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Being Interviewed

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Young scholars comprehend the appropriate dress for an interview. They comprehend the importance neatness and cleaniness play in creating a good impression during an interview. Students answer questions correctly and completely during an...
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Earthquakes and Volcanoes

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Young scholars explore plate tectonics, earthquake faults, and the types of volcanoes.
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Traditional Style Interview Questions

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students explain traditional style interview questions and demonstrate ability to answer traditional questions. The lesson worksheet includes questions to test students' knowledge and understanding of the interview questions lesson...
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School Counseling and Home Economics

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders demonstrate the ability to select and evaluate media. Apply appropriate skills to collect, organize and interpret data. They research a variety of ways to make correct career choices.
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Woman`s History Treasure Hunt

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students research women in history using the Internet. They complete a teacher made Women's History Treasure Hunt ditto.
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Rebus Treasure

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learners explore the history of rebus puzzles. In this ancient history lesson, students discuss the history of rebus puzzles and collaborate to solve rebus puzzles.
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Keep that Zip! Nutrients: Zinc, Iron, Protein

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explain the importance of zinc, iron and protein. In this biology lesson, students create a brochure containing information about the three nutrients. They share their brochure in class.
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Exploring Technology in Careers

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discover how technology is used in the workplace. In this careers activity, students compare and contrast careers and how technology is incorporated into each of them. Students set goals to achieve their ideal career.
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So You Think You Can Teach? Democracy in America

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students act as teachers and develop a lesson plan that teaches the concepts of democracy and how important it is to become involved in the democratic process. They "teach" their lesson to the rest of the class.
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Expressing Likes and Dislikes

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars identify slang words that they would use in a conversation. They practice expressing their likes and dislikes in speech and written form. They complete worksheets and discuss them to end the lesson.
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Serving Up Reality

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students consider the factors that go into running a restaurant and examine how the restaurant industry impacts the economy of the United States. They create skeleton proposals for new restaurants and consider the costs of this type of...
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Language Arts: Ran Away Story

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students write fictional stories about the search for a runaway slave. Their tales are based on the search by William Harris from South Carolina for his slave, George, in Detroit. Students include the answers to teacher-provided...
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A Morning of Weighing Babies

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers read sections of "A Morning of Weighing Babies". Individually, they write a paragraph examining the main characters and their actions. After sharing a few writings, they discuss the relationship between the author and the...
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What Would You Do Without Nonprofits?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students research nonprofit organizations within their community. In this nonprofits lesson, students use the yellow pages to identify the number of nonprofit organizations in their community. Students graph the number of nonprofit...
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Budgeting Money

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the concept of budgeting. In this budgeting instructional activity, students pick an occupation and develop a list of needs and wants. Students make a list of monthly expenses and budget their income to afford those...
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Click! Writing Through Digital Photography

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students take their own digital photographs and scan them onto the computer. For each photograph, they write about them and use the internet to research their subject in the photo more throughly. They are graded based on a rubric and...
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Fraction Dominoes

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders participate in a math game that involves practicing their equivalent fraction skills in the advanced multiplication stage seven. They assess their ability skills of equivalent fractions to match twenty seven dominoes on...
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Introducing Working Animals

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students identify ways humans and animals work together. In this animal welfare lesson plan, students read the text Hanni and Beth: Safe and Sound and define the term "working animals." Students investigate working animals by visiting...
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History of Mythology, Astronomy and Astrology

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders examine the relationships of science and technology and how it influences people's perceptions of places.  In this mythology and astronomy lesson students view a PowerPoint presentation and complete a...
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Preposition Man

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Learners practice using prepositions by writing on the tracing of a human.  In this parts of speech lesson plan, students create a giant poster using the tracing of a classmate's body and fill in the outline using prepositions in...
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An Immigrant's Journey

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students use books, resource CDs, and the Internet to research and collect images of the experiences of immigrants in 1907. They are divided into groups of four to write journal entries for a fictional, yet historically accurate, immigrant.
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Making Predictions

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students explore the concept of probabiility and outcome through several decision making activities. Making accurate predictions in daily life including weather forecasting, stock market selections, or job changes are all dependent on...
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"School Shape Scavenger Hunt"

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students, in groups, venture onto the schoolground on a scavenger hunt for shapes. They are given tasks: recorder, team leader, presenter, reporter, and behavior guidelines and a time limit. They search the school for shapes found in...
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Using Prepositions #3

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use the information they gathered in previous lessons to practice using prepositions in regards to movement, time, location and place. They write a dialogue using all of the elements listed. They complete a preposition quiz to...