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Laws - Who needs them?

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students examine the need for laws. In this government instructional activity, students participate in 2 classroom activities that require them to consider the impact of laws on their personal lives. Students discuss how laws solve...
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We Are a Comm-un-it-y. I've Got All My Classmates with Me-Part I

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate the meaning of community. For this community lesson, students look at the concepts of civic engagement, civic responsibility, and common good. They determine how a classroom is a community and the need for having...
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Practice Spelling Plurals

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders review the rules for spelling plural nouns. In this plural nouns lesson, 4th graders review the six rules for making nouns plural. They apply the rules as they complete the associated worksheet.
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Summarizing

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students use their note-taking skills to write summaries of information. In this writing skills lesson, students use the notes they have taken in another lesson to write adventure stories by implementing the Rule-Based strategy.
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ADULT ESOL LESSON PLAN--Level 3--Maintaining Employment

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students analyze and practice with safety scenarios how to follow simple generic work rules with safety procedures in the United States to insure a safe workplace. In addition, they practice certain commands experienced at the workplace...
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Using Contractions

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders study the use of contractions. In this contraction lesson, 2nd graders examine what contractions are and how to form them properly. They use a song to learn which words to change when forming contractions before writing 6...
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Classroom Newspaper

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders study the American Revolution. In this writing lesson, each group of students write a story that will go into the created newspaper depicting a day in the 1770's.
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Understanding Inequality Operation Rules

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students solve problems within-inequalities. In this algebra lesson, students apply concepts of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division to solve inequalities.
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How To Rule Cell Division

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Learners explore cell division through auditory, visual and tactile stations that each describe a stage of cell division. Then they apply the information from the stations in a mini-homework project that is tailored to one of the...
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Give Respect

For Teachers K - 4th
Young learners explore what it means to be respectful. This resource includes a two page chart depicting rules for different settings at school such, as the cafeteria and the playground. What does following the rules look like? What does...
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Making Good Decisions

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students engage in some form of classroom decision making and look at possible options and consequences of each decision.  In this investigative lesson plan students look at different options in solving social issues and can debate...
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Care For Your Classroom Computer

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students discover the proper way to care for their computers at school. As a class, they use the Internet to view a website on how to care for pets and relate it to their classroom computer. To end the lesson, they are given different...
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Rules and Responsibilities Youth and the Process of Change

For Teachers 1st
First graders learn vocabulary in regards to laws, courts, and policeman. They read and discuss the book, The Value of Respect: The Story of Abraham Lincoln. An attorney visits the classroom and discusses the roles of judges and juries.
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Our Classroom-The Community of Fun

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars identify why trust is important to a community. They explain what is meant by a common resource. They compare and contrast how the community functions when rules are followed or not followed.
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Cool to Rule: A Game of Prediction and Measurement

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students demonstrate measurement and estimation skills. In small groups, they are given a measurement, predict what object in the classroom is equal to that specific measurement, and record their data in a table that includes the...
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Economics: Property Rights and the Rule of Law

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Pupils examine the economic value of property rights. In a classroom activity, "You're the Economist," they analyze actual research data from establishing land holding titles in Para, Brazil. They assess several case studies about the...
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Charlotte and Her Relatives Visit the Classroom: Spider Activities, Experiments and Projects

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students compare and contrast different spider species that they capture and maintain in the classroom for several days. They identify and research the species characteristics and living requirements then conduct an experiment on spider...
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Judges In The Classroom

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners explore legal requirements of searches conducted with and without a warrant and explore legal standard for conducting random searches of passenger vehicles preparing to board state ferries from a Judge who visits the classroom.
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Building Relationships in a High School Classroom

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore building new friendships during the first week of school. They participate in a variety of getting to know each other activities. Students work cooperatively and develop collegial relationships with their classmates.
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Playing By Different Rules

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore the concept of American imperialism by researching and analyzing historical examples of American imperialism. They draft a set of laws that would govern the actions of powerful nations in other countries.
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Lesson Plan: U.S. Government

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students examine reasons for studying government. In this U.S. government instructional activity, students brainstorm the reasons for rules. Students draft their own class constitution in the style of the U.S. Constitution.
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The Impact of Citizens United v. FEC

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
What began as an effort to show a movie by an interest group has impacted financing of federal elections. Did the Citizens United case lead to more "dark money" in politics, or did it shine a light with more speech? Using video clips...
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Peer Pressure

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
What do you do if someone you like wants you to do something you don't want to do? A series of activities, including discussion, videos, role-play, and poster projects, demonstrate the most effective ways to withstand peer pressure online.
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Self Esteem

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
To middle schoolers, there's nothing worse than being excluded from a peer group. Developing important self-esteem skills can not only get them through awkward adolescent times, it can carry them through the rest of their lives as...

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