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Healthy Food Choices

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars, working in groups, role play skits highlighting healthy eating habits and physical activities.
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Sequencing Stories

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students explore dramatization. In this literacy fluency and drama lesson, students listen to the story Mop Top by Don Freeman and add related sounds at the appropriate times. Students role play, pantomime, and add sounds to  create...
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Rainforests of Madagascar: Role Playing and Decision Making

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine reasons for deforestation and become familiar with Madagascar and its culture, while describing biological and abiotic components of a rainforest, and looking at aspects that must be addressed to resolve the issue of...
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Airport English: A Role-Play for ESL

For Teachers Pre-K - 8th
Students explore the skills needed to navigate an airport. In this foreign language lesson, students discuss the skills they will need in order to make it through customs with as little trouble as possible.
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The Cleverest Thief

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders read the story The Cleverest Thief and complete language art activities to go along with it. Students complete activities including discussion, reading, writing, predicting, drawing, role playing, and sequencing.
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Feudal Japan: S.P.A.M. (Samurai, Peasants, Artisans, Merchants)

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders participate in a role play activity to explain the hierarchy of society in feudal Japan. They investigate the rice growing system in place.
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Storymaking Through Pantomime

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore performing arts by participating in a role-play activity. In this storytelling lesson plan, students utilize their physical expressions to particpate in a pantomime performance. Students evaluate performances in their...
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Why Do People Wear Uniforms?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students identify and interpret what uniforms are worn by people in the community and why. They also think about those who help them in their community and develop relationships with other children through role play activities. Students...
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Future Plans and Infinitives

For Students 4th - 8th
In this ESL activity worksheet, students role play a conversation between a reporter and a famous person as they use the questions provided on this worksheet.
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Environment Debate Game

For Teachers 6th - Higher Ed
Pupils participate in a role-play activity to discuss environmental problems on which they have previously conducted research.
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Regulating the Harvest

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students study the effect of trapping in the Illinois Territory in 1805 and compare it to trapping today. They participate in a role playing activity in which they discover how practices in early Illinois Territory led to wildlife...
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Civil War Leaders

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore leaders of the Civil War. In this history lesson plan, 5th graders use picture puzzles, vocabulary, worksheets, WebQuest, a Venn Diagram and role play activities in order to learn who the Civil War leaders were,...
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Life in the Arkansas Territory

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students compare the living conditions in Arkansas when it was a territory with contemporary times. They participate in a role play activities of the territorial times.
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The Awareness of Stereotyping

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students in ESL classes participate in role-playing activities to develop their awareness of stereotyping and understanding other cultures.
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Checkbook

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Develop life skills through the use of an AppleWorks Banking kit, a spreadsheet program, and a role play activity. This life skills lesson utilizes technology plus busines and social studies principles. Note: All materials...
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Using Menus

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students practice foreign language vocabulary and problem solving, by asking questions and ordering from a menu. Working in pairs, students role play activities related to ordering from a menu in a foreign language. Activities for...
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The African Slave Trade

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students share their feelings about the enslavement of Africans as they write journal entries discussing their role play activity.
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Smokey's Message

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students list and discuss positive and negative effects of wildland fire. They discuss relationships among ecosystems and fire. They participate in role-playing activities related to wildland fire management.
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Farm Animals - Mothers and Babies - "Are You My Baby?"

For Teachers K
Students listen to a teacher read aloud and discuss the farm animals. They participate in an role playing activity that explains how mother mammals recognize their young by their scent.
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HIV/AIDS, Friends & Families

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Learners examine what it might feel like to test positive for HIV. They listen to a guest speaker, conduct a role-play activity, identify positive actions to take, and design a panel for the AIDS quilt project.
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Baby Animals

For Teachers K - 3rd
Young scholars study baby penguins and whales. They name the penguin body parts and examine how penguins hatch from eggs. They name whale body parts and their function. They participate in a whale role play activity.
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Forced To Wear a Skirt

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine the issues surrounding the use of school uniforms. They look at appropriate school attire as opposed to the appropriate. They read a School Uniform Report and discuss it. They participate in a role play activity as a...
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The Underground Railroad and The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students discover racism and slavery by completing a role playing activity. In this U.S. history lesson, students analyze documents from the Civil War era and describe the Fugitive Slave Law. Students view a video on YouTube about the...
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How Much Is It? A Shopping Lesson Plan for ESL

For Teachers Pre-K - 8th
Students participate in a role-playing activity in order to practice  conversational English used while shopping. In this practical vocabulary lesson, students practice etiquette as it pertains to grocery shopping. Students pretend...