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The Water Cycle
Students access prior knowledge of the water cycle by completing a KWL. In this water cycle instructional activity, students follow the movement of water through the water cycle.
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Checkmate: Chess, and the connection to the Middle Ages
Students investigate the different aspects of Medieval Times and the connection to chess. In this world history lesson, students complete a chart answering questions about the lifestyles of men and women in the Medieval Times. Students...
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Employment Growth in America
High schoolers examine the incomes that various jobs offer. For this economics lesson, students determine how education, training, market value, and productivity determine the income levels of professions as they listen to a lecture and...
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Local Heroes
High schoolers investigate heroes in their community by presenting a story of a true hero to their class. In this storytelling instructional activity, students interview a local person who has performed a heroic deed and create a...
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Let's Learn About Lettuce
Students learn more about lettuce. In this agriculture lesson plan, students listen to their instructor lecture about the history of lettuce. Students then participate in an activity that requires them to compare and contrast iceberg...
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Creating a Bird Friendly Habitat
Students listen while teacher reads The Mountain Who Loved a Bird, then answer questions about the mountain habitat as described in the story. In this life science lesson plan, students watch as teacher models creating a bird house, then...
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Through the Forest and Home Again: Maps Help Us Find Our Ways
Students read Little Red Riding Hood, focusing on her path home to Grandma's house. In this language arts and geography lesson, students perform a reader's theater, re-creating the walk home and possible routes that could have been...
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The New Zoo
Students explore animal characteristics by researching the animals in a zoo. In this video documentary instructional activity, students view the local zoo and create a documentary about a single animal they found at the zoo. Students...
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Reintroduce "Ur"
Students explore word structure by participating in a word sound activity. In this vocabulary identification lesson, students discuss the sound that is made by the letters "ur" and in what words this sound is found. Students listen as...
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Thanksgiving Holiday
First graders explore American culture by participating in arts and crafts activities. In this Thanksgiving lesson, 1st graders listen to music based upon the Thanksgiving tradition and examine images of the first Thanksgiving. Students...
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Human Rights Issues Around the World
Seventh graders begin the lesson by comparing and contrasting the Bill of Rights with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. For each document, they highlight the material that is the same for both and discuss the items that are...
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The Graffiti Model 1
Eighth graders work together in groups to practice their communication skills. They answer different questions based on what group they are in and communicate the information to different groups. They discuss the activity to end the lesson.
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Seeing and Feeling Sound Vibrations
Groups rotate through a series of stations and work with a partner to observe sound waves. Children describe sound in terms of pitch, volume, and frequency. To apply their new knowledge, the class considers how these observations can...
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Hearbeat
Third graders pair up and listen to each others heartbeat. They run in place for one minute and then listen again and calculate the beats per minute resting and after activity. They switch and repeat the activity.
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Musical Moments
Pupils listen to popular music in French. In groups, they identify and practice speaking the words they are unfamiliar with and examine the context of the song. They complete a worksheet with a partner to end the lesson and evaluate...
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Growing a Winter Garden
Second graders listen to a planting story as read by their teacher. Using the text, they summarize the events and complete a KWL chart. They point to the vegetable after it was planted in the garden in the story. They practice using new...
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Walk Around the Block
Second graders participate in walking a route in a neighborhood with parent volunteers in order to stress the importance of looking and listening for moving cars. They take this "field trip
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Life Cycle of the Butterfly
Students listen a variety of books on butterflies and are introduced to their life cycle. In groups, they describe the life cycle in the correct order and watch the life cycle from larva to the butterfly in a demonstration. To end the...
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Musical Moments
Young scholars listen to a song in popular culture. Using the lyrics, they identify the theme and share their conclusions with the class. While listening to the song again, they complete a worksheet along with defining new vocabulary...
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Favorite and Alarming Sounds
Students target which sounds can warn us of danger. Several objects are hidden behind a box or board. They have to listen to the sounds each object makes and guess what it is. They then make a graph of the number of students that prefer...
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Seeing a World of Difference
Students read through the lyrics and listen to a song about biodiversity. Using pictures they draw, they interpret the song according to their prior knowledge. They identify the threats to different regions around the world and create...
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Understanding Waves
Students perform 3 hands-on activities to help them explain the terms "crest" and "trough" as related to sound, water, and light waves. All three waves types have troughs and crests. The activities use toys to demonstrate the properties...
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Music Motivates
Students listen to songs from the Civil Rights movement. They explain how the music might have inspired African-Americans to be activists in the movement. They examine how the Civil Rights movement affected the common good.
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Biomes
Eighth graders use the Internet to research biomes and how animals adapt. They describe habitat's features and factors that are unique to the biome they are researching. They also participate in activities.
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