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Spring is Here
Students analyze changes between winter and spring. In this seasonal changes lesson, students read the story "Spring is Here." They record changes between winter and spring on a large chart paper. Students compare and contrast the...
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Studying Checks
While on-line banking and electronic payments seem to be the way of the future, next-generation wage earners still need to understand the details of check writing. Here the focus is on the details of the check including what the...
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Activity 5: Creative Writing/Expression About Child Labor
Middle schoolers research child labor using Internet resources. They present the information in a creative writing piece and post it on Chalkboard.
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All About Me, My Family and Friends
Learners use general skills and strategies of the writing process to show their role in their family, school, friendships, the community and the world. They demonstrate their self-motivation and increasing responsibility for their own...
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Writing Prompts: Prose, Pamphlets and Poems
Students practice reading an atlas and writing prompts. They use graphic organizers to construct their writing prompt. They use the Internet to do their research.
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Solution Concentration
Students determine differences in concentrations. They have to state the problem they feel exists, consider possible solutions, and develop a plan to come up with for containers whose labels have fallen off. Students base this off the...
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Body Plans and Adaptations
For this body plans and adaptations worksheet, students will review the different types of symmetry found in organisms. Students will identify body parts as found on either the ventral or dorsal part of an animal. Then students will look...
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Native American Culture: The Light in the Forest
Seventh graders read the novel, The Light in the Forest. They work in groups to research and create artifacts for a Native American Living Museum. They complete a Powerpoint presentation of their virtual museum to classmates.
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Government Lesson Plan: Lesson Plan 5
Students identify the process of writing a case brief. They analyze the case McCulloch v Maryland. After a lecture/demo, students utilize a case study worksheet imbedded in this plan to help them explain the process of performing a case...
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Government
High schoolers evaluate how the United States government has maintained a balance between protecting rights and maintaining order. They analyze the impact of Supreme Court decisions on governmental powers and the rights and...
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3A is Going Batty
Students share their knowledge of bats. In this video production lesson, students use Internet and print resources to research information regarding bats. Students prepare bat questions and answers, record them on video, and produce bat...
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Techno Book
First graders explore language arts by utilizing educational software. In this storytelling lesson, 1st graders utilize Microsoft Word to create their own children's story incorporating images as well. Students proofread their creation...
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Strange Verbs
Students practice how to use helping and auxiliary verbs by using a round-robin story.
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Field Trip Summary Report
Pupils create a brief report summarizing their experience on a field trip or community based instruction trip. After returning from their experience, they jot down several points of interest. Students draw a picture that focuses on one...
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Doing More In Less
Learners watch segments of a NASA program called "Doing More In Less". In groups, they examine the concept of human exploration and how NASA has contributed to specific research. They are introduced to new vocabulary and answer...
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Storage, Use, Pollution,& Clean Up of Water
Students synthesize water resource educational posters into class presentations based on the poster's theme. Working in groups, they make presentations on wastewater, water uses, watersheds, groundwater, wetlands,water quality, and...
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Washington/Lincoln Compare and Contrast
Students examine the lives of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Using the information, they complete a Venn diagram discovering what the two men had in common. In groups, they review a timeline made in an earlier lesson and view a...
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"Making a Good Impression"
Students are shown how fossils are formed and to learn how extinct organisms lived based on their remains and surroundings. They are shown TAKS review problems on the overhead related to evolution and fossil evidence. Students discuss...
Colorado State University
Colorado State Writing Center: Business Letters: Format
This resource gives guidelines to how to construct the proper business letter format. Complete with detailed instructions and examples.
University of Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin Madison: Writing Center: Writing Cover Letters
Offers a tutorial on writing a cover letter, including sections on the format, what to include in a cover letter, organization, and questions to guide your writing.
Letter Writing Guide
Business Letter Format
This user-friendly site for teachers and students provides a business letter format.
Letter Writing Guide
Friendly Letter Format
This user-friendly site for teachers and students provides a friendly letter format.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Letter Format
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart guides students in identifying the parts of a letter and letter format.
ABCya
Ab Cya: Letter & Number Tracing
Letter & Number Tracing is a great way for children to practice letter and number formation. Children can choose to trace upper case letters, lower case letters or numbers. A guide will appear before each stroke to show where lines...