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Sense of Taste and the Tongue
Students taste different foods and record their reaction to each one. They record their likes, dislikes, and favorites and create a graph. Then they use the graph to compare the tastes of the class.
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Reading and Writing Numbers
Reading and writing numbers is thoroughly covered in this well done slide-show presentation. Learners will see how number and number words correlate in relation to place value. The slide-show is text heavy and could use more visual aids...
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Unit 3: Scientific Writing
Write-on! Demonstrate a writing model and support learners as they write an informational essay on a water resource issue of your (or their) choosing. The lesson plan provides a well-scaffolded summative writing...
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Consumer Fraud
Falling into the hands of a credit scam is much too common these days, and the young adults in the classroom need to be prepared. Through the activity, learners discover how to be a safe spender and use common sense when...
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What Food Is It?
Students close their eyes and taste foods without using the sense of sight to identify the foods. They record what they think the food is that they tasted.
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Brain and Senses
Young scholars investigate the brain through multiple senses. In this biology lesson, students experiment with different activities involving taste, memory, touch, and sight to understand how the brain works. Young scholars work in...
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Nature Walk
Students explore nature artists and participate in a nature walk. In this art/nature lesson, students discuss things artists use from nature then talk a walk to find some of the same things. Students look for different shapes...
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On Your Mark, Get Set, Read!
Are your beginning readers trying to build fluency? Use this activity to teach them how to monitor their reading fluency. First they get a sentence to practice with, reading it to their partner once and rereading it silently five times....
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Count, Trace, and Print Numbers 1-5
In this number practice activity, students count the dots, trace the numbers using the stroke patterns, and then print the numbers three times.
Bully Free Systems
Bully Free Lesson Plans—12th Grade
Two sample lessons from a curriculum unit on bullying provide high school seniors with an opportunity to assess their online and cell phone behavior and to consider how they can offer support to bullied students. Each plan includes an...
Curriculum Corner
Inferencing
Inferencing is a necessary reading skill to uncover non-explicit messages in text. Use the set of resources as a way to guide learners toward becoming expert inferrers through reading prompts and literature with text and without text.
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To Group of Not to Group - That is the Question!
Upper elementary and middle schoolers use their observation skills to group different kinds of candy by similar characteristics. They debate whether or not we should classify objects. Finally, they learn that biologists have developed a...
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What is a Noun? & When To Capitalize Nouns
Nouns are the focus of this language arts PowerPoint. Pupils will see that there are five categories of nouns: person, place, thing, idea, quality. The last two are not usually taught, but they are legitimate categories. When to...
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In The Dark
Students go on a "trust walk" during which one student is blindfolded and led around by his/her partner.
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Can You Tell By Touch?
Students feel inside a bag and use only their sense of touch to describe and identify one of the objects that is inside the bag.
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Number Bonds: Addition
In this number bonds learning exercise, 3rd graders fill in eleven blanks with the correct number that makes each addition number bond correct.
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Answering Carnival Questions with the Scientific Method
Through the use of a Reading Rainbow episode, clever in-class games and activities, and an ITV Series video, second and third graders engage in a study of the scientific method; what it is, and how scientists use it. This well-designed...
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Working with Willows
Pupils explore their sense of touch and discover why the sense of touch is important to us and to how we observe and identify our world.
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Our Daily Five
Students explore the food pyramid through a class discussion, hands-on experience with food items, and a floor game that helps them to identify the food group involved. Lesson extensions include the use of play money, art, and dance.
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Counting to Five
Rows of cartoon-style animals are displayed for your mini mathematicians to count. At the end of each row, they write the number of animals counted. Numbers only range from 1 to 5, so this is most appropriate for absolute beginners. Cute!
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Convert Roman Number to Whole Number
In this number conversions instructional activity, students convert the Roman numeral to a whole number. Students convert 20 Roman numerals.
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Convert Roman Number to Whole Number
In this number conversions worksheet, students convert the Roman numeral to a whole number. Students covert to solve the 20 problems.
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Convert Whole Number to Roman Number
In this number conversion worksheet, learners convert the given whole numbers to Roman numerals. Students convert 20 problems.