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Assessment Techniques: Trials
This assessment tool can be used to determine if your Autistic or special needs pupil can identify particular objects. You will document the number and types of prompts needed for the child to complete the task. This is typically used...
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Volleyball - Lesson 6 - Forearm Pass
Feet to the ball, belly button to the target, flat platform. These are the three main cues for making a good forearm pass in volleyball. Teach these cues, practice these skills, work on performing a good forearm pass. Yes, practice,...
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Volleyball - Lesson 3 - Setting Up to Attack
The focus of Lesson three in this 20 lesson volleyball unit is setting the ball. Proper technique for hand position, contact position, stance, and facing direction are reviewed. These skills are practiced individually and in small...
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Challenge Games - Caution: Construction Zone
This challenge game activity focuses on not just following directions, but on active listening as the players receiving the directions are blindfolded. The players giving directions need to be clear and concise in telling the blindfolded...
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Volleyball - Lesson 5 - Winning the Point
Volleyball - Lesson 5 is about winning the point. It takes some practice and hard word to become good at hitting or spiking a volleyball. This lesson focuses on some of the teaching cues and techniques of hitting/spiking a volleyball to...
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Avoir, Être, et Le Passé Composé
The lesson begins with direct instruction: how and when do we use avoir and être to form the past tense? After identifying the verbs that use either avoir or être, French learners write about five things they did the week prior. Then, in...
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Music: Sounds on the Farm
Singing is a great way to build memory, music, and verbal communication skills. Little ones sing the song, "Old Mac Donald had a Farm." They make the sounds of each animal on the farm paying attention to signaling cues, singing high, and...
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Classified Cues
Students analyze classified advertisements to make inferences about who wrote the ad and who may find the ad appealing. They write their own classified ads based on what they have learned.
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Catching a Rolling Ball
Here are a series of activities to practice catching a rolling ball. There are specific directions and cues that are being scaffolded in this PE activity. The scaffolding will also allow for a check to see what the players might need to...
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American Voices and Their Audiences
Those new to teaching an AP level language and composition prep course and seasoned veterans will find much to treasure in a unit that is designed to help young language scholars develop the skills they need to analyze the language...
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DYNAMICS IN CONCEPT AND IN ACTION
High schoolers perform grade appropriate literature utilizing the specified dynamic indications and respond accurately to the cues of the director.
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Cha-Cha Dribble
Students work on dribbling with either hand. They follow directions and the rhythm of the music. Students dance to the Cha-Cha slide according to its directions and they add the dribble of the bbasketball with the number of "stomps."
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FAMOUS NAMES
Students study some important people and events in French culture. They complete a worksheet and circle every item that is associated with France. They respond to written cues identifying the country's language and culture.
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Compass Rose Tossing
Students use different pieces of equipment to practice throwing and catching. They use the cardinal directions of North, South, East and West in making a compass rose with the equipment. They must use higher order and decision making...
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Web of Predators and Prey
Middle schoolers investigate the food chain by researching the Internet. In this ecosystem activity, students view the video "Competitor and Predator" and read a book from the series "The Magic School Bus." Middle schoolers utilize a...
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Human Knot
Employability skills are difficult to measure but are essential in the workplace. Introduce high schoolers to employability skills with the Human Knot activity. Groups of six grab hands to form a human knot and untangle themselves. The...
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Volleyball
Before coaching or beginning your next PE unit on volleyball, take a look at this 30-lesson unit that offers instructional techniques for each lesson, as well as warm-up activities, set inductions, and suggested coaching refinements.
Star Wars in the Classroom
"Shakespeare and Star Wars": Lesson Plan Days 13 and 14
How important are sound effects in films? In stage plays? In radio programs? To gain an understanding of the impact of these special effects, class members watch a short video spoof of the sound in a scene from Star Wars: A New...
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Habits of the Mind
An informative one-page resource details the 16 Habits of Mind. Habits encourage positive problem-solving, self-awareness, creativity, and dedication—lifelong skills that can be used in both academic and social settings.
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Violence On TV
Students examine violence on TV. In this data collection lesson plan, students explore TV violence. Students watch TV shows and fill out a checklist about the amount of violence. Students organize and analyze the information to make a...
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Learning About Maps
Students take a "field trip" with the teacher through the school then draw a diagram of what they saw. They bring the maps to the computer lab where they create electronic maps using the software program Neighborhood Map Machine.
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Noodle Knockdown
Students perform a proper overhand throw. In this physical education instructional activity, students practice overhand throwing using specific sequential cues such as "statue" and "muscleman". Each step is explained in detail. Students...
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The Stigma Within
Students role play the part of someone with a mental illness and the families they are members of. They act out the scenes from cue cards and other students can state their questions and comments.
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Jumping Rope
Fourth graders jump rope for five jumps in a row while swinging the rope forward and jumping on both feet, swinging the rope forward and jumping on one foot, to build locomotor skills with a manipulative. They also listen for the...