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Life Is a Cycle

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students investigate about cycles through games, shared readings and a shared writing activity. They play a game of Ring Around the Rosie to be introduced to the concept of "cycle."
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Sounding out accuracy, Tic Tac Toe

For Teachers K - 1st
Students practice word patterns while playing the game of tic tac toe. In this sounding out accuracy lesson, students work with a partner to pick a word from a pile of words. Students then sound out the word from the pile of...
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Locomotor Locomotion

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars practice and reinforce seven different types of locomotor movements in a game-type situation.
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Geometry Jeopardy

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students identify the pattern in a problem. In this geometry lesson, students make predictions, collect and analyze data. They apply the idea of scales and measurements to the real world.
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Wood

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students practice reading comprehension strategies. In this literacy and science lesson, students read a non-fiction article about wood and locate main ideas and details. Students construct a card game using information taken from the text.
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Basketball/Tumbling

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students play basketball games and show knowledge of offense and defense. In this basketball lesson plan, students also answer short answer questions about offense and defense.
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Buzzing for Products

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students practice multiplication playing a game. In this multiplication lesson plan, students pick numbers and multiply them together. Students are awarded points based on which "hive" their answer falls in. The student with the...
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Phonics Tic-Tac-Toe

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this phonics worksheet, learners practice reading a group of words with short vowel sounds while playing tic-tac-toe. Students cut out x's and o's to match with the words on the game board.
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Current Event Jeopardy

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students read current event magazines and newspapers, and highlight questions and answers that are to be used for a class Jeopardy Game. They participate in class Jeopardy Game.
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Get Hooked on Conflict Resolution Skills

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students discuss strategies for solving conflicts and acting as peacemakers. They answer questions regarding conflict resolution skills in a fishing game, and respond to a conflict in a written journal entry.
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Sounding out accuracy, Musical Chairs

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Here is a great spin on the classic game, Musical Chairs! Instead of fighting to get the last chair when the music stops, learners will need to read a CVC word to stay in the game. They walk around, whoever is near the word bucket when...
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Sounding out accuracy, Bingo

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore language arts by participating in a class game. In this word sound activity, students discuss the sounds that vowels make in words and identify the different vowels. Students utilize index cards with words on them to...
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Sounding out accuracy, Word Baseball

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners practice sounding out words. In this phonics lesson, students play a baseball game, practicing sounding or stretching out words for accuracy.  Learners read the word off the card and stretch it out.
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"What Insecit Am I"

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students play the game "What Insect Am I" to explore the parts of an insect and their habitats.
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Happy New Year

For Teachers K - 5th
Students play a game sing poly spots, balloons, beach balls, volleyball trainers, foam balls, and music that requires them to develop locomotor movement skills.
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Stackers Game for word fluency

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners create three letter words and decode for fluency and accuracy.  In this fluency instructional activity, students use alphabet tiles to build words with the CVC pattern and read the word aloud.  Learners alternate turns...
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Kure Waste Chase Game Lesson

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students work together to identify marine debris. They explain the effect of the debris on various ecosystems. They draw different types of ocean currents as well.
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Patterns of Heredity

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students describe the differences between incomplete dominance and codominant alleles, and between multiple alleles and polygenic inheritance. They describe how internal and external environments affect gene expression. They then...
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Note Names & Piano Games

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students identify letter names of notes, demonstrate simple rhythms, and use that knowledge to play short melodic phrases using the educational software called BugBand. Handouts and a quiz to assess student achievement are included.
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Note Names & Piano Games

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students identify the letter names of notes, demonstrate simple rhythms, and combine the two to play short melodic phrases using Bug Band. They create their own melodies and play them using Bug Band and various instruments.
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Valentine Heart Game

For Teachers 1st
First graders clap a rhythm pattern notated on a board, and then make up their own patterns on percussion instruments. They answer addition and subtraction problems.
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Game Day

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this finding combinations worksheet, students find as many different combinations for the games possible. Students list the different combinations and explain how they know they found all of them.
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Mathematics Within: Algebraic Patterns

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students analyze problem solving techniques for equations with variables by playing a game called "Smackdown". They place variable cards on a grid and use the area model to calculate an answer after spinning a game piece to determine the...
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Periodic Table Patterns using Fabulous Periodic

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students explain how elements are arranged in the periodic table. In this chemistry lesson plan, students group the eggs according to a certain pattern. They compare this to elements in the periodic table.