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Santa Claus Around the World

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Young scholars investigate how students in various countries celebrate their winter holiday traditions, locate various countries on a map, and draw and tell about various Santa Claus legends.
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After Reading: "Plot the Plot" Activity in the Library Media Class

For Teachers 6th - 8th
"Plot the plot" of "The Adventures of the Speckled Band" with your young readers. Take a few days to read Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's short story as a class or in pairs, having learners write down what they consider to be the most important...
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Memoirs and Personal Essays

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Learners can then pinpoint problems the characters experience and interview their parents to see if they too may have once faced a similar problem. Interviews with family members can be recorded by students in their home language.
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Science Experiment With Eggs

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students participate in four scientific experiments with eggs. They discuss egg vocabulary, and examine the eggs' attributes through the experiments. They focus on making educated guesses.
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Federalism: The Nation and The States

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders discuss the division of powers between national and state governments. Groups create a PowerPoint slide representing one of the 3 types of powers.
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Extreme Weather: Hurricanes

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students demonstrate the ability to define key words and verbally recall conditions that must be present for a hurricane to form.
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Creative Writing

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils write in their journals at the beginning of class. They create a poster of what they just wrote about in their journals. Pictures are to be labeled and dictionaries are encouraged.
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Settling the Plymouth Colony

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students label blank maps with the names of the New England Colonies. They explain the difficulties that the Pilgrims had and how hard they worked to survive in Plymouth.
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Valentine's Day Hearts

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students consider idiomatic expressions that use the word, "heart". They illustrate an assigned idiom and present it to the class. They use the illustrations to guess which idiom is being represented.
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Happy Birthday America!

For Teachers 1st - 8th
Pupils examine the United States flag, the Pledge of Allegiance, and the Fourth of July. They create five-pointed stars, listen to stories about Betsy Ross and Paul Revere, and sing various patriotic songs.
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Who Fed the Chickens?

For Teachers K
Students use the Ella Jenkins' song "Who Fed the Chickens?" to study the pronouns I, you, we, she, he, and they. After singing the song a few times, students utilize a worksheet imbedded in this plan to gain practice with pronouns, and...
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Settling the Plymouth Colony

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students use the Internet and graphic organizers to research the Plymouth Colony the experience of the Pilgrims. Students compare and contrast different colonies and develop a timeline showcasing their research.
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Johnny Appleseed, An American Folk Hero

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students explore American folktales. They review the elements of folktales. Students read the folktale of Johnny Appleseed together. They discuss the vocabulary words from the story. Students discuss the differences between the real...
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Reading the French Newspaper Le Figaro

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students guess the meanings of many unfamiliar French words because of their similarity to English words. They read an article from Le Figaro or another French-language newspaper with cognates underlined to guess the meanings.
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Life Cycle of a Butterfly: Kidspiration

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders view a video about butterflies and recall its life cycle. They will also complete a Kidspiration slide show to illustrate the life cycle of a butterfly and study a word list of butterfly vocabulary to include in their...
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Advertising in the Contemporary World: An Introduction to Persuasive Texts

For Teachers 7th - 8th Standards
Beginning a persuasive writing unit with your middle schoolers? Approach it through something that persuades us all: advertising! Through studying video and print advertisement, your class will practice Common Core skills for reading...
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How Weather Affects Our Lives

For Teachers 1st - 6th
English learners practice basic weather terms from listening to two books. They keep a daily weather record for two weeks to record the type of weather, as well as the high and low temperatures for each day. Next, they complete a simple...
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“The Story of an Hour” Extension Activities: Teacher’s Guide and Notes

For Teachers 8th Standards
Enhance and extend instruction of "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin with one or all of these ideas. You might want to cover characterization and summary, or improve understanding of context clues and irony. You can cover any...
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Ethos, Logos, and Pathos in Civil Rights Movement Speeches

For Teachers 7th - 8th Standards
Examine three speeches while teaching Aristotle's appeals. Over the course of three days, class members fill out a graphic organizer about ethos, pathos, and logos, complete an anticipatory guide, read speeches by Martin Luther King Jr.,...
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End of Unit 1 Assessment: On-Demand Analysis of a Human Rights Account

For Teachers 5th Standards
The last instructional activity in this unit about human rights consists of a final assessment. To demonstrate the skills your class has acquired throughout this unit, they will work with a new article entitled "From Kosovo to the United...
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High Five Blend and Word Family Game

For Teachers K - 2nd
Practice using word blends and learning about word families by participating in a class game. Learners will collaborate as teams in a game by throwing beanbags onto a shower curtain with word blends on it. They will say the sound their...
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Build Mastery: Prediction

For Teachers K - 3rd
What do you think will happen? Use a graphic organizer to help learners predict what will happen in a text. Consider modeling the chart using a familiar story, pretending you don't know what happens. Show scholars the book, explaining...
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My Antonia: Body Biography Book Report

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Examine the characters in Willa Cather's My Antonia with a group project. Small groups illustrate their chosen character on a large piece of paper and choose quotes from the text that tell about the character. Where students choose...
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Ribbit! Ribbit!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students research a frog's life cycle and habitat using books, the Internet and lecture. Students make origami frogs, write letters to Toad from Arnold Lobel's "Frog and Toad" and participate in a simulated camouflage activity.

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