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Checkmate: The Play's The Thing

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students investigate the Middle Ages and it's relation to the theater.  In this acting lesson, students read Arthurian stories form the Middle Ages and practice using vocabulary words from the Medieval Times.  Students write a...
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Strings and Things: An Investigation into pH

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students test the pH of everyday substances. In this chemistry lesson, students test the pH of household substances using litmus paper to classify substances as acids or bases, then use pH to test the validity of the claim that dock...
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Let's Heat Things Up!

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students build and evaluate simple models to understand the greenhouse effect. They explore the role of increased greenhouse gas concentration in global warming, and the implications of global warming theory for engineers, themselves...
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Using Words to Work Things Out

For Teachers K
Students recognize a problem and how to resolve it. In this instructional activity, students listen to The Hating Book and discuss the events of the story. Students answer comprehension questions and relate to their own experiences....
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Until Then I Had Only Read About These Things in Books

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students read assigned text about the World War II. In this Holocaust survival lesson, students identify the mass murders associated with Adolf Hitler's Nazi party and read stories of young men who narrowly avoided the death camps....
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Why Do Certain Things Float, While Some Sink?

For Teachers 1st
First graders conduct an experiment. In this density lesson, 1st graders work in groups to test 10 different objects to see which ones sink and float. Students discuss why certain objects float and others do not.
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Things Are Looking Up

For Teachers 7th - 12th
In this activity, students will write a description of a person in their community whom they admire.
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Animals and Humans Say the Darnedest Things

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students explore and analyze human and animal communications and create a short film that illustrates their findings.
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Seeing Things From the Someone Else's Point of View

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine the cultural trait of sharing, trying to view it from the point of view of someone in another culture. They question what we gain from trying to see the world from the perspective of another person or culture and...
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Wild Things Are Here

For Teachers K
Students engage in a literature study for the book Where The Wild Things Are. The skill of prediction is practiced as they preview the story as a whole class. The teacher models reading fluency, pronunciation, and phonetic skills while...
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The Important Thing

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders describe their families, and find common elements with other students in regard to their families. They read the book, The Important Book, then create another page for the book.
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The Important Things About Nouns

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils create pages to be published into a eBook. Students read a story and identify nouns and attributes that describe the noun. Using a creative writing process, pupils write paragraphs and combine them for their eBook. Students read...
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Describe Comoon Objects and Actions in both General and Specific Language

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students are told that they are going to describe the noun and verb in a simple sentence to make the sentence more detailed. They are told that a noun is a person, place or thing. Students are taught that a verb is an action word. They...
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Do the Right Thing

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students define integrity and responsibility, then discuss the motto "Do the Right Thing." students participate in teacher-generated problems in small groups.
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Things I Value in Aston Hall

For Students 4th - 6th
In this things that I value in Aston Hall worksheet, students complete a graphic organizer by writing about or drawing things that they find valuable in each room of Ashton Hall. They choose the room that they value the most before...
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28 Things to Do in the Library

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this library activity learning exercise, students complete the 28 sentences with a word or phrase from the word bank that describe the things to do in the library.
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What Makes Up an Environment?

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this environment activity, students complete a graphic organizer by filling in the blanks of statements describing different animal adaptations.
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Things We Like to Do!

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this ESL word and picture matching instructional activity, students analyze 7 pictures that depict common leisure activities. Students match these with the words that describe them.
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Living vs. Nonliving

For Teachers K - 5th
Learners explore the characteristics that distinguish living things from nonliving things. Students examine video clips and still photographs to gather evidence and develop criteria to decide if something is living or nonliving.
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It's Alive

For Teachers K
Students identify the differences between a nonliving and living thing. They describe what is needed for any living thing to survive. They create one page for the class book identifying why the object is a living thing.
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My Favorite Things

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students identify "masterpieces" and mass-produced objects. They explain why they value a given object and determine what physical materials were used to create the objects. They create a class book featuring objects that they value.
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Descriptions Match Ups

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this word/picture recognition worksheet, students follow directions to draw the indicated number of items. They draw things such as cakes, snakes, and pencils which they see on the page along with the numbers 1 through 5.
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The Important Things About Nouns

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students review nouns by observing a Nouns PowerPoint and write nouns using handheld computers. They listen to Margaret Wise Brown's, The Important Book as a model for a class e-book about nouns which they publish.
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Describing Words

For Teachers 1st
First graders brainstorm adjectives, recognize adjectives within text read by teacher, identify sentences that contain adjectives using Hyperstudio stack, and write two descriptive sentences for abstract image they create.