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Count Down the Days to a Special Event

For Teachers K - 6th
Students calculate time using a grade appropriate skill.  In this time lesson, students calculate the time to a special event. Students calculate days, months, weeks, hours, minutes or seconds depending on their skill level....
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Translating Words to Algebraic Expressions

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders translate word sentences to algebraic expressions. In groups of three, 7th graders determine the number of times their heart beats in fifteen seconds. Using this data, they calculate the heartbeats per minute, in five...
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African life VS American life: Food and 3rd World and 1st World counties

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore the difference in 3rd world and 1st world countries. In this social studies lesson, 3rd graders are divided into groups and given varying amounts of food. Students discuss the unfair distribution of the food....
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Threads

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students group observed data, filtering from all their observations the similarities between burring threads. In the second part they make a comparison of a chosen attribute between the two threads.
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Spanish-American Voices in American Poetry

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders read excerpts from a variety of poems by Hispanic and Spanish authors in Spanish. Individually, they identify any vocabulary they are unfamiliar with and view examples of poetry elements. To end the lesson, they research...
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Gravity (Newton's Laws of Motion): A Weighty Subject

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students identify Newton's Laws of Motion. They students explore Newton's Laws of Motion and apply the second law with a classroom activity. The videos will provide visual examples of the effects of gravity while riding on a roller coaster.
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Measurement and Estimation

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students gain an understanding of time. In this time lesson, students work together to recognize the difference between yesterday, today, and tomorrow, As well as months, hours, minutes, and seconds. Students brainstorm ideas of ways the...
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Laws of Motions

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders explore the Laws of Motion. They define friction and explain the concept of inertia. Students explain what happens when a force is exerted on an object that is in equilibrium. They state the second and third laws of motion.
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Rehearsal and Sightreading Techniques

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders prepare the two pieces "American Celebration" and "Patriotic Bits and Pieces" for an upcoming performance. This lesson plan is a forty-five minute lesson plan geared towards a middle school advanced band (8th Grade). ...
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Christmas Treats in Alphabetical Order

For Students 2nd - 3rd
I this alphabetizing words about treats at Christmas worksheet, students use the word bank to write words in alphabetical order to the second letter. Students write 16 answers.
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Welcome to our Classroom

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Second graders create a classroom resource book for substitutes to help them feel more comfortable and familiar with faces and procedures in our classroom and school. They develop skill in using a digital camera and computer technology.
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Nutrition for Kids...and Astronauts

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders, in grades 2 and 5, cooperate to create a PowerPoint presentation about nutrition and food. They have a feast culminating the project and invite parents.
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More Power to You

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students construct a simple galvanometer in order to detect the presence of an electric current as well as determine the amount of the current. Activity is divided into two parts, first part as group work and second as individual.
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MYSTERY PICTURES (Following Oral Directions)

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students draw pictures while following simple instructions. They discuss the importance of following directions explicitly. They discuss the differences between each child's work. They follow a second set of directions.
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Tower Investigation and the Egg

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students build three types of towers, engineering them to hold an egg one foot high for 15 seconds. They discover that engineering designs are subject to constraints such as time, money and size specifications. In this activity students...
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ARTIFACT to ART to GLYPHS

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students study the development of early Latin American civilizations in unit one. The second part of the unit is based on early image-making attempts from the Cro-Magnon to the Peruvian Incas. Students create their own weavings using a...
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Architecture Is Elementary

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students learn the four orders of architecture: Doric, Ionic, Corinthian and Composite and create their own 3D structures in this Art/Art History lesson plan for fourth through sixth grade. The lesson plan includes a book resource list...
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Science Experiments

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students do a series of three experiments. In the first experiment, the students work with a partner to protect an egg from a 12 foot drop. In the second experiment, the students investigate static electricity using balloons and yarn. ...
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Take A Chance Or Two

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
A two-part lesson immerses young statisticians in the concept of probability. On the first day, will conduct experiments with a two-colored coin and learn how to write probabilities as fractions, ratios, and percentages. In the second...
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Multiplication and Division by 10, 100, and 1000

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders play the game Powerama 4, they multiply and divide whole numbers by 10, 100, and 1000. They go to the Mathfrog website and select the game. Students input an answer and then select the Check Answer button. If they made...
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Addition Using Objects

For Students K
In this addition using objects worksheet, students solve 5 problems that include adding various objects as shown. First, they count the number of each object in the first column and write that number in the first box. Then, students...
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Written Clues About the Past

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders investigate written clues from the past. In this clues from the past lessons, 3rd graders read and entry called, "Rick's Backyard Site." They complete the associated resource sheets. They read about a second site and use a...
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Farm Pictures

For Teachers K
Students paint farm animals. In this farm animal lesson, students paint pictures of farm animals during one thirty minute session. They cut out and glue the pictures on a picture of a farm which they also painted in the second session.
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Language Arts Review

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
In this language arts review activity, students complete 2 worksheets, the first being sentence practice and the second being pluralizing. Students complete 16 problems.

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