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World Conflicts Lesson Plan

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students role play reporters for ESL TV News.They research and report on one serious conflict happening in the world today. A fact sheet is missing some information, which the group finds on the internet and presents to the class.
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Context is Everything: Grammar Lessons

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Teaching students about grammar using popular, and well written, literature can be the best solution to a tricky topic.
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Any Town, USA

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students launch an investigation of their home town by creating a mental map and examining the livability factors from their perspective. After completing their map, students write a brief description of their town
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"Heritage" - "Hey, That's the Name of Our School!"

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders gain a better understanding of the canal period in U.S. History, and more specifically, discern the importance of the Illinois and Michigan Canal on the development of Illinois as a state and Chicago as a prominent city.
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Build a Journal

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students prepare for field journaling at Yosemite Institute. They create and decorate their Institute journal giving them both a place to journal and ownership of it.
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Soundtrack to War

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students discuss the important role of music in lives of soldiers stationed in Iraq. They identify and demonstrate skills in creating compositions with limited resources, similar in concept to the soldiers viewed in the documentary.
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The Write Thing to Do

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students examine the proper way to write formal business letters. Students apply the skill to write letters to appropriate environmental protection agencies.
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Top Ten Facts

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students, in pairs, complete research about an assigned person. One student does research in the library and the other on the Internet. They come back together, compare their research, and compile a list of 10 main facts about their person.
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Geography: Mapping Newspaper Coverage

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students examine the locations of stories appearing in newspapers and determine where to assign reporters. Using various maps, they connect the stories to the correct maps and create charts of the story locations. Students explain their...
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Preserving History for Illuminating Today's Values and Traditions

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Learners use the processes of oral history and the latest technology to engage in historical inquiry and the preservation of the past. The work in cooperative groups or individually to discover and capture the past by interviewing family...
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All That Sparkles is Silver!

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Learners analyze photographs for information about life in Virginia City Nevada in the late 1800s. In this Nevada statehood lesson, students work in teams to analyze photographs from Virginia City. Learners brainstorm adjectives to...
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Ordering and Computing with Negative Fractions and Decimals

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders explore the concept of computing negative fractions and decimals. In this negative fractions and decimals lesson, 7th graders compare ordering positive fractions to ordering negative fractions. Students use mirrors to see...
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Plot and Conflict

For Teachers 7th - Higher Ed
Learners review the literary elements of plot and conflict. In this plot and conflict lesson, students read a story and answer questions about the plot and conflict within. Learners create a concept map for the novel to identify the...
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Rev. Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. meets the Philosophy of Gandhi's Ahimsa

For Teachers K - 8th
Students study Gandhi's and Dr. King's philosophies. In this world history lesson, students compare and contrast the methods by Gandi and Dr. King writing an essay on nonviolence.
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The Holocaust: Valuing Creation

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students write a descriptive essay.  In this Holocaust lesson, students discuss what it must have been like for Anne Frank to stay inside for two years.  Students try to appeal to all five senses in their descriptions. 

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