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Making Cookies- How many per hour?

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders measure how long it takes to make cookies. In this measuring time lesson, 5th graders explore how to manage time. Students decide when to start making breakfast on time, how to calculate playing time into their lunch time,...
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Our Classroom is a Community: LEAGUE Philanthropy Lesson

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students examine the concept of community. In this philanthropy lesson plan, students consider how their classroom could be considered a community and discuss how they can be philanthropists in their own classroom.
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The Magic School Bus Plays Ball

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students learn along with Ms. Frizzle's class. In this Magic School Bus lesson plan, students work in small groups to find how movement changes when there is more - and less - friction.
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Total English

For Students 4th - 6th
In this using prefer activity, students rewrite sentences using prefer, ask personal preference questions and write responses using prefer. Students write sixteen short answers.
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International Festival: Venezuela

For Teachers K
Students become familiar with the Venezuelan culture and geography.  In this Venezuelan Festival lesson, students compare and contrast themselves to the people of Venezuela.  Students participate in activities to understand the...
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Swimmy

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore the themes of the book Swimmy by Leo Lionni. In this literacy lesson, students dramatize a character from Swimmy and identify common themes such as cooperation and caring. Students create a new ending to the story.
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Winter Expressions

For Teachers Pre-K - 8th
Students write a winter "shape poem," draw the outline of an object that complements the poem and copy the poem inside the outline in a pattern.
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Contracts Review and Negotiation Exercise

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Learners study the three main concepts of contracts: Offer, Acceptance and Consideration. They negotiate a contract to get the best deal for themselves or their client and name several contracts that they have participated in.
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Rethink Your Drink

For Teachers 3rd - 10th
Students identify the contents of popular drinks.  In this health lesson students learn how to read labels and devise ways that they can drink more water.
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Keepers

For Teachers 1st - 4th
What are some things you think are special enough to keep? Discussing special things launches young learners into reading Keepers. They investigate related vocabulary and practice before, during, and after reading comprehension...
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Advertising sales

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine how advertising is an important community service; explaining that both businesses and customers benefit and that designing and selling ads requires professional knowledge and personal preparation.
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Dream Building: Frank Lloyd Wright 1867 – 1959

For Teachers 10th
As a part of an architecture unit, 10th graders research and draw a building's exterior. They view images of buildings Frank Lloyd Wright has designed, attend lecture, conduct research on architectural design, and then draw an exterior...
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Elementary School Health and Wellness Fair

For Teachers 9th - 12th
This is a nice idea for high school students to organize and present a Health and Wellness Fair at a local elementary school. It looks like it would take a lot of organization, but would certainly build community relationships. There are...
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1920's Magazine

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
What a creative and engaging project to incorporate into your studies of the 1920s! Your young historians will work in groups to design a magazine discussing the political and cultural topics of the decade, each member writing one...
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Module: Workplace Skills

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Get your future professionals working in teams as part of a college and career readiness lesson. Discuss times learners have been on teams. What worked and what didn't? How did they settle disagreements? There is a teamwork handout here...
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Improv Exercises

For Teachers 2nd - 12th
Here's an eight-page packet that describes 70 different improv activities to use as warm ups for drama classes. 
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Vocabulary Review

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this vocabulary review activity, students find the definition of the nouns in column A of a table. They write the letter of the definition from column B on the blank line next to the word. They work with nouns such as coworker,...
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Nouns and Definitions

For Students 4th - 5th
In this nouns and definitions worksheet, students read ten nouns and find the definitions in another column. Students write the letter of the definition next to each word.
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Measuring Body Angles

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Young scholars use technology to graph and compare angles. In this geometry lesson, students range of motion in the environment. They identify the missing parts of polygons using similarity and congruence.
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Determine the Coordinate of Transformations

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students investigate transformation on a coordinate plane. In this geometry lesson, students identify pairs of coordinates and their location on the grid. They perform rotation and reflection of each polygon.
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Future Plans and Infinitives

For Students 4th - 8th
In this ESL activity worksheet, students role play a conversation between a reporter and a famous person as they use the questions provided on this worksheet.
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Pride in Diversity - Our Similarities and Differences Make Us Strong

For Teachers K - 8th
Learners find similarities and differences between themselves and a partner using a digital photograph to illustrate them. They use Multimedia Lab to create a multi-grade interactive multimedia presentation using the digital photos,...
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Looking at Portraits: Looking at One's Self

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students observe the painting Self Portrait by Charles-Antoine and discuss what the artist is trying to say in his self portrait. In this self portrait lesson plan, students discuss the portrait, and create their own self portrait.
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Football Hooliganism

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students evaluate the problm of hooliganism and its possible solutions. Through videos and news stories, students analyze examples of hooliganism. They discuss the problem and ways to help stop the violence.