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Caution: Thin ice!
Sixth graders listen to story and respond with comments or questions. They brainstorm unsafe behaviors and randomly fill out templates with different risky behaviors listed on the board. They play RISKO, the Bingo type game.
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Pest Populations: A Game of Survival
Students identify and classify populations of pests in the home, school and community. They recognize the specific conditions needed for the survival of an organism considered a pest and list tactics for control measures.
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SPECTACULAR CARDS
Students get in on one of the hottest crafting trends today - handmade cards! My book explores numerous ideas for making and embellishing three types of cards - fabric, paper and board games.
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Risky Business
Students consider what risky choices may do to their lives. In this personal health instructional activity, students watch a Discovery video about personal choices and discuss the content of the video. Students then play a game that that...
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Using Words to Work Things Out
Students explore classroom community building. In this character development and community building instructional activity, students listen to Hands Are Not for Hitting and generate a class list of positive ways to handle classroom...
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Accounting Monopoly
Students use Monopoly to review the accounting cycle. They create their own transactions while playing Monopoly. Students produce the financial statements that will match the transactions of the game.
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How Electric Current Produces Energy
Fifth graders are introduced to the concept of electric currents. In groups, they develop their own game board to test different circuits to determine if they are complete. They record their observations of the energy transfer between...
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Exercise is Essential for Healthy Pets
In this online/interactive worksheet about walking for exercise, learners read about the benefits of walking their pets and answer multiple choice comprehensive questions. Students answer four multiple choice questions.
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Probability
In this probability and statistics learning exercise, learners determine the probability of a series of independent event occurring. The one page learning exercise contains a combination of four multiple choice and free response...
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Chrononauts Lesson Plans
Students are told that chronanauts is a fascinating, whimsical exploration of time travel, causality, and possibility covering many fascinating and significant events of the last century or so. They work in small groups to create a...
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Two Vowels Making one Sound
First graders become word detectives and find words with the vowel combinations: "ee" and "ai". For this phonics lesson, 1st graders read the words they find and create pictionaries of the words read.
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Jeopardy Game
Students review terms that relate to ships and shipping to be prepared for a trip to a ship building company. They demonstrate how many terms, and their meanings, the students remember from the presentation earlier in the week.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Phonics: High Frequency Words, Word Baseball
Scholars play high-frequency word baseball, pretending to be a pitcher and a batter. Players take turns choosing baseballs with high-frequency words printed on them. If they read the word correctly, they move to the next base until they...
Pearson
Articles: Indefinite
When do you use a or an before a noun? What about the? Learn about indefinite and definite articles with a brief grammar presentation, which focuses on using context clues to determine proper article usage.
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Let's Play Mancala
Learners study the best strategy for winning at the game Mancala. They research the ancient African game and its history and then make one of their own (both with the instructions, game board and pieces) to play with their classmates to...
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A Lesson in Vocabulary with El Bronx Remembered
After reading El Bronx Remembered by Nicholasa Mohr, learners complete a KWL graphic organizer based on vocabulary from the novella. A SMARTboard presentation is a good resource for reviewing the vocabulary, as well as the triple-entry...
Random House
Go Fish!
"One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish." Kids color, cut out, shuffle and deal a set of cards to play Go Fish!, use hams and green egg cards to play tic-tac-toe, and engage in other activities connected to books by Dr. Seuss. Oh, the...
Science 4 Inquiry
The Monster Mash
Young scientists create monsters by applying their knowledge of transcription and translation. They randomly find the DNA, assign it a codon, and build monsters piece by piece.
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Prefix Power
Students examine and discuss root words, prefixes, and suffixes. They play a game called Prefix Power, determining if the root word in a sentence needs a prefix or a suffix.
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Identify and Generating Rhyming Words, Bingo
Students play a bingo card game to to build accuracy with rhyming words. In this rhyming words lesson, students identify rhyming words with a picture card. Students continue to practice game until there is a winner.
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Hungry Hungry Hippos
Students play a game in which they use scooter boards to impersonate hippos. They gather balls and place them into a bucket while remaining on the scooter boards.
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Domino Practice
Students are given organizing boards and play domino and cube games. These simple games provide fun and practice in categorizing, using dominos and unifix cubes.
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Wheel of Fortune for Students with Multiple Disabilities
Students play Wheel of Fortune. In this Wheel of Fortune lesson, students with disabilities play an online version of the game to earn rewards and small prizes. Students must solve math problems correctly in order to win.
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Money Makes the World Go 'Round
Young scholars examine what a basic unit of currency means and how it affects world finances.