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Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: Games for Grammar Usage

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This article discusses games for learning grammar usage including classroom games like Invisible Grammar Guy, Rhyme That Word; how teachers can make their own games using online word search and puzzle makers; and online grammar game...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Shake It in Shades Game

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Make every moment count! Utilize a brain break to learn shades of meaning among verbs at the same time! Included in this lesson is a video of the activity, a reference chart, and a list of fun verbs to act out.
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Common Sense Media

Common Sense Media: Education: Lesson: How Technology Makes You Feel

For Teachers 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson challenges kids to pay attention to their feelings while using tech. With an engaging emoji game, 1st graders learn practical strategies for managing their feelings - good, bad, and...
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Peg + Cat: Games: Make the Cake

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Help make a birthday cake by selecting the type of cake, dividing it into pieces, decorating each piece with fruit, and adding the candles.
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Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Trees in a Diagnosis Game

For Students 9th - 10th
In this dynamic data science activity, students use data to build binary trees for decision-making and prediction. Prediction trees are the first steps towards linear regression, which plays an important role in machine learning for...
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: The Trading Game

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students will learn about the gains from trade. Students will participate in a trading game that will demonstrate that trade can make everyone better off.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Education: Make the Most of Visiting Museums

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Advice from the Smithsonian about ways to enrich your family's experience with museums. Practical tips about how to make your trip stress free as well as suggestions for learning games to play with your family as you roam through...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12 Exploration Series: Simulations: What Makes an Airplane Stall?

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Learn about the science behind flying an airplane and play this simulation game to see the effects of wing profile, thrust, angle of attack, and airplane size.
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Other

Graphs, Stories, and Games: Games on Graphs

For Students 3rd - 5th
What a great way to make math fun for your elementary students! Learning happens almost by osmosis by using this interesting game that uses stories, a graph (the kind of graph defined in the branch of mathematics called Graph Theory),...
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Other

Drum Roll: e.a.k. (Erase All Kittens)

For Students 3rd - 6th
Erase All Kittens is a free, open source game where students must change the code in order to rescue kittens. Arca is a tiny outcast creature whose only friends are the kittens. When all the kittens go missing, Arca sets out on a journey...
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Practical Money Skills

Visa: Practical Money Skills for Life

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Visa provides a resource that teachers, parents, and students will all enjoy using. There are lesson plans here for all ages, as well as information about spending decisions, budgeting, and money management. Print your own play money,...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Follow the Bouncing Ball: A Web Animation Project

For Students 6th - 8th
This project is a fun way to try your hand at programming and expand your knowledge of web design. You will learn how to create some simple animations, and perform tests and make measurements to help you create more realistic-looking...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Phonological Awareness/beginning Sounds

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
During this lesson students will develop phonological awareness through activities that focus on beginning sounds. Students will go on a scavenger hunt, make a picture book, and play games on the Internet in order to help them learn to...
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PE Central

Pe Central: Jump the River

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Young children practice jumping and landing while using proper arm movements to ensure safety and balance. At this website, find a description of the game, "Jump the River," including ideas for demonstrating it in class, ways of varying...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: "Twenty Questions" History Virtual Fieldtrip

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
During this lesson, students engage in a virtual game of "Twenty Questions" with another class. They will utilize textbooks, trade books, the Alabama Virtual Library, and other Internet sites for reference. Each team (class) will be...
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Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center

Wisconsin Rt I Center: Phoneme Substitution [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Classroom teachers will learn how to use phoneme substitution as an instructional strategy. Teachers will learn direct instructional techniques for phoneme substitution. Word picture cards are included to be used with phoneme...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Who Doesn't Want to Be a Millionaire

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Inspired by Barry Lane's book 51 Wacky We-Search Reports, in this cross-curricular lesson students learn how to summarize properly.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Cfpb: Distinguishing Between Earned and Unearned Income

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students play a game to help them learn the difference between earned and unearned income.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Soccer for Kids: Referees

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn about the soccer referees and signals. What motions do refs make for different calls?
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CNN

Cnn: You Be the Producer

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a great learning tool for producing and writing for television news. You have the opportuntity to judge stories and see if they would make it to the newscast.