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Positive and Negative Dominoes
Students play dominoes with regular dominoes rules with some modification. Every student keep score. Every count be used--not just the 5's as in dominoes. They count outside points using white dots as positive and red dots as negatives.
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Kente Cloths
Second graders create examples of Kente cloths using paper, markers, and paints in this multi-cultural Art lesson for the second grade. The two part lesson includes an introduction of Kente Cloth designs and can be accomplished in one day.
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Move to the Numbers
Learners practice number recognition. In this math and music instructional activity, students work in teams to identify numbers through music and movement.
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Earthquakes and Volcanoes
Students explore plate tectonics, earthquake faults, and the types of volcanoes.
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My Candle
This is probably my students' favorite writing assignment. They obviously tell their friends about it, because every year my ne
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Store to Table: Food Safety (Senior, other)
Students explore their role as food preparation specialists in the prevention of foodborne illness.
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Clouds: Cumulus, Cirrus, and Stratus
Young scholars, after listening to The Cloud Book, by Tomie dePaola, explore cumulus, stratus, and cirrus clouds. They identify and draw an example of each type of cloud.
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Money Matters
Learners count, record, and calculate money. They save, as well as to explain the value of jobs and working hard.
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Thinking About Newton's 1st Law
Students discuss the lives of both Aristotle and Newton in order to bring important differences between the two to the forefront. They evaluate two statements about motion and use the ideas from the discussion to determine which...
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Sightseeing in New York City
Young scholars practice locating tourist attractions in New York City, and ask for location and directions in their own hometown.
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Allegory and Dr Seuss
Tenth graders read Dr. Seuss books to discover what allegory is. They investigate how Dr. Seuss studenT books are allegories of events in the real world and create timeline
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The Princess and the Pea
Pupils participate in various shared reading and writing activities related to the classic fairytale "The Princess and the Pea." They identify the story elements, write an opening sentence for the beginning of the story, and discuss the...
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Lines and Angles
Young scholars explore Geometry with Twizzlers Candy, pipe cleaners, paper, pencils, and protractors. They manipulate these items to create different angles introduced by the teacher.
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Grandparents Day worry stones
Students copy their poem in their own handwriting to be included with the worry stone.
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Multiplication & Division Word Problems, Bilingual (Middle, Mathematics)
Students use multiplication, division, addition, and subtraction to solve problems; Estudiantes utiliza la multiplicaci??n, la divisi??n, la suma, y la resta para hacer los siguientes
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Acids & Bases: What's the Solution?
Pupils conduct an experiment called "What's the Solution? Acid, Base or Neutral." to determine the differences between these types of substance.
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Getway to More Descriptive Writing
Students use more precise descriptive words in their writing.
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I Hate English!
Students listen to quality literature, examine the Chinese culture, and participate in an oral activity.
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Intro to Trigonometry
After being introduced to the basic trigonometry functions, pupils calculate the height of school landmarks. They experiment with different angles to find the correct height.
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Skittles Lab
Students use Skittles as manipulatives to practice computing decimals from fractions, computing decimals into percentages, and creating bar graphs from gathered data.
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Opening Doors to Social Studies with Children's Literature
Third graders use the Decision Tree strategy to brainstorm ideas about two decisions that must be made. They predict what will happen in the rest of the story. Students discuss the time period the story takes place in. They study the...
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Language Arts: The Rise of the Operetta
Students develop an appreciation for the musical theater form, the operetta. In addition, they present parodies of songs from The Mikado. Working in small groups and accessing provided Websites, they compose their parodies. Once...
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The Christmas Story
In this Christmas story worksheet, students fill in twenty blanks with words from the word bank to complete "The Christmas Story."