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Cooking Terms - Level II

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Learners complete cooking terms with partners at their tables with the help of a foods classroom text.
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Rod, Penny, and Lightning: The Straight Story

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students review the concept of a movement story. As a class, they practice moving in straight, curved and zigzag pathways while making frozen body shapes of the characters in the story. To end the lesson, they must complete the same...
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Leading Lives

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore a field of knowledge through the life of a leader in that field. They write a high-quality biography of the leader of their choice. In the end, publishing of the biography is completed on the Internet.
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Let's Play Some Ball!

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Pupils review horizontal and vertical shifts of a parabola and how they effect a specific quadratic formula. They play a basketball review game in which they try to find the right quadratic equation for a given problem in order to earn...
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Boom and Fizz

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the differences between a physical and chemical change. They observe various demonstrations involving physical or chemical changes, make predictions, and record what they see, hear, and smell.
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I Read On My Own!

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students examine how to choose books to read on their own and how to participate in reading discussions. They practice the two finger rule for choosing an independent reading book and how to look at the book's topic for personal...
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Multiplying and Dividing Integers/Relay Race

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Give your class a list of multiplication and division sentences that contain both positive and negative integers. Have them analyze them to see if they can discover the pattern with the signs. From these patterns, help them develop the...
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Women in the War

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students make decisions about how best to deal with or resolve dilemmas during the Civil War. For this women in war lesson, students word in groups to discuss how a given dilemma could be handled. Groups elect a spokesperson to report to...
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Who Needs a Dress Code?

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Learners create a poster showing examples of appropriate and inappropriate student grooming and attire. They write comments explaining the need for each rule.
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Identifying Shapes and Matching

For Teachers K
Students recognize shapes and repeating shapes can make a pattern. In this patterns lesson plan, students identify pictures of shapes as patterns or not patterns. Students describe how the pattern is made.
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Metis- Grade 11

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders consider the impact of immigration on native peoples. In this Canadian history lesson, 11th graders watch "Places Not Our Own," and then participate in a classroom simulation that requires them to consider land...
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Fair Games

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students participate in several chance activities and examine a few games for fairness. They become game designers who are asked to design a fair game for a toy company. Students must describe the rules for play and examine...
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Geometry Shapes Playground Safety

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers create a new playground design to present to elementary students during Playground safety week. They review basic geometry to use in observing and recording the equipment on a local playground. They research playground...
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Eye Spy a Pattern

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders examine how to see patterns by showing how things work together. They identify, analyze and determine a rule for predicting and extending numberical patterns involving operations of whole numbers, decimals and fractions.
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Lesson Plan: Early Political Parties

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the platforms of early political parties in the United States. In this political parties lesson, students discover details regarding the attributes and ideals of the federalists and the democratic-republicans. Students...
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Ancient Mediterranean Lands: A Timeline of Mediterranean Civilizations

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders create a timeline for the Mediterranean civilizations. In this Mediterranean lesson, 7th graders make a living timeline for the Mediterranean civilizations.
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The Declaration of Independence

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Learners explore the Declaration of Independence. In this civics activity, students read handouts regarding the document as well as the document itself. Learners respond to discussion questions regarding the handout. Students then...
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Judicial Branch of California

A “Commemorative” Bill of Rights

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
It's 1943, and Jewish people in Denmark are in hiding from the Nazis. What protection can the United States offer them? By examining the Constitution, specifically the Bill of Rights, scholars consider the protections afforded to those...
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Getting to Know Us

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Young scholars discover pictures are worth a thousand smiles. In this early childhood language arts lesson, students use their growing powers of observation and language skills to get to know their classmates.
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Win-Win Discipline

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers investigate methods to get along. For this philosophy lesson, students explore different methods to disarm an argument or confrontation they disagree with. They discuss aggression, rule breaking and disagreements.
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Apply Scienctific Inquiry and Scientific Habits Of Mind

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Pupils describe science experience with appropriate attributes, units, and tools. They formulate inquiry question associated with the science experiences and curricular concepts from observations through class brainstorming. Pupils...
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Archery

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students are shown proper stance, nocking, targeting, and release techniques of archery. They follow basic safety procedures involved in handling and using archery equipment. Students practice shooting aluminum or fiberglass shaft arrows.
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Internet: Writing Friendly Letters Via Email

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students view a Powerpoint presentation on writing and sending email. After examining a Website about the parts of a friendly letter, they compose and send their own letters via email. Teachers set up an email/pen pal account so...
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CDVs at Home and School

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students identify the rules they have at home and at school. They connect the values to the core democratic values and discuss whether all rules should connect to the core values. They create a mural showing students following the rules...