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Writing Worksheets Can Help Students Organize Their Thoughts
Teachers can help their students organize their ideas with the use of writing worksheets.
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Getting to Know Your Students
Getting to know your students is an experience that can be fun and enjoyable.
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Creating a Great Relationship With Students and Parents
There are easy ways to create a positive relationship with students and their parents.
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Using Greek and Latin Roots to Help Students Learn Vocabulary in Science Classes
You can help students confidently approach science vocabulary by teaching them about Greek and Latin roots.
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Pre-reading Activities to Generate Student Interest In Novels
Teachers can generate excitement about required reading by engaging in pre-reading activities.
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Using Creative Techniques to Get Students to Read
You can get students to enjoy reading if you allow them to be more involved in the book selection process.
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Exchange Students
Students discuss as a class the items they value and why. They read an article about the popularity of cellphones in Iraq. In groups, they work together to create a guide to their culture to share with others visiting their classroom....
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Enriching Student Inquiry into Endangered Animals
Students read aloud novel Hoot, by Carl Hiassen, choose endangered animal, complete individual research projects related to their interest, prepare persuasive writing piece, and compare and contrast two endangered animals.
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Using Each Trait to Improve Student Writing
Young scholars study examples of each trait in literature. They discuss how each trait adds to the craft of writing and practice revision of a writing piece with a particular trait in focus. They rate their writing on the trait of Ideas...
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Etiquette Lessons for Students
Students explore the meaning of good manners and proper etiquette. For this behavior lesson, students read an article that explains manners in the social setting and workplace, then complete several activities that reinforce the...
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The Evolution of the Book: Introducing Students to Visual Analysis
Students demonstrate visual literacy skills by analyzing the images from the mural in the Library of Congress. In this visual art analysis lesson plan, students examine the mural and further their knowledge by using tools of art and...
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Students Analyze Data With Scatter Plots
Scatter plot lessons can help students create different types of graphs by hand or with the aid of technology.
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Differentiating for High Ability Students
You can challenge high ability students in your classroom with these differentiated lesson plans.
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Teaching Students About Money
Classroom activities can teach young students the value of money.
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Teaching Students to Support Their Opinions with Appropriate Details
Teaching students to support their opinions in the language arts classroom.
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Teaching Students About Goal Setting
Building efficacy through goal setting is a great way to give your students the tools to succeed.
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How to Teach Students about Acid and Acid Rain
How acidic is your rainwater? Use these lesson plans to get students thinking about how acids affect the environment in which we live.
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Teaching Students About Chernobyl and Nuclear Energy
On the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, students can learn about nuclear energy and the challenges its use poses.
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Making Time Real for Students
By using some real life examples students can better understand the concept of time.
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Improving Students' Math Proficiency
We can help our students improve math proficiency by using a cross-curricular approach and multiple problem-solving techniques.
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Teaching Students Mathematical Reasoning Skills
Students can build upon their basic math skills and become higher order thinkers when we encourage the following principles.
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Macbeth: Shakespeare for Elementary Students (Elementary, Literature)
Students act out a fully realized Shakespearean play designed to be utilized by mid level elementary students.
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Preparing For The First Day Of School
Youngsters analyze a book discussing a child's fear on the first day of school. They discuss the characters in the book, The Teacher from the Black Lagoon. Then they discuss their own fears and uncertainties about starting a class with...
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Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem
What does similarity have to do with the Pythagorean Theorem? The activity steps through the proof of the Pythagorean Theorem by using similar triangles. Next, the teacher leads a discussion of the proof and follows it by an animated...