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"Fast and Slow"
High schoolers find a partner, they think about their favorite TV sport that they might like to perform in an unusual dance. They practice their chosen sport and students see if they can make a litter repeating pattern of three or four...
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Trekking to Timbuktu: Mansa Musa Takes a Trip - Student Version
Eleventh graders identify Mansa Musa and discuss his pilgrimage, explain how he related to leaders in the East, and describe decisions he made about his homeland. They discuss changes brought about in Mali as a result of his pilgrimage.
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Whistle While You Work
Students are broken into groups and depending on the cycle if the color of their group shows on that day, that group is to help with the set up and take down of equipment.
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Create a Timeline
Learners make a timeline from the late 1800's to 2000 to mark significant inventions.
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Diversiones Culturales - Artistas
Students use resources provided in the library to research an artist who has impacted their area of art. They then take their information and create a PowerPoint presentation and translate the Spanish for the class so they are all...
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Whistle While You Work
Students participate in methods to become organized and involved in clean-up and set-up of equipment at the beginning and end of each class. After being grouped in teams of colors, students observe their group's duties for the beginning...
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Digging Detectives
Pupils demonstrate basic procedures for archeological excavations. They explore an archeological site, students using various archeological methods and techniques to determine some of the aspects of past life and culture.
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Mechanically Inclined
Eighth graders examine the mechanical advantage of an inclined plane through experimentation.
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M'Liss Rae Hawley's Round Robin Renaissance
Students practice transfering photos to pieces of fabric. Using different techniques, they use their quilt making skills to create a design. They watch a demonstration by their teacher first and then make their own and share it with...
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Puzzle Quilts
Pupils watch a demonstration on how to create a puzzle quilt. Using different fabric combinations, they use each block design twice to create the illusion that each block is unique. They are to determine which blocks are the same in...
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Write Simple Rhymes
First graders observe that rhyming words have different beginnings, but the same endings by viewing examples on the overhead projector. They say the beginnings of the words that go with the correct endings. They then come up one at a...
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Scientific Notation III: Linear vs Exponential
Young scholars examine the differences in exponential growth and linear growth of a system. They interpret data on graphs and develop their own charts. They answer discussion questions as well.
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Their or There
In this word usage worksheet, students read the sentences and complete each one with the correct form of there or their. Students complete 17 examples.
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Database Detectives Hold an Election ~ Part 3
Pupils use a database to conduct a schoolwide election. They discover the importance of voting and democracy. They incourage one another to vote.
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Coping with Crying/Shaken Baby Syndrome
High schoolers listen as an expert on Shaken Baby syndrome speaks to their class and asks appropriate questions. Using a computerized doll, they discover the meanings behind baby's different crys and demonstrates what happens when a...
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How are Boundaries Created?
Students examine two new concepts: orientalism and objectification. They view two film clips/videos on Seven Years in Tibet with Brad Pitt to incorporate the new concepts. In addition, students read Orientalism and write key questions...
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French Braid Quilts
Students create a lap-sized quilt top using a French Braid method. Lesson is written with two time frame options and has step by step classroom instructions as well as suggested homework.
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Gears 1
In this gears learning exercise, students put together and label gears and see how many turns it takes to go in a given directions. Students then fill in a chart with their results.
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Magnetic Discovery Bottle
Students examine how to conduct simple investigations and use simple equipment to gather data. In this magnet lesson students decide what types of objects are attracted to magnets.
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Total English Upper Intermediate: Articles and Things
In this adjective articles worksheet, students practice their grammar skills as they examine 8 proofreading them for article mistakes. Students also respond to 3 short answer questions.
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Comma Worksheet 2
In this grammar worksheet, students insert all necessary commas in fourteen sentences. Students check to make sure that each sentence is grammatically correct.
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Walk and Talk Health and PE Activity
Learners practice concepts they are studying while exercising. In this health and fitness lesson, studnets walk and job while discussing current classroom lessons.
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Breathe Life into Reading Worksheets
Teachers can make reading worksheets exciting and engaging.
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Scientific Measurement Exercise
Students measure irregularly shaped bones, once using a variety of measurement methods and tools, and then again using standard conventions and metric tape measures. They explore firsthand that standardizing data collection makes...