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More Moms, Fewer Pops

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars explore the concept of women entrepreneurs. In this women entrepreneurs instructional activity, students read an article about women opening their own businesses. Young scholars discuss factors influencing women to become...
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Presidents

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders pretend they have just watched a presidential debate and cannot decide which one to vote for. In groups, they also pretend they go back in time to compare and contrast former presidents with the candidates. They use...
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What Makes the Writer Write

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers chose a novel which includes social criticism to read. After reading the book, they use the internet to research the issue in the novel and work with others to develop a presentation. In their presentation, they identify...
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ESOL Telephone Communication

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students discuss the importance of leaving an appropriate message on an answering machine or voice mail system. They write a message for a friend and in pairs take turns reading their message while their partner writes it down.
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The Function Box

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students look around classroom and identify any patterns they see, describe patterns and explain why they are patterns, use pencil to demonstrate arithmetic patterns by tapping, practice predicting patterns by using Function Box, and...
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Apples and Jam for Pam

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars study the /a/ phoneme in written and spoken words by making the sound and identifying it in words. They repeat a phrase three times and write lower case a's on primary paper. Next, they listen to "Pat's Jam" and blink...
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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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Environment and Recycling Issues

For Teachers 1st
First graders read and understand the text found while conducting internet research. They recognize how literature records information and reflects the human experience. Students also compare and contrast answers to questions. Then...
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Applemania

For Teachers 1st
First graders read "Ten Apples Up On Top!" and view real apples in a basket. They taste different kinds of apples and describe the tastes: sour, sweet, etc. They graph everyone's favorite apple. They interpret the graph and draw their...
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Morse Code and Computers

For Students 4th - 5th
In this Morse code worksheet, students read a short passage about the invention of Morse code and the use of telegraphs. Students answer three paragraphs about the passage.
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How are Boundaries Created?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine two new concepts: orientalism and objectification. They view two film clips/videos on Seven Years in Tibet with Brad Pitt to incorporate the new concepts. In addition, students read Orientalism and write key questions...
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Classic Short Stories- Locked Room Settings

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students read the short story "The Problem of Cell 13" and examine the plot devices that build suspense. In this lesson students create their own short story using the same locked room setting.
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Colson Whitehead

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
Students read an excerpt from Colson Whitehead's The Intuitionist. In this author analysis lesson, students read about poet and author Colson Whitehead. Students analyze a poem and a piece of fiction of Whitehead's.
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Sentence Sense: Correcting Errors

For Students 6th - 7th
In this language arts learning exercise, learners read 20 sentences that might contain errors. On the blank before each sentence, students write S if the sentence is correct, CS for a comma splice or FS for fused sentence (run-on).
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Water and Rice Agriculture

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders investigate the agriculture of rice by reading a study guide.  In this food making lesson, 2nd graders read about the irrigation of rice fields used for harvesting.  Students write three sentences about the rice...
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Arianna Travels the Orient Express

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders discuss how they eat when they travel. They resequence a letter that has been separated into pieces. They read the letter aloud, discuss the foods eaten by the writer and analyze whether she ate the right amount of food...
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Coin Crossroads

For Teachers K - 1st
Students play a racetrack game using money vocabulary and adding coins with the same value. They read car racing stories and observe the reverse of the Indiana quarter. They locate Indiana on a map.
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What's on the Outside/Inside?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers read about the idea of gender perspective in the writing of German history. They generate definitions from a list of given vocabulary words. They write definintions using their own words.
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Write Simple Rhymes

For Teachers 1st
First graders observe that rhyming words have different beginnings, but the same endings by viewing examples on the overhead projector. They say the beginnings of the words that go with the correct endings. They then come up one at a...
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Duh! It's D!

For Teachers K
Students master the formation and phonetic sound of the letter "d" in this lesson. They are introduced to the sound of the letter "d" and practice writing it to place in their individual alphabet books. The students listen to the book...
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A Holocaust Story With A Happy Ending

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this social studies worksheet, students read the biography story of a Holocaust survivor. Then they could write a summary of the story.
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Hallo-Wiener Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students listen to the story The Hallo-Wiener by Dav Pilkey in order to learn about the "monster" character. In this reading and art lesson plan, students cut a "bun" from beige construction paper, cut out an image of the main character...
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Their or There

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this word usage activity, students read the sentences and complete each one with the correct form of there or their. Students complete 17 examples.
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Farm Crossword Puzzle Worksheet

For Students 5th - 6th
In this farm vocabulary worksheet, students read 12 clues pertaining to the farm. Students fit their answers in a crossword puzzle. This crossword is a more difficult puzzle focusing on the science of the agriculture.