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Caution: Thin ice!
Sixth graders listen to story and respond with comments or questions. They brainstorm unsafe behaviors and randomly fill out templates with different risky behaviors listed on the board. They play RISKO, the Bingo type game.
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Animal Adaptations
Students expand their knowledge of animal features and behaviors that can help or hinder their survival in a particular habitat. They participate in classroom discussions and visit a website to research animals
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Creating Posters
Students design original posters that encourage good attitudes towards the environment. In this positive environment lesson, students brainstorm and create a list of positive behaviors for a good environment. Students create...
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Abolishing Slavery
Learners explain the goals and methods of the abolitionist movement.
They identify key leaders in the movement. This lesson plan has adaptations for elementary through high school. Links are provided for resource readings.
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The Greatest Show on Earth: The World's Smallest Animals
Learners create instruments to capture different types of insects. In this The Greatest Show on Earth: The World's Smallest Animals instructional activity, students compare the attributes of certain insects and record the data on a...
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Ecosystem Dynamics
Searching for an eccentric way to enhance lessons on ecosystems while ensuring pupils remain creative and motivated? Upon viewing The Lorax by Dr. Seuss, designated groups design and construct a pop-up book that...
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Making Choices
Fifth graders identify their personal interests and behavioral choices. They explore how these choices affect school and family situations. Consequences of their choices are examined.
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Explore the Food Web
Students identify plants and animals in the journals of Lewis and Clark's expedition. They describe the various animal habits. Students interpret the behaviors of the animals discovered on the expedition. They design a food web using...
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Celebrating Caring and Kindness
Students create a poster that represents how to care and give kindness. In this caring and kindness lesson plan, students demonstrate character development by creating a poster in groups on how they can care and be kind at home, school,...
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The Clothes Don't Fit
First graders keep a scrapbook of themselves throughout the year and see how they have changed.
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All About Me
Third graders explore how everyone is different and have a certain way in which they learn best.
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Planning and Setting Goals
Fifth graders set goals for themselves and evaluate themselves a month later.
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Work and Leisure
First graders distinguish between work and leisure activities, identify examples of people participating in each of these types of activities, and put them in the correct category.
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Bar Graphs and Pie Charts
Fourth graders explore their interest and strengths and display them using a bar graph and pie chart.
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My Personal Goal
Fifth graders use goal setting in order to use time and energy efficiently.
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Environmental Conditions: Friend or Foe
Students research and answer questions on how organisms are classified and how their needs are met through their environment. They work in small groups and create a poster, chart, rap, PowerPoint, or brochure demonstrating how organisms...
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Worry Critter
Third graders investigate what worrying is, its causes, feeling, and how to deal with it.
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Career Interest Record Update
Fourth graders update their career interest record with their new attitudes, interests, aptitudes, and achievements.
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Working for What You Want
Second graders write a story about someone who works in order to earn money for something they want.
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Saturday Fun Machine
First graders examine and discuss what they like to do in their leisure time. They identify various activities, compare them to other students' activities, and draw a picture of their favorite things to do on a Saturday.
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More About Me
Fourth graders explore what they like to do, their interests, and their aptitudes.