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How Do We Spend, Save, and Donate?: Penny Drive
Students explore the power of money. In this philanthropy instructional activity, students investigate how money is used in society. Students record data regarding money patterns on graphic organizers.
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Ah Choo!
Students compare bacteria to viruses to find the differences. In this biology lesson, students research viruses they have been inoculated against, using the Internet. Students complete a graphic organizer of their research on common...
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An Uplifting Experience
Fifth graders research and complete a graphic organizer about the principles of flight. In this aviation lesson, 5th graders experiment to understand the work of Daniel Bernouli and his discoveries about air pressure. Students create...
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Who Am I Like?
Students examine family structures. In this family structure lesson, students discover things about their own families and those of their classmates. They make a chart as they discuss nature versus nurture, complete a worksheet about who...
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Kindergarten Memories
Students create a monthly memory and compile it into a Kindergarten Memory Book. In this memory book lesson, students create a monthly memory page. Students create a graphic organizer in Kidspiration which is developed into a story...
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Military Families
Tenth graders recognize and define vocabulary words. For this Military families lesson, 10th graders participate in a shoot n spell game. Students write the vocabulary in sentences, read words in text, and complete a graphic organizer.
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What's the Matter?
Students explore matter. In this matter and technology lesson, students locate examples of solids, liquids, and gases inside and outside the classroom, and record their findings in a graphic organizer. Students listen to the book What...
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Poverty Point Native Americans
Students investigate the Poverty Point Indians. In this Native Americans lesson, students research the Indians and use the information to fill out graphic organizers and to compare and contrast communities over time. Students locate...
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Determining Solutions to a Problem - Fire Cloud
Students watch a video of a fire and determine solutions to the problem. In this problem solving lesson, students watch a video of a fire on a horse farm and complete a problem/solution graphic organizer. They identify the problem in the...
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Drawing Conclusions - Is This a Map of the Underground Railroad?
Young scholars complete activities to study potential maps of the Underground Railroad. In this Underground Railroad lesson, students watch a video about map collector Anne Zorela's Underground Railroad map. Young scholars complete a...
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Drawing Conclusions-Miss Navajo
Students practice the higher order thinking skill of drawing conclusions. In this language lesson, students use the Miss Navajo pageant to discuss the role of language in selecting a winner. They view portions of the pageant, and try...
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Identifying Main Idea and Supporting Details - The Stonecutter's Wish
Students identify details that support the theme of a story. In this main idea or theme lesson, students view a video of "The Stonecutter's Wish." Students are given a graphic organizer to use as they discuss the main idea of the...
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Prior Knowledge: What Do You Know About Dogs?
Students consciously activate prior knowledge in order to comprehend new information about a given subject. In this comprehension and prior knowledge lesson, students use a graphic organizer to activate prior knowledge and use their...
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A Power Point Slide Show for Third Graders
Third graders explore PowerPoint. In this technology lesson, 3rd graders select a topic of interest and follow a guided lesson researching their topic. Students complete storyboards, introductions, table of contents and expository...
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Cold War in Guatemala
Students investigate the Cold War and why it was fought in Guatemala. In this Cold War instructional activity, students analyze documents from the CIA and textbooks then discuss. Students work in pairs to answer questions and fill out...
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Cornplanter and the Fate of His Land
Students explore Chief Cornplanter and his importance as the leader of the Seneca tribe. In this Chief Cornplanter instructional activity, students examine how the Seneca land was taken over by the right of eminent domain. Students...
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No Regrets: a Poetry Analysis
Learners read a poem and use the TPCASTT strategy for analysis. In this poetry analysis lesson, students journal about their future goals and read John Updike's "Ex-Basketball Player." Learners discuss the purpose of the poem and...
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Battering Through the Seasons
Students define bartering and barter to investigate supply and demand. In this bartering lesson, students read A New Coat for Anna and recall how they exchanged merchandise in the story. Students complete a sequential graphic organizer....
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Situation of America, 1848
Students explore 19th century American artwork. In this cross curriculum New York history and art appreciation lesson plan, students view a reproduction of the painting "Situation of America, 1848," and identify visual symbols and...
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Thirteen Ways of Reading a Modernist Poem
High schoolers analyze modernist poetry and the role of speaker in example poems. Learners study modernist poems from the Romanticism and Victorian periods as well as Wallace Stevens' "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird." Using a...
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Arthur Meets the President
Students listen to Arthur Meets the President and participate in Internet activities. In this Arthur Meets the President lesson, students become familiar with the work of the President. Students create a KWL about the job of the...
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On the Move! Lesson Five
Fifth graders research how the colonists traveled in the eighteenth century. For this transportation lesson, 5th graders complete a graphic organizer about modes of transportation today. Then they discuss the differences for colonial...
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Enduring Cultures
Students research the art, dance or a game from the Pacific Northwest Coast Aborigines. In this Canadian Cultures lesson, students view a PowerPoint about the Inuits. Students choose a game , type of artwork or dance to research....
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Teaching Lewis and Clark: Tribal Cultures and Homelands
Students examine the attributes of the tribes that inhabited the Columbia River Basin. In this Lewis and Clark lesson, students participate in a classroom simulation that requires them to participate in a seasonal round, in which they...
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