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Let's Roam Together

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students collect information about buffalo and transform their classroom into a wildlife park. For this conservation lesson, students work in groups to research a question pertaining to buffalo populations and habitat...
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How Does A Person Cope With Life Changing Events?

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore the concept of conflict mediation. In this coping skills lesson, 4th graders discover conflict mediation skills that may be used to resolve conflict. Students also learn techniques to reduce stress.
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Where Does it All Come From?

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students investigate where lumber products come from and how they are processed.  In this resource instructional activity students watch a video and understand how the lumber is managed as a renewable resource. 
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Interrupting Chicken

For Teachers K - 3rd
Learners read the book Interrupting Chicken about someone who keeps interrupting. In this reading lesson plan, students discuss how they should not interrupt in class.
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Habitat Preservation Project

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students demonstrate what happens when nature takes back land after humans have managed it. They find an area in the schoolyard, and mark it off with a boundary. Students build a simple fence with string and stakes. They put up a sign...
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Money Simulation (mini economy)

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students participate in a local, classroom economy in both the resource and products market. They track all transactions and learn economic principles and concepts.
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Learn the Shapes

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students examine and identify the similarities and differences of two-dimensional shapes. They play an I-Spy shape game, participate in a classroom Shape Search, and create illustrations of shapes for a shape collage.
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The Integration of Science and Math Through Ecosystems

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students use the disciplines of math and science to examine ecosystems. In groups, they calculate the amount of supplies they would need to live in the classroom for one day, a week and a year. Using this information, they apply it to...
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Friends in the Community

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders build a classroom community by getting to know each other better. They ask classmates various questions and use graphic organizer software and Microsoft PowerPoint. Students practice their oral language skills while asking...
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Sixth Grade is a Ball!

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Young scholars discuss the responsibilities of advancing in grade and participating in more activities. In this grade transition lesson, students watch a 'ball juggling' demonstration to visually identify the responsibilities they have...
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The Kei School

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners create their own Nio sculptures to guard the entrance to the classroom by using knowledge of the Kei school in Japan, primary source documents, and basic art supplies.
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ADULT ESOL LESSON PLANS--Effective Interpersonal Communication

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students, after reviewing daily the vocabulary words on the board, practice using appropriate greetings during introductions and farewells. They stress grammatical emphasis on subject pronouns with each greeting. In addition, they...
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The Three R's: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students understand conservation terms. In this three R's (reduce, reuse, recycle) lesson, students understand the importance of preserving a clean world and reducing waste. Students sing a song which show importance of 3R's.
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Families and Neighborhoods

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students explore the concepts of family and community. In this diversity lesson, students read Bear About Town and then design and build their own classroom neighborhood homes out of individual shoeboxes.
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The Mayflower Compact

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Learners explore the concept of social contracts. In this Mayflower Compact lesson plan, students read handouts regarding the compact and participate in a classroom activity that requires them to author a social contract.
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To Clear or Not To Clear, That Is the Question

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Pupils plan how to manage a fictional timber resource.  In this earth science lesson plan, students research the options and repercussions of logging a forested plot of land.  Pupils consider the implications of logging to the...
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Le Cirque: A Global Simulation

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils study about circus performers as they visit various French cities. They make decisions about events, management, and create a graphic organizer about the various French Cities. Also, they care a database to rate some of the...
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Wealth of Wisdom

For Teachers 3rd - 10th
Students determine what to do with money. In this personal finance lesson, students discuss budgeting, savings, and loans with their instructor. Students then participate in classroom activities that require them to participate in...
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Let's Build a Worm Bin

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars explore the process of decomposition. In this ecology and measurement instructional activity, students prepare a worm home to be used for vermicomposting. Young scholars weigh a group of worms and the added food, recording...
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Water Conservation

For Teachers K - 5th
Students identify ways to conserve water. In this environmental lesson, students use a water use checklist to identify how much water they use in one day. Students analyze the data and brainstorm ways to conserve water.
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Trace a Face

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Learners find two dimensional shapes in three dimensional figures. They determine the shapes that make up the faces of three dimensional figures of common classroom objects such as crayon boxes.
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Clarifying Values

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Encourage thoughtful decision making with a lesson that highlights the importance of values. Scholars take part in a grand conversation, listen to stories, and make decisions based on their personal values.  
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Crawly Composters

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Get your hands dirty with an interactive lesson plan that showcases the process of decomposing and returning nutrients back into the soil. After building a compost pile, pupils regularly observe the...
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White-tailed Deer Issues

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders examine the white tail deer population in Pennsylvania and explore the impacts that the deer have on the flora and fauna.  In this white-tail deer instructional activity students complete an activity and graph their...

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