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Importance of Rice

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore the importance of rice in our world. In this rice farming lesson, 3rd graders discover how much rice we use on a daily basis. Students also discover myths from other cultures about rice. Students color code a map of...
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Healthy Snacking: Grades 3-5

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate healthy snack foods. In this healthy snack foods lesson, students discover what good snacks consist off and how healthy snacking can improve health. They design the perfect snack machine using the associated...
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Poetry and Visualization

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students use visualization techniques when reading poetry.  In this visualization and poetry lesson plan, students work in groups to present a tableau that depicts a word from the poem as classmates guess the word.  Students...
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More Than Anything Else

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders investigate the life of Booker T. Washington by reading a biography.  In this biographical lesson, 2nd graders read the story More Than Anything Else, and examine the geographical locations Washington once resided...
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Cartoons for the Classroom: Cartoons and Culture

For Students 8th - 12th
In this current events worksheet, students analyze a political cartoon with anti-American symbolism and respond to 5 short answer questions.
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Academic Raceway 500: Vocabulary Using Context Clues

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This vocabulary skills PowerPoint presents a game to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words using context clues within a sentence. The game is based on the theme of a car race. The goal of the PowerPoint game is to finish the race...
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Making Healthy Eating Choices for You and Others

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students use the USDA food guide pyramid to choose items for a balanced diet. In this food pyramid lesson plan, students play a game naming the items and their foo groups.   Students participate in cross curricular...
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Small Actions with Big Purpose

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders examine the trait of perseverance. In this character education lesson, 7th graders discuss community causes they care about and make plans to contribute their time and energy to overcome their personally-selected issues.
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Species Interactions in the Yucatan Peninsula

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders explore how organisms interact with one another other in their environment. In this organism lesson, 6th graders understand abiotic factors and or biotic components of their environment. Students decide if the interactions...
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ONE SURVIVOR REMEMBERS: A Call to Action

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students explore how to become active in their communities and develop a plan of action for a service-learning project.
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Feel Your Fullmess

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners encounter certain conditions to know when to eat and how much they should eat. Students discover how to use flip charts and receive rewards with this lesson. Learners assess all the five senses when dealing with various types of...
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Outdoor Activities Factors

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students examine and explore factors that need to be considered when performing outdoor activities. They discuss how what they can do to prepare themselves for each factor.
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Better Weight

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students investigate a Biblical based weight loss program which asks them to read, take on-line quizzes and tests, assess their level of physical activity, explore nutrition and food guidelines and determine whether weight loss would be...
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Laws that Isolated and Impoverished the Irish

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Young scholars identify the reasons for the mass starvation in Ireland in the 1800's. They analyze the historical and political forces that caused the famine and discuss the potato blight itself in detail.
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Black Boy By Richard Wright

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders create a flow chart of the events most influential in Wright's life. They produce a talk show where students discuss autobiographies with other students. Websites imbedded in this plan are used to research Richard Wright.
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How the West was Won? Conflict and Change on the Western Frontier

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders assess the conflict and change that occurred in the westward expansion following the Civil War. They list specific reasons why different groups moved west and the interaction between the "white" European civilization and...
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Today and Yesterday: The Praties They are Small

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore the tragic circumstances of the Great Famine of 1845-1849. They watch a program that explores the causes and consequences of the famine. Students discuss the causes of the famine. They identify the effects and...
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Suffragettes Activities

For Students 5th - 6th
For this suffragettes worksheet, students match the words about suffrage with their meanings. Students list 8 methods the suffragettes used and one peaceful method they could have used.
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How the Community Meets Needs: The Drive

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the four sectors of the economy. In this character development lesson, students experience giving up "their worldly possessions" and then discuss feelings that might occur when people experience homelessness or the...
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Suffragettes 4

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students discover details about women's suffrage in Britain. In this women's rights lesson, students examine "Grace Before Meat,"a political cartoon that serves as a discussion starter, for the suffrage movement in Britain. Students...
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Early European Settlements Word Search

For Students 5th - 7th
For this early European settlements word puzzle, students identify settlements and terms pertaining to the early colonies. A list of 39 words is provided. An answer sheet is available.
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Diabesity Childhood Epidemic

For Students 9th - 12th
In this health worksheet, students find the words that are related to the problems of diabetes and obesity. The answers are found at the bottom of the page.
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Children's Crusade

For Students 8th - 12th
In this geography worksheet, students read an excerpt about the Crusaders compromised of two of children. They use the map given to determine how far apart each army marched before reaching the Mediterranean Sea. In addition, students...
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Twelfth Night

For Students 8th - 9th
For this Twelfth Night worksheet, students fill in phrases which have been left out from Act One, Scene One of Twelfth Night. Instead of filling in Shakespeare's words, students fill in the given translations for the words in order to...

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