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Giving Back

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Young scholars research the start of the March of Dimes and discuss the benefits of their actions when contributing to a charity. Students continue the lesson by calculating how much money would have been collected in a week, month, and...
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Recycled Sailing Vessels

For Teachers 4th - 10th
Students discuss how recycled materials can be used to create art and how this will apply to their artwork. They create a sailing vessel using recycled materials that they find.
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Monster Dictionary

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore several retrieval strategies to find information in a variety of sources. They organize the information they find and create a Monster Dictionary that includes imaginary monsters and their definitions.
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Earth's Surfaces

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students identify and define geology and earth surface vocaulary and their meanings to classify rocks and explore caves and their properties. Students find rocks and test them according to Moh's scale. They create a color coded earth...
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Effects of The Great Depression

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders discuss the unemployment trends of the 1920s-1930's. They look at it faces of the citizens that lived in the time period. Students work with visual clues to investigate about the living conditions during the Great...
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Hierarchical Structure

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students practice using the request, response, result method to solve problems. Using one problem as an example, they break it down into multiple problems to be solved one at a time. They identify instances of hierarchical organization...
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Approaching the Iraq War

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Learners identify the justifications for the war in Iraq as seen from teh American and Middle Eastern perspectives. They research personal, primary and secondary sources to create a constructed poster board perspective. The poster board...
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ESOL Shape identification

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students review vocabulary shape cards. They match oral words of shapes with flash cards then they make and label their own set of shape flash cards and then review with a classmate.
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Presenting Ecology through Rodent Control

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Young scholars discuss and explore an ecological problem regarding rodent populations.  In this investigative lesson students work in teams, research a problem and present their findings to the class. 
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Christmas Truce

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students research the Christmas truce during World War I. In this social studies lesson, students discuss World War I and the Christmas Truce. Students write a response about the truce.
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Teacher.org: Beginning Sound Match

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This lesson will allow young scholars to practice both writing names and identifying beginning sounds for common item names.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Initial Sound Memory Game: A Pre Reading Game

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A teacher-led activity that helps students learn to isolate initial sounds of words. Students match pictures according to the initial sounds of the words that the pictures represent.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Finding Initial Sounds: A Pre Reading Game

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A teacher-led activity that helps students learn to isolate the initial sounds of words.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Phonological Awareness/beginning Sounds

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
During this lesson students will develop phonological awareness through activities that focus on beginning sounds. Students will go on a scavenger hunt, make a picture book, and play games on the Internet in order to help them learn to...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Songwriting for Beginning Letter Sounds

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A great resource for teachers. This lesson plan uses songs and singing as a guide for students in learning letter names and beginning consonant sounds. Students in first and second grade can extend this instructional activity by creating...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: "You're a Liar!" a Letter Sound Accuracy Game

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A small group game using cards with letters of the alphabet on them. The object is to place cards face down in a pile in alphabetical order. Based on an old card game called "I doubt it." This site has a link to a Letter card site for...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Student of the Day: Create Sound/letter Understanding With Names

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
A recurring lesson plan focused on understanding letters and sounds. Each session lasts ten to twenty minutes with one session for each student in the class. Each student has a turn at being the Student of the Day and other students...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Upper and Lower Case Match Up

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This technology-based lesson has students navigate Internet sites to assist them with learning the letter names and sounds. Students also use slideshow presentations to identify letter matches and learn beginning sounds.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Letter Ring Game: Letter Sound Accuracy Activity

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A fun, unique version of the game "Ring Around the Rosie" that builds the students' accuracy in identifying letters, sounds, and words that begin with that letter. A link to printable letter cards is provided on this site as well.
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Musical Chairs Game; Letter Sound Accuracy

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A letter sound accuracy game based on Musical Chairs. But to keep the chair that they sit in the student must pick a letter from the teacher's bucket and give a word that starts with that letter. A link to Letter Cards is included on...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Tic Tac Toe; Letter Sound Accuracy Activity

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A letter sound version of Tic Tac Toe that learners play with partners. Before they can take their turn, they must draw a letter and give three words that begin with that letter. Their partner must give them a thumbs up before they can...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Sound Toss Game; Letter Sound Accuracy

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A letter sounds game that students will love! They toss a bean bag onto a poster board with pictures on it, and tell what the first letter and sound is of the picture that the bean bag lands on. This site includes a link to printable...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Give Me Five; Letter Sound Accuracy Activity

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
An exciting game to build students' understanding and accuracy of producing words that begin with the same letter. Students sit in a circle and the teacher says the sound of the letter. One student must pass a bean bag around the circle...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Egg Carton Game; Letter Sound Accuracy Activity

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A small group game to build students' abilities to identify letters and their sounds. A student shakes an egg carton, opens it to see where a chip landed, and says the letter and its sound.

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