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Our School's News
Young scholars work collaboratively in small groups to create and edit various publications to promote their school's activities and accomplishments. Groups work to complete these publications and publish or update them bi-monthly.
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Create a Career Flyer
Students discuss as a class the many different careers and their positive and negative attributes. They create a tri-fold flyer which highlights positive aspects of the career in an artistic and visually interesting way. They highlight...
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Introduction to Contracts
Students are introduced to the concept of contracts in street law. In groups, they compare and contrast contract law with tort law. They identify the basic concepts of each and view examples to see the concepts in use. They also disccuss...
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A death in the Royal Family: Dealing with Loss
Young scholars read and discuss the story "Prince Talks About Magical Grandmother." They list ceremonies of traditions associated with emotional times in their lives. Students prepare a script for a video message to Prince Charles...
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An Ancient Greek and Roman Festival
Third graders label a map of ancient Greek and Roman civilizations and do a written report on one element of these two cultures. They participate in discussions of food, farming, daily life and government (among others). Students use the...
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Pair-Share: Constructing Paragraph Order
Students write with controlled and/or subtle organization. They identify the main idea and explicit details. Students analyze paragraph and essay structure. They utilize context clues to identify organization.
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Representation: Majority rule
Students explore various forms of decision making including majority rule, executive, consensus and autocracy (as well as exploring the power of veto), when they debate a bill in a class parliament.
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Ministerial Responsibility
Young scholars explore the principle of ministerial responsibility in Australia. They identify ways of determining responsibility. Students identify how ministers account for their actions (denial, resignation, reassurance,...
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Navigating a Spacecraft
Students work with a partner to plot the trajectory of a spacecraft traveling between Earth and Mars in the 2018 and returning in 2020. They examine the key factors when planning a mission to and from Mars such as travel time, distances...
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Clothing 2 Sample Notebook
Students view a sample notebook of different types of clothing and techniques. In groups, they practice using the techniques to create their own sample notebooks. To end the instructional activity, they are introduced to more advanced...
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Where Do You Live?
Second graders study and compare rural, suburban, and urban communities. They play a board game, read books about communities, and complete several other activities regarding the different types of communities. Several extension and...
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Social Studies: Who Burned Down Barnum's Museum?
Learners examine the social conflict of the 19th century and the destruction of the American Museum. In pairs, they conduct Internet research and attempt to solve the mystery of who burned down the museum. Clues to the mystery are found...
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Editing Skills
For this grammar worksheet, students read fourteen sentences and find the spelling mistakes in each one. Students correct each spelling mistake found.
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Comma Worksheet 2
In this grammar worksheet, students insert all necessary commas in fourteen sentences. Students check to make sure that each sentence is grammatically correct.
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Telling Time
For this telling time worksheet, students cut out forty-two clocks, shuffle the clocks and then put them in sequential order by telling time in fifteen minute increments starting at 1:00am.
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Systems
In this systems worksheet, students read a selection about systems in science and graphic organizer about the forest system. Finally, they answer 4 short answer questions.
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Zoo Welcomes Baby Animals
Students engage in activities to gain a better understanding of endangered animals. In these animal lessons, students use vocabulary and comprehension skills to gain a better understanding of endangered animals. They also watch video...
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The Women's Suffrage Movement Signature Debacle
Students examine the Women's Suffrage Movement in Nebraska. In this women's rights instructional activity, students explore primary and secondary sources regarding suffrage in the state and obstacles that women in the state faced when it...
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History of Miss America
Students make a time-lines of of decades using images from Miss America. In this history lesson, students looks at the country's beauty pageant and how it changes the lives of women in America. Students debate issues such as size...
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Reading: How to Be Healthy
In this reading for information worksheet, students read a one page text about healthy living practices. Students then answer 8 multiple choice questions about what they have read.
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Earning Trust
Students explore trustworthiness. In this character development lesson plan, students brainstorm communities to which they belong and generate common traits of these communities. Students discuss how trust is gained and write a...
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Fraction Pattern Blocks
Seventh graders practice using pattern blocks. In this pre-algebra lesson, 7th graders complete tasks that require them to compare fractions, make fractions equivalent, and add fractions.
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Introduction to Photography
Students identify the basics of photography and complete photography activities. For this photography lesson, students invite a professional photographer to the class and use disposable cameras to take the given list of images. Students...
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Everything American
Eighth graders complete an American slideshow. In this American culture lesson, 8th graders take digital photographs of things they believe contribute to American culture. They create a slideshow showing these photographs.