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Creating And Implementing Web Quests
Students in teacher preparation take a look at using webquests as part of the curriculum. They research what subjects the quests could be used as teaching tools to support. The instructor models a well prepared webquest and then the...
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Teacher Travel Agency
Seventh graders pretend they have just been hired by the Teacher Travel Agency as a travel agent. It is their job to present a 3-5 minute speech on a specific country to their clients (the rest of the class and the teacher).
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Wrapping Up the School Year
Students complete a variety of writing and yearbook activities to complete the school year. They write a letter to the student that will sit in their desk the next school year, and a letter to their next year's teacher. As a culminating...
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PUPPETRY
Young scholars explore world cultures through their puppetry. Your students explore puppets that are used in various cultures and create their own. The Internet experiences in this lesson are designed to be teacher-directed whole class...
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The Decision to Go to War
Students examine President Bush's decision to go to war with Iraq. They work together to discuss a topic related to this given to them by their teacher. They answer questions to complete the lesson.
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Artsgenesis: Civil War Tapestry
Young scholars explore the Civil War and the many emotions that emerged during this era. The teacher arranges students in groups of families and prepares them to simulate typical responses during this era. The Civil War and Gettysburg...
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Popcorn Spelling (Elementary, Language)
Third graders stand with letter cards to spell words given by the teacher. A quick time-filler game to practice spelling words.
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The Greatest Educational Change America has Ever Seen
Students examine the history of the penny. For this Lincoln Bicentennial One Cent teachers guide, students connect the life of President Abraham Lincoln to the 1-cent coin in his honor through a variety of lessons and...
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Underwater Forensics
Students explore shipwrecks. In this forensic lesson, students watch a video about a shipwreck and how scientist use forensics to answer questions about the ship. They research and report about a shipwreck from the teacher's approved list.
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The Climate Change Skeptic's Argument: Natural Solar Cycles or Human Activity?
Teachers explore patterns in sunspots and total solar irradiance to understand the counterpoint to the human effect of global warming. In this professional development tool, teachers work through a lesson on the sun's natural...
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Fantastic Flying Journey
Third graders listen to a teacher reading of the "Fantastic Flying Journey." students research each country/continent using the Internet and creating a travel journal.
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"Writing As Healing" Exercise
Students begin with a teacher-leld discussion of recent research, which has found measurable imporovements in patient symptoms even four monthe after their participation in a brief writing exercise about a stressful event in the...
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How Do Reading Partnerships Work?
Students complete a survey that the teacher can use to compare similar reading interests and reading abilities before to assign reading partners. They participate in a reading partnership by choosing a "double-copy" book, setting meeting...
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Literature Circles in Action
Students form cooperative groups to read, discuss, and respond to a novel. They select a novel from offered choices or by criteria given by teacher and complete a culminating project on the novel from such choices as: creating a...
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Learning to Interview
Second graders watch simulated interview between the teacher and a student before they interview a classmate using the form provided. Next, they complete two interviews of family members at home. They focus on the concepts of ancestors...
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Oil Spill Solutions
Students build a system to remove oil from a water source. In this environmental engineering instructional activity, students plan and build a system to contain and remove oil from a water source using various materials provided by the...
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Privacy - What's the Big Deal?
Students investigate Internet privacy by discussing ideas with their classmates. In this personal information lesson, students listen to a teacher tell them their every move will be watched as part of a research activity at school....
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Junkyard Wars: Wild Watercraft
Students develop a fast travelling hull for a boat. In this physical science lesson plan, the students' hulls will be tested in a channel (built by the teacher) with a fan as the driving force. The students will compete for who has the...
Screen play writing
Writing creatively can be hard! Students with little or no background in creative writing will love this film-making project. They choose a book or story they like, then in partners go through the process of planning-writing-...
Digital Dream Lab's Art Game Swatch Out!
Why did we create an art game? Teachers reported to us that students struggle in art the most with composition of colors. For example, students often think "pink" is composed of random colors or that pink is its own color, instead of...
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Activity Three Teacher Page: Collisions
Students after completing this activity, identify variables that affect the system, and specify which variables are independent; which are dependent. They represent data in a data table and a graph and analyze data and make predictions.
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Activity One Teacher Page: Vehicles In Motion
Students identify variables that affect the system, and specify which variables are independent and which are dependent.
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A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust: Headlines
Learners examine newspapers to research public opinion about the Holocaust. In this critical thinking instructional activity, students research the information Americans received in U.S. newspapers about events like Kristallnacht, the...
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Solving Basic One-Variable Quadratic Equations
Help pupils to determine whether using square roots is the method of choice when solving quadratic equations by presenting a lesson that begins with a dropped object example and asks for a solution. This introduction to solving by...
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