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Circle Seats
Students create large shapes to sit on during circle time. In this art lesson, students cut and decorate the shapes.
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San Francisco Explodes
Students investigate why San Francisco grew so quickly during the Gold Rush. They
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Killing for a Cause
Pupils research various international terrorist attacks, looking for the motivation of the perpetrators. They discuss terrorism and ways the international community might respond to discourage future terrorist acts.
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Hardy Heart: Kit Instructions
Students describe human anatomy by reading a children's book. In this heart health activity, students examine illustrations of heart images and several organ related children's stories. Students discuss ways to keep a healthy heart and...
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Compost Columns
In this unit of lessons, students examine the role of compost columns and recycling. They create a KWL chart about garbage in Chicago. They also examine life cycles and packaging of everyday products.
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Water Quality
Students investigate the water cycle and evaporation. They study the porosity and permeability of groundwater, and the capillary action in soil in this unit.
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Ode to the Ordinary
Ninth graders identify an ordinary object and write an ode for the subject. In this poetry writing instructional activity, 9th graders select an ordinary object and define its uses. Students then write an ode for the poem.
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Breaking News English: Television Shoes
In this English learning exercise, students read " Television Shoes," and then respond to 1 graphic organizer, 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.
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Customary Capacity
Third graders convert customary units of capacity to make a gallon man out of construction paper. They use the computer to make a tree map of gallons, quarts, pints, and cups to show these conversions.
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Life Without Flight
Students keep a journal for an intire week recording their observations of the ways aircraft affect society, The students discuss their findings and categorize them into areas such as military, commercial, research, and so on.
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Talk Back
Students study print and TV ads and search for examples in which advertising companies rely on negative stereotypes or misleading information to market their products.
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Can Bacteria Arise from Non-living Things?
Fourth graders, in groups, determine whether bacteria arises from non-living things,
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Heart to Heart Interviews
Students interview veterans at a local homeless shelter. They publish their interviews in a class newspaper. They also present their information in different forums.
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Ramblers and walkers' right to roam
Learners read news story about the start of Madonna's court action:
"Madonna says: 'Get off my land!'. " They work groups try to agree on what types of land should be accessible to walkers and ramblers, and which areas should be...
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Breaking Down Prejudice
Students examine the clauses in the South African constitution. Using the internet, they identify the roles of the government, citizens and identifying discrimination that still exists in the country. To end the instructional activity,...
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People Bingo
Students get to know one another. They move around the room asking classmates questions that are on the card and making up a Bingo card. They find somebody that answers a question on their card and writes their name in that square.
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Belief Systems of the Silk Roads
Students review, compare, and contrast belief systems of the Silk Roads. They analyze primary texts of sacred and philosophical writings. Finally, students recognize the rich diversity of belief systems along the Silk Roads.
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Computer Multimedia and Animation Technology: Video Capture
Students explore multimedia and animation technology. They create an autobiographical film of themselves and an album cover for their CD case. They watch a video and take notes to discover the five camera placements in their practice...
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First Inauguration Speech of Abraham Lincoln
Young scholars read an annotated excerpt of Lincoln's speech. In this government lesson, students discuss questions related to the speech to identify Lincoln's ideas to preserve the Union. Young scholars may write optionally write their...
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Cell Theory, Plant And Animal Cell Comparison
Tenth graders study plant and animal cells. In this investigative activity students draw their own animal cells and label them.
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Plate Tectonics: Recycling the Seafloor
Students classify earth's layers and plates using Ocean Seismicity data. In this plate tectonics lesson, students outline where the plate boundaries are on the world map. They then compare these predicted boundaries with USGS map of the...
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Ab Cya: New Year's Day Word Search
New Year's Day Word Search is a fun holiday activity for children. Kids learn and practice New Year's Day vocabulary by searching for the words in the puzzle. Puzzles can be played interactively on the computer or printed out.
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My vocabulary.com: New Year's Resolutions
This is a variety of vocabulary puzzles and activities using a wordlist of words pertaining to New Year's Resolutions and beginning with the letters C, I, or P. It also offers a Vocabulary Word List for Resolutions (198) and ideas for...