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Teaching Students There Isn't Only One Right Answer
By encouraging students to take risks in learning you can create a group of problem solvers and critical thinkers.
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Standards vs. Curriculum: The Important Distinction
The Common Core standards are a noteworthy achievement, but the real challenge for math teachers is finding the right curriculum.
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Change & Conservation of City Landscape
Seventh graders participate in fieldwork by observing and photographing buildings.
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Children's Literature Across the Curriculum Ideas-Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse
Learners read Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse by Kevin Henkes. They complete a variety of cross-curricular activities surrounding events of the story. Included are reading, art, math, science, writing, social studies, and library connections.
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Preparing Arguments
Students review the information from the previous lesson on persuasion essays. In groups, they brainstorm a list of arguments to use to support their trip to Six Flags. They also develop counterarguments and gather information to put...
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Work and Play: Today and Yesterday
First graders investigate the concept of play and work. They use primary and secondary resources in order to find the information of comparing the concepts in the context of the past to present day. Students brainstorm to find the...
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Visiting a Neighborhood Site
Students interview senior citizens about life in the old days. Sharing research with their classmates, they create their own database. They use technology to enhance the information they gathered from the senior citizens.
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A Watershed Monitoring Module
Students explore the relevance of water quality monitoring in relation to a local wetland ecosystem. They conduct standard water quality tests using wet tests and CBL calculators and probes. Student record and interpret the results.
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A Musical Holiday Gift
Students record a CD of their musical talents and package it for gift giving. They make the CD for either a holiday or end of the year activity.
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Homes Inside and Out
Fifth graders create a dollhouse-like drawing of a house, as it would look if the front walls were folded out.
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Awareness of Pre-algebra Concepts
Students demonstrate different algebraic equations using Borenson's Hands-On Equation materials. They work in a cooperative group to solve algebraic equations.
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Navajo Pottery
For this Navajo pottery worksheet, students conduct an experiment using various samples of earthen material. Students are required to collect at least three samples of dirt. Students can make observations about the texture of the sample...
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Full Dolch Word List
Sight words are listed based on how frequently they are used. There are 250 words on the list. This would be a good, general resource for a teachers of grades 1 - 3. It is useful to know what words your class should know, and how well...
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ESL: Tenses in Passive Voice
In this ESL passive voice tense activity, learners fill in blanks in sentences, writing verbs in proper tense and passive voice.
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Jeffrey Cannot Wait
In this language arts worksheet, students find the answers to multiple choice questions for the 5 problems after reading the short story.
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Conditionals Theory
In this conditionals worksheet, students watch videos and complete the sentences with the correct verb tense, and choose the correct option for sentences. Students complete 4 activities.
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Factoring Trinomials
Students factor trinomials and quadratics. In this algebra activity, students solve quadratics when the leading coefficient is one. They use a special factoring pattern to solve the trinomial.
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The Incident of September 11th
Sixth graders identify and write in their journals in order to activate prior knowledge on the events that surround September 11th. Students, with a partner, read various essays, articles and personal experiences of September 11....
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Proportions
Seventh graders participate in a lesson plan that focuses on having them solve different proportions. The lesson plan includes an example that the teacher can work from in order to deliver direct instruction.
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Irony At Owl Creek
Learners engage in study of literature in order to identify the use of irony in the context of reading two stories. They are compared and contrasted and the irony is exposed. The activities include the answering of several key questions.
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Dealing With Money and Measurement- Addition and Subtraction of Decimals
In this dealing with money and measurement worksheet, students practice adding and subtracting with decimals. They complete 12 short word problems and check their answers online.
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Mixing Colors With Beams
Student learn about color changes through the use of light beams. In this color mixing lesson, students discover the difference between mixing colors with light and mixing colors with paint. Students gain understanding of how the eye works.
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Cooperation Game
Students determine their own and other's attitudes about the value of cooperatation in promoting improved social decision making.