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Surface Area of Prisms
Young scholars compute surface area and volume of prisms. In this surface area lesson, students find the surface area and volume of rectangular and triangular prisms. Independently, young scholars use their computers to determine the...
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Participating in a Class Birthday Party
Students celebrate a fellow peer in class by having a party for him or her. In this foreign language lesson, students celebrate a classmate's birth using their target language to host a party. Students create a bulletin board...
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An Imaginary Trip
Students use their imaginations to write about an imaginary trip. In this creative writing lesson, students write about an imaginary trip. Students brainstorm writing ideas as a class and use past tense words in their...
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Nightmare on Joe's Street
Learners conduct research and create an eponym dictionary. They use their imaginations to create their own monster. They have a Monster Mash day to show off their creations.
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Get A Life
Students explore the definition and derivation of the popular saying "get a life." Using worksheets and lecture materials, students provide meanings for the phrase when used in varying contexts. They also consider the dervation of each...
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In Your Dreams
Students explore the definition and derivation of the popular saying "in your dreams." Using worksheets and lecture materials, students provide meanings for the phrase when used in varying contexts. They also consider the derivation of...
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Where your food comes from
Students research where their favorite ingredients come from. In this ingredients lesson plan, students pick 2 ingredients and use the Internet to research where those ingredients originated from. Students then record their findings in a...
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What Constitutes a State?
Students examine the differences between various state constitutions in the United States. Then, using their own
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A Readers' Theatre for Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain
Second graders read and perform a reader's theater version of the story, "Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain." They complete a graphic organizer of cause and effect of their part in the story, look up vocabulary words on a dictionary...
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Sensitive Taste Test
Fifth graders investigate concentrated and diluted solutions by conducting a taste test. In this dilution lesson, 5th graders examine the concentration of different juices samples by tasting them and recording their observations....
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Carerrs in Song And Dance
Students write a job posting for a career in the performing arts. They view a Discovery Channel video as an introduction to the types of performing art careers are possible. They choose one that they are most interested in to research on...
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Fruit or Vegetable?
Watermelon is a vegetable? A tomato is a fruit? Believe it or not, this debate is decades old. Groups examine rulings by the US Supreme Court, the USDA, and state statutes before developing their own criteria to use when labeling...
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Times of Day
Students practice telling time using a foreign language. In this time telling instructional activity, students listen to a teacher tell them the time in their target language as they translate it while writing. Students...
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Unit 2: My Friends and I Day Three: Comparing Our Preferences
Students compare and contrast their characteristics. For this comparison lesson, ESL students compare and contrast personal characteristics while working in pairs. They use a Venn diagram and write in short phrases while making the...
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You are Special: I like ________ because....
Students write positive sentences about their classmates. For this describing a classmate lesson, students discuss a picture presented by the teacher. After the teacher tells why she likes this person, students write...
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Birthday Celebrations
Students utilize a new language to discuss dates and birthdays. In this foreign language lesson, students practice using vocabulary words from a target language to speak about birthdays and culture related to a specific student....
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Creating a Map
Students create a map of their community. In this mapping lesson, students identify various geographical features and the cardinal directions on maps displayed in the classroom. Students are divided into three groups to create a large...
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Unit 13: Fashion Show - Day Four: Gallery Walk
Students practice the vocabulary associated with clothing that is worn to special events. In this clothing vocabulary instructional activity, students, who are ESL learners, practice using works that describe clothing items that are worn...
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Geography and Climate
Students investigate geographical locations and their own personal experiences with the environment. In this environmental identification lesson, students participate in a match game using certain environmental and geographical...
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My Childhood Portrait
Students practice descriptive writing by viewing auto-portraits of young children. In this art analysis lesson plan, students examine an auto-portrait of their teacher as a young child and ask him/her questions about their youth....
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Building a Terrarium System
Students create their own terrariums. In this ecological model lesson, students create terrariums using soil, seeds, pebbles, and two liter bottles. Students compare the elements of a terrarium to a food web.
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Bubbles
Students blow bubbles using various wands and observe the shape of the bubble. They design and construct new wands and then measure and illustrate the bubbles.
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Workplace Vocabulary
High schoolers engage in daily spelling and vocabulary practice of workplace-related terms with definition matching exercises, word scrambles, dictation, sentence writing. Finally, they compose a short essay in which they use the words...
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American Revolution Vocabulary Cartoons (art)
Fifth graders discuss cartoons. In this art lesson, 5th graders make their own cartoon using vocabulary words from the American Revolution.
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