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The Truth And Owning Up
Students investigate the moral obligation of telling the truth and what the implications are for not doing so. They define what a lie is and how it deviates from the truth. The skill of mending a mistake is taught to encourage students...
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Adjectives and Descriptive Phrases
Students examine the use of adjectives and descriptive phrases to improve their written pieces. In this adjectives and descriptive phrases lesson plan, students look at demonstrative adjectives, common adjectives, and proper adjectives....
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Care for Teeth
Students study how to care for their teeth, and they study what happens if they don't clean their teeth.
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Monsters, Inc.
Young scholars explain what it means to include others into their group, and to work together to solve a problem.
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Let it Snow!
Students participate in various activities in the snow to determine how snow affects our lives, what we wear in the snow, and what activities we can enjoy in the snow. Lesson includes many resource links.
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Brown Bear
Students listen as the teacher reads "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?" and then participate in a game that mirrors the actions of the book. They engage many of their locomotive skills.
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Nutrition: Gregory the Terrible Eater
Students listen to a story about a goat who craves human food. They discover the four basic food groups and discuss what they might eat if they were terrible eaters. Students retell the story by looking at the pictures. They complete...
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Eleanor Everywhere
Third graders read a biography on Eleanor Roosevelt. Using the text, they identify and discuss what she did to make a difference in the world. They discover what one person can do to help change the world.
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Where Do Animals Live?
Students c;assify where pets live and where wild animals live and comprehend the differences. They investigate what kinds of homes pets and wild animals need. Students bring in a stuffed animal or puppet from home and match their...
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Types of Data
In this data chart instructional activity, students read the directions and study the examples to learn the difference between qualitative, quantitative, discrete and continuous data. Students answer 24 questions. This page is intended...
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Secret Codes
Students examine Morse code and how it is used. In this secret codes lesson plan students decode messages, make their own codes and have other students crack the code.
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I Am Special and You Are Special Too #7
Pupils determine characteristics that make each of them special. In this personal characteristics lesson, students complete activities that help them determine that each person has special characteristics and that everyone experiences...
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Art Lessons Students Can Appreciate
Art may be something some students have to learn to appreciate, but there is always a lesson that can do this.
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The Giver (Middle, Literature)
Students write down what emotions are evoked by different colors of construction paper. They discuss what they and other students have written. They use this concept to discuss why the community in The Giver is devoid of color.
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Mathematics: Steps to purchase a home
Students are partnered as couples who have a variety of financial realities, and must complete a real-life financial analysis to see what it would take them to purchase a home.
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Friday and Friends: A Journey with Else Holmelund Minarik's Little Bear Stories for the Young Child
Pupils are read a series of stories with the use of puppets. For each story, they write their reflections and share them with the class. They discuss why it is important to be social with others and create their own invitation to give...
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Art Appreciation
Students analyze and critique famous art prints in this introductory lesson to the appreciation of Visual Art forms. Emphasis is on classroom discussions of cultural values, prejudice, and opinions. The lesson includes possible...
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Enzyme Activity: An Inquiry Based Approach
Students explore biochemical reactions mediated by enzymes in an inquiry approach. They are given two questions about the types of living materials that contain the enzymes that break down hydrogen peroxide, and under what conditions the...
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Butterflies and Flowers
Students observe and demonstrate the concepts of over, under, and on. Using a cutout of a flower and a butterfly, they identify if the butterfly is over, under, or on the flower. Students complete a worksheet along with the teacher, and...
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Aston Hall: KS2 History
In this history worksheet, students answer 19 questions about what they see at Aston Hall. These questions pertain to the outside of the house and the individual rooms in the house.
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Constructing My Sundae
Eighth graders investigate concepts related to fractions. This includes adding, subtracting, and reducing. There is a creative worksheet that has them creating their own ice cream sundaes using fractions.
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Insurance Introduction: Types of Insurance
Students explore the various kinds of insurance and why it is important in everyday life. They discuss different coverage that is available to cover risk to which they be exposed in their lives.
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"Black Boy"
Learners read a series of sentences and decide what literary term is being shown. They also discuss a novel about prejudice.
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Easter Baskets
Learners create Easter baskets using paperclips, string, balloons, and paper mache techniques in this early-elementary Art lesson. Due to drying times for the paper mache it is recommended to spread this Art lesson over at least a...