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Game Festival
Students and parents partake in a noncompetitive field day. They participate in a Festival Day by playing various games or relaxing in the rest area. In addition, they wander freely around school grounds searching for friends, family,...
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The Fight for Life
Students explore the far-reaching impact of AIDS. In this World AIDS Day lesson, students research and compare AIDS statistics as well as advancements in treating AIDS. Students create AIDS awareness posters.
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Everybody Fiesta: A Unit on Hispanic Celebrations
Students study Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Christmas, and Three Kings Day. They research the holidays on the Internet and write compare/contrast essays. Using Microsoft Word to type their essays, they incorporate images that represent the holidays.
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Mexican Holidays
Middle schoolers celebrate Mexican holidays. In this global studies lesson plan, students collaborate to research the Day of the Dead and Cinco de Mayo. Middle schoolers present their findings about the holidays and host classroom...
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Class Time Capsule
Learners record and graph information about themselves and the class. They put the information in a time capsule that they reopen at the end of the year.
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Use a Calendar: Homework 16.6
In this calendar worksheet, students analyze a sample calendar page and use this to answer 6 questions. Students locate the specified dates and days of the week.
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Red Alert: The Noses Are Back
Students celebrate Red Nose Day. In this current events lesson, students access selected Web sites to discover facts about the history of Red Nose Day and to find activities to celebrate the day.
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My Goals
In this first day of school activity worksheet, students discover what a goal is and then record their goals for the coming school year on the 8 provided lines.
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Mark Twain Olympics
Learners, during the last week of the year, are placed into 12 teams to represent countries of the world. All of students participate in a school-wide Olympics that involves 4 rounds of fun activities.
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Star Gazing: Understanding the night sky
Learners observe star charts to understand the difference between a star and a planet. In this star lesson plan, students also explain why we see different stars at different times of the year.
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Landmarks of the Underground Railroad
Eighth graders explore Louisville, KY area Underground Railroad museums. In this Underground Railroad activity, 8th graders read Day of Tears by Julius Lester as well as other listed articles. Students discover how the railroad worked as...
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The Photogingerbread Connection
Young scholars draw pictures of themselves. They mail the picture of themself to the teacher prior to the start of the school year.
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Adolf Hitler (1889-1945)
In this world history worksheet, students read a fact page about Adolf Hitler's early years, 1889 - 1945. They note the little known facts about Hitler before writing a newspaper article which highlights these facts. They write a...
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Birthday Moon
In this science learning exercise, students describe and draw what the moon looks like in four phases. Students also research about what the phase of the moon was like on the day and year they were born. Students ask their classmates...
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Test Your Research Skills - Units of Time
In this research worksheet, students use the library or the internet to find information to answer the twenty questions. Questions refer to seconds, minutes, hours, days and years.
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Test Your Research Skills - Units of Time
In this research learning exercise, students use the library or internet to answer twenty questions related to units of time. Units of time include second, minute, hours, days, and years.
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Planet Fact Sheet
In this space science learning exercise, students record facts about one of the planets, which they draw in a box on the page. They write the name, distance from the sun, length of day and year, and number of moons. They describe how the...
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What do you have to do?
In this writing sentences worksheet, students answer questions that ask them what they have to do at certain times of day or year. Students write 5 sentences.
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Every-Day Edit: Leap Second
In this everyday editing worksheet, the grammatical errors include capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar. Learners correct these grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Leap Second.
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A Beginning of the Year Writing Lesson: PUT-UPS (all, Reading/Writing)
Students examine how to speak respectfully and in an encouraging manner to one another.
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Pre History through Modern Day Timeline
Students explore the historical sequence of cultures throughout history. They demonstrate the ability to organize events in chronological order and demonstrate how time is measured and annotated.
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Ana's Great Day
In this reading worksheet , students read a short story about a girl whose mother teaches at her school. Students answer 5 questions.
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Teaching Kindness across the Curriculum: Kindness for a Day, a Week, a Month, a Year
Learners investigate the concept of character kindness in literature. For this human character lesson plan, students read about kindness and write about their understanding of it.
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Natural Selection Day 1
High schoolers define the concept of classification. In groups, they categorize a series of objects into categories they identify. As a class, they participate in a variety of activities to examine the concept of natural selection. To...