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Huddle up with a Character based Economic Plan to help Community Friends

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students complete Perseverance, Courage, and Caring lessons from Get into the Game: Beyond Winning to properly prepare students for cooperative group learning and create a class climate conducive for a successful unit. They create a...
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Progressive City Planners

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Learners plan cities. In this environmental racism instructional activity, students design imaginary cities taking into consideration the amenities and environmental hazards that exist. Learners discuss city planning challenges.
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Making Plans

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders recognize that adults often make plans. They realize that plans help you get organized and help you do tasks. They also understand that asking questions and making decisions help us make plans.
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Writing a Plan

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders pick something interesting to do, and write a plan to do it. They are guided inwardly to understand how long a short period of time is. Do this with a countdown of 5 minutes, in 1-minute intervals. This is the 5 minutes...
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Practice Plan Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students work in small groups to write a plan for how to do a class assignment. They remember that making plans is an adult ability and they need to practice while they are young.
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I Like Me and I Like You

For Teachers K - 4th
Learners use the book "I Like Me!" to create a context for investigating self-concept (how one feels about self). They have the objective of realizing their rights and responsibilities. Students work in small groups conducting interviews...
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Scientists Study Dinosaur "Mummy"

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students share ideas about how scientists know about dinosaurs, then read a news article about the recently found remains of a hadrosaur. In this dinosaur lesson plan, the teacher introduces the article with a class discussion and...
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Center for Civic Education

Constitution Day: What Basic Ideas are in the Preamble to the Constitution?

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Young scholars investigate the document of the Constitution as part of a national day of recognition. The lesson plan uses many different activities to dissect the national document to increase student awareness of how the Constitution...
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Multiple Intelligences and The Illinois & Michigan Canal

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders engage in a wide variety of cross-curricular activities designed to give them a thorough understanding of the history of the Illinois & Michigan Canal. There are a very nice set of activities included in this plan!
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U.S. Penny to Get Four New Designs

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students look at U.S. currency and read about plans to change the back of U.S. pennies. In this current events lesson, the teacher introduces a news article with a discussion of money and a vocabulary activity, then students read the...
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Veni, Vidi, Vici

For Teachers 3rd
Students participate in a Roman festival to complete a unit on Roman Civilization. In this Roman Civilization lesson plan, students learn about Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, the Mediterranean Region, and more. Students share what they...
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Council for Economic Education

You Can BANK On This! (Part 1)

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars investigate the concepts of money management and banking through Internet activities. In this economics lesson plan, students discuss the characteristics of money and how people once bartered with goods instead of paying...
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You Can Bank On This! (Part 3)

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars use a chart to show how gaining interest is a beneficial part of having a savings account. In this banking lesson plan, students also learn about the workings of an ATM and a checking account.
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Relating Maya

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students read about the bags that the Maya people made and about how reusing bags can help save our environment. In this environment lesson plan, students read and discuss conservation and observe pictures.
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Gold Fever

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students read the story Gold Fever about the Gold Rush and write journal entries as if they were miners. In this Gold Rush lesson plan, students also pull out rocks from a back, and if they pick a gold one, they have struck it rich!
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I'm Still Scared: The War Years

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students read the story I'm Still Scared: The War Years, complete discussion questions, and activities about the book. In this war book lesson plan, students keep journals, write about being frightened, have a war veteran visit their...
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Where your food comes from

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students research where their favorite ingredients come from. In this ingredients lesson plan, students pick 2 ingredients and use the Internet to research where those ingredients originated from. Students then record their findings in a...
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The Consequences of Our Consumer Behavior - Toys And Games

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine how consumer information can protect consumers from unsafe products. They identify popular games and toys, discuss labelling, role-play sharing and playing safely with toys, and plan and design their own safety...
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Discovering Dinosaurs: Planning your Summer Vacation

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students utilize the features of the Atlas of Canada website to plan an imaginary vacation from Victoria, British Columbia to Drumheller, Alberta.
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Viking History

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students learn about the history of the Vikings by watching videos, reading books, and writing journal entries pretending they were Vikings. In this Vikings lesson plan, students also make a long ship out of a milk carton.
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From A Bill To A Law

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students read about and discuss how a bill becomes a law and then propose a law themselves. In this law lesson plan, students learn legislative vocabulary and then brainstorm a law a write a letter proposing that law.
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What Makes My Community Special

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students create a symbol to represent their classroom community. In this community lesson plan, students discuss what their classroom community is like and create symbols in groups to present to the rest of the class.
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Archaeological Self-Study: What Do Our Belongings and Trash Tell About Us?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine how their belongings and their trash represents who they are. In this archaeology skills lesson plan, students watch a video titled "Discovering the Past" and then give archaeological techniques a try. Students examine...
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K-5th Grade Lesson Plan on Diversity - Animals

For Teachers K - 5th
Students investigate stereotyping and diversity by looking at dog breeds. In this diversity and stereotype lesson, students discuss characteristics of dogs they are familiar with. They describe similarities and differences between the...

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