the good and bad things that happen if you take responsibility and if you don't.
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Hypothermia on the High Seas

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Learners identify and present the effects on humans when the body temperature falls, demonstrate and explain how the body loses heat, and understand hypothermia and cold water survival techniques.
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Detective Fiction for Remedial Readers

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders in a remedial reading class are introduced to detective fiction by Edgar Allan Poe and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. After reading about their lives and work, they define new vocabulary and practice using a guided reading...
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Window Into Another Culture

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars read "A Single Lucid Moment" as a class. In groups, they identify the aspects of the United States that might allow for homelessness to happen and compare it with the culture of New Guinea. They write a journal entry...
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Work: Popular, Trade, or Scholarly

For Students 10th - 12th
In this popular, trade, or scholarly article activity, students read and review at least three given articles.  Students identify the type of article and give reasons for their choice. Students are given a list of questions to consider...
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Using English Grammar: Nouns

For Students 5th - 7th
In this definition practice learning exercise, students choose the correct definition of the italicized word. Students have three choices from which to choose.
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An Unfinished Tale...

For Teachers K - 5th Standards
Challenge your writers to compose a proper ending for the short story "The Talisman." Class members start out by either listening to or reading the first nine paragraphs of the story. The rest is up to them! Encourage kids to resolve the...
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Respecting Others

For Teachers K - 8th
Students discuss the meaning of the words respect and disrespect and record examples of respectful things that others do. They work cooperatively in groups to achieve a goal of a popcorn party.
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Reading Comprehension- Determining Importance

For Students 5th
In this reading comprehension activity, 5th graders read a short selection entitled, "Modest Requirements." They discuss the important points that are made in a humorous selection about the requirements to be a good babysitter.
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Figuring Solutions

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students discuss their attitudes and feelings to discover possible ways to constructive respond to their resistance to learning academic concepts.
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Painting/technology "and You Were There!"

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders study Impressionism through the works of Claude Monet. They do a self portrait in the Impressionist style.
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Mediation/Conciliation

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders discuss the court system in Japan, and assume roles of family members and friends of air crash victims. They discuss whether they would file suit against airlines, compare methods of achieving justice in United States and...

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