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Paper Plays

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students consider alternate uses of everyday items and create costumes and props from these items for skits to entertain Students.
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Workshop: Health Challenge

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers conduct Internet research in order to better understand the concepts of sustainable health design. In this design and architecture instructional activity, students gather data and creat a materials kit that responds to the...
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Class Action

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students design learning laboratories for their school in a variety of subject areas. They present their ideas to members of their community for feedback.
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Reader's Workshop - Expression - Day 3

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders come up with motions to put with their poem and read their poem with expression. For this expression lesson plan, 2nd graders work in groups to complete this task.
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Spring Lesson Plans

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students complete activities for spring such as counting petals, tracing spring words, and going on nature walks. In this spring lesson plan, students also read spring stories.
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Animals, Animals, Everywhere

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders participate in a variety of activities dealing with animal characteristics and classifications in this multi-task lesson. They use graphic organizers, make booklets, and make models.
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Exploring the Night Sky: Summer

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explain how moon phases occur. They describe and explain at least two common misconceptions that people have about the moon. Students explain what a star is. They explain 3 ways that the night sky has been used throughout history.
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Origami Paper Fun

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students explore the art of Origami. They listen to various stories about Japan, create Origami shapes by following step-by-step directions, sing Japanese songs, locate Japan on a map, and take a quiz.
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Higher and Higher: Amazing Skyscrapers

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students brainstorm the names of skyscrapers then get into groups and create their own skyscraper.  In this architecture lesson plan students answer questions about their skyscraper after creating one.