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Researching Alternative Energy

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders investigate the concept of energy using a hypothetical story. The power goes out in their house and they no longer can play your videogames. Students must create your own alternative power source. This story sets the stage...
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Career Scrapbook

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate a variety of career options. They conduct research into different types of occupations to find descriptive information. Students present a career of choice in the target foreign language. The use of visual examples...
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Reading Genres Fortune Teller

For Teachers 4th - 11th
In this reading genres fortune teller, learners remember all the reading genres by making a fortune teller. Students use the pattern (on another page) to fold the movable flaps. The directions for the game are provided.
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Seasons

For Students 5th - 6th
In this Earth's seasons activity, students study the diagram of the Earth's position as it orbits the Sun at four positions. Students then label the approximate date and season for the Northern Hemisphere at each stage. There is a word...
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Where Is Our Food Grown?

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students view the Interactive Whiteboard's supermarket and discuss what they can see there. They watch the animation about where food comes from and discuss any questions they may have. They then are introduced to the "Farm Alarm" game...
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Where does our food come from?

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students invetigate farms and where food comes from. They think about where food comes from and how it gets to the shops.
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Who helps us to run our school?

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students think about the way their school is run. They watch an animation on the DirectgovKids website and use role play to think about the people that work in their school.
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Naming a Police Dog

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students examine the role that police dogs do and assist a local police officer to name his police dog. Students participate in an online police station interactive activity, read facts about police dogs, and play an online police dog game.
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Consequences

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students identify and describe what consequences are and how they affect others. Then they play the "Kids' Court" game as a class as outlined in the instructional activity. Students also identify how consequences and their actions are...
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The House That Drugs Built

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students evaluate the long and short term effects of substance abuse on the individual, family, and society. The lesson includes numerous instructional and learning strategies such as role-playing, discussion, research, demonstrations,...
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Folktale Theatre

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Introduce your middle schoolers to a performance and movement activity that uses their favorite stories from fairytales and folklore. They practice basic acting skills, create dialogues with a partner, and then as guided practice,...
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Dialogue Tags

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
Use a presentation on dialogue tags in a narrative writing unit or a literature lesson. The first two pages of the resource detail the information and examples in the following slide show, making it a good reference page for your...
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead: Concept Analysis

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Make sure you are well-informed before embarking on a study of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. This resource includes an analysis of the text that a teacher can use to prepare a unit of study. It covers plot elements, themes,...
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How To Win Votes

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders are introduced to the concept of political campaigning. As a class, they review how Parliament makes laws. They decide on an issue they would like to see passed and get other classmates to sign their petitions. To end the...
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What Do Pets Need?

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students identify the needs that all humans and animals have. In groups, they play a game to discover the proper way to take care of pets. To end the lesson, they develop a plan to best take care of their pets at home and view pictures...
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The Death of a Salesman Act I: the Lowman Family & their American/Capitalist Dreams

For Teachers Higher Ed
This thirty-slide presentation, designed to accompany a lecture on the first act of Arthur Miller's The Death of a Salesman, would be appropriate for a college-level American literature class or perhaps as a teacher resource. 
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So Foul and Fair a Play

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students watch various interpretations of Shakespeare's Macbeth in film. In groups, they examine the setting, characters, music and sequence. They compare and contrast the various films and discuss the differences. They write an essay on...
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The Russian Revolution

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars explore the Russian Revolution through dramatization. In this Russian Revolution lesson, students participate in drama workshops prior to writing and presenting one-act plays featuring figures of the revolution.
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Drama-Dialogue

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Use drama to study and practice dialogue. Creative minds discuss what dialogue tells about a character, and how it can be used to advance the plot. They read a play, think about what they gleaned from dialogue, and record their...
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The Glass Menagerie

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Rich in biographical information about Tenessee Williams, this PowerPoint is designed to accompany a lecture on The Glass Menagerie. Concepts covered include The Memory Play, the American Dream/American Nightmare, Modernism,...
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Cloze Activity: Captain James Cook

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this Captain James Cook cloze procedure worksheet, students review a brief selection that is missing 14 words and then attempt to fill in each blank with a word they think the author might have used. A word bank is provided.
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How Does School Work?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students identify and interpret what their school is like and how it works. They watch animations and slideshows on the government website. Students also develop thinking skills by examining the way voting and democracy works through...
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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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Modern Translation : Julius Caesar: B2

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students, while being critiqued by a vigorous rubric, write, edit and perform a modern translation of Julius Caesar. All of the other students and the teacher watch the presentations and then critique them.

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