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Beanbag Tic Tac Toe

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students choose a partner and find a safe space on the floor. They practice the skills of over- and underhand throwing.
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Oscar's Garbage Can

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students are arranged in a circle with two students inside the circle. They try to clean out Oscar's garbage can while the ones outside the circle try to throw the objects back in.
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Path Animation

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Young scholars realize that an object moving along a path has a spatial relationship to its environment by using path animation and programming techniques. They explore how to recognize and trace animated path with their fingers on the...
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Salinity and Brackish Water Systems

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers are able to tell the difference between brackish and salt water. They also are able to distinguish water qualities specific to each type of water. Students answer various questions about all types of water.
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Which One Doesn't Belong?

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders identify words that are related with 80% accuracy. Given a list of four vocabulary words, 3rd graders identify specific relationships between three of the four words. They also identify which of the four words are not...
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Keeping Students Focused During the Holiday Season

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
There are easy ways to make the day before a school break fun, exciting, and productive.
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A Guide for Community Living

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students use photography to help them become more knowledgeable about their communities, and to make a "community survival" book in which problems are solved by going to the right community agency.
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Get Ready, Set, Go

For Teachers 1st
First graders learn the importance of listening carefully and why to follow oral directions carefully by playing Simon Says. They learn the importance of waiting your turn.
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What's Your Wingspan?

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders measure each other's wingspan, and record and analyze the data.
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Reaction Time 2: Zap!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners show how skills can improve through practice and awareness, using a reaction-time activity that focuses on both visual and auditory responsiveness.
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Musical Freeze Improvisions

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students are introduced to the process of creating story from movement through improvisation and invention. When the music is playing, they move. When the music stops, the students freeze. A discussion on the role that music plays in the...
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Train Cinquain

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders write cinquain poems showing an understanding that people cannot outrun trains. They examine safety messages concerning tunnels, bridges and trains.
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Young Learners: My Family

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students write about the different members of their family. They are incouraged to recongize the members of their families all have different roles.
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Reading: Chartiy Stops

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students are introduced to the topic of chartiable giving. They examine people who are on tight budgets.
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Meditation on the A30

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students, in groups, race to produce words that rhyme with the word given to them. They are read a poem and focus on the theme of the poem.
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Integrated Skills and Speaking: Reforming Education

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students examine quotes and discuss how education can be reformed. The best ideas are picked and a short presentation further explaining the idea is presented to the class.
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Drugs

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students participate in various activities dealing with prescription drug bottle vocabulary and modals. They discuss legal and illegal drugs, complete a vocabulary worksheet, and write sentences using the correct form of modals.
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The Internet Dilemma

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students match the beginning and ending of sentences and then order them to make a story. They make their own stories. The stories describe the dangers of the Internet and Internet safety.
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Adopt Ivan

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students brainstorm and discuss what students need to grow up healthy and happy. They read about families and situations where students are not in healthy and happy situations, and the importance of adoption.
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In Search of Good British Food

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students use the Internet to research the culture of British food. They determine the most common foods found in a full English breakfast, and whether they think the foods are tasty or not.
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The Lost Property Office

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners participate in a role-play activity to practice literacy skills. They work in pairs to describe an item they have lost, and the partner asks description questions to help locate the lost item.
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Liberation of the Garden Gnomes

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Young scholars read a lighthearted story about the controversial Garden Gnome Liberation Front. They debate the public's right to own garden gnomes. Personal - to lighten up the classroom a bit with a somewhat
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Film Interview

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students interview each other about their film preferences, and practice using adjectives to describe emotions and -ed and -ing forms.
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Integrated Skills and Speaking

For Teachers 6th - 11th
Students work in pairs to decode a message that uses character adjectives vocabulary and counting skills. They design an "ideal friend" by listing their top five desired character traits.