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Tell-Tale Heart

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students discuss the title of Edgar Allen Poe's story, The Tell-Tale Heart before reading it, and discuss information about the author. They use a graphic organizer to help them comprehend the story as they read.
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Payroll Deductions/ Sequential Order of Words in a Sentence.

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students who are adult ESOL learners examine pay stubs and determine how payroll deductions are spent on services and company benefits. While looking at a pay stub they complete a worksheet. They focus on the proper sequence of words in...
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From Caterpillar to Butterfly

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young scholars read and discuss the book about the butterfly and create their own butterflies using liquid watercolors and pipe cleaners. They then create a butterfly development book, included in the lesson, and color the pictures...
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Got These Properties? (Commutative in Addition/Zero in Addition and Subtraction)

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders examine the commutative property of addition and the property of zero in addition and subtraction. They complete an asessment worksheet to gain practice reading and working number sentences horizontally and vertically.
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The Topsy-Turvy Twins

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders read the problem and brainstorm for ways to solve the problem - list these on the board for the students to refer to as they solve the problem. They work in pairs and focus on the strategy selected.
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Anasazi Basket Weaving: 0-500 A.D.

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders study Period 1- Basket Maker 0-500 A.D. of Anasazi Culture. They identify the sequence of history in Anasazi Culture and Indians of the Mesa Verde. They discover American Indian contributions to the world and develop...
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Anasazi Pueblo Period: 700-1050 A.D.

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders study Period 3-Developmental Pueblo 700-1050 A.D., of Anasazi culture. They identify the sequence of history in Colorado and recognize American Indian Contributions to the world. They study Indians of the Mesa Verde and...
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Story of a Bluebird

For Teachers 1st
First graders build comprehension skills. In this reading comprehension lesson, 1st graders activate prior knowledge and create text to self connection in preparation for reading. Students read Story of a Bluebird and complete a...
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Modified Orienteering

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students participate in activities using compass settings. They find north and notate the bearings of objects that have been set up in the school yard. They find marks that both visible and hidden behind and under things like trees, and...
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Learning Festival ~ Book Buddies Visit High School

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students work together to develop a festival for book lovers. High schoolers work with young children and practice their reading. Traveling between reading stations, they focus on different reading standards. They act as role-models...
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Crying Baby

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students practice techniques and strategies with phonics, spelling and word recognition with the sounds of /a/. They read and work on this task with the book, "Cat Nap," and the tongue twister "Alice asked if Annie's active animals were...
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The Thrill of Big-Wave Surfing

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students view a PBS Nature program about big-wave surfing and participate in a class discussion about their experiences with surfing, body boarding, or body surfing. Students create a drawing based on a reading and post their art around...
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The True Story of Abbie Burgess

For Teachers 1st
First graders read a story from their textbooks about women in the 1850's. They discuss what it was like to be a woman living in American during this time period. They brainstorm heroines of American history and then discuss woman...
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Cumulative Game on Native Americans

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders complete a written activity as well as play a review game about the Eastern Woodland Indian tribe and the Plains Indian tribe - natural resources, food, shelter, clothing, transportation, etc.
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A thousand seconds

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Pupils use seconds, minutes, and hours. They then discuss the size of a thousand. After that they read time in digital or analogue form.
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Hickory Dickory Dock Webquest

For Teachers K
Students listen to and read nursery rhymes. They discuss rhyming words. Students play a variety of computer games with rhymes, numbers and telling time. They retell the story through dramatic play, speech, and comprehension questions.
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Thinking About the Past

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders use a personal item to understand and share the importance of their past. They connect this importance with reasons why all human past is important and recognize the sequence of change in Utah over time. They bring to...
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The Secret School( Chapters 2 & 3)

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders read with a partner to practice reading. For this reading lesson, 4th graders will analyze the characters in the chapters of the book the Secret School. Students work on a list of important characters, complete a worksheet...
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Sectionalism, Popular Sovereignty, and Secession

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars examine sequence of national events that resulted in the Civil War by using primary sources, and creating timelines and maps.
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Moving West with the Forts: Using an Interactive Map

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders practice reading maps and locating the forts stationed in Texas. Using the internet, they analyze westward movements from statehood to the Civil War. In groups, they complete a worksheet about the forts and share their...
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John Milton and Paradise Lost

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars read one of his minor poems but focus on Paradise Lost. They apply historical criticism to the poem and note the parallel between the Biblical references and the politics of Oliver Cromwell.
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Ecology: Trees

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders read the defintions of renewale and nonrenewable resources and discuss any incorrect responses. They view a sample of work for the class to see which they describe posting responses on the board in their respective columns...
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No Title

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders identify and practice a variety of prereading strategies to assess how to ask questions that a new reader might ask about the book, "One Day in the Woods." They skim the book, brainstorm the topic of the book and preview...
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Narrow It Down: Books

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students ask yes-no questions to identify a secret book. In this asking questions lesson plan, students ask yes or no questions about books to identify a secret book. Students identify the book and then read one of the example books.