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Adventure Stories

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students write an adventure story. In this writing lesson, students listen to an adventure story and identify the elements of an adventure story. Students use story starters to create their own adventure story.
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Who Works for Nonprofits?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore career opportunities in the nonprofit sector. In this character development and career lesson plan, students identify job opportunities in a nonprofit organization and research the necessary skills needed for these...
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Write On! Step by Step Paragraph and Report Writing

For Teachers 3rd
Students plan and write paragraphs while integrating other core subject areas. In this paragraph writing lesson, students complete 5 lessons to practice writing paragraphs. Students incorporate various core subjects into their paragraph...
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Ache, hurt, and Pain Exercise

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this word meanings worksheet, students explore the words ache, hurt, and pain. Students complete sixteen sentences with the correct word and write four sentences of their own.
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Building Blocks

For Teachers K - 8th
Young scholars navigate to various websites and play educational games to reinforce learning.  In this game lesson, students catalog games to play in various areas of the curriculum;. Young scholars play online and board games.
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Review of Personification and Alliteration

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students study personification and alliteration in various fiction texts. In this literary devices lesson, students use various texts to identify the literary devices of personification and alliteration. Students use examples of both...
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Learning to Analyze Characters

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students discover writing strategies authors use to enhance characters.  In this character writing lesson, students are read the Knuffle Bunny books by Mo Willems and analyze the story, characters and settings as they listen.  Students...
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Peace Journals

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students create peace journals. In this character education lesson, students record their thoughts about peace and their innermost thoughts and feelings. Students use various journal starters, including describing someone who is a...
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Blow and Go

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars discover how air can move things by using their breath. In this physics lesson, students hypothesize then attempt to move a pencil 1 meter using nothing but their breath. Young scholars record data from their experiment...
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By Golly, By Gum

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Learners investigate the ingredients and creation of chewing gum.  In this scientific method lesson, students make predictions about what will happen to the mass of a piece of gum as it is chewed by a human.  Learners graph the data from...
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Muggie Maggie

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students practice story telling by placing story elements in order to make sense to a reader.  In this reading comprehension lesson, students practice using vocabulary words from the story Muggie Maggie, as well as reviewing sentence...
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Culinary Diversity

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students discover foods associated through different cultures and how they came about.  In this food culture lesson, students investigate the different influences on the diets of different people based on their heritage.  Students...
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Mapping the Circulatory System

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars investigate the circulatory system in human beings.  In this human body lesson, students create an outline of a human body using colored markers and butcher paper.  Young scholars use red and blue colors to simulate the...
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Sending a Valentine

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students practice addressing envelopes. In this everyday writing lesson, students practice writing addresses on envelopes by writing Valentine's cards and addressing them to kindergartners.
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Lesson Plan # 2: Forest Poems

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students read and write poetry.  In this poetry writing lesson, students read and discuss several poems with a "forest" theme, and then write their own forest haiku. Possible publication in the Natural Inquirer is described.
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Solve the Case!

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students discover the habits of panthers by solving fictitious crime mysteries.  In this animal life lesson plan, students utilize their research from previous lessons to solve mysteries in a panther activity.  Students answer questions...
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The Battle to Save Bats

For Teachers K - 4th
Students investigate the disease that is causing the global decline of bats.  In this animal health activity, students read an article which discusses white-nose syndrome, the number one killer of bats.  Students discuss ways to keep...
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The Golden Spike

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate modern transportation in the 19th century by examining artifacts.  In this U.S. history lesson, students read the story Joseph's Railroad Dreams, and discuss the Golden Spike used in the first transcontinental...
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Moving Objects

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners discover the history of the United States by examining the Great Migration.  In this U.S. History lesson, students research the immigration movement on the Internet and complete a worksheet about the large population shift. ...
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Smiley Face Circle Stories

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine different artifacts from the 1970's. In this history lesson, students discover what each artifact is by seeing the artifact and reading a card defining what the artifact represents. On the second day, students create...
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Trading Traditions: Based on the American Samoa Quarter Reverse

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate U.S. Currency by researching American Samoa.  In this monetary unit lesson, students define the reverse and obverse of a coin while completing a currency related worksheet.  Students identify American Samoa on a...
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What Critters Tell Us About Water Quality: A Macroinvertebrate Lesson

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students explore our ecosystem by investigating the quality of our water. In this aquatic insect lesson, students examine a group of random insects collected from different streams and ponds in the area. Students record their...
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Comments

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
Students evaluate newspaper articles. In this newspaper article lesson students compare newspaper articles. They  comment on headlines, language choices, quality and clarity, and impact on the reader.
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History of Famous Women

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students discover the famous women who changed society by setting positive examples.  In this equality instructional activity, students research a female person who had a positive effect on the world by fighting for her equal rights. ...

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