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Vaccines--How and Why?

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders study the history, progression and current uses for vaccines in the prevention of disease. They simulate an epidemic and experiment with pathogens.
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All About Me Unit

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Young scholars engage in an "All About Me," series of activities in the beginning of the year. All sorts of ideas are in this lesson plan to help students express themselves and get to know their classmates.
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Colony Brochure

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students, after studying the 13 colonies, create a brochure advertising one of the colonies. The purpose of the brochure, they were told, would be to urge people in Europe to come to America and settle in their particular colony.
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Halloween Story with Portrayal Movement

For Teachers K - 2nd
Pupils imitate action words in the story and engage in cumulative movement patterns.
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Constructing A Food Web

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils identify and explain the relationships within a food web. They use index cards to glue pictures of producers and consumers. On the back of the card, students name the organism, list the type of biome in which it is found.
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Timeline

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Pupils create a timeline of the major events that have happened to their family. In this timeline lesson plan, students put events on their timeline that happened before and after they were born.
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Introduction to Communication

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students identify and practice the skills needed for effective communication.
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Communication

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Pupils identify good listening and talking skills and discuss verbal, written, and non-verbal communication. They create collages of magazine pictures demonstrating non-verbal communication.
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Discover Mardi Gras

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Learners explore the origin and significance of Mardi Gras and experience some traditional activities associated with the hoilday.
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Rhythm and Rhyme

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Learners listen to and identify the similar rhyme pattern of two rhymes and apply those concepts to a group creation of a new rhyme. They discover that the given rhyme comes from India by learning a little background information on India.
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Organizing Your Ideas Into an Effective Outline

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explain the components of a speech outline and write an interesting speech.
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History and Geography: Making a New Nation

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders examine the contributions of the different groups that built the American Nation. They identify the successive waves of new immigration, explain their attraction to America, and study the importance of Ellis Island.
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Make Me Metric

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students discover the need for standard units of measurement. They be engaged in estimation, problem solving, and use of measurement tools to begin an understanding of the metric system.
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DEVLOPING NARRATIVES BASED ON JAPAPNESE PRINTS

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine an art object and gain information from it. Students examine how artists provide important information to convey a narrative.
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Back To Africa

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students analyze the massive immigration after 1850 and how new social patterns, conflicts, and ideas of national unity developed amid growing cultural diversity, and how the Progressive movement influenced different groups in American...
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The 32-Second Macbeth

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers read a very short script synopsis of Macbeth. They read the script, in small groups, trying to break the 32-second record, then write their own 32-second versions of one act from Macbeth.
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Design a Wildlife Habitat-Habitat Detective

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learners discuss ways people have changed landscapes and how this effects wildlife. They map the area around their school and keep a journal of wildlife they see. They predict how to preserve the wildlife they see for future generations.
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Using Art to Study the Past: Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation - 1863

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders analyze artwork as historical artifact and recognize that the Emancipation Proclamation was a major turning point in the Civil War.
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The Motown Dynasty (1969-1980) Part 2

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students connect achievements of noted artists with their roles in the music industry. They identify many Black music industry leaders and their contributions with the Motown Sound.
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"No Irish Need Apply..."

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students describe conditions that led to massive immigration from Ireland in the 1840s, and compare response of native-born Americans to Irish immigration with responses to Mexican immigration today.
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Stimulants

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore the use of stimulants; in particular, amphetamines and cocaine. They also examine crack, which is a methamphetamine that is made in a laboratory and used as an inexpensive substitute for cocaine.
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Break the Pentomino Code!

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students read and analyze the book, Chasing Vermeer. They discuss the main story elements, analyze how pentominoes are important to the story, use a pentomino code to decipher a message, and create a secret code of their own.
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Demystifying Mood in Creative Writing

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils discover how writing is affected by mood and emotions. They learn proper mood descriptors and read sample pieces of writing to better explain mood.
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And Tomorrow's Forecast Is...

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students create original short stories that feature distinctive weather phenomena, such as rainbows, snowstorms, tornadoes, thunder and/or lightning. They use a story map, imbedded in this plane, to help them organize their story.

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