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What Does This Have To Do With Me?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine how to make a difference in their community. In this philanthropy lesson plan, students discuss if one person can make a difference, brainstorm a list of actions individuals can take to make a difference and write an...
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Teaching Inference with Trash and Mystery Objects

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Learners practice solving mysteries and using inference skills by digging through trash.  In this problem solving lesson, students investigate groups of garbage to determine what type of person the garbage belonged to.  Learners create a...
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Sound: The Vibration of Materials

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students recognize that sound is produced by the vibration of materials. They see that the sound produced is dependent on the type of material that is used. Given four types of material; air, string, wood, and metal, students perform an...
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Apple Graphing

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students sample a variety of types of apples and then survey each other regarding their favorites. They chart how many students prefer each type of apple.
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Weather with Lewis and Clark: Then and Now

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders observe and write descriptions of the weather in a journal for one week. They research the daily journals of Lewis and Clark, compare the weather words used to their own personal journals, and discuss the need to...
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The Violence of Ancient Rome

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students compare the violence in ancient Rome and the violence in American society today. They research and write an essay that requires comparison and contrast techniques as well as supporting personal opinions about violence in our...
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What's Wrong - Intensive Reading

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students discuss the different types of reading and when to use each type. They read passages and try to find the mistake in each sentence.
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Off We Go

For Teachers 1st
First graders identify different types of transportation, and explain why each is important. They pretend they are going on a trip. They choose their mode of transportation, and use play money to buy their tickets.
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Dating Relationships - Dealing With Assault

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students critique a list of dating principles, indicating and justifying agreement or disagreement with each one. They prepare a personal list of dating principles that would always be fair and caring to both parties. They define assault...
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Reading and Responding

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders read and respond to poetry. They identify the author's purpose and connect the literature to their personal experiences. Students critically analyze the poem and write a poem of their own.
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Media Literacy Discussion Guide

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine and analyze visual media and its messages critically. They determine whether specific media messages inform, entertain, or persuade and what factors influence the media. Using primary sources, they participate in peer...
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Create a Field Guide of Local Plants

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers become familiar with making herbarium specimens as well as utilizing field guides to help identify the species which they gather. They use their herbarium collection to create personalized field guides with plants in...
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Inventor's Project

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students conduct research about different inventors and their inventions. They use various types of resources to obtain information. Students use the information to create a class museum that contains artifacts, written reports, or models.
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WebQuest- What is Poverty and Who Are the Poor?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students are introduced to a variety of easily accessible data about poverty. The search activity performs double-duty in exposing students to the nature and magnitude of world poverty and in confronting them with different types and...
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The Goat in the Rug

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students write a personal narrative about something they produce at home. (examples: make a sandwich, clean room, set table, do homework). Students should remember to mention different types of resources and intermediate goods used.
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Publishing Autobiographies 2

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders identify the 5th step of the writing process and apply the process to student autobiographies. While in the computer lab, they continue to type their autobiographies, and create covers for their autobiographies.
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Bird Break Buffet

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discuss what human traits might help a person be more successful. They discuss how all birds are of the same species but have different beak traits. Students comprehend that the birds that eat the most food will have a baby with...
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Communication Skills: Assertiveness

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students investigate the skills necessary to become an assertive person while examining the strengths of communication that is needed. The benefits of being assertive are also covered. Teachers demonstrate and model the assertive behaviors.
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A Yearbook

For Teachers K - 1st
Students have digital pictures taken of themselves and put into Kid Pix program, type their names and sentence or two about themselves, draw pictures or use stampers to personalize page, print individual pages to be bound into yearbook,...
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Emotion or Reason?

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Young scholars use persuasive devices to construct oral or written arguments. In this arguments lesson, students discuss the types of persuasive devices used in arguments and form groups to select a topic to research. Young scholars...
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The Good Life

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students explore the world of credit. In this finance lesson, students examine the use of credit and discuss financial fitness. Students create a brochure or poster to educate others on the types of credit and how to stay financially fit.
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Similes and Metaphors Information

For Students 7th - 9th
In this similes and metaphors worksheet, students write a descriptive practice paragraph in which they describe a place, idea, person, event, or concept without telling what the subject of the paragraph is.  Students then pair up to try...
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Let's Get Physical

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students collect data using the CBL. In this statistics lesson, students predict the type of graph that will be created based on the type of activity the person does. The graph represents heart rate depending the level of activity.
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Chancing it

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders examine different transplant types and estimate the possible outcomes.  In this biology instructional activity students discuss donors and transplants then divide into groups and complete a worksheet.

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