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Family Members-- Who Am I?

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this ESL family members vocabulary worksheet, students examine 7 pictures that depict different members of a family. Students read the question by each picture and select the correct name of the family member from 4 choices.
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The Many Roles I Play in My Community

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders are asked: "What roles do people have in the community?" They view a large web on chart paper. Students discuss the roles that they play in their community. They are told that just as the principal or teacher has many...
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Mr. Roughton

CSI: Florence

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Who done it? Class groups adopt the role of crime scene investigators and examine exhibits (primary source documents) to determine who attempted to assassinate the members of the Medici dynasty.
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Virginia Department of Education

Cell Parts

For Teachers 9th - 12th
What do a bird, an egg, a rabbit, and a toad all have in common? This fun-filled resource explains the similarities and differences between cells and how all cells are similar, yet all are different. Learners begin by depicting a...
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Curated OER

European Union Role Play

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students compare and contrast the ways in which people and goods move between European countries prior to and post European Union creation. Students simulate product movement through four different countries prior to the creation of the...
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How Shall We Rule China? Role Play

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders analyze what relationship the Mongols established with the Chinese, how the Mongols governed, from what political center and what their policies were toward land use in China.
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Rainforests of Madagascar: Role Playing and Decision Making

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers 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...
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Curated OER

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 instructional activity, students discuss the skills they will need in order to make it through customs with as little trouble as possible.
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Thanks for the Memories

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students explore the importance of the family holiday meal, read and discuss "Pass the Turkey, Tamales, Kugel and Criticism" and write their own renditions of a fictitious family's holiday evening.
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Can I Bug You for a Sec? ESL Role-play

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students practice talking about words and asking for help in English. Students ask other students for help using a crossword puzzle using a phrase like "Can I bug you for a sec?" learning to interrupt their friends and as for help with a...
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Curated OER

Role Playing for Fluency

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students explore the benefits of rereading a story to increase their oral reading speed, fluency, and comprehension. They work with a partner reading the story "What Will the Seal Eat?" They time and encourage each other in each...
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Word Play

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the work of Xu Bing. In this visual arts lesson, students examine the art piece "Monkeys Grasp for the Moon" and compare it to the Buddhist folktale on which it is based. Students create animated flip books based on the...
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Curated OER

Disease Role Play

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students develop an action plan in collaborative groups addressing a new disease. This activity provides 3 roles for student participation: scientists, public health officials and community leaders.
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Realtor Role-Play

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars play the role of realtors with other classmates as the prospective homebuyers. The "realtors" determine questions to ask the prospective homebuyer so that they can help the "homebuyers" find the home best suited to their...
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Gender Roles

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars discuss gender roles and through case study, examine how gender roles can be learned and how they can be limiting. They research to find the names of both men and women who have become successful in various careers.
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Women's Roles: Then and Now

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders investigate women's roles during the frontier era in what is today's West Virginia. In this US history lesson, 4th graders discuss similarities and differences of women's roles in the past with what women's roles...
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Lisa Staab Shadburn

Play Therapy Activities to Enhance Self‐Esteem

For Teachers K - 4th Standards
Discover activities to help learners increase self-awareness, build peer and family relations, and develop positive self-esteem. Here you'll find six suggestions for instilling a sense of confidence and self awareness in youngsters. Each...
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Polar Trec

Bering Sea Fabulous Food Chain Game

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
In spring, the Bering Sea turns green due to phytoplankton, which live at the surface, experiencing a population explosion. Groups of scholars play a food chain game, writing down food chains as the game is played. After five to six...
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Lesson 1: The Importance of Rules in Our Country and in Our Classroom

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Explore the importance of rules in a community with the engaging first lesson of this series on the US government. To begin, children play a paper clip game that requires them to make up their own rules as they go, after which the...
Workbook
Simcoe County District School Board

Literature Circles

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Get learners excited about reading with literature circles! Small groups discuss the day's reading in various roles, including Discussion Director, Summarizer, Word Wizard, Literary Luminary, Travel Tracer, Connector, and Fact Finder,...
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Star Wars in the Classroom

"Shakespeare and Star Wars": Lesson Plan Days 13 and 14

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
How important are sound effects in films? In stage plays? In radio programs? To gain an understanding of the impact of these special effects, class members watch a short video spoof of the sound in a scene from Star...
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Kate Chopin's The Awakening: Searching for Women and Identity in Chopin's "The Awakening"

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
The final lesson of a three-part series on Kate Chopin's The Awakening has scholars investigate life as a woman in late nineteenth-century America. They research the role of women in society through the eyes of the characters in the...
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August House

The Stolen Smell

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Some smells are better than others! Explore your sense of smell with a series of activities based on the Peruvian folktale, The Stolen Smell. With exercises about phonics, counting, cooking, art, and drama, the lesson is a...
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Missouri Department of Elementary

Character Clovers

For Teachers 1st Standards
Build a classroom community with a lesson that uses character clovers to examine scholars' roles. Following a whole-class discussion, participants list four roles they play and accompany it with the character traits that go along with...

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