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Service Project
Students participate in a service project. In this community service instructional activity, students use their special talents to help others. Students draw or write about the service they've provided. The class turns this into a class...
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Charolotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-paper" - the "New Woman"
Students analyze the life of American middle to upper-class women in the mid- to late-nineteenth century and early twentieth century. In this women's suffrage lesson, students visit the given links in the lesson to analyze the changing...
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Biology: Butterfly Activities
Second graders examine various types of butterflies and insects around their school. They identify differences between beetles and butterflies. Students examine books about butterflies, complete symmetry drawings, and make ladybug key...
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Writing Lesson 13
Fourth graders practice responding to a writing prompt and practice proofreading. They write three paragraphs explaining good classroom rules and tell why each of three rules is a good one. Each paragraph should have at least three...
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Why Invent That?
Students demonstrate an understanding of the text by completing an activity on the advantages and disadvantages of inventing and using a human-powered airplane.
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Somewhere
Second graders write their own version of the book "Somewhere" in this lesson. They listen to the book and locate the rhyming words within the text. They find the number of syllables per word in the text, and compare the number of...
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Beautiful Butterflies
Third graders study the life cycle of the butterfly through this series of activities. They create projects, play games, and observe butterfly characteristic that contribute to their survival.
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Meet Your Tonsils
Students engage in a instructional activity that is concerned with tonsils. They identify the parts of the face and mouth as shown on a poster and then conduct class discussion about the function and location of the tonsils. The...
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The Relationship Between Nature And Man's Place
Students engage in a lesson that is concerned with the findings of the environment that is around them. They make observations and think reflectively about nature. Students make cognitive connections from the world around them and write...
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Lesson 4: A Field Trip to the Maine State Museum
Learners analyze the Maine State Museum's exhibit 12,000 Years in Maine. They create an artifact and write a description of that artifact that demonstrates their understanding of the way technology shapes culture.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Elements of Literature: Guide to the Outsiders [Pdf]
Four page .pdf file offers background information, chapter by chapter summary, and post-reading activities.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Reading Discussion Guide: Hello, America by Livia Bitton Jackson
Eighteen-year-old Elli has a number tattooed onto her arm. It is an indelible remnant of a terrifying past a life lived, for many years, in the death camp of Auschwitz. When Elli arrives in New York City, she can not speak English, and...
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Ad lit.org: Reading Discussion Guide: Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
Set in 1943 when the Nazis occupied Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen is asked to carry out a heroic deed and aid her uncle in his efforts to smuggle Danish Jews across the sea to Sweden, where they will be safe. She has already...
Other
Reading Group guides.com: Black Boy
This site features a reading group lesson plan for the book "Black Boy" by Richard Wright. Students and teachers will benefit from the informational discussion questions listed.
Other
California Newsreel Teacher's Guide: Black Boy
Have you ever read any of Richard Wright's work? This site offers an extensive crosscurricular Teacher's Guide that includes questions for research and writing.
Able Media
Classics Technology Center: For Oedipus the King
This site provides a study guide to aid in the reading of "Oedipus the King" by Sophocles. Contains questions for consideration, links to outside information, and footnotes to help enhance knowledge.
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Las Vegas Leisure Guide: Stratosphere Grand Opening
This site on the Las Vegas Stratosphere includes an enormous amount of information in an easy-to-read format. Included are multiple images of the outside, inside, and views from the top of the structure.
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Las Vegas Leisure Guide: Stratosphere Grand Opening
This site on the Las Vegas Stratosphere includes an enormous amount of information in an easy-to-read format. Included are multiple images of the outside, inside, and views from the top of the structure.
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Las Vegas Leisure Guide: Stratosphere Grand Opening
This site on the Las Vegas Stratosphere includes an enormous amount of information in an easy-to-read format. Included are multiple images of the outside, inside, and views from the top of the structure.
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Las Vegas Leisure Guide: Stratosphere Grand Opening
This site on the Las Vegas Stratosphere includes an enormous amount of information in an easy-to-read format. Included are multiple images of the outside, inside, and views from the top of the structure.
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Las Vegas Leisure Guide: Stratosphere Grand Opening
This site on the Las Vegas Stratosphere includes an enormous amount of information in an easy-to-read format. Included are multiple images of the outside, inside, and views from the top of the structure.
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Las Vegas Leisure Guide: Stratosphere Grand Opening
This site on the Las Vegas Stratosphere includes an enormous amount of information in an easy-to-read format. Included are multiple images of the outside, inside, and views from the top of the structure.
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Las Vegas Leisure Guide: Stratosphere Grand Opening
This site on the Las Vegas Stratosphere includes an enormous amount of information in an easy-to-read format. Included are multiple images of the outside, inside, and views from the top of the structure.
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Las Vegas Leisure Guide: Stratosphere Grand Opening
This site on the Las Vegas Stratosphere includes an enormous amount of information in an easy-to-read format. Included are multiple images of the outside, inside, and views from the top of the structure.