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Benefits of Physical Activity

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Identify at least five benefits of physical activity and guide students to experience fun feeling healthy. Your class will participate in the Synchronized Chair Dance. Worksheet and Evaluation are included.
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PALM TREES Technology :Literacy Challenge Project

For Teachers 7th
Do you have a class set PDAs? Seventh graders use the Note Pad function on their PDAs to brainstorm writing prompts. After three minutes of listing their favorite foods, class members use the Note Pad Eraser to reduce their list to the...
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Introducing Psychology

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners investigate the concept of observable behavior. They watch someone for three to five minutes and record everything that is seen. Students must be as objective as possible, avoid any value judgments about physical appearance or...
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Crafting Poetry: A Sensory Journey

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders experiment with poetry devices to write poems. In this poetry lesson plan, 10th graders participate in learning stations. Students create a word pool and select a word from the list to create a line of poetry. Students...
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Animal Classification

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders identify characteristics of and group animals by the five categories of vertebrates.
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Giant Museum

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Scholars make a giant scale model of an object. They will take a regular item and enlarge it to five times its length and width. They attempt this same concepts with a 3D model.
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Multi Media "self" Presentation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars create a three-five minute presentation that visually illustrates major aspects of the their lives. Using Movie Works software as a base, they integrate video, photography, artwork, graphic elements, and sound to produce...
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Tense Buster

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Pupils, after using the "Intermediate" selection of the Tense Buster software, recognize and practice using passive voice in their writing. As a result of this task, they correctly use five new vocabulary terms with passive voice in...
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The Western Hemisphere on Review

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders research a country in the Western Hemisphere. They write a research paper and present a five-minute presentation on the country. They use PowerPoint to give their presentations to the class.
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Irregular Word Accuracy, Word Relay Race!

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Ready, set, go! Practice irregular words by playing a relay race game. Start by dividing your class into two teams of four or five kids. They line up in front of their team's bucket of words and pick out a word from the bucket and...
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Letter Building #2

For Students 4th - 5th
In this vocabulary building worksheet, students form as may words in five minutes as possible that contain the letters "de". Students write the words on the lines.
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Letter Building #3- Words That Begin With Letter A

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this letter A learning exercise, students form as many words as possible in five minutes that start with the letter A. Students write them on the lines.
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Letter Building #3

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this letter Q worksheet, learners form as many words as they can in five minutes that start with the letter Q. This page contains 24 lines in which the students write the words.
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Time to 15 Minutes: Practice

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this reading clocks worksheet, students read the analog clocks in the first eight problems and write the digital time in the blanks. In the second set, students draw the minute hand to show the time on the digital clock. Students...
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Sense of Touch

For Teachers K
Students explore the sense of touch. They listen to and discuss the book, I Can Tell By Touching, observe a demonstration of cold, and create a touch book using candy buttons, pine needles, cotton, burlap, and wax paper.
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Geography of South America

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Student's identify geographic features of a South American map. They use the scale of the map to calculate distances between points. They identify examples of the five geographic themes on the map of South America.
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Using Context Clues

For Teachers 3rd
Teach your third graders how to find the meanings of words using context clues. Using this reading lesson, discuss how readers can find the meaning of a word by using the sentences around it. They then complete a worksheet in which they...
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Phone Number Lesson

For Teachers 1st
First graders practice their phone number. In this phone number lesson, 1st graders discuss the importance of memorizing one's phone number. They practice memorizing their own phone number and recite it for the teacher. 
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Total English: Two-Part Expressions Crossword

For Students 7th - 10th
In this two-part expressions crossword puzzle worksheet, students practice key vocabulary as they read the 11 clues to correctly fill in the word puzzle. Students also write 4 sentences.
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Water Filtration

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students demonstrate the four of five procedures that municipal water plants use to purify water for drinking. A water filtration system is designed by a student and their partner. A data chart is made to record all observations when the...
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Our Senses: How We Receive Messages

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students explore the 5 senses. In this 5 senses instructional activity, students consider how their senses aid them in communication. Students examine how their senses receive information as they discuss examples.
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Literature Circles

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students view a PowerPoint presentation in order to show the five jobs involved in a literature circle. The literature circle is to be used in the class for the reading of novels. A graphic organizer is also used to increase comprehension.
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Engineering and the Senses: Hearing

For Teachers K
Students explore the sense of hearing. For this 5 senses lesson, students consider how humans and animals use the sense of hearing along with their other senses. Students discuss the body parts responsible for the 5 senses and...
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"Zero-ing" In On Integers

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students add and subtract integers.  In this integer lesson, students use models to demonstrte the addition and subtraction of integers.  They describe zero pairs and write steps to add and subtract integers.