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Africa - Not Just One Big Safari

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students draw a picture of an African city that includes places similar to those found in U.S. cities. After listening to Somewhere In Africa, students identify places or buildings from the book and apply them to the creation of their...
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Helping Hands

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students discuss the needs of senior citizens. They assist them with basic household chores. They gain pride in helping others and reflect in their journals.
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Growing Patience

For Teachers 1st
First graders, in groups, explore patience through use of the book The Carrot Seed.
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Responsibility Rules!

For Teachers K
Students explore responsibility through home and school tasks.
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Cool School Poetry

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students generate a word bank drawing on vocabulary from fifteen school related topics. They use the word bank to write poetry in the styles of Shel Silverstein and Jack Prelutsky.
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Building a Better Body

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders investigate the six essential nutrients. They read a handout, discuss the six nutrients, and construct a sandwich using ingredients that belong to the nutrient groups.
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Dramatic Dilemmas

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students read The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost, and develop skits that deal with projecting possible long-term impacts of decisions, and taking risks.
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Introductions

For Teachers 6th - Higher Ed
Students introduce themselves to the teacher and the class by completing a variety of surveys, interest inventories and questionnaires. They interview several others and then introuduce one of the people they inerviewed to the rest of...
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Dramatizing Folktales, Legends and Myths

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students read different folktales from Native American cultures. They work together to act out different scenes. They discover the difference between folktales, legends and myths.
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Punctuation and Book Titles

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students participate in lessons that focus on reading and writing skills. They work on punctuation in sentences with book titles present and not present. The lesson has a scaffolding section for ESL. This strategy is usually applicable...
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Biocomplexity Lab Activity: Creating Salt Water

For Teachers 6th - 7th
The lesson seeks to intorduce to students the properties of salt water and how to create salt water. Teacher gives backgound information about salt water to students. From that point, students dscuss what elements are in salt water....
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Eleanor Roosevelt, A Leader Who Helps People

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students are introduced to Eleanor Roosevelt the person. They are introduced to how she cared about people. Students are introduced to the concept of leadership. They write a poem about Eleanor Roosevelt as a leader, or they write a...
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People of the Plains- Spiritualism

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders study cultural characteristics regarding Native American beliefs. They discuss spiritualism as it relates to respect. (respect for all things, living and dead; connection with the land, etc.) They provide examples they...
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Summarizing

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders examine how to summarize the most important details in a reading passage in order to increase their comprehension. They design a story web using the summarization skills. Before class, they complete a reading assignment...
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Shaking Things Up In Summarization

For Teachers K - 4th
Students practice several techniques and strategies to become better at summarizing a piece of writing. They emphasize the five "W's: who, what, where, when and why. A book of Earthquakes is read and then summarized by each of the students.
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Thumbs Up For Expert Readers!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students use the cross check strategy to increase reading comprehension in this instructional activity. They listen as the teacher reads "Where the Wild Things Are." The teacher purposely reads some words wrong so that the story does...
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Renewable/Nonrenewable Resources

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders classify resources as renewable or nonrenewable while playing a board game. They read King John story and discuss the story. Students explore renewable and nonrenewable resources. They play the resources game that show...
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Ecosystems II

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students engage in a instructional activity that is about the concepts related to the careful balance of an ecosystem. They identify the beneficial and harmful relationships that can exist with diverse populations in an ecosystem. The...
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Respiratory System

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students identify elements of the respiratory system. They write notes on cards, diagram the respiratory system and label it. As a class, students discuss the function of each part of the respiratory system and explore the difference...
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The Solar System

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students study the planets of the solar system. Students observe a model of the solar system, and name each planet, in order. In pairs, students write acronyms to assist in remembering the plants in order and share them with their...
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Anti-Semitism Throughout the Ages

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students investigate the implication of anti-Semitism. In this prejudice lesson, students compare anti-Semitism to bullying as they research the propaganda techniques employed during the Holocaust and throughout history.
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To Be Or Not To Be

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students read the poem "To the Little Polish Boy Standing With His Arms Up." They discuss the poem. Students define the term "prejudice." They comapre and contrast the boy in the poster with the author of the poem, Peter Fischl. ...
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Voice

For Students 4th - 5th
In these writing style worksheets, students practice developing their writer's voice. Students complete three activities that help them with their writing voice.
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Lent - What It's All About

For Students 4th - 5th
In this religion and reading comprehension worksheet, students read a selection, Matthew 4, that explains the religious season of Lent. They answer 10 fill in the blank questions based on the reading after reading the selection both...

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