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Effective Parent/Student/Teacher Communication
Sixth graders engage in a lesson which address the concerns and issues around new 6th grade students arriving at middle school. They, parents and teachers use this strategy to effectuate good communication.
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Insect Communication and Harmful Insects
Seventh graders use children's literature in order to create an interesting context for the lesson. The concept of insect communication is investigated in order for students to form educated hypothesis guesses.
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Peer Review of My School and Community Activities
Twelfth graders complete activities to explore life goals. In this career goals lesson, 12th graders write a list of their community activities and write a statement of their life goals. Students discuss their life goals with a peer.
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Collaboration and Communication Tools-1
Students use telecommunications and online resources to participate in activities that develop solutions outside the classroom. They use email attachments and FAX to send their finished letters describing why people should or should not...
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Physical Education: Movement Activities in Australian Rules Football
Students practice movement activities used in Australian Rules Football. In groups, They practice stealing the football from the other group. Students demonstrate handball skills and breakdowns.
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Picture This
Students create a descriptive paragraph about their past or their heritage and provide a picture to go along with it. In this past and heritage lesson plan, students share their paragraph with the class.
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Blindfolded Building
Students build a Lego design and then work with a partner to reproduce that design. They guide the building of the reproduction by description only and then check their work.
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Giving Directions
Learners explore communication by participating in language description activities. In this directions instructional activity, students practice using communicative terms and prepositions of places to direct a classmate to an exact...
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Pass it Around
Students participate in body awareness activities by lying in a large circle and passing a ball. In this body awareness activity, students lie in a large circle and pass a ball in multiple fashions to improve their motor skills, problem...
CSI Crime Lab: Classroom Edition
Participants use their observation skills, communication skills, and reasoning skills to perform forensic tests and solve a crime. This series of activities provides a first-hand (but scaled-down) introduction to careers in Forensic...
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Smart Move!
Students visualize a communication system. They encode, decode, transmit, receive and store messages. Students use a code sheet and flashlight for this process. They will also maintain a storage sheet from which they can retrieve...
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Animal Activities: Bird Talk
Learners attempt to communicate with birds in the area by using a technique called phish.
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Total English: ELL Activity
In this ELL learning exercise, students fill in gaps in a conversation using words from a word box. Students also create a work schedule and try to arrange a meeting based on a given schedule.
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Vocabulary Activity: Lara's Blog
In this vocabulary worksheet, students read a "blog" from the internet, then answer a set of 14 questions regarding the meaning of words in the passage, filling in the blanks.
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Galileo's Battle for the Heavens
Young scholars view a video about Galileo's discoveries. They work together to create graphs showing the current sunspot cycle. They discuss how sunspots can cause communication devices problems.
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Real Life, Your Life: Body Talk
Young scholars discover how body language effects verbal communication. In this body language lesson, students watch a video clip, observing what is said and how the people act with their bodies. Young scholars complete a worksheet to...
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KINDERGARTEN PEACE UNIT
Students learn the meaning of peace, the value of world peace and the individual commitment it requires through discussion and a variety of hands-on activities
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Life During the Civil War for Women and Civilians
Students follow an overview of the American Civil War from a film, the text and/or teacher direct instruction. They create a timeline with a large map of the U.S. in the 1860's available for student reference as they do the spider activity.
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4-H Companion Animal Project
In this 4-H animal science instructional activity, students will complete several activities about companion animals. Students will learn about feline feelings, dog breeds and their different groups, rabbit vocabulary and ideas for...
Discovery Education
Satellite Telemetry
Satellites require rockets to launch, but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand them. Future engineers learn about how satellites send data to Earth and how to interpret satellite images. They see how radio waves play a role...
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Couriers in the Inca Empire: Getting Your Message Across
Students examine how the Inca communicated over large distances. They locate the Inca Empire on a map, define key vocabulary terms, play the game, 'telephone,' and create a quipu to show the year they were born.
Committee for Children
Class Meeting: Empathy Helps Stop Bullying
A lesson instills the importance of how empathy has the ability to aid in stopping bullying behavior. Scholars discuss, in-depth, a series of three questions. Using class input, an anchor chart is made then displayed for reference.
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Getting to Know You
After going over the five steps of the writing process, pupils fill out "Getting to Know You" worksheets. They trade papers with each other, and have the task of writing a descriptive paragraph about the person whose worksheet they...
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Signal Flags and Codes
Students make sets of nautical signal flags and use them to communicate in the classroom.