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Introducing Literature Circle Roles to Students
Students read a narrative selection and select a literature circle role. In this reading comprehension instructional activity, students work in groups to identify vocabulary, make text connections, or other reading comprehension...
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Combining Clouds and Art in the Classroom
Students observe landscape paintings consisting of cloud formations. In this identifying cloud types lesson plan, students discover different cloud types and characteristics by looking at paintings. Students paint their own pictures at...
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The Phrasal Verbs of To Give Exercise
In this phrasal verbs worksheet, students match 6 phrasal verbs with their meanings and then translate each one on the lines provided. Students then read 13 sentences and choose the phrasal verb at the end of each sentence that completes...
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Sim's Cities
Young scholars investigate city management and government by creating a fictional city in groups. In this civics lesson, students create rules and a mascot for their fictitious city which they create from poster board cubes. Young...
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Classical Greece
Students research historical events in ancient Greece. In this ancient Greece activity, students design a magazine which includes a cover, table of contents, cover story, advertisement and visuals. Students focus on Pericles and his...
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T-shirts Build School & Community Pride
Students explore ways to promote community pride by creating t-shirts. In this community lesson, students utilize a digital camera to take photographs of their hometown and transfer them to a t-shirt. Students complete a creative...
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Weather Forecast
Students forecast the weather. In this weather lesson, students are assigned a day to give the weather forecast. Students write a script and video their weather forecast.
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Ancient Greece Podcast
In this writing a podcast lesson plan, 7th graders create a podcast involving Ancient Greece. Learners follow a rubric and outline to create their podcast. Students present their podcast to their fellow learners.
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Hiking / Trekking
In this online/interactive vocabulary usage instructional activity, students use the words and phrases in the word bank to fill in the blanks and complete the sentences. Students write 10 answers.
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Indoor Environment: A Magazine Publication Project
Students demonstrate knowledge of Indoor Air Quality by creating a class magazine. A link to order a free Action Kit from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is provided so teachers can build background knowledge. Performance...
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African American Experiences: Window to the Past
Students examine African life during slavery on the Internet. In this slavery lesson, students use the Internet to research slavery and create a scrapbook. Students review pictures of slavery and label them as primary or secondary sources.
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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Public Views of Lincoln
Students write a letter in the voice of Abraham Lincoln. In this history lesson, students interpret the way the public viewed Lincoln during various times by examining political cartoons and images. Students write a letter in the voice...
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Poetry and Our National Anthem
Young scholars express the meaning of the Star-Spangled Banner. In this American history lesson, students read through the national anthem and complete an activities from a list of choices. Some choices include: writing the anthem in...
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Elements of a Mystery
Young scholars write mystery stories. In this writing lesson plan, students review the definition and components of a mystery. They look at a photo and write a mystery to explain the picture.
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What's the News? Articles of Deception
Students choose a event in the news involving deception. In this deception lesson plan, students develop questions and share them. Students answer critical thinking questions about their event and describe what they learned about...
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Pen Pals
Young scholars write to a pen pal and learn about their lives. In this pen pal activity, students learn about a person from another country. Young scholars develop an understanding that they have many things in common with people from...
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Truth and Lies Games
Students participate in a get to know you activity. In this social lesson, students write three statements about themselves. One is true and the other is false. Students read their cards and their peers decide what is true and what is not.
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Breaking the Chains, Rising Out of Circumstances
Students investigate a sculpture from the 17th century. In this art history lesson, students examine Bust of a Man by Francis Hardwood and discover the meaning behind it. Students create their own portrait bust of somebody they admire.
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Analysis Through Character Action/Beliefs
Students explore characterization. In this characterization lesson, students give analytical responses to questions and determine a character's beliefs. Students use the school mission statement to develop two beliefs that the statement...
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Tall Tale Rollers
Students explore American tall tales. In this tall tale lesson, students discover the six characteristics that are included in tall tales. Students survey their class to find each student's favorite tall tale character and organize the...
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The World is a Village
Students observe Americans through the eyes of the world. In this human population activity, students utilize the Internet to view the World Pop Clock and follow the world's population by the minute. Students predict what the world's...
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Forestry and Changing Feelings
Students investigate how the forest affects their daily lives by creating a concept map. In this ecological lesson, students create a concept map linking the forest to the many things they use each day. Students take a field trip in...
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Monster and Myths: Scripts
Students explore characteristics of the myth genre. In this myth lesson, students become familiar with various myths and the cultures they were derived from. Students compare in a graphic organizer. Students write original myths and...
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Interactive Notes-"Heat Transfer"
Students explore heat transfer. In this temperature and molecule behavior lesson, students view a PowerPoint while simultaneously performing experiments in which heat transfer is demonstrated. Students use cold beakers, ice cubes,...
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