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Communication, Day 2: Assertiveness

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students read examples of statements and label them assertive or non-assertive. They demonstrate assertive body language and model it in given situations. They answer questions to end the lesson.
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Who's the Father?

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Young scholars analyze gels to determine parentage in this lesson about scientific evidence, investigation, and DNA concepts. The lesson includes a pre-activity worksheet, a final individual assessment, and student handouts for in-class...
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Context Clues Lesson Plan

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students are introduced to four strategies of context clues. While reading, they use all four strategies in different sections of the reading to determine the meaning of words they are unfamiliar with. To end the lesson, they share new...
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Writing About a Christmas Day Celebration

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils write about a Christmas Day Celebration they have experienced. In this personal narrative instructional activity, students use descriptive words to tell a story about their own family's Christmas. Pupils organize plot and develop...
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Breaking News English: Russia Bans America's ABC TV News Team

For Students 5th - 10th
In this English worksheet, students read "Russia Bans America's ABC TV News Team," and then respond to 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.
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CDVs at Home and School

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars identify the rules they have at home and at school. They connect the values to the core democratic values and discuss whether all rules should connect to the core values. They create a mural showing students following the...
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Rhyme Charades

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students participate in a game called "Rhyme Charades." The teacher thinks of a word to begin the charades game giving the clue "my word rhymes with ...". The students who have a guess stand in the middle of the circle and pantomine...
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The National Government and the 50 States

For Students 9th - 12th
Test your government students' knowledge of the National Government with this review worksheet. Posing five true/false questions and five multiple choice questions about elements of the National Government, this activity could serve as a...
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Transition Words

For Students 6th - 8th
Do your emergent writers need extra practice using transitions? After reading a brief definition, learners select a transition from the provided word bank that best completes the sentences in each set. No answer key is provided.
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Caveman Tag

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars practice fleeing and dodging skills, spatial awareness, some experience with normal tag games.
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Measuring Lesson Plans and Metric System Conversions

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students may review measurement, and metric system conversions by measuring one another and the world around them.
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Dialogue Tags

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
Use a presentation on dialogue tags in a narrative writing unit or a literature lesson. The first two pages of the resource detail the information and examples in the following slide show, making it a good reference page for your...
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Priceless Gifts

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders read about Italy and the complete activities that investigate the spice trade. In this spice trade lesson plan, 3rd graders analyze characters, write a thank you note, speak Italian, and complete language activities.
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Identify Narrative Perspective 3

For Students 5th - 10th
In this point of view learning exercise, students read passages and then write the narrator's point of view and how they know it is such. Students do this for 6 passages.
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Fitness Trail

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students design a fitness trail which incorporates warm-up, aerobic, and cool-down phases. Each student develops their own plan and monitors their own progress through the use of an exercise log.
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Identifying Irony

For Students 9th
In this identifying irony worksheet, 9th graders read 6 paragraphs, identify the type of irony being used (dramatic, situational, verbal) and explain their answer.
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Picture Graphs

For Teachers 1st
First graders work with picture graphs, create their own individual graphs, and construct and read graphs.
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The Sentence Contest

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students review the definition of a sentence and identify the sentences (complete thoughts) from a list of possibilities. Students evaluate complete and incomplete sentences by being judges at a sentence contest.
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The Sentence Contest

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young writers complete work with sentence structure. Theys go over the definition of a sentence before deciding whether given groups of words are sentences. They view and identify the sentences on a teacher made chart.
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Interdisciplinary Lesson Plan

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders study Thanksgiving. In this physical education and spelling lesson, 3rd graders play a race game by being the first group who can spell the word Thanksgiving first.
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Seeing in 3D: Interpreting Two-Dimensional Diagrams of Three-Dimensional Objects

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students hone in on their skills at reading diagrams.  In this dimensional lesson students collect information on the functions of organs then figure out how all the parts work together. 
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We the Present

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students interview representatives from nonprofit organizations in their community. They summarize the information from their interviews and share the information with the class. They identify the impact of the organization on the...
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History and Human Rights: A Process for Analyzing Events

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners analyze various American History topics which concern human rights. They research the topics and analyze the sources for bias or stereotype. They decide and discuss whether or not any human right were violated in each...
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The Earth Has Many Layers

For Teachers 4th - 5th Standards
Students conduct an experiment. In this Earth's layers lesson, students learn about soil, sand and rock. They complete their own Jell-O Mountain and investigate the Earth's layers on-line.