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Top Reasons to Attend My School
Students evaluate reasons why someone would attend their school and create a marketing campaign to attract students. In this school welcome lesson, students analyze the marketing process and survey public sectors about their school....
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Comparing the House and Senate
Students create posters and write descriptions on the responsibilities and powers assigned to the United States Senate and House of Representatives. Students compare and contrast the two houses' powers and responsibilities as well as...
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Classical Greek Sculpture
Students create a sculpture of one of their classmates heads in the manner of the Greek sculptures. They apply the correct terminology into making their sculpture. They evaluate their own project and focus on areas to improve on.
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Proto-Cubism: Thinking Like Picasso
Eighth graders create blind contour drawn portraits. They work in small groups and pose for each other, creating portraits that express multiple points of view. Students also view a PowerPoint presentation on Cubism and complete a...
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Getting To Know You
Students prepare for and respond to literature selections. This package includes ten lessons from the American Literature series, each covering a different reading selection. Pre-reading and response activities are included for each...
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Total English Upper Intermediate: Traveling and Going Places
In this travel key vocabulary worksheet, learners complete 8 sentence starters and evaluate 3 descriptions of holidays in order to write about their ideal companions for each.
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Teaching the Bell Tetrahedral Kite
Students complete readings on kite making and kite flying. They analyze how the parts of a system interconnect and influence each other. Students identifies and uses color and form in a 3D artwork.
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Shaping Ideas: Symbolism in Sculpture
Students critique the symbolic structures created by other students. In this visual arts lesson plan, students display completed sculptures and drawings. Students analyze the symbolic elements in each others work, relate their art to...
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Proofreading Practice
Students investigate proofreading marks. In this proofreading instructional activity, students evaluate a paragraph for editing mistakes. Students correct mistakes and return to the teacher.
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Practice Chapter Test
In this algebra activity, students identify the property being used in each problem. They plot numbers on a number line. There are 30 questions.
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Communicating At Work: Facilitating Good Communication
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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The Politics of Big Business
Students role-play the responsibilities of the House of Representatives as they consider how to solve the problem of undue influence by big business monopolies. They evaluate their proposed solutions and write an essay with their...
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Themes in Literature - Langston Hughes "Thank You Ma'm"
Eighth graders study Langston Hughes, "Thank You Ma'am" to discover the elements of plot, character motives and reactions. They express the effects of trust and kindness by writing a reflective personal narrative. They illustrate the...
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"It's Verifiable!"
Students examine the differences between fact and opinion. They define fact and opinion, evaluate their favorite fact or opinion on a website, and in small groups write sentences using facts and opinions about school and their favorite...
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Remembering September 11
Students explore the impact of September 11 on American society through analysis of interviews and class discussions. Students evaluate the historic importance of the Gettysburg Address.
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Defining Values: Environmental Issues
Learners analyze an environmental issue of local or regional interest and compare and contrast the roles of the individual and the community in responding to the issue. They discuss how values are expressed in environmental issues and...
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Famous People and Cultural Diffusion
High schoolers use the internet to identify cultural traditions throughout the world. In groups, they examine each culture and determine the effect they had on life in the United States. They use this information to write a family...
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From Korea to Vietnam: America Changes Her View on War
Eleventh graders identify and analyze the differences between the Korean and the Vietnam Wars. In small groups they conduct research and create a scene from a movie that focuses on the Korean or Vietnam War. Students view and evaluate...
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Genetics 4 Mutations
Students identify and illustrate how changes in DNA cause mutations and evaluate the significance of these changes. They illustrate a chromosomal mutation such as duplication, deletion, inversion, and translocation.
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ELA Lesson Plan Focusing on Artists and Composers
Learners research a selected composer and artist. They write a biography about each one and include information about at least two works created by the chosen artist or composer. Students note similar characteristics of their compared...
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Linear Functions
Students solve and graph linear equations. In this algebra lesson, students collect data and plot it to create a linear function. They identify the domain and range of each line.
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Snail Pace
Slow and steady wins the race? In the assessment task, scholars calculate the rates at which different snails travel in order to find the fastest snail. Hopefully, your class will move much more quickly in finishing the task!
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Family Letter - Order of Operations and Sequences
In this order of operations and sequences worksheet, students solve 16 short answer problems. Students create an arithmetic sequence by adding seven to a number. Students perform operations on numbers in various order to see the...
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Number Up
Students explore the concept of order of operations. In this order of operations lesson, students play a card game where students in the group have 5 cards. Students must use addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division to make...