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Nature Art Exploration
Students draw a nature landscape using watercolors. In this life science lesson, students share their personal experience on the beauty of nature. They create clay models of different native animals.
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Clay Sculpture: Relationships
Students explore art history by conducting an in-class activity. In this sculpting lesson, students examine previously created art sculptures in a textbook. Students utilize clay, sculpting tools and grey paper to create their own...
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ESL: Irregular Plurals of Nouns
In this ESL nouns worksheet, students read nouns, then type the plural in a box beside each, 10 nouns total. A reference web site is given for additional activities
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Anne Frank
In this famous person worksheet, students read a passage about Anne Frank and then complete a variety of in-class and homework activities to support comprehension, including partner interviews, spelling, cloze, synonym matches, and...
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Earth Origami
After reading a brief history of Carl Skalak's journey on the open waters, scholars make a three-dimensional model of the Earth out of an Origami balloon using a printable decorated as the Earth.
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Nouns
Plural, proper, and common nouns are all included here. After reviewing the definition of a noun and reading an example sentence, learners underline the nouns in each of 15 sentences. Each sentence lists how many nouns are present, so...
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Outside the In-Group
Students pretend they are the person who is kept out of a group. As a class, they examine the behaviors of each person in a group situation and discuss how the role-play made them feel. They examine situations in which they kept...
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Human Rights Timeline
Students create a time line that includes personal, national, and international human rights events. The instructional activity is very personal and encourages students to understand themselves and others within the community.
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Parallel Lives
Students research the life of an important person in the Civil War on each side who had basically the same responsibilities. They create a timeline based on their lives and present their findings to the class.
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Relay Race
Students program RCX cars to relay information to one another via Mail when triggered by light sensors. The light sensors are appropriately spaced to allow for timed triggers.
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First Day of School: I'll Get to Know You
Students participate in a letter matching game that pairs students so that they can introduce a new friend. They listen to the Shel Silverstein book, The Giving Tree and write a letter to the class telling them what they will give to the...
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Zesty Kicken' Chicken Dance
Students become aware of spatial awareness as they stand in the middle of a hula hoop and perform "The Chicken Dance" to music. During the chorus, they run, hop, gallop, skip into other vacant hoops. Students follow directions given by...
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Fitness Pursuit
Students participate in health-enhancing physical game of Trivial Pursuit and identify the benefits and effects of health related fitness.
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3-Trap Hockey
Students practice making three hockey traps in a row. In this hockey lesson, students are split up into offensive and defensive players. Students complete three consecutive traps.
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BBC Learning English, Working Abroad/Speaking
In this working and speaking abroad worksheet, students develop specific questions related to given categories. Students are then asked to find classmates who fit into the categories and can answer the questions.
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Make a Mini Calendar
In this calendar worksheet, students create a calendar for the year. The worksheet includes names of each months to cut out and glue on. Decorations to color and paste onto the calendar are included. Students will write the numbers into...
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The Rainbow Fish
Students identify vocabulary words and create their own paper rainbow fish. In this 1st - 2nd grade lesson plan, students identify vocabulary words such as sharing and friendship. Using The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister for...
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My "Red" Room
Learners utilize art analysis skills by examining the work of Henri Matisse. In this painting lesson plan, students examine L'Atelier Rouge by Henri Matisse and identify the objects in the room and colors used. Learners create their own...
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Pulsating
Students explore how activity and lack of activity has an effect on a persons' heart rate. They receive instruction and practice in taking and recording their pulse rate. Students also incorporate a variety of music while taking their...
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Cartoon Challenge
Students practice locomotor movements and space awareness while reinforcing knowledge of living and non-living things learned from the classroom.
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Posture and Pantomime: Total Body Movement
Young scholars analyze posture and pantomime in an analysis of total body movement. In this body movement lesson, students read a chart of movements and the mood or attitude they convey. Young scholars complete several space and...
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Aboriginal Physical Education
Learners engage in p.e. activities that have roots in native Indian, Metis, and Inuit cultures. They practice the skill involved and listen to the significance behind the skill. They read relevant books and define new terminology.
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Ordering Fitness Fun
Young scholars participate in a practice activity in which they must remember the order of the numbers 1-10 and then 10-20. In teams, they participate in a relay race in which they must place number cards in the correct order on a...
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Designing Illuminated Text
Students examine illuminated manuscripts from the Gutenberg Bible. Using the examples, they use the internet to explore the effects of the printing press on the value of literature and art. They create their own illuminated initial...