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Leads for Descriptive Writing

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students write two descriptive leads to learn how to reel in readers. After their leads have been written, they will share with a partner to decide which was the most appealing. In this leads lesson, students can also write a reflection...
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Digestion - Part 3

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers explore the human body by reviewing the digestive system. In this human anatomy lesson, students identify the elements of human digestion by completing two body system worksheets. Middle schoolers read the story What...
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Invisible Invaders

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars research various epidemics that have devastated the world population focusing on the historical events taking place during the times of the epidemics and the epidemics' effects on these societies.
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The Twelve Months: A Slavic Cinderella Variant

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students locate Slavic countries and identify a few characteristics of those countries. They read and/or listen to the Slavic tale, "The Twelve Months," and compare this version with another Cinderella story.
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Ethnic Folklore in Your Classroom: Traditions, Tales, and Treasures from Tijuana to Timbuktu

For Teachers Pre-K - Higher Ed
Students create their own festival. In this folk life lesson plan, students research their folklore history by interviewing their parents and grandparents, organizing the data found, and presenting that material to the class. Students...
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Connecting Poetry with Philanthropy

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students use their knowledge of philanthropy and poetic conventions to write original poetry about philanthropic giving. In this philanthropy lesson, students write poetry based on philanthropy using poetic conventions. Students...
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Problem Solving Using Power Polygons

For Teachers 3rd - 10th
Students investigate geometric shapes by creating figures on a plane. In this polygon lesson, students complete a worksheet based on the angles in a power polygon. Students identify the different types of polygons and define their...
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Expressing the Future

For Students 7th - 9th
For thisfuture tense worksheet, students read the differences between expressing the future through present simple and present continuous verb forms.
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Conflict

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students outline the action in their narrative writing assignments by brainstorming about conflict. In this conflict analysis lesson, students define conflict and discuss the different types of conflict. Students brainstorm about a...
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A Simile and Metaphor Lesson

For Teachers 6th - Higher Ed
Young scholars use their knowledge of similes and metaphors to analyze poetry. In this poetry and language lesson, students read examples of similes and metaphors and write their own examples that describe their city, television, or an...
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All That Sparkles is Silver!

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students analyze photographs for information about life in Virginia City Nevada in the late 1800s. For this Nevada statehood lesson, students work in teams to analyze photographs from Virginia City. Students brainstorm adjectives to...
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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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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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