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Book Education, Work and Play in One Building
Students gain an understanding as to how the development of different institutions can differ and evolve with time. This lesson focuses on the development of Gary, Indiana's schools in the early 1900's.
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Introduction of Primary Sources
First graders examine a database to explain the use of primary source documents.
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Helping Occupations
Second graders discuss careers that help students and write these in their handout.
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A Panel of Survivors
Students role-play real-life survivors in a panel discussion. They read a mini-biography about a survivor.
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The Perfect Man: Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography
Eleventh graders study the characteristics of an autobiography. They read from the autobiography of Benjamin Franklin and discuss and write an essay regarding some of his quotes.
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Language Arts Vocabulary Database
Students read a selection and identify the vocabulary words for the current week. Individually, they use the words to write in complete sentences and put the words into a database. They also practice their typing skills and must keep...
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Color Story
Students listen to a teacher-created story and practice using color words with a word processing program. This lesson plan has a video explanation and an AppleWorks example of a teacher-created story.
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Things About Me
Students watch as the teacher explains how to use a storyboard to plan a PowerPoint presentation. They examine how to use clip art, background colors, and at least one transition before creating a PowerPoint presentation according to the...
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Routing Explorers
Students read excerpts from an explorer's journal and then become investigators and navigators themselves. Students answer questions about the difficulties and time it took for the explorers to travel from Washington to New Orleans and...
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Research Based Writing
Eighth graders practice researching and exploring given websites and writing a paragraph on the content of each. As a class, they determine the value of each site, discuss plagiarism, and the need for paraphrasing information. Students...
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Research-based Writing
Eighth graders explore the steps for research based writing. In the computer lab, they examine approved, given websites. After observing a chosen site, 8th graders write a paragraph describing the websites' content. They discuss...
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Photo-Based Reading Projects
Students practice using a digital camera and identify the various parts. As a class, they review recent vocabulary and signs used in their community. In groups, they take pictures of various items and write complete sentences describing...
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HIV/AIDS Education
Students in an ESL classroom brainstorm on activities already being done around the country to raise the awareness of HIV and AIDS. In groups, they develop and create a leaflet or brochure to target young children on how to prevent...
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Internet: Introducing Email
Students discuss the use and misuse of email and identify six new technology terms. After opening a word document, they experiment with fonts and sentence writing before pasting it into their email. The lesson concludes with students...
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Make a Two-Dimensional Dollhouse
In this dollhouse instructional activity, students use the outlined pictures to cut, color and paste to design a two-dimensional dollhouse. Students color, cut and paste furniture of their choice.
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Penguin Paradise
Students read about penguins and communicate their information in a one paragraph summary. In this penguin writing instructional activity, students review sentence construction. Students complete a KWL about penguins and read the book...
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Personally Poetic
Young scholars create an Acrostic poem using notes from biography journals. In this poetry and journal instructional activity, students read a biography of their choice and take notes in their journals. Young scholars review an acrostic...
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Reading Between the Lines: Making Inferences About Idioms
Students discover idioms. In this inferencing lesson, students identify idioms from passages and infer meanings of unknown idioms using prior knowledge and experience. Students write sentences using newly learned idioms.
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Tour + Workshop = DESIGN: Presenting Information
Learners develop a business card to market them. In this developing a business card to market them lesson, students design a business card to represent them. Learners create a logo or graphic design that is professional and catchy. ...
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Inventing and Presenting Unit 3: Persuasive Speaking and Invention Promotion
Students write a proposal for a speech. Students prepare appropriate visuals for use in the proposed speech. Students produce one or more graphs that summarize the results from the experimentation. Students deliver an effective speech in...
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Fly, Fly Away
High schoolers use materials from their own environment to design a kite. In this kite design lesson plan, students research the history of kites and obtain a formal mathematical definition of a kite. High schoolers sketch kite designs...
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Analyzing Character Traits
Learners read "Frog and Toad are Friends" and investigate physical, emotional, and mental character traits. They brainstorm a list of character traits that make a good friend. The list is placed into a visual ranking system that is...
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Synonyms Match
In this synonyms worksheet, students read 12 words in a box and match the six synonym pairs. Students write the synonym pairs in a chart.
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Fortunes
Students discuss ways people attempt to know their fortune. They study how in Japan people go to a shrine and get their fortunes. They write fortunes for their peers and share in an activity modeled on that of a Japanese Temple fortune.