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Contrasting Characters
Learners analyze characters in a story and contrast them in terms of their appearance, education, family, religion, and more. In this characters lesson plan, students fill out a worksheet provided.
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Food: Unusual Dishes From Around the World
Students access a variety of unique food from around the world themed websites. They locate information about foods that Americans might find strange like monkey brains, insects and snakes. They view recipes and photographs.
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Grammar: Contractions
Students access a variety of contractions themed websites. They locate information on grammar rules and play interactive contraction games and exercises.
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Holiday: Christmas Games and Crafts
Students access a variety of Christmas themed websites. They play online games and send e-mail letters to Santa. They complete word searches and read Christmas stories.
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Groundhog Day
Students access a variety of Groundhog Day themed websites. They locate information about the history of Groundhog Day and why we celebrate it. They read about Punxsutawney Phil and groundhogs and play interactive games.
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Pirates
Students use the Internet to access a variety of pirate-themed websites. They research famous pirates from the past and identify sunken pirate ships that have been recovered.
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Plants: Gardening
Students access a variety of gardening-themed websites that present gardening tips and planting activities for kids. They view photographs of plants, take quizzes and conduct hands-on experiments.
Shakespeare Uncovered
Henry IV, Part I: Does Father Know Best?
“Yea, there thou mak’st me sad and mak’st me sin/In envy that my Lord Northumberland/Should be the father to so blest a son--.” Henry IV, Part I, provides the text for a series of exercises that ask class members to examine the...
US Holocaust Museum
Deconstrucing the Familiar
Collaboration and complicity. Class members examine a series of photographs and consider how active participation and passive complicity represented in the photos contributed to the Holocaust.
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Brief Encounters (Building Bridges)
Students participate in a simulation that explores how groups of two radically different cultures might interact. They, in groups, represent the different cultures and, after interacting, describe the opposite group's cultural norms and...
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Brief Encounters: Building Bridges
Students engage in a roleplaying game n order to experience what it is like to encounter people of a different culture. In this lesson on building cultural connections, students will participate in a cultural simulation which will help...
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Adding Humor to Your Lessons is No Laughing Matter
Try these seven ways to inject laughs into your curriculum, while staying on track academically.
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Shakespeare: Standing on the Bookshelves of Giant
A phenomenal lesson on Shakespeare! Middle and high school learners create WebQuests about the texts and authors that Shakespeare himself studied when he was in grammar school. They use a variety of media in order to create dramatic...
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Making Lowell Our Place
Students investigate a community through different types of educational experiences. They use short field trips to experience the community in real life. they also conduct research using a variety of resources. Then students build the...
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Frogs and Turtles
Learners notice differences between frogs and turtles. In this frog themed lesson, students review what frogs are and practice counting to five with the help of music and a coloring worksheet.
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Power to the People: Social Movements of the 1960s
Students engage in a professional development workshop for teachers in the delivery of curriculum about the era of the 1960's. The emphasis of the workshop is using popular culture of the time in order to launch investigations that are...
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Words That Will Haunt You
Pupils create taxonomies of Halloween-related terms. Drawing from their compiled vocabulary lists and previous reading, they compose personal essays of their own memories of the holiday. Students present their essays at a...
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Macarena Referee Dance
Students learn officiating hand signals through dance; to give students interested in sports a connection to dance
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Baseball Word Scramble
In this baseball terminology activity, students brainstorm and discuss ten key terms associated with baseball and then complete a baseball word scramble activity.
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The Letter Gg
Students use songs, worksheets, coloring pages, and more to make a book about the letter G. In this letter G worksheet, students complete 12 activities online, in books, and independently to practice using the letter G.
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Incorporating Literature into Social Studies Teaching and Learning
Students engage in a study of incorporating literature into the Social Studies classroom. They review a variety of literature sources and then create a bulletin board with the information. Then students practice using the Reader's...
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Hop on Down the Bunny Trail
Students practice various locomotor skills at six different stations. They move a 'bunny' down a 'trail' to track their progress. All of the activities must be done as a group and stress teamwork and sportsmanship.
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Mark Twain Olympics
Students, 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.