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Tips to Help You Organize Your Classroom

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Start the school year off right with great organizational ideas for the classroom
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A Delicate Balance

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate energy balance equation for five fictitious middle school students by using an energy balance clinic scenario.
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Life Skill Communication

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students use  digital camera to document the needs for daily living. In this life skills and visual arts lesson, students create class books that include photographs of everyday objects that they use in their home, school and...
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The Science and Technology of Food

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the guidelines the United States Department of Agriculture places on food. In groups, they create a list of the foods they consume and discuss the political and environmental implications of purchasing the food. They...
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Brick Memorial Flyer

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students conduct research using the internet, school server and newspapers on the history of the brick memorial for veterans and its developmental process. They create and design a three column page layout for a brochure using Microsoft...
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NJ HSPA Cluster 4

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Pupils engage in a lesson plan that is focused upon helping them to complete exercises used to prepare for the High School Proficiency Assessment. They look at the patterns seen in algebraic problems and focus upon the cluster areas of...
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Circles all Around

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Students investigate circles. In this middle school mathematics lesson, students explore the relationship between the diameter of a circle and its circumference.
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Dimensions and Area

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Learners explore the area of rectangles in this middle school geometry lesson. They will investigate the relationship between a change in the dimensions of a rectangle and the change in the corresponding area. Learners also investigate...
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Fractions, Decimals, and Percents

For Students 7th - 9th
In this middle school mathematics worksheet, students convert between fractions, decimals, and percents in problem solving situations.  The one page worksheet contains ten problems.  Answers are included. 
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Beach Cleanup at a Local Beach

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students participate in an environmental clean-up activity. In this environmental lesson, students travel to a local beach. Working in small teams, students collect trash from the local beach. Returning to school, students sort the trash...
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Green Plants

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Beginning botanists are introduced to the world of plants with this PowerPoint. Some of the information is most appropriate for primary learners, such as the needs of a plant. Some of the information, however, is more directed at...
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Tim and Pat - At the Store

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this pie chart worksheet, students use the pie chart to add the amount of time Tim and Pat spend buying candy each day of the week. Students answer 2 questions about the table.
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Tim and Pat - At the Store

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this bar graphs activity, learners use the bar graph to add how much time Tim and Pat spend buying candy each week. Students complete the table and answer 3 questions.
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District 158

Plan an Adventure

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
For kids, taking a vacation is all fun and games, but after completing this pre-algebra project, they'll have a whole new appreciation for the planning that makes these trips possible. Given a budget of $5,000 to spend on purchasing the...
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Pingry School

The Gelation of Guar Gum with Borax

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Some of kids' favorite toys are the products of science experiments. Scholars follow precise measurements to mix and create their own slime and Play-Doh. They observe the changing textures and the chemical reactions throughout the...
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Perkins School for the Blind

Bagging Groceries

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Bagging groceries is a skill that can help learners with visual impairments understand organizing, problem solving, and weight discrimination. In addition, it is also a wonderful job skill. Help learners as they determine how to bag...
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Scholastic

Pre-Reading Vocabulary Activities Using "The Gift of the Magi"

For Teachers 8th - 12th Standards
The rich language of O. Henry's "The Gift of the Magi" is only appreciable if you understand the words. A short instructional activity reviews 13 words from the story and prompts class members to apply each word and its definition to...
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Scholastic

Identifying Types of Irony Using "The Gift of the Magi"

For Teachers 8th - 12th Standards
O. Henry's "The Gift of the Magi" is the classic example of irony in literature. Teach young writers about the ways irony can engage their readers with an activity in which they write scripts using dramatic irony, situational irony, and...
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Virginia Department of Education

Permeability and Porosity

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Covering both permeability and porosity, scholars perform a hands-on experiment testing various soil types. The material includes a pre-lesson worksheet to help focus pupils on the task at hand. 
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World Health Organization

Sun Protection

For Teachers K - 6th
Primary graders become sun scientists and conduct experiments to learn about the beneficial and harmful effects of the sun and UV radiation. They also investigate their personal sunburn danger zones and learn about how to protect...
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New York City Department of Education

Grade 3 Literacy: Investigating Sharks

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Shark! Scholars read about sharks in Facts about Sharks by Susanna Batchelor. They then pretend they are shark scientists and choose a shark they want to study. Learners research their sharks and record information in graphic organizers...
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Oddrobo Software

King of Math: Full Game

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
All hail the king! Young mathematicians put their skills to the test as they strive to become the king of math.
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Nosapo

Shopping for Clothing

For Students K - 8th Standards
Let's go shopping! A series of activities focus on vocabulary words related to articles of clothing and shopping for clothes. Additionally, learners complete sentences using how much and how many.
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Museum of Disability

Zoom!

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd Standards
Turn your class' focus on how wheelchairs assist individuals with disabilities to become more independent with this disabilities lesson plan. Scholars listen to a read aloud of the book, Zoom! by Robert Munsch, answer...

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