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C.S. Lewis Foundation

Educator’s Guide to The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe #1

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Perfect for both classroom and homeschool settings, this 72-page resource packet, designed for C.S. Lewis's The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, is a must-have for your curriculum library. Chapter-by-chapter vocabulary lists and...
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Video Biographies

For Teachers 5th - 12th Standards
Who was Alexander The Great? How did Abraham Lincoln’s early life influence his political life? Learners select a historical figure to use for video biography. After developing research questions and collecting information, pupils search...
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Digital Mitosis and Claymation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Take mitosis and meiosis out of the biology textbook and onto the screen! An innovative class project prompts young biologists to create an animation movie using clay, showing the phases involved in mitosis or meiosis by...
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The Miracle Fish: Learning to Design an Experiment

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students develop procedures to explore the behavior of fish.  In this scientific experiment lesson students from a hypothesis, write a question, identify different variables and controls in their experiment. 
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What's Up? Clouds and Your Weather

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders identify clouds and the weather that is associated with them.  In this weather lesson students work in groups and design their own weather map.
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Vocabulary Builder- Using Inspiration to Generate Lists of Descriptive Words

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students discover how to engage all their senses and powers of observation to effectively communicate and idea or emotion. Using Inspiration Software, they create a vocabulary web and practice using descriptive language to clarify and...
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Web of Wonder Lesson Plan

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Learners learn how all living things in an ecosystem are connected in some way. By building their own "web" your class look at energy flow through the food web system and how environmental changes disrupt the system.
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What's In The Bag?

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Pupils research a historical figure from the United States and introduce their classmates to items associated with this person. They also predict how that historical figure would fit into today's society.
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What Do Portraits Communicate?

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students make connections between their personal experiences and portraits. define a portrait and identify different kinds of portraits in artworks and their own lives. They look closely at a portrait using visual analysis to describe...
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3rd Rock from the Sun's Baby Rock

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders have a chance to actively see each phase of the moon and make connections to what they see in the sky when you show how the moon goes through each of the phases.
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QUILT SHARING

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students share in the family histories of their peers as told through the quilt stories, and apply math skills by using invented strategies to determine the (approximate) age of the quilt from the information given about the date it was...
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One To the Infinite Power

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students identify and discuss individuals who have made a difference and what inspired them to take action, explore strategies for taking action and making a difference, examine global challenges, and practice narrative writing, in form...
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Bones and Math

For Teachers 5th - 12th
students identify and explore the connection between math and the bones of the human body. Students collect data about bones from their classmates and from adults, apply formulas that relate this data to a person's height, and organize...
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Drawing Straight Lines

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this pre-printing practice worksheet, students connect a set of diagonal lines by connecting the dots. Page has multiple links to additional resources.
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Who Will I Be Tomorrow?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine various careers and character traits. They create an Affinity Chart using career survey results, compare/contrast personality traits and character traits, and discuss why character traits are important for jobs.
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Thoreau and those he influenced

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders work in groups and research assigned person using the internet and use print resources for DHS media center. They create a poster that shows possible connections to H.D. Thoreau's writings and philosophies, a short...
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Writing Directions for Mathematical Activities

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders reorganize comic strips to have them make sense, complete outline and organize their thoughts into outline form to explain directions, and use that outline to complete their own directions for geometry activities.
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Literary Circles

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use correct grammar, spelling and capitalization in their writing. They connect information acquired in history and science classes with the events described in the books that were read. Students make a clear and informative...
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Mail Utility

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Young scholars review that school computers are connected to a remote computer. They login to a remote computer, access an online mail program, write and send 3 messages to classmates.
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Newton's Third Law

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students use inquiry and observation to explore Newton's third law of motion: for every action there is a reaction. In this physics instructional activity, students rotate through six stations set up with materials and picture directions...
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Tread Lightly: Low Carbon Lunch

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create a flowchart of the carbon footprint of food from production to disposal. In this biology lesson, students brainstorm ways to reduce greenhouse gases by smart food choices. They create a blog promoting ways to eat low...
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African-American History and Culture in the English Classroom

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders identify and recognize characteristics of nonfiction in literary works, explore language and culture of Gullah people, compare and contrast purposes of spirituals and quilts in terms of their relationships to escape from...
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What Has Happened Here?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students read a passage from Geraldine Brooks's novel Year of Wonders. They generate questions to clarify the meaning of the text and make connections between the text and information learned in their history and science classes.
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50 State Quarter Game

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students, using their knowledge of place value and number sense, play this counting game in small groups, or as a whole class, to see who be the first person to reach 50 cents.