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Equal Rights
Students experience what it would be like for any one group to make the laws that all people are to follow.
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Brief Encounters (Building Bridges)
Students participate in a simulation that explores how groups of two radically different cultures might interact. They, in groups, represent the different cultures and, after interacting, describe the opposite group's cultural norms and...
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Multiplication and Areas
Upper graders solve problems involving measurement of squares and rectangles to practice multiplication skills, finding area, and calculating prices and percentages. A performance assessment is included.
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Process of Mitosis
Students discover through whole-class role play, the process of mitosis. They will all become a chromosome and demonstrate how they line up 23 to 23.
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Introduction to the Periodic Table of Elements
Students explain how the elements are arranged in the periodic table. In this chemistry lesson, students determine the subatomic particles for certain elements. They research the physical and chemical properties of an element they chose.
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Investigation: Distribution
Students explore counting by sharing snacks at a class party. In this number sense lesson plan, students discuss sharing items equally by counting out equal numbers of an item they intend to give each student in the class. Students...
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Brief Encounters: Building Bridges
Young scholars engage in a roleplaying game n order to experience what it is like to encounter people of a different culture. In this lesson on building cultural connections, students will participate in a cultural simulation which will...
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Marvelous Manatees
Here is an interesting instructional activity on the manatee for your upper graders or middle schoolers. A game is played where learners work together to complete a successful manatee migration. It's a board game, and all of the game...
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Compare Fractions Using Fraction Circles
Fourth graders practice ordering fractions using models and drawings. For this math model lesson, 4th graders utilize colored blocks and drawings to show an equal representation of given fractions. Students compare and...
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Brief Encounters (Looking at Ourselves and Others)
Students participate in a simulation in which they examine how different cultures interact with one another. In groups, they follow the behaviors for their specific group while a group of observers records their interactions. To end the...
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Creative Dramatics
Students practice simple addition through the use of creative dramatics. In this creative dramatics lesson, students work in groups to form human configurations that allow a certain number of points to be touching the floor. They work...
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Up We Go
First graders examine the use of number lines in problem solving situations in this series of lessons. They participate in activities in which they move forward and backward on number line on the playground before doing paper and pencil...
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MLK Eggs
Students examine brown and white eggs to represent how people are all the same on the inside. In this character education lesson, students view two kinds of eggs and examine them closely to determine if one egg is the "better" egg....
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Born Equal
Students work in small groups to list advantages and disadvantages of being a woman. The focus of the lesson is upon discrimination. Working in a group provides scaffolding to help learners who are disadvantaged for any reason.
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All Folks Were Created Equal
Students read the book, "All Folks Were Created Equal" and participate in games, activities and exercises.
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Funtastic Fractions
Students discover fractions by creating models. In this fractions lesson plan, students read Give Me Half! by Stuart J. Murphy and view a video about what fractions actually represent. Students divide a square piece of paper a certain...
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Hugs and Tallies
Students act out the creation of five tally marks. In this tally mark lesson, students act out how to make tally marks. Four students stand very close together and a fifth student gives them a group hug creating five tally marks.
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Map Literacy
Students locate their home state on a map. They differentiate between physical and population sizes of states. In two groups, students "become" states with string for boundaries. They ascertain that area does not always equal large...
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Can young people influence government?
Young scholars, working as a whole class, think about and debate the question of influence. First, there will be some group work then a class debate. The question for debate is: Can young citizens have any influence on governments?
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"Fast and Slow"
Young scholars find a partner, they think about their favorite TV sport that they might like to perform in an unusual dance. They practice their chosen sport and students see if they can make a litter repeating pattern of three or four...
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Physical Education: Tag - You're Wet!
Students play a version of water tag under close adult supervision. In waist high water, several students are "it" and the remaining class members have to get to the other side of the pool without being tagged. The first student to...
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Simulation: The King's Candy
Students examine the British tax laws in Colonial America. In this U. S. history lesson plan, students participate in a simulation that replicates the taxes levied by the British.
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Teams-Games-Tournaments
Students draw cards from a pile and the student that draws the number card gets the first opportunity to answer the question. For example, if a student selects twenty-two from the pile and question twenty-two is, "why is government...
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Natural Selection in Protected And Unprotected Populations
Studnets compare how two elephant seal populations fare during successive generations. They participate in a simulation using a card game to look at the differences in two populations, one that is protected from mortality by human...