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Reading with Expression

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students practice reading with expression. After discussing how reading with feeling and expression can enhance the text, students listen as their partner reads a story with expression. Individual students read selected passages with...
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I Can't Hear You

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice reading silently to become better readers. They each read a copy of the book, "Mr. Cricket takes a Vacation," from Carousel Readers. Each student explains why if everyone read aloud in class how distracting it would be...
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Grilling Algebra

For Teachers 7th - 11th
Students use a grille to investigate geometry. The application of the geometric figure, which is square, the students begin the coding of a message. The use of cryptography is used to reinforce algebraic ideas.
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Does the falling tree make a sound if no one if there to hear it? (or communication via encryption)

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Young scholars explore encryption. They discuss the importance of cryptography in our daily lives. Students use games and cryptography to discover transformational geometry and modulo systems. They design their own encryption puzzles...
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Voices at Whisper Bend

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine life in Pennsylvania during and after World War II. Using primary source documents, they compare the unity of the United States during World War II and the Iraq War. They also discover how citizens adapt to the war at home.
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World War I: Overview of the Great War

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders read first hand accounts of soldiers' lives during World War I, examine historical timeline of major events during war, and research and listen to clips of popular music of the time.
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E-E-E-E-Extra E-E-E-E-Effort

For Teachers K - 1st
Students listen to a tongue twister emphasizing the short e sound. They practice writing the letter e and attaching different words with that sound to it. They listen to a book about a dog that enhances the letter e. They write a...
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On Your Mark, Get Set, GO!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students in order to become a fluent reader need to read often and repeat what they read over and over. Repeated reading helps students gain better knowledge of text. Fluent readers recognize words automatically and with this automatic...
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Vroom, Vroom, Vroom! Off We Go!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students practice sentences and short books to improve their fluency. They read practice sentences to model fluent reading. They review decoding strategies for unknown words including cross-checking. They read with their partner and...
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Language Arts: Sound Recognition

For Teachers 1st
First graders practice the short i sound by repeating tongue twisters. Later they write the letter i by using the analogy of drawing a straight line from the "fence" down to the "sidewalk" and putting a "basketball" above it. Other...
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Icky Sticky and Itty Bitty

For Teachers K
Students identify the letter i and the sound that it makes in various words and illustrations with the sound /i/. They practice writing the letter I both upper and lower case on paper. Finally, students circle the pictures with the...
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Fast Like a Rabbit

For Teachers 1st
First graders identify and interpret what fluency means and relate it to a rabbit hopping along fast without messing up. They close their eyes and picture a book in their minds that they really love to read and locate it on the...
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School-Home Links: Compound Words

For Students 2nd - 3rd
For this compound word worksheet, students use the compound words listed in the word bank to complete the sentences. Parents and guardians must sign the worksheet.
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School-Home Links: Compound Words 2

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this compound words activity, learners read six different compound words and then draw a line separating the two words that make up the compound word. Parents or guardians must sign the activity.
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School-Home Links: Syllables

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this syllable worksheet, students read a list of words and break them up into syllables. Students draw a line separating the word into syllables. Parent or guardians must sign the worksheet.
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Ratios and Proportions

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders explore the concept of ratios and proportions. In this ratios and proportions lesson, 7th graders work in groups to measure their heights and their arm span. Students compare their height to their arm span. Students make...
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Issues in Genomics

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students explore the definition of ethics and genomics. In this organism lesson students participate in the chosen teacher lesson.
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Protein Factory

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners examine protein synthesis and how DNA is transcribed.   In this investigative instructional activity students play a role in the messenger RNA when it creates nucleotides. 
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Spectroscopy Demonstrations

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students study light and see what emits photons and that light can be separated onto a spectrum.  In this energy and matter lesson students identify gases using a spectrum chart. 
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I Like Bugs!

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Pupils explore the story I Like Bugs! In this language arts lesson plan, students sort bugs from the story into the correct category. Pupils draw pictures of bugs and create a retelling booklet.
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Web-Based Practice

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore technology by participating in a word structure activity. In this grammar lesson, students utilize the Writing Center computer software to practice keyboarding while identifying word formations in class. Students...

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