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Herbs: Healthy Alternatives or Bad Medicine??

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students compare herbal and pharmaceutical remedies for common ailments.
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ABBA - Lesson 2

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students identify and notate the musical device known as a "hook". They notate and perform rhythmic and melodic patterns in the ABBA song "Mamma Mia".
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Organizing Paragraphs

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils brainstorm transition words, and utilize word list to order paragraphs and multi-paragraph essays.
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Like the Back of My Hand

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Studentsexamine the back of one hand and write three phrases describing what they see, then write three phrases the shape of their hands remind them of, and look for patterns they've never seen before.
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Community Journals

For Teachers 7th - 11th
Students visit a multimedia online journal as a model for their research and journal about their own communities. They examine writing for themselves and writing for an audience as they study the community and present it in more than one...
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Thoughts to the President

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students write a persuassive paragraph to the President stating their opinion on a topic. To do this, they start the message with a topic sentence such as "War is _____." The blank should contain a word or phrase expressing the student's...
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Legends and Lore

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students begin the instructional activity by responding in their journals regarding questions about their favorite fairy tales. They listen to a folk tale and answer questions based on the folk tale genre and then brainstorm aphorisms...
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Gerunds, Infinitives, and Emergencies

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students identify gerunds and infinitives in emergency-related scenarios. They replace gerunds with infinitives in written and spoken exercises. They create and perform an emergency dialogue using gerunds and infinitives.
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Stamps of Approval for Women Journalists

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students research, explore and analyze the history of how American women journalists have influenced major social change in the nation and the world. They visit major institution's to examine the written legacies of Abigail Adams,...
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Making Greeting Cards

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students produce greeting cards. In this art lesson plan, students discuss ways to make people smile and use art supplies to construct greeting cards.
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A Year

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students examine an author's philosophical look at life through anecdotes he describes as a teacher in Uzbekistan. In this Uzbekistan lesson, students analyze a literary passage in order to identify, then practice using, similes,...
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Flip Camera Christmas Lessons and Ideas

For Teachers Pre-K - 7th
Students use a Flip camera to complete various projects about Christmas. In this Christmas and technology lesson plan, students write and record letters to Santa. Students write letters to Christmas characters and record them. Students...
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Statistics Newscast in Math Class

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students study sports teams, gather data about the teams, and create a newscast about their data. In this sports analysis lesson, students research two teams and define their statistical data. Students compare the two teams, make...
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Focus On Figurative Language in Prose

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the use of literary prose in the story, "Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed." In this literary prose lesson, students investigate the use of imagery, metaphor, and simile in the story. They tell how author's purpose is...
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Understanding Past and Present Labor Injustice through Music

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students explore early 19th century labor conditions through the use of period songs. In this tolerance lesson, students listen to period songs and respond. Students write their own song that protests unfair and dangerous working...
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Literary Response and Analysis

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders analyze a work of literature about an author. In this biography analysis lesson, 9th graders research an author and work in groups to discuss the author with other students. Students research and discuss the authors Edgar...
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Acting Like a Bunch of Animals: Fables and Human

For Teachers 9th - 11th Standards
The video "The Tales of Aesop" traces for viewers the history of fables and identifies their characteristics. The class then goes to the web site "The Fisherman and the Little Fish" where they examine the classic and a modern version of...
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Mythology

For Students 10th
In this mythology and poetry worksheet, 10th graders write poems about characters from mythology. Students use the diamond form to write their character poems.
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Act it Out

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discuss racial stereotypes.  In this racial stereotypes lesson, students develop a character from information given to them on an index card.  Students give their character a race different from their own and write a description...
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Participatory Citizenship

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore U.S. politics by completing a class project. In this National policy lesson, students review and compare the National Service Act of 1990 and the Kennedy Service Act and the importance of service in the U.S.A. Students...
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6 Traits: Voice

For Teachers Pre-K - 4th
Students explore the trait of voice. In this language arts lesson, students focus on the writing trait of voice. Students view a video and practice writing.
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Promoting Daily Fitness; Mini Game

For Teachers K - 5th
Young scholars evaluate human health by completing an interactive activity on the Internet. In this food choice instructional activity, students identify a list of foods which can make you unhealthy and sick compared to a list of...
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Community of Interests

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students evaluate various aspects of community through local and national news. They explore the different sections of a newspaper and how each relates to a different aspect of a community.
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Words from the Wise

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore how famous people, through newspaper Op-Ed articles, often inform the public about issues of national importance. They write Op-Eds in the voice of famous people on current news topics.

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