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Multicultural Bingo
Create classroom community with this Bingo icebreaker, which has the group finding out interesting details about one another. For this version, individuals have a 25-square grid, each square containing one multicultural experience or...
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Who Has More or Less?
Students practice adding and subtracting mentally and use the words more and less to describe whether they are adding and subtracting. They use cards to play this math game.
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Star Wars K-2nd Math Pack
Included in a Star Wars themed packet, young padawans enhance mathematical skills such as graphing, computing using basic operations, counting numbers and money, telling time, and measuring. Scholars play a game of sudoku, read...
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Sherman Alexie's coming-of-age social commentary is the focus of a review worksheet. Learners use clues from The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian to complete a crossword puzzle about the novel.
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Walk Of Faith
Students participate in a lesson that is concerned with the concept of trust. This is taught by using a game that asks one person to lead the other while blind folded through an obstacle course. The teacher must watch the students...
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Novel Jeopardy
Play a classroom version of the classic game show Jeopardy, to review and discuss the novel your class has been reading. Questions about plot and other story elements are written on cards and given point values. Divide the class into...
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Narrow it Down: Numbers
Elementary learners of all ages utilize their number knowledge by playing a 20 questions style game. They participate in a game in which they ask yes or no questions to a group leader in order to discover which number the leader has...
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Heart Alert
Explore some of the causes and preventions of heart disease. Young learners play a game of tag in which the taggers role play as risk factors for heart disease. Players who are tagged call out "heart alert" and are saved when someone...
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Go Fish card game for recognition of vocabulary words
Students play Go Fish card game (with a teacher made deck of cards) for recognition of vocabulary words
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Who are My Sisters and My Brothers?
Fourth graders engage in a game that enlists several different emotions. In this friend lesson, 4th graders play a game in which students are given a random number of cookies, some as many as 3 or as little as none. Students discuss...
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To Kill A Mockingbird: Study Guide Part I
Readers of To Kill a Mockingbird summarize events, identify characters, and analyze actions in the first 11 chapters of Harper Lee’s novel. The carefully crafted questions could be used to guide reading or as the basis of group or...
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Street/Urban Games
Students research and appreciate non-traditional games and activities that were played (and are still played) in our inner cities. They give presentations on stick ball, handball, off the wall, and stoop ball and invent their own game...
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Sliding Games (Marbles)
Students play a game of marbles outdoors on an iced area. They begin by playing a warm-up game of tag and proceed to sliding their marbles on an iced surface into holes. They attempt to gain points by sliding the marble into holes of...
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Memory Game with a Smile
Students take it in turns to say two letters and then they turn the corresponding cards around to see if the pictures/words on them match. If they do, student who has found the pair wins 1 point.
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What I Want- Where I Want It
Students in an English learning classroom play a review vocabulary game in which they must match items with related activities. For example, if they have the term "banking" they must match with someone else who has the term, "money."
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Get Your Class Outside and Moving with Kickball!
Revitalize your class's PE time with this innovative version of the classic game.
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Digit Place Game
Students identify digits and two digit numbers. They play the Digit Place game to guess the two digit number the teacher has and the place value of both digits. After practicing several examples and playing the game as a group, they...
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Spark (A Variation on Sparkle Spelling Game)
Students participate in a game in which they practice their spelling words, in which each student adds another letter to the word. They are given the chance to rejoin the game if they miss a letter.
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Who Am I?
Pupils read a story together then choose a favorite character to portray. In this inference lesson, students pretend to be one of the characters in the story, they prepare drawings or actions then present them to the class. Pupils...
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Volleyball Lesson
Students explore their physical abilities by participating in a sport. In this volleyball lesson, students discover the different techniques and skills needed to play volleyball by moving from different stations with small groups....
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Mind Reader
First graders engage in a game which helps them recognize the word wall words. In this word lesson plan, 1st graders are given clues to follow, to determine the word on the wall. Students are assessed based on teacher observations....
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Promoting Disability Awareness and Acceptance in Childhood
Create a safe and respectful school environment with the help of this special education teaching guide. Offering dozens of instructional ideas and activities for raising awareness and acceptance of children with disabilities, this is a...
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The Power of Words in Charlotte's Web
"How can a few good words save a pig's life?" Posed with this question, your ELD students explore E.B. White's Charlotte's Web in a meaningful, valuable way. By analyzing specific word choice from the book, especially the excerpts...