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Rescue the Pattern

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students describe a wide variety of patterns. They extend a wide variety of patterns. Students write rules for a wide variety of patterns. Students represent, analyze, and generalize a variety of patterns with tables, graphs, and words.
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Beat the Greeks

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Learners conduct research of the history of atomic theory. Information is presented from Democritus and Aristotle to the early Renaissance using the Internet and video.The integration of technology allows for a vast amount of research...
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Journalism: Quoting Sources

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the use of sources and their quotes in news writing. They determine the reasons specific persons are used as sources and why their opinions are relevant to the article. In groups, they identify sources in articles and...
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Mathematical Magazines

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use ads from magazines to create data to be measured and apply the skill of estimation. They record the percentage of magazine ads that could be separated into different categories made by students through the use of logical...
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KS3 Citizenship: Cathy Come Home (1966)

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students view, critique and analyze a moving drama that offers a way into looking at housing problems today. They become aware of the issues, conditions and emotional side of sliding into poverty, debt and homelessness through the eyes...
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Introduction to Night by Elie Wiesel

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students research background knowledge of the Holocaust using Internet websites and the video Seared Souls as preparation for reading Elie Wiesel's Night. In this Night lesson, students visit websites for Holocaust vocabulary,...
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Visual Learning: Are You Really What You Wear?

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students analyze a photograph to complete a visual learning activity. In this visual learning activity, students analyze the photograph and follow step process to identify the facts within the picture. Students analyze the photo caption...
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New Breed of Robots Takes War To the Next Level

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students study an article and answer questions.  In this exploring robots lesson students read an article on military robots and answer questions. 
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JetBlue Soars on CEO's Creativity

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers explore the concept of entrepreneurship. In this entrepreneurship lesson, students read an article about how the CEO of JetBlue has become successful. Middle schoolers discuss how ADHD has helped the CEO of JetBlue....
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Peter and the Wolf - Sequencing

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students listen to the story of Peter and the Wolf and answer comprehension questions. They then will name the beginning, middle, and end of the story using a graphic organizer. Students then individually illustrate each part of the...
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Total English Upper Intermediate: Themed Time Capsules

For Students 5th - 8th
In this making a time capsule worksheet, learners choose 3 topics from the list that interest them and respond to 3 short answer questions regarding the topics for time capsules.
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KWL Chart

For Students 2nd - 6th
In this KWL chart worksheet, students fill out a graphic organizer about what they know, what they want to know, and what they learned about a given subject.
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Tru Confessions

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students view the movie "Tru Confessions" about the life of teenagers. They participate in activities in which they analyze themselves. They record their thoughts and feelings to be analyzed at a later date.
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It's Raining Cats and Dogs! Literary Devices and Figurative Language

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Third and fourth graders study literary devices and figurative language. They view a PowerPoint presentation (which you must create) to review hyperbole, idiom, simile, and metaphor. They read and discuss the book There's A Frog in...
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Civic Engagement for Us?

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Young scholars identify the different forms of civic engagement. They identify their responsibilities at the different levels of government. They also analyze young leaders running for office.
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Lights, Camera, Campaign

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students employ their technology skills to produce campaign commercials. For this political campaign lesson, students discover the appropriate uses of video cameras and create fictitious campaign commercials.
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An English-Speaking World

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
An overview of the development of English as a global language fills out these slides. Beginning with statistics regarding how much of the world speaks English and to what capacity, a brief history is then given mostly pertaining to WWII...
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Buy Nothing Day

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners discover Buy Nothing Day. In this consumer awareness instructional activity, students discuss their spending habits and consider the effects of mass consumerism. Learners discuss alternative activities to shopping on Buy Nothing...
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How We're Connected

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students take a survey in order to find out how they live in relationship to the environment. They take the time to investigate the differences between a need and a want. This is done as part of the self-assessment. Students also study...
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Programs for Shakespeare's Plays

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students design theater programs which show their understanding of William Shakespeare's plays. They design original art to include in the programs.
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Hunt the Fact Monster #27

For Students 3rd
In this search engine worksheet, 3rd graders will need to use factmonster.com to discover answers. Students will respond to 10 short answer questions using the given website.
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December Concentration Game

For Teachers K - 8th
Students play the classic game of Concentration using cards with December holiday and weather pictures on them. They research different December holidays and adapt the details to the game of concentration.
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Using Graphology to Teach Traditional Writing

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Introduce your class to the narrative, descriptive and expository forms of writing. In groups, they discuss the personality of the author while graphing the characteristics after reading different examples from the same writer. To end...
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Module 3--Around the World

For Teachers 4th - 6th
In this writing module worksheet, students fill out the opposites of eight adjectives describing towns/cities, fill in seven blanks in seven sentences with words from the word bank and write a paragraph comparing themselves to a friend...