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Communicating At Work: Facilitating Good Communication

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students identify characteristics of good communication. They role-play different scenarios from a work setting that require good communication and evaluate their efforts.
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Past Simple Questions and Short Answer Forms

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students review and consolidate past simple question forms and short answers to extend their use to a variety of different regular and irregular verbs.
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Building a Dichotomous Key

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars analyze how a dichotomous key helps us explain and identify unknown organisms. They design and construct a dichotomous key, developing a list of three observable characteristics per organism.
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Undercover Vocabulary

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders, in groups, create a skit using identified vocabulary words and perform the skit for the class. They choose a place and a person to become such as Batman, Romeo and work all the vocabulary words into their skit. They...
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Their Eyes are Watching

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders create a character map for each character in the novel, adding to each as he or she is revealed in "Their Eyes Were Watching God." They document how each character deals with attitudes and injustices.
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RESILIENCY AND THE LITTLE ROCK 9

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students develop and encourage self support strategies through sharing stories of resiliency. They stand up and read aloud from numbered strips of paper with short sentences the story of The Little Rock 9.
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Songs from Two Generations - Lesson 2

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers identify popular songs from 1968 era and analyze some of the topical and musical elements. They focus on social protest songs and other songs of social conscious.
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Research PowerPoint Presentations

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders create a PowerPoint presentation about an animal they chose to research.
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THOSE ANCIENT GREEKS

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils research Athens and Sparta and based on their research they are to make a visual aid showing their findings.
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Music: The Experience of a Lifetime

For Teachers 1st
Students use rhymes, songs and games to help them study music. They discover how music can be used with movement, speech and singing.
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Mythical Mayhem

For Teachers 3rd
Students explore Greek and Roman mythology in this five lessons unit. Common gods, their roles in the myth and stories of the era are surveyed as students take on the personality of a mythical character.
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Life Giving Rivers

For Teachers 3rd
Students examine the world's rivers in this six lessons unit which mingles science with social studies. The dynamic forces that create erosion in nature are also seen as habitats and ecosystems that are affected by environmental and man...
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Preserving the Past with Oral History

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students engage in oral history learning by conducting interviews and recording them to documents for the local community.
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Francophone Tourism Package

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students research and write a report about a French-speaking country and present their research to classmates. They create a persuasive advertising brochure promoting one specific country as the best tourist destination.
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Preserving the Past with Oral History

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students research history by interviewing people in their community. They create a list of questions and record their responses. They end the project with some type of final product which might include a memory book.
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Project Management

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students, in project teams, demonstrate that they are able to successfully plan and manage a construction project. They meet with a customer, work as a team and complete the project to the customer's specifications.
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Hallowed Ground: Preserving Arkansas's Civil War Battlefields

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students examine Civil War battlefields in Arkansas. They read primary source documents written by Arkansans. They discover what life was like during the Civil War as well.
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New Year's Resolutions -Lesson plan

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars study the origins of New Year's Resolutions while practicing taking dictation and identifying interesting points in a piece that is read to them. They investigate the types of things that people resolve on the first day of...
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East Asia

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students participate in research of various government leaders in order to have the ability to role play in a mock press conference. Students are the leaders and the press for this lesson using guided questions for the skits.
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Famous People Research Project

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders research a famous person in Michigan history. They will use at least three different resources including technology to conduct their research. They then will use various forms of technology to create individual research...
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Citizens For the New Zoo

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders complete Internet research to find information about an animal and its basic needs. They design a model of a zoo habitat that would accommodate their animal. They write a letter of recommendation to a Zoo board of directors...
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IEP

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students and parents fill out an inventory sheets where they identify and list their perceptions of the student's learning strengths, weaknessess to improve, goals and interests, and preferences for classroom learning and studying.
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Adding Two Digit Numbers with Using Dimes and Pennies

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders participate in a math game using dimes and pennies. They practice combining coins to make a given amount of money, and they use the combinations to practice adding two digit numbers. Teacher assessment strategies and...
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The Philadelphia Convention/Constitutional Convention

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders explore the major points covered during the Philadelphia Convention/Constitutional Convention. They discuss the Federalists and the Anti federalists. They discuss the Bill of Rights and the drafting of the Constitution....