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Food Chain/Food Web

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students explore ecosystems. For this ecology lesson, students read an article explaining ecosystems. Students create a visual organizer with index cards using components of various ecosystems.
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Traveler's in Time

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students analyze artifacts to become familiar with the Great Migration.  In this migration lesson plan, students read an article and answer comprehension questions. Students role play a migration scenario using an artifact to help...
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A "CCC Youth Refuses to Fan Flies Off Officer"

For Students 8th - 12th
In this primary source analysis worksheet, students analyze a historical article about a CCC youth who was dishonorably discharged. Students then respond to 3 short answer questions about the photograph.
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Current Event Project

For Teachers 4th - 12th Standards
One of the best ways to make history relevant and engaging is to analyze current events before they become history! Check out these project guidelines for a current event research paper, outlining the major required sections of...
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Evaluating Print Sources

For Students 9th - Higher Ed Standards
Not all sources are created equal, so how do you evaluate them? Writers learn how to evaluate print sources based on elements such as audience, tone, and argument in the sixth handout of 24 in the Writing the Paper series from the...
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A Society in Transition

For Students 9th - 12th
Cover the 1980s in your class with a brief informational text and seven related questions. The one-page reading passage includes general information about jobs and skills, population patterns, and the AIDS epidemic. 
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Middle East Related

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders find a current event related to the Middle East. In this current event lesson students write a brief summary of a new story related to the Middle East. They give their opinion and tell how it affects their life or who it...
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Designing the Experiment and Answering the Question

For Teachers 4th - 10th
Learners investigate scientific methods by analyzing an article from the Natural Inquirer.  In this data analysis lesson plan, students read an article from the magazine and discuss at least 2 scientific methods that could be used...
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Current Events

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
In this current events worksheet, students find an article in a newspaper, magazine, TV or Internet. Students write a summary and an opinion about this article.
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Expository --Writing

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this writing worksheet, students investigate the writing process, especially in expository articles. Students examine a piece written for a children's magazine about dinosaurs. Students read about the steps taken to generate it:...
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Alcohol: Grades 9-12

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Two activities ask high schoolers to consider the role of alcohol culture in their lives. First, groups analyze the types of appeals used in newspaper ads for alcoholic drinks and compare those images with what they have observed....
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Persuasion Portfolios

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
After class members brainstorm a list of current social and political issues, groups each select a different topic from the list to research. Teams create a portfolio of at least 10 examples of stories about their issue, stories that...
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Calling All Inventors: Celebrate National Inventors Month

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Start off the school year by engaging learners in a creative study of inventors and their inventions.
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Celebrate Commencement with Class Presentations

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Bring the year to a satisfying close by asking class members to reflect on the year in personalized graduation speeches.
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Teach a Mini-Lesson Sentence Variety

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Help your developing writers spice up their writing by studying simple, compound, and complex sentences.
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The Impact of an Image

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Participate in National Photo Month by creating newspapers with an emphasis on photography.
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Women Who Changed the World

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
While you don't always find the names of famous women in history books, there are a variety of ways to help pupils learn about these notable females.
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Looking Back - An Art/English/History Interdisciplinary Unit

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students research historical events of the past century to recognize that society impacts the themes within art and literature. They then interview an individual to develop a biographical narrative, a collage and finally an oral...
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"I Spy": Using Adjectives and Descriptive Phrases

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students define adjectives and use adjectives and descriptive phrases to write a descriptive paragraph. They write a description of a sensory item, and read and discuss a five senses chart. Students then complete a chart using adjectives...
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Thinking Outside the Box

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Now this lesson sounds fun! Young scholars throw a ball, film it as it soars through the air, and use a spreadsheet to collect data. A scatterplot is created to produce a quadratic regression equation, an equation in vertex form, and an...
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Creating Bloggers

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Blogs provide the motivation for this richly detailed writing lesson plan. After viewing blogs on various websites, class members pick topics, create a blog, and post an entry. Your bloggers then evaluate their work using evaluation...
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Writing Fables

For Teachers 7th - Higher Ed
Students write their own fables. In this writing fables activity, students use handheld computers to write a fable. The class designs a spreadsheet to organize common elements of fables. Students also edit each others' work.
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It's Always Great to Hear "Another Book Please!"

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Although summer is gone, these tips for increasing literacy can be used year-round.
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Discover Picture-Perfect Projects

For Teachers K - 3rd
Use classic, well-loved picture books as means of infusing visual and language arts in the elementary classroom.

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