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Earth Day Lesson

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students analyze Earth science by answering environmental study questions. In this Earth Day instructional activity, students read the book The Lorax and identify the themes within it. Students define several recycling vocabulary terms...
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Inquiring Minds: News and Philanthropy

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students recognize philanthropy and collect samples from the newspaper or other literary sources. In this newspaper writing lesson, students observe acts of kindness and write about them in a newsletter.
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Natural Selection in Protected And Unprotected Populations

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Studnets compare how two elephant seal populations fare during successive generations. They participate in a simulation using a card game to look at the differences in two populations, one that is protected from mortality by human...
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Keeping My Body Safe

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Pupils explore the concepts of personal body parts and how they should be protected from being abused by others. The use of a scripted personal dialogue reinforces the realness of the problem that could happen.
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Word Meanings From Context

For Students 6th - 9th
For this reading comprehension worksheet, students read the sentences and use the context to determine the correct meaning of each underlined word. There are 4 questions on this worksheet.
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Anti-bullying week 2005

For Teachers 2nd - 12th
Students explore ways students can help stop bullying. Students take a bullying quiz. Students discuss statements from victims and bullies. They write and act out a scenario that involves bullying and its prevention.
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A World in a Grain of Sand

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students go exploring Britain's beaches. In this geography lesson plan, students visit selected websites to learn about specific beach habitats and the history of cleaning those beaches.
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Basics About Beef Crossword

For Students 9th - 12th
In this health learning exercise, students complete an 85 clue crossword puzzle about beef. Questions cover names for various cuts, cooking words, and filler words such as "abbreviation for etcetera."
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Developing Flags

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
  Students examine why having a symbol such as a flag is important for countries.  In this flag lesson, students break into groups and create their own flag to represent their group dynamic.   
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Passive Form

For Students 2nd - 3rd
For this interactive grammar worksheet, students read the 15 sentences and revise them by typing in the passive form of the verb.
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A Planting We Will Go

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore how to transplant trees in their community. In this citizenship lesson, students construct a map of where to plant trees and then plant the trees.
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Using Current Events to Understand Elections

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders explore the the major phases of the electoral process for president.  In this US Government lesson, 11th graders compare and contrast the delegate system of nomination and the electoral college. 
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Clifford the Big Red Dog: Work Together

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students explore the concept of cooperation. For this literature lesson, students read Clifford's Busy Week and discuss teamwork as they create "Lost and Found" journals and build paper trains.
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The Importance of Liberal Arts

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students analyze the importance of receiving a liberal arts education. In this liberal arts instructional activity, students read about the differences between vocational training and a liberal arts education.
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Black Pearls

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students examine where pearls come from and where mollusks are found. They discover how pearls are formed in nature and how they are they made by humans. They use ordinary oyster shells to examine mother of pearl.
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Open Up and Say /o/

For Teachers K - 1st
Students recognize the short vowel o in written and spoken language. Through matching and listening activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /o/ from other phonemes. Students identify the phoneme and letter in words and pictures.