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Movement of Air Mind Map Activity

For Teachers 7th - Higher Ed
Students explore the movement of air.  For this air lesson, students discuss and give examples of air ventilation.  Students compare outdoor and indoor air quality.  Students create mind maps as a visual representation of...
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Honey Bee Communication

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students participate in a role play to show how honey bees communicate with one another. In this honey bee lesson, students learn that honey bees communicate with dance. Students create the honey bee environment and role...
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Clifford the Big Red Dog: Work Together

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students explore the concept of cooperation. In this literature instructional activity, students read Clifford's Busy Week and discuss teamwork as they create "Lost and Found" journals and build paper trains.
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Crawford Grill: Opening the Doors of Opportunity

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Analyze the role the Crawford Grill played in the history of Jazz music. Budding historians research interviews and video clips to learn about the Crawford Grill in Pennsylvania and black music history. The lesson culminates when...
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Going Green

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Pupils create an action plan to learn how to preserve natural resources for future generations. In this environmental conservation lesson, students research the topic of preserving the natural environment and write a definition for going...
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Why Is The State Called Kansas?

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders research how cities are named.  In this states names lesson, 4th graders discuss whom the state of Kansas was named after, work with a partner to write down what they've learned about Kansas, research the origins of...
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The Price Is Right

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students create a list of products with estimated prices. In this algebra lesson plan, students learn to write equations using variables. They match their created list with that of actual products and compare their prices,
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Butterfly Round-Up

For Teachers 2nd - Higher Ed
Students classify the characteristics of butterflies and moths moths. In this life cycle instructional activity, students identify butterflies and moths common in the state of Iowa as well as their characteristics.  Students then...
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Congruent Shapes

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
In this geometry instructional activity, students trace the capital letter "T" in different directions to learn how a shape is congruent. Students trace this letter on a sheet of paper, then turn, flip it, and trace it in...
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Appreciating Our American Heritage

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students learn about the Chinese culture via literature. They read the poetry of Cathy Song, considering national pride as Americans and Chinese.
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The Latin American Mercado

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students spend a week learning the importance of the marketplace in Latin American life. They study and create products for their market and then role-play vendors and sellers for two days, practicing their bargaining skills and their...
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Appreciating Our American Heritage

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders learn about the Chinese culture and how important they feel their heritage and culture are, and to help the American students develop a pride in their own culture as well.
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Microarrays: Chipping Away at the Mysteries of Science and Medicine

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students research microarrays on the internet in cooperative groups. Students write an essay describing the use of microarrays in environmental research and in medicine.
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What Do I Write About?

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders write as essay describing the cooperative group drawing they made or describing the process to draw a group picture.
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Beacon Lesson Plan Library: Formal or Informal?

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Start talking trash with your elementary English class! Then lead a discussion comparing formal and informal language. Divide the class into groups to answer a questionnaire and analyze a set of sentence cards to analyze. This is a cool...
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THE GRINCH, SANTA, AND THE CHIMNEY SWEEPERS

For Teachers K - 12th
Students learn aerobic endurance through game play.
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LESSON 6: Is There a Stone in My Soup? (K-2)

For Teachers K - 1st
Students plan a service project for students in their community, celebrating respect through understanding diversity, selflessness and cooperation.
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LESSON 4: This is Rosa Parks

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students learn about Rosa Parks and the Civil Rights Movement.
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Child Soldiers

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students learn what it is like to be a child solider.
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Salad Sisters

For Teachers K - 6th
Pupils practice and perform 8 and 16 beat rhythmic patterns in 4/4 using the song "Salad Sisters" as a basis in this elementary-level General Music lesson. An amazing lesson for teaching cooperative music composition techniques and rhythm.
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Satchmo's Blues

For Teachers 4th - 11th
Students work cooperatively to create a jazz composition using the computer program GarageBand and incorporating the musical stylings of musician Louis Armstrong. Internet access is required for this lesson.
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Helping

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students awareness is raised when they are called to look after one's surrounding and have a good attitude toward helping others and working cooperatively. Students write down times of day and how that time was wasted and time helping...
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Make A Pinata

For Teachers K - 6th
Students work cooperatively to create pinatas using balloons, old newspapers, flour, water, tempera paints, string, scissors, and candy in this excellent lesson for the Elementary classroom. This can be ties into a unit of study on...
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Election Voting Systems

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discuss the Afghan elections and times when they have voted, i.e. student council, American Idol. Cooperatively, they create definitions for election, local council election, national government election, candidate, polling...

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