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Positively Poetry

For Teachers 6th
Students complete a unit on poetry. In this poetry lesson, students complete 19 lessons that focus on reading and writing poetry as well as learning about literary elements and sound devices. Students read poetry orally, debate poetry in...
Interactive
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Using Connectors: Too and Either

For Students 6th - 8th
In this using connectors:  too and either worksheet, students read the explanations and examples of the two words, then interactively complete 20 sentences with immediate online feedback.
Interactive
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Agreement with There in Sentences

For Students 5th - 6th
In this agreement with there in sentences worksheet, students read the explanation and examples, then interactively complete 11 sentences by selecting the correct word, with immediate online feedback.
Lesson Plan
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Words Can Hurt: King Day

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore stereotyping. In this moral and character development lesson plan, students share reactions to a T-chart displaying what boys can do and girls can not do. Martin Luther King's accomplishments are discussed, and...
Worksheet
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Things To Say To Kids

For Students 9th
In this things to say to kids worksheet, 9th graders brainstorm and write words of praise and words of criticism that parents would say to their children.
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GPS Art

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students design their own logo or picture and use a handheld GPS receiver to map it out. They write out a word or graphic on a field or playground, walk the path, and log GPS data. The results display their "art" on their GPS receiver...
Worksheet
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Positive and Negative Commands

For Students 2nd
In this command statements worksheet, 2nd graders use the given commands to then write positive and negative command statements. Students then complete the second set of commands with the appropriate word from the word box.
Activity
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Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Manipulating, Name Changes

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Set up a listening center, record the provided script, and see how well your class can manipulate phonemes based on the instructions you've provided. This center-based activity builds the phonological awareness and phoneme manipulation...
Lesson Plan
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Game Related Social Skills

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Most of us like to play games, but knowing what to do when a game doesn't go the way one expects is a learned skills. Adolescents with behavioral disorders practice responding to a variety of situations that arise during game play. They...
PPT
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Basketball - Hoops - Team Sports 2

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Hoopsters! Looking for something to use to teach your hoopsters a bit about the game of basketball? Use this very comprehensive PowerPoint to teach everything from the history of the sport, to skill techniques, to game plays. Included...
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Medieval Life Chart

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
What were the benefits and drawbacks of being a serf/knight/lord/lady/king/queen/etc. in the Middle Ages? Consider all the comparisons with your young historians using this graphic organizer.
Worksheet
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Where's the Bear?

For Students K - 1st Standards
Empower your kids to understand relative location through these practice images. They examine where the bear is relative to other objects in 10 images, checking off one of two prepositions. Once this has been completed, consider having...
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Where's That Shape?

For Students K - 2nd Standards
Your kindergartners know their shapes - but can they identify their locations? A 3x3 grid contains geometric shapes such as diamonds, circles, and hexagons, and pupils locate the shapes within the grid. Which shape is underneath the...
Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Forming a Research-Based Claim: Creating Stakeholders Charts

For Teachers 6th Standards
Present the facts. Scholars create presentations of their research on DDT using their Cascading Consequences chart and a Stakeholders Impacts chart as visuals. They discuss the term stakeholders and create a Stakeholders Impacts chart...
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Facing History and Ourselves

Speaking Up and Speaking Out

For Teachers 6th - 12th
The final instructional activity in the Standing Up for Democracy unit offers class members a way they can stand up and speak out by crafting spoken word poetry, or Slam poetry. After analyzing several examples, individuals reflect on...
Activity
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Tidal Waves

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Periodically ship the class a trigonometric application. Pupils model the level of water in a port. Using their models, learners determine the times that a ship can safely navigate into and out of the port, along with determining other...
Activity
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Over the Hill

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Can you hear me from there? Pupils determine the place to build a cell tower on a hill. The class uses constraints and creates a scale drawing on a coordinate system to calculate the exact location of the base of the cell tower.
Worksheet
K12 Reader

Predicate Adjective or Not?

For Students 3rd - 4th Standards
Defining the parts of a sentence is just like real estate—it's all about location! Learners read eight sentences and decide whether the describing words are predicate adjectives or not, based on their position in the sentence.
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US Institute of Peace

What Does Conflict Mean?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Is conflict always bad? Learners begin a unit on conflict resolution with an exercise that defines conflict, reviews common words associated with conflict, and encourages partners to brainstorm conflicts that may have positive results.
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Mindful Self-Management Exercise: Self-Motivation

For Parents 6th - 12th
Has your motivation disappeared? The seventh activity in the eight-part mindfulness series has participants remembering a time when they were frustrated by a situation and lacked the motivation to deal with it. They then practice...
Lesson Plan
New York State Education Department

TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 4

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Why is it important to use precise language? Participants explore this question in the fourth activity in a series of 15 on effective instruction. Perfect for all content areas, the activity promotes appropriate language choice through...
Lesson Plan
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The Remainder Theorem Using TI-Nspire CAS

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Investigate the Remainder Theorem in this algebra instructional activity. Explore the relationship between the remainders of polynomial division and the function. Each of the four problems gets progressively more complicated. This might...
Lesson Plan
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Understanding Connotation

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address," which is available online, is used in the language instructional activity presented here. Middle schoolers read through the text for comprehension. Then, they reread the first paragraph and identify all...
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Cyber Bullying Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 2nd
After a discussion on the effects of negative words, pupils talk about ways they can improve the way they talk to each other. A list is created of behaviors that everyone would like to see in the classroom and at home. A specific good...

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