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Teach Your Friends Polynomials
Students investigate polynomials. In this ninth or tenth grade mathetmatics lesson, students teach their peers the steps to adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing, and factoring polynomials. Students create a PowerPoint...
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Cut-Glass Mosaic Garden Stepping Stones
Students design and create a mosaic glass collage. In this mosaic art activity, students complete lessons to learn about mosaic art and design. Students watch their teacher demonstrate the project and then create their own mosaic glass art.
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Adventures in Africa
Students research Africa and prepare an advertisement about travelling to the continent. For this African travel lesson, students research a country in Africa and write an advertisement that encourages travel to the country. Students...
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Cyber Safety Fair: The Dark Side
Students contribute research projects to a cyber safety fair. In this Internet safety lesson, students assemble information regarding safety on the Internet. Students present safety guidelines as they create PowerPoints or board displays...
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Adventures in Africa
Students create travel magazine advertisements about Africa. In this Africa lesson plan, students research different facts about different countries in Africa and make advertisements to go there.
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Persuasive Letter Writing
Students write a persuasive letter. In this persuasive letter writing lesson, students review the standard business form letter and the elements included. Students discuss ways to persuade in writing and write a short letter...
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Out of the Dust--Appeals to Senses
Students list examples of appeals to the senses in the poem Out of the Dust. In this Out of the Dust lesson, students discuss ways that the author brings the story alive through appeals to the senses. Students discuss...
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Twelfth Night: Thrusting Greatness Upon the Television 1
Students create skits based on pairs of words. In this Twelfth Night lesson, students create a cluster map in which they brainstorm a dialogue/scene based on their word pair. Students perform and record their scenes and discuss...
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Physical and Human Geography Review Worksheet and Study Guide
In this geography skills activity, students respond to 30 short answer questions pertaining to physical and human geography.
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Examining a Microchip
In this computer technology lesson students investigate silicon microchips. Students explore microchip technology using a microscope. Lesson contains hands on investigations.
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Rock Cycle SIOP Unit
Young scholars collect rocks, identify them, classify them, investigate their properties, and more. In this rocks lesson plan, students also experiment with soil and erosion and weather.
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Flowchart
Students view examples of different flow charts and then create one on their own. In this flowchart lesson plan, students create a flow chart for washing the dog.
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Supply and Demand
Fourth graders explore the concept of economic goods and bads, and scarce items as it relates to the factors that affect our economy. In this supply and demand lesson, 4th graders are introduced to vocabulary that pertains to supply...
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West Climate Change
Students read an internet article about hurricanes. In this hurricane lesson, students explain how they form and the damage they bring. They analyze the article and answer questions about it.
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Claire Damarodas
Fifth graders examine how sugars may be listed as an ingredient in various ways. E.g. Many of the words end in -ose (ex. Sucrose, dextrose, maltose)
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Julius Caesar : Dramatic Reading Project
Learners explore Shakespeare's words. For this literature lesson, students memorize and recite a dramatic interpretation of a passage from Julius Caesar.
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"Potato Mountain": Reading/Understanding Topographic Maps
Middle schoolers investigate how to read topographic maps. In this map reading lesson students complete a topographic map activity.
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Writing Newspaper Articles
Students write newspaper articles regarding their service learning experiences. In this writing skills lesson, students review the writing process skills to develop high-quality articles. Students write articles regarding the their acts...
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Two Sources of Story Ideas for Our Paper
Students research and identify story ideas for the school newspaper. In this story ideas lesson, students pitch story ideas to their teacher on a weekly basis using a specific format. Students find the majority of their ideas from print...
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Feelings Synonyms Connect Four Game
In this feelings synonyms worksheet, students play a connect four game with synonyms that represent feelings. Students play with 42 feelings cards.
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Double, Double: Looking at the Effect of Change on Perimeter, Area and Volume
Learners explore perimeter, volume, and area. In this math lesson plan, students explore how changes in dimensions of geometric shapes affect the perimeter, area and volume of the various shapes. Learners investigate the results when the...
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Who Took Jerell's iPod?
High schoolers investigate various substances to determine the perpetrator of a crime. In this biology lesson, students test for the presence of organic compounds in various samples. They identify an unknown substance based on its...
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Dragon Genetics Lab-Principles of Mendelian Genetics
Students study genetic traits using popsicle sticks as chromosomes. For this biology lesson, students explain how traits are inherited from parents. They differentiate dominant and recessive genes.
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Developing Questioning Skills by Investigating Political Cartoons
Students analyze a collection of political cartoons based on one theme to determine what information is present and what information seems to be missing to tell the story of the event.