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What's Your State Symbol?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore their state symbols. In this symbolism lesson, students use a variety of resources to research the symbols that represent their state. Students discover the state flower, state flag, and state bird.
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Ida Tarbell: Hysterical Woman vs. Historical Facts

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners examine journalism and its different styles.  In this effective communication instructional activity students create an editorial message and articulate an article.
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Step-by-Step to the Final Destination

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students write their own radio plays. In this writing process lesson, students script their own scary radio plays based on the radio plays they read in class in previous lessons. Students also perform the plays for their classmates.
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Ugly? Says Who?

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students explore biology by writing animal poetry in class. In this animal characteristics lesson, students research the Internet for facts about an "ugly" animal such as a bug or small critter. Students complete worksheets about animal...
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Honour killings: What do we need to understand in looking for solutions?

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students prepare a chart with four columns: things we know, things we think we know but need to check, things we wonder about, and new things we have learned. Each group is given a case study and they discuss the three cases of "honor...
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The Ultimate Athletic Background

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders analyze the criteria used to identify "Soul of a Champion" athletes.  In this Current Events lesson plan, 8th graders write, edit and organize a script for a “live” documentary on the athlete. Students rehearse and...
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Mice Squeak; We Speak

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
Students create a poster.  In this vocabulary instructional activity, students use vocabulary words such as squeak, creak, squeal, squawk and quack to identify the sounds and noises of each word.  Students come up with rhyming...
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What Difference Does it Make How Old I Am?

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students identify subtle messages advertisers send (often unintentionally) about age in the course of trying to sell products; to analyze the consequences, both positive and negative, those messages have on the American audience; to...
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Character Comparison: Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders compare and contrast Fudge and Peter, two main characters from "Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing". They use a software template to analyze and compare the characters in a rough draft, edit their work and then produce a...
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Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders read the book, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs." Using the internet, 3rd graders research weather conditions, plants, animals and foods from different countries. After sharing information, they discuss similarities and...
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Blending Fiction and Nonfiction to Improve Comprehension and Writing Skills

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners explore a content area by reading both fiction and nonfiction texts on the topic. They do more research online about the topic. After comparing the texts, they create their own written original work, using both narrative and...
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Making Steel: An Awesome Process

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students identify the six basic stages used to create a steel component, and explain how each stage influences or interacts with another. They give examples of how technology has improved human lives.
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Twenty-one Balloons

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders determine what the Newbery Award is and why it is importance. They examine a number of Newbery Award winning books and listen to a book talk about William Pene DuBois', Twenty-One Balloons while watching a PowerPoint...
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How We Have Changed!

For Teachers 1st
First graders practice using their writing skills. They create memory books through the use of daily journal writing questions of the day. Students respond to story prompts and write autobiographies of themselves and another classmate.
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The Perfect Man: Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders study the characteristics of an autobiography. They read from the autobiography of Benjamin Franklin and discuss and write an essay regarding some of his quotes.
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Sequencing a Chinese Folktale

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students sequence the events of the popular Chinese folktale "The Terrible Nung Gwama" using a graphic organizer. This lesson plan takes 45-minutes and includes two possible enrichment activities.
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Tasmanian Time Travel

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders perform research using the Internet about the Tasmanian Devil. The project can be presented in a variety of ways. The use of computer software is important for students to know, specifically Hyperstudio.
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Editing Emily's Way: An Exercise in Diction and Its Implications

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Young scholars examine the poetry of Emily Dickinson and the diction in her poetry. In this poetry analysis lesson, students read Dickinson poetry and analyze the diction in the poems. Young scholars journal about the poetry and rewrite...
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Publishing: A Persuasive Essay

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders are given an opportunity to create a visual to accompany their presentations of their persuasive essays. They may use the computer or other media as resources.
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Electronic Journals about Latin American Folktales

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners exchange folktales with a key-pal using dialog journal writing. They write out a folktale from their own cultural background and exchange it with students of another. They record their impressions of each other's folktales.
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Standing Woman

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore a Japanese science fiction story that deals with the dangers of technology, failed attempts at utopia, mind control, and loss of loved ones through the reading of Yasutaka Tsutaka's "Standing Woman."
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Life on a Farm

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students take a field trip to a farm or observe pictures of farms and animals in the classroom. They paint a mural of a farm setting with animals. They practice phonetic skills with farm stories and songs. They explain how milk becomes...
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"The Father of Lavish Advertising": P.T. Barnum

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine the life and work of P.T. Barnum. They discover his advertising techniques and business practices. They examine his use of people with disabilities for amusement.
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African Art and Personal Adornment: African Folktales

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students write a folktale based on an African adinkra symbol. They research its meaning and relate it as the theme.

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