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What Can I Do For You?
Students explore philanthropic acts within the school. In this philanthropy lesson, students list acts of philanthropy they can do at school and sing songs about philanthropic acts.
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Playing By The Rules
Students investigate the meaning of honesty. In this character education lesson plan, students brainstorm school experiences where they have the choice of being honest. Students illustrate and describe actions related to honesty in a...
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Farewell to Manzanar: Racism and Point of View
Students create a presentation on the computer of the reactions and memories of people who were around during the attacks at Pearl Harbor. In this Pearl Harbor lesson plan, students interview people who were there, discuss the racism,...
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Learning
In this learning learning exercise, students fill in the blanks to complete the sentences about learning. Students complete 10 multiple choice questions.
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Bluebirds Project - Life Cycles
In this bluebirds worksheet, students complete a table and answer short answer questions about the life cycle of bluebirds. Students complete 1 chart and answer 5 questions.
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Life Cycles
In this life cycles worksheet, students compare the life cycles of 2 different species and answer short answer questions about them. Students can choose the species to compare and then answer 6 questions.
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Battle of the Classes; Class Spirit Event
Students take part in a project consisting of physical activities that uplift class spirit and encourage students to take a more active role as spirit masters. In this class competition lesson plan, students think of 6 games that...
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Jewish Culture
Students explore the Jewish culture by listening to a guest speaker who discuss holidays, religion, and key events. They recognize and write various vocabulary words to describe one Jewish Holiday in their journals.
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Maternal Nutrition during Pregnancy and Lactation
Students explain the relationship among nutrition, infection and diseases. In this health science lesson, students suggest ways to break the nutrition-infection cycle. They brainstorm solutions to prevent infectious diseases in the...
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Extended Families
Students examine the various combinations that contemporary extended families take on. They identify how strong communication skills are important to the health of the family after reading a an excerpt from a first-person fictional journal.
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What Difference Do Good and Bad Make?
Learners discuss the characteristics of good citizenship, listen to the story, The Boy Who Cried Wolf, and develop and present skits demonstrating examples of good and bad behaviors.
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The Pyramid of Alliance
Learners examine ways people take action against bigotry. They consider ways a person can be an ally and assess how building alliances strengthens a community.
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Borders Within: Social Interaction on the Border
Young scholars analyze social interaction, racism, and prejudice on the border through exploration of their own experiences.
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Women In Islam
Students identify the basic beliefs and practices within Islam. Using a specific country's culture, they discover the experiences of Muslim women differ between countries. They compare and contrast the rights and protections Islam...
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Listen to the Pin Drop
Students practice reading silently. The class discusses the benefits of reading silently and several methods for reading silently, including cross checking and chunking. Working in groups, they silently read a leveled text and discuss...
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Weather Instruments
Young scholars research weather instruments. For this weather lesson, students use the Global Climate DVD and take notes on weather instruments. Young scholars answer multiple choice questions on a worksheet.
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A Date Which Will Live in Infamy
Students analyze Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Day of Infamy" War Address. Students read the original first typed draft of the speech, and compare handwritten changes with the original to determine whether the changes strengthened or weakened...
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From Pirates to Pilots to Spies
Sixth graders enjoy this introduction to the world of map projections, globes, aerial photographs, and satellite images. This lesson instructs students on the advantages and disadvantages of each earthly representation.
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Stranded along the Coast
Students plot stranding sites onto a map using latitude and longitude as well as compass directions with respect to coastal features. They identify several species of marine animals that might become stranded; distinguish their...
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Role of Arkansas women in the Civil War period
Eighth graders, in groups, describe the activities of Arkansas women during the Civil War.
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Earthquake Shake Table
Students build an earthquake shake table. They design and build the table and test their completed structures using sandbags.
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Meaning Groups: Cause and Provide
In this language arts activity, students match the collocates to Cause and Provide from a list of nineteen words and complete a table.
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"At Castle Boterel"
In this "At Castle Boterel" worksheet, students complete eight short answer questions about assonance, alliteration, rhyme, stanzas and Thomas Hardy's story telling abilities about the "At Castle Boterel" poem.