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Selling, Spending, or Saving
Students examine and discuss vocabulary dealing with finances. They write and develop commercials promoting savings practices and spending habits that incorporate emotional appeals.
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Buying My First Car
Students pretend they are about to buy their first new car. They must do all the calculations necessary to estimate the cost of purchasing the car. They see that the math they learn in school really does have real-life applications.
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Weather Report
Learners present the weather report in Spanish. In this weather lesson, students use weather vocabulary in Spanish. Learners work in groups to present the local weather report in Spanish. Students film their report and present...
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Sentence Elaboration with Prepositional Phrases
Read a short story, "A Day at the Park" together as a class. Have the class break up into groups to add prepositional phrases to each sentence to make it more elaborate and interesting. Consider having a volunteer from each group...
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Pigs, Pigs, Pigs!
Third graders find information about different breeds of pigs using the Internet, books, and encyclopedias. Groups select one breed of pig that interests them. They construct a stuffed likeness of the pig.
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The Foreign Policies of Harry S. Truman
High schoolers read an article about the new interest in Harry S. Truman. In groups, they review his foreign policy decisions and how situations might have been different if he had made a different decision. They also examine the...
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Eyeing the Next Einstein
Learners complete a KWL chart on Albert Einstein. After they read an article, they discover more about his iconic status and how future scientists view him. In groups, they create trading cards about Einstein and another scientist of...
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Unemployment
Twelfth graders evaluate the state of the economy and develop a definition for unemployment. In groups, they read an article about how the economy affects society and discuss how it affects them. Individually, they research the types...
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Teaching with Video in an English Class
Students participate in a video English class. For this video lesson, students read a play then video activities they do to better understand the play. Students video themselves answering questions about the play then listen to the...
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French and Indian War: Make A Map
Fifth graders create a map of the battles that occurred during The French and Indian War. In this history lesson plan, 5th graders read about the war in their text books, then divide into groups to create a detailed map of a famous...
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Hoopla Shuffle: Gross Motor Development
Using cones and large hoops, have your athletes move the hoops around the gym using only their feet. They must do so within various parameters: both feet inside or outside the hoop, one in and one outside it, or twirling it around one...
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Medical Ethics
Just because we have the ability to determine an organism's traits through genetic testing, should we do it? Middle-school medical experts examine the ethical dilemmas in biotechnology in the 18th and final installment in a series of...
Facing History and Ourselves
The Challenge of Confirmation Bias
Confirmation bias makes it difficult to overcome our preconceived notions of others. That's the big idea in a lesson that teaches learners strategies to recognize and question their biases.
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Recognizing 4 major photojournalism techniques to improve quality and interest in pictures
Learners learn four basic techniques that enable them to not only tell the story, but also to make the viewer wonder what might have been left out of the photo.
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Ecology and Ecosystem
Students are introduced to the concepts of ecology and ecosystems. In groups, they use the Internet to research one of six topics. They present their information to the class sharing the most interesting information they found. They...
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Exploring Parts and Wholes
Students make accurate and interesting statments about how parts of something are related to the whole thing. To begin the lesson, students have to identify as many parts of a toy dumptruck as they can and find the part they find most...
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Designing the Careers Show
Students write a song. In this career lesson, students form groups based on occupational interests. Student groups write song lyrics about their chosen career. Students present their songs to the class.
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Top 10 Facts About Space
Students create their own Top 10 Facts about any topic related to space. In this space lesson, students work in groups to produce a Top Ten List of facts about space and share with their classmates. Groups choose a fact to...
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Creative Body Movement
At the end of this lesson, students will perform a brief dance movement and will demonstrate the use of the three postures correctly, safely, and creatively. Students observe group dances and are asked to recall interesting shapes and...
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Russian Roulette
Students analyze causes and effects of historic examples in which two groups of people in the same country were fighting for leadership of that country. They obtain and discuss basic background information on the current conflict on...
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Vocabulary Stumpers
Students participate in a weekly game in small groups to increase their vocabulary and vocabulary interest.
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A Book a Day Will Keep the Teacher Away
Students work in cooperative groups to read a book in a day. Each group is assigned a portion of the book to read and uses the jigsaw learning strategy to review the book as a whole class.
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What Can You Learn About Dinosaurs by Watching an Ostrich?
Students often find dinosaurs interesting. However, it is doubtful that they have actually thought about the process by which scientists (and film animators) develop working models of dinosaurs. Reproducible worksheets provide...
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The Research Question
Students begin the process of completing a research project. Working in groups, students brainstorm various topics for research. After selecting a research topic, students begin to narrow the topic down and create a research question to...
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