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Hector's World: It's a Serious Game
Learners investigate child safety by viewing an educational video. In this Internet privacy lesson, students view a short film based on children giving personal information out on the web. Learners answer discussion questions after...
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Problem Solving
Students participate in completing various locomotor skills. In this physical education/literacy lesson plan, students explore the gym searching for Halloween items to return back to their "home". Additionally, students must be engaged...
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Here's an Instant Activity for March 3, 2008
Here are some good spelling activities for 'ou' words. First and second graders complete an oral spelling activity with their teacher and then an Instant Activity worksheet. and spell 'ou' words.
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Problem Solving and Decision Making
Help your teenagers learn to plan ahead before making a decision. With hypothetical examples and an online format, this could be a good addition to a language arts, teen issues, or health class. The format itself is not very...
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Language Arts Exploration
While an interesting lesson idea involving the exploration of a story about an Asian American boy named Imduk, a teacher would need to have assess to the Scott Foresman reading program to make this work. If not, a teacher could use...
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Ancient Roman Monuments and Timeline
While a terrific idea, this lesson in which learners create a timeline showing the date that a variety of buildings and monuments were built in Ancient Rome, requires resources teachers may not have. It requires the use of a Smartboard,...
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Assessment Rubric
Middle schoolers complete their activities related to writing persuasive essays. As a class, they review the components and structure of a rubric. They use this information to write their final essay on educational opportunities at...
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Goal-Makers Win the Game!
Fifth graders are introduced to the meaning of the word "goal". As a class, they identify examples of goals with their teacher's guidance. Individually, they complete a worksheet to identify their short and long term goals and complete a...
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A Tongue-Twisting Language Arts Lesson
Students discover enunciation and alliteration by reading tongue twisters in class. In this language arts lesson, students listen and repeat some of the classic childhood tongue twisters along with their teacher. Students...
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Learning Library Skills during Technology Transitions
Making the transition to a higher-tech school library or computer lab? This plan suggests 5th graders undertake a scavenger hunt and make a PowerPoint to educate younger schoolmates about how to use information resources in an...
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Total English Advanced: Use of Would and Childhood Memories
In this childhood memories worksheet, students practice use of the word would as they complete a graphic organizer and then rewrite 8 sentences using would.
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Total English Starter: Wh- Questions
In this wh- questions worksheet, students practice using the present simple we or they and wh- questions to rearrange 5 groups of words to make questions, write 6 questions for 6 different answers and write 5 sentences using the 5 verbs...
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Character Education Read Alouds
Students listen to the story Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon and discuss the way each character interacts with the others. They role play pares of the story to practice showing compassion, and how to positively interact with their peers.
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Sherlock Holmes: Teaching English Through Detective Fiction
Students read examples of mysteries and detective fiction. With a focus on Sherlock Holmes, they are introduced to the techniques for reading properly. In groups, they define new vocabulary, make predictions and summarize the stories. ...
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Total English Pre-intermediate: Playing with Passives
In this passive practice activity, students review the passive voice as they correct the mistakes in 8 sentences and make 8 questions using the passive voice. Students also answer 4 questions regarding the passive voice.
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Total English Pre-intermediate: Simple or Continuous
In this past simple and past continuous verbs worksheet, learners answer 14 questions that require them to complete sentence starters and respond to short answer questions regarding verb tenses.
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Total English Upper Intermediate: It's All in the Headline
In this newspaper headline vocabulary worksheet, students practice consolidating key vocabulary as they complete 10 headlines by filling in the blanks and then write their own 8 headlines to share with a partner.
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Total English Advanced: Emphasizing Things!
In this practice of emphasis activity, students share sentence structures and words that can be used for emphasis. Students interview 2 students using the 10 questions provided.
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Total English Intermediate: Very Useful Idioms
In this intermediate idioms activity, students practice idioms as they complete a graphic organizer by interviewing classmates and write a paragraph based on the notes from the graphic organizer.
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Total English Advanced: The Unreal Past
In this unreal past and hypothetical questions instructional activity, students use the 10 questions provided to interview fellow classmates.
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Total English Intermediate: Getting the Question Right
In this subject and object questions worksheet, students correct the mistakes in 8 sentences and then write 8 complete subject/object questions in the second person.
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Total English Starter: Find a Nice Present!
In this asking questions and answering questions activity, students practice these skills as they draw pictures of presents and then write 8 questions to help them choose a good present.
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Total English Intermediate: The Lifestyle Crossword
In this key vocabulary crossword puzzle instructional activity, students practice key vocabulary as they read the 17 clues to correctly fill in the word puzzle. Students also write a sentence for each word they used in the crossword.
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Total English Advanced: Linking Words of Time and Contrast
In this linking words of time and contrast worksheet, students fill in the blanks in 10 sentences with the appropriate words from the word bank and then use 5 of the linking words to write a paragraph.