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What's Your Angle
Students create an original lesson plan about geometry and angles. In small groups they take pictures using a digital camera of obtuse, acute, right, and straight angles that they find at school. Students use the photos in a computer...
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Phrasal Verbs with Put
In this language arts worksheet, learners read 9 sentences and choose the correct preposition to complete the phrasal verb with "put." This page is intended for ESL students.
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The Life and Music of Celia Cruz
Students create a set and design a costume for a musical performance. In this Life of Celia Cruz lesson, students study biographical facts about Celia Cruz on the exhibition web site. Then students share their creations with the class.
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Understanding and Identifying Verbs
Students practice identifying the subject and verbs in sentences. In this verb lesson, students can explain the difference between active and passive verbs. Students complete a grade appropriate work sheet.
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Gamma Ray Bursts
Young scholars study an article on Gamma Rays. In this investigative lesson students study the energy and wavelengths of gamma rays and the theories behind them.
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Beginning Sounds-What sound does each picture begin with?
Students view a multimedia presentation to identify beginning sounds. In this phonics lesson plan, students recognize beginning sounds. Students navigate a website for addition phonics sounds.
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Measurement, Perimeter and Area
Students explore the concept of measurement. In this measurement lesson, students collect data about themselves such as height, finger length, neck circumference, foot length, and other body measurements. Students cut squares...
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Breaking News English: Moscow Subway Cars to Have CCTV
In this English worksheet, learners read "Moscow Subway Cars to Have CCTV," and then respond to 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.
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Introduction to Ecology
Eighth graders identify the living and nonliving components of an ecosystem. In this ecology lesson, 8th graders explain the role each organism plays. They participate in class discussion and answer a quiz at the end of the lesson.
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Plaid to the Bone
Students study Lady Anges Randolph and other heroic woman using multimedia. They create class presentations with their findings. They write a diary about living in a medieval castle after researching what life was like in them.
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Changes Close To Home
Students interview the senior citizens in their community. While interviewing them, they identify perceptions they have about the local climate. Using the internet, the compare the results of the interview to those of public thirty...
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Making Books
Students make a variety of books using the computer program iPhoto and digital images of their choosing. This lesson for the upper-elementary classroom includes an example of student work and four possible lesson extensions and...
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School Building Survey
Students research information in their school. In this school building lesson students answer questions about their school to see how it was made, how it operates and what the energy costs are.
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Symmetry: Theory, Reality and Art!
Students explore the concept of geometric symmetry. In this geometric symmetry lesson, students walk around their school and take pictures of objects that demonstrate symmetry. Students use Microsoft Paint to draw the lines of symmetry...
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Series and Parallel Circuits
Young scholars examine electricity. For this circuits lesson students complete an activity that shows them the configuration of circuits.
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Appreciating The World By Learning About Landforms
Children can learn about the Earth's landforms and develop a greater appreciation of our world.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Literature: Outside Reading Made Fun
This lesson is an introduction to an "Outside Reading Made Fun" unit in which students select a book to read for pleasure, write journal questions, write an analytical essay, create a book project, and participate in a book discussion.
Other
Outside My Window
Students at Evergreeen Valley High school in San Jose, CA invite others to send them photographs taken outside their windows to promote unity and friendship around the world.
Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology
Ciese Real Time Data Projects: Weather in Our Own Backyard
This instructional activity is divided up into three activities, two of which take place outside. By the end of the instructional activity students will be able to describe weather conditions on a given day and some of the factors that...
University of California
The History Project: 15th Century European Life Hours of Catherine of Cleves
During the late medieval period, the involvement of ordinary (lay) people within the church changed. Where the clergy and sacraments were the primary focus of medieval Catholicism, members of the laity increasingly incorporated...
Other
Project Wild: Wildlife Is Everywhere! [Pdf]
Teach students to be more aware of the wildlife in their surroundings, inside or outside. Includes lesson, extension activities, and evaluation ideas.
Yale University
Avalon Project: Fort Laramie Treaty, 1868
Actual text of the treaty with the Sioux nation, which grants an enormous part of the Wyoming, Montana and Dakota territories to the Sioux, promises clothing and farm supplies instead of money, provides schooling, medical and other...
University of California
History Project: Women Outside the Compass 1880 1922
Lesson on women and the push toward equality in which students analyze primary source text and images to evaluate the significance of women working for equal rights.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Beach Bum Science: Compression of Wet Sand
Did you ever notice the cool patterns around your footprints when you take a walk in the wet sand at the beach? The pressure of your feet has effects far outside your footprints. Here's a project that uses a simple experimental apparatus...