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Social Studies Board Games
Student-created board games are an effective in-class study tool.
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How to Make Your Own Board Game (Instructions)
In this board board game activity, students follow the instructions to create their own board game. Students use the examples in the sheet for help in creating their game.
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Wateropoly: Life in the Desert
Students explore water properties by participating in a drought related board game. In this water conservation lesson, students play a game titled "wateropoly" which is based on the classic board game Monopoly. Students utilize cards and...
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To Filter or Not to Filter
Drinking clean water can be taken for granted. Explore the process and high cost of filtering water with a water pollution and filtration activity. Young scientist build a filtration system to filter polluted water, examine the economics...
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Follow the Directions
Learners listen to a confusing poem about baseball. In this clear writing lesson, students write a set of directions for a game. Learners rewrite their directions until they are clearly understood. Students make a game and...
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Making Learning a Game
A game lesson can be a way to explore a variety of concepts with your students.
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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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Main Idea
In this main idea instructional activity, students read and analyze 4 paragraphs and determine the main idea in each. Students select the main idea from 4 possible choices.
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The New Kids on the Blog
Students consider the role of a critic by creating top ten lists for arts-related topics and participate in a simulated blog activity. They write newpaper articles to accompany their top ten lists and submit them for publication.
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Read loud: The Media
In this media read aloud activity, middle schoolers read a dialogue aloud in pairs. Student A will ask a question about the media, and Student B gives the answer.