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Deerfield Debates Its Future: What Constitutes Progress?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners explore the many resources that one can use to explore a community, the Colonial Revival movement, and how the industry and technology reshaped life in Deerfield the Connecticut River Valley.
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Memior: The Stuff of Our Lives

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders reflect upon the significance of remembered events and to keep a "notebook" of their thoughts and feelings. They read books that exemplify memior writing. They write their memiors, taking it through the writing process.
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David's Day

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students are given different paragraphs from a story called David's Day. They are to place their paragraph on a scalce from happy to sad. They are to identify behaviors which would make David feel better.
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Charlotte's Web

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create a small web to communicate a message to someone. They examine the types of spiders and how they make their webs. They design and create their own web with their message inside.
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Scavenger Hunt for Adjective Images

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Young scholars work in groups to create silent videos or still images that define or represent adjectives. They share their creations with the other groups in class to see if they can determine the adjective their project represented.
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Totem Poles -- Storytellers of Long Ago

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders discover the main purpose for totem poles was to communicate with others. In groups, they compare and contrast the four types of totem poles and the various symbols used. They write their own stories based off of pictures...
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Informational Questioning

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students practice writing basic questions to gain information. Working as a class, they identify questions they would ask to gain information about locations, time, and events. After writing their questions, they practice asking and...
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Parental Responsibilities

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students discuss their responsibilities and experiences as parents. Individually, students create a list of parental responsibilities. Individual lists are combined and discussed with the whole class. This activity is designed for...
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Making Polite Conversation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students become familiar with the polite forms of conversation that are used in this country. They role play making requests using polite forms. Students write an appropriate thank you not to a host or hostess. This lesson is intended...
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My Likes And Dislikes

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students practice conversational conventions when expressing their likes and dislikes, with a partner. Individually, they write a paragraph explaing a tiem when they felt acceptance or rejection.
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Introducing...Me

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students practice rephrasing techniques to ask and answer questions in order to maintain conversational exchanges. Students create scripts about themselves to use as conversation starters. This lesson is intended for students acquiring...
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Hello, How Do You Do?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students role play proper greetings and etiquette in formal and informal work and social situations. Students compare and contrast introductions and conversational conventions in their native country and in the United States by writing...
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Take A Message

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students practice accurate note taking skills, recording only pertinent information. Using proper grammar and useage, they record accurate phone messages. This instructional activity is intended for students acquiring English.
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars read "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory." After observing the illustrations and previewing chapter titles, students predict what will happen in the story. They research and contact chocolate companies to gather...
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Save Our Ship!

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this deciphering a message worksheet, students utilize a Morse code alphabet key to decipher a message to the captain of the Titanic.
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Total English Upper Intermediate: Themed Time Capsules

For Students 5th - 8th
In this making a time capsule worksheet, learners choose 3 topics from the list that interest them and respond to 3 short answer questions regarding the topics for time capsules.
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Lesson on Education for Global Peace

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. In this human rights instructional activity, 5th graders create their own country, country flag, and charter of rights and freedoms after they have studied the Canadian...
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Summarizing

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders write summaries. In this summarizing activity students decide which events of a chapter in a book are important to summarizing. Students also create a title for the chapter based upon the contents of the chapter. Students...
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Organizing One’s Thoughts

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners take a closer look at the organization of written pieces. In this writing skills lesson, students examine transitions, repetition, parallelism, and other organizational patterns in writing. 
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In Just - Theme of Language and Communication

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
In this reading worksheet, students respond to 4 short answer and essay questions based on themes in "in Just-." Students may also complete their choice of 2 reading activities suggested
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TECH:Class-to-class Interaction (Communication)

For Teachers 1st - 7th
Students use interpersonal skills and digital equipment to interact with different classes of students.
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Communicating at work: Listening strategies and skills

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students play a game of "Gossip" to explain the importance of active listening skills. They learn active listening skills through group discussion, lecture and small group exercises.
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Contraception: Communication

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students investigate human health by completing a worksheet in class. For this sexual activity lesson, students identify the importance of contraceptive devices and birth control. Students complete role-play scenarios in which two people...
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Communication 3: Taking "No" For An Answer

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students play a rejection game and fill in sentences about taking and accepting "no" for an answer. In this taking "no" worksheet, students also discuss how asking more than twice is aggression.

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