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Petanque: A Lawn Game

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders play the popular French game, Petanque.
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Judges in the Classroom Lesson Plan Juvenile Justice- Disposition

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students investigate what a disposition is in juvenile court in Washington state. They analyze the penalties that can be imposed on a juvenile offender.
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Human Sentences

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders create human sentences in this hands-on activity to practice using comas correctly when punctuating dates in sentences.
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Thunderstorms

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders investigate the attraction between two different charges to explain the concept of lightning in a thunderstorm.
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Read It, Picture It! Reading to Learn

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Young scholars examine the reading comprehension strategy of visualization. They practice visualization by making pictures in their mind. They draw the pictures from their visualizations with explanations.
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Algebra 1: Evaluating Expressions

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discover how to apply the order of operations to evaluating algebraic expressions. In pairs, they solve problems by placing the order of operations steps in correct order. As an exit slip, students write paragraphs about an...
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Beat the Wheel

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students recall basic multiplication facts by writing answers on a wheel form, competing against other teams to finish the wheels. They review multiplication facts on a Spinning Wheels Web Lesson.
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Cooking Terms - Level II

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Learners complete cooking terms with partners at their tables with the help of a foods classroom text.
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Celebrate Black History

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students research African-American mathematicians.  In this middle school mathematics lesson, students celebrate Black History by conducting Internet research on an African-American, mathematicians or scientist.  Students...
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Introduction to the Circulatory System

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders study the circulatory system. In this circulatory system, 5th graders participate in five stations with different activities at each station. Students discuss their findings from each station.
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From Different Angles

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students participate in Socratic seminar discussing a person's right to refuse to say the Pledge of Allegiance.
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Haiku

For Teachers K - 12th
Young scholars write haiku poems on leaf paper.
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Prehistoric Native American Lesson Plan: Pictionary with the Past

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Young scholars participate in a vocabulary exercise at a website dedicated to Prehistoric Native Americans.
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Chromatography

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students investigate the separation of mixtures using plant pigments. Using everyday items, they demonstrate the separation of pigments in plants through the process of chromatography.
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SLC ordinances from the 1860's get students involved in

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders discuss Salt Lake City ordinances from the early 1860's, which leads to drafting ordinances to present to local government.
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The Other Drug War

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners develop critical thinking skills as they construct arguments for one of the three debates described in the lesson on "The Other Drug War."
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Litter Detectives

For Teachers K - 5th
Students develop a positive attitude against littering by creating solutions to help reduce littering.
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The Tale of Scale

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders, using a range of data, produce three bar graphs for various scales along the y-axis.
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Why or Why Not Law?

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders, in groups, study the law on the Internet.
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Mental Mapping Hangman

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students participate in mental mapping hangman activity. They choose the name of a country from a hat, draw that country on the board including at least one physical feature produced by nature or humans while not using any speech while...
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Making Sense of Censorship

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students create their own ratings systems with which to classify current pop cultural fare as suitable or unsuitable for Students.
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Let Me Be Your Guide - A Guided Tour of the Dictionary

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders, in teams, compete arranging vocabulary words into alphabetical order. They complete different worksheet activities to practice locating designated words in a dictionary.
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Be a Fire Safety Monitor

For Teachers K - 2nd
Pupils examine ways to deal with unsafe fire situations. They determine what to do when someone else is casing a dangerous fire situation such as playing with a lighter, burning candles near curtains, or smoking in bed. Working with a...
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Is the Probability Probable?

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders compare experimental results with mathematical expectations of probabilities. They utilize a worksheet imbedded in this plan to gain practice with the concept of probability.