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Reading Comprehension
Ah, the City of Brotherly Love! Do you know which city I'm talking about? It's Philadelphia. Read this short passage on the city, and have your class complete the questions that follow. Use this to prepare for state-wide testing.
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Introductory Class
Secondary special education students are introduced to the topics covered in health class. This is the first in a series of lessons focused teaching developmentally appropriate life and sexual health related topics. Intended for mild to...
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Born to be Wild
Learners watch an episode depicting the human vs. polar bear conflict in Churchill, Canada. They conduct online research and analyze the information. They interpret the facts and use storytelling techniques and role playing to convey...
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Health Grade 3
Third graders understand what a friend is. In this lesson about friendships, 3rd graders analyze friend and non friend traits. Students learn about relationships through discussion in class. Students gather in groups and look at a list...
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Personality Traits for Entrepreneurs
In this business/career worksheet, students select the best multiple choice answer to 14 questions. There are no incorrect answers to this self-assessment worksheet.
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Continuity and Change
Students identify those freedoms most important to them and identify characteristics of a "good" rule. They then develop "good" rules for the world and identify how decisions or rules made today might affect the future.
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Everyone Has Rules
Young scholars develop awareness of the necessity for rules and use logic to decide what rules make the classroom have a learning and caring atmosphere. They examine the choices they make have consequences.
Playbooks
Reader's Theater Exercise
Here's a great idea for your Parent/Family Night—host a Reader's Theater! Everything you need to organize the night, as well as a K-3 and a 4-7 script, is provided in the packet.
Oakwood Publishing
Workshop 4: Constitutional Convention
How do new amendments become part of the US Constitution? AP government students explore, analyze, and use the US Constitution to develop a deep understanding of the interworkings of law and government while practicing synthesis and...
Tick Tock Curriculum
Whodunnit? The Case of the Missing Poodle
Who purloined the poodle? Class groups read police reports and theorize whodunnit. The sixth of a ten-lesson series on mysteries.
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Success and Fame
In this success worksheet, students read quotes, role play, and choose successful sentences. Students complete 3 activities total on this worksheet.
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We Are the Government
Students read primary documents to find the motivations of the founding fathers of the United States. In this primary documents lesson, students discuss the meaning of the Preamble to the Constitution, read parts of the Constitution...
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Resume Writing - Workshop
Students review basics of resume writing, and create their own resumes.
Nemours KidsHealth
Conflict Resolution: Grades K-2
Learners complete discussion and activities to identify healthy ways of resolving conflicts. In this conflict resolution instructional activity, learners answer discussion questions, complete two conflict resolution activities, and one...
Nemours KidsHealth
Conflict Resolution: Grades 3-5
Young scholars analyze concepts related to health promotion and conflict resolution. In this character education lesson, students answer discussion questions about resolving conflicts. Young scholars complete a conflict resolution...
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Learning Opportunities around the World
Young scholars discover how education effects them and their community in a positive way. In this community lesson, students engage in a class discussion about the benefits of public education and play "community I-Spy."
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Conflict Resolution in the Classroom
Conflicts that happen on the schoolyard or at lunch can provide a learning opportunity for students.
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When Turtle Grew Feathers
Young scholars explore the Choctaw Native American tribe. For this cross curriculum literacy and U.S. history lesson, students locate where the Choctaw Indians lived on a United States map. Young scholars listen to When...
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Mohandas Gandhi: Changing the World One Step at a Time
Students illustrate pages of a book. In this famous historical icon lesson, students are read a story about Mohandas Gandhi, illustrate the pages in small groups, assemble a class book to read to younger students, and act out a...
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The Clever Monkey Rides Again
Students read and explore a West African folktale. In this folktale lesson, students read the book The Clever Monkey Rides Again and examine West African proverbs. There are several related multi-subject extensions on this lesson which...
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Respect, Prejudice, and Race
Middle schoolers' examine their opinions about respect, race, and stereotypes and their beliefs as a group. They complete a short questionnaire and then write an essay on reducing prejudice and discrimination.
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Inferring Character Traits
Learning how to draw inferences from text is a key reading comprehension skill. Here's a instructional activity that gives readers a chance to practice by offering 20 descriptive sentences and asking kids to identify the inferred...
Sharp School
Real Life Economics 101
Your learners will take key economic concepts, such as identifying needs versus wants and the four factors of production, and design a video to explain their topic choice to the class. Rather than have one person in charge of dispensing...
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How Do Adjectives Improve Writing?
Using adjectives to create vivid descriptions is the focus of exercises in this resource. A cloze reading activity asks class members to add missing adjectives to passages from Mark Teague's The Lost and Found. They then read...