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Cooperative Group Lesson Plan

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students work together to develop a city landscape using various symbols. Using the various elements, they justify the placement of each symbol and discover the importance of location and accessibility. They present their landscape to...
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Immigration Push and Pull Factors

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders examine significant ideas, beliefs, and themes; organize patterns and events; and analyze how individuals and societies have changed over time in Maryland, the United States, and the world.
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Yeast Bread - Pretzel Lab

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Young scholars work with yeast in preparing soft pretzels. They identify the characteristics and ingredients used in yeast breads from quick breads, and how to prepare them in a variety of recipes. They need to set their table, eat...
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Creating A Story

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders practice the necessary steps that should be taken in order to create a story from scratch. They brainstorm as a class in order to come up with different ideas. Students write a story that includes a plot, characters, and...
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Marty and Me

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students read 'Marty and Me' by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. They compare their lives with Marty's life, which in most cases, is very different. They find similarities and differences and create a montage. They include information about...
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Creating the Water Cycle

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils create a terrarium to examine the stages of the water cycle. In small groups, they plant and water a seed in an enclosed plastic container. Each day they diagram and write observations of the terrarium using water cycle vocabulary.
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The Bill Of Rights And The News

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the concepts related to the Bill Of Rights. They conduct research using a variety of resources and focus upon the human rights provided in the legislation. Students read a news article and reflect the upon the...
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What Can Third Graders Learn About Cooperation From the European Union?

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore the reasons the European Union began and identify the lessons they can apply to group work in the classroom. In this European Union lesson, 4th graders read the booklet from the website and complete several steps...
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Comparing the European Community with the U.S.

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Learners research a country to compare with the U.S. In this compare/contrast instructional activity, students research the CIA World Factbook research a European country's characteristics. Learners calculate growth rate and doubling...
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Making Choices

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students solve word problems relating to economic choices. In this economic choices lesson, students discuss the importance of budgeting and how to save money. Students complete a economic choices worksheet.
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Muscles in Motion

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explain how biceps and triceps work. In this life science lesson plan, students conduct an experiment to test which muscle (biceps or triceps) is stronger. They calculate class average from the result.
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Trust Circles

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students compare communities to which they belong. For this social studies and language arts lesson, students discuss trust and use a Venn diagram to compare two communities to which they belong.
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Taxonomic Keys

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders create their own dichotomous key. In this biology lesson, 7th graders classify animals based on their observable features. They explain how to use their dichotomous key.
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Just Saying No-Three Methods

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students give examples of situations when it is difficult to say no. For this sociology lesson, students practice three methods of saying no. They role play some sample scenarios.
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Outdoor Seed Sowing

For Teachers 1st
First graders identify vegetables and flowers that can be grown from seed.  In this seed sowing instructional activity, student learn the correct spacing and planting of various types of seeds. Students label plants. 
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Vertebrates And Invertebrates

For Teachers 4th - 6th
For this science lesson, students classify pictures into categories of vertebrates or invertebrates. After a class discussion, students divide into groups, and are given plastic baggies that contain photographs of each. The groups must...
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Enlightening Expressions

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students come up with general and specific words to use in their writing. In this word choice lesson plan, students engage in a class discussion where they make list of general and specific words, then fill out a worksheet embedded in...
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How Does My Government Grow?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students identify the core democratic values. They explain how the values affect their life in America. They also relate the topic of philantrophy to the core values.
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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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Patterns

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore patterns. In groups, 5th graders participate in a "Pasta Pattern" activity. Given a bag of pasta, classmates sort pasta by shapes. They use pasta pieces to model different patterns. Students complete a bean...
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Find the Way

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders, after discussing different places to visit and being given a map of Indiana, draw the route to his/her destination within Indiana. They tell the directions in their own words and formulate pertinent questions to ask along...
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Food Webs

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders discover how organisms depend upon each other in an ecosystem. In this ecosystems lesson, 4th graders use food webs to discuss the interdependence between organisms in an ecosystem.
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Writing Instructions Sample: How to Raise Potatoes

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A good example of a piece of writing which instructs the reader. Good for students to use as a model for instruction-writing essays.
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Teach Engineering: Pingus Penguins: Writing Good Instructions

For Teachers 3rd - 4th Standards
Students use the free computer game Pingus to learn how engineers, specifically environmental engineers, use their technical writing skills to give instructions and follow the instructions of others. Students learn to write instructions...

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