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Accounting -- Journalizing Transactions

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students are introduced to a five column way to record transactions. In groups, they discuss the importance of source documents when recording the transactions and balancing the account at the end of the month. To end the lesson, they...
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Accounting - Analyzing Transactions to Debit/Credit Parts

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students are introduced to how transactions are analyzed with debits and credits. In groups, they complete a T-chart in which the account increases with credits and decreases with debits. To end the lesson, they analyze the various...
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Rules and Procedures: Part II

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students discuss personal responsibility. Students listen to the teacher as classroom rules, responsibilities and consequences are explained in detail. A volunteer is chosen to demonstrate what a tardy student is. Students fill out an...
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Exploring the Renaissance and Reformation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the effects of the Renaissance and Reformation on Europe. In groups, they use the internet researching their section of the project and take notes of information. They create a visual aid and present their findings to...
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No Title

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students, through musical improvisation and utilizing a video, demonstrate how music is used to advance a storyline. They are introduced to program music and as they enter the room they will see the opening scene from Jaws playing on the...
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Checks and Balances

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students discuss elements of financial planning.  For this personal finance lesson, students practice filling out personal banking information.  Students conduct research using the Internet and a PowerPoint presentation to find...
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Descriptive and Imaginative Poetry

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students use descriptive and imaginative words and images in poetry.  In this poetry lesson plan, students choose a picture to describe to the class.  As the student gives the description, the classmates choose the words and...
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Hula Hoop Habitats

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore migration. In this science activity, students play a game in which they explore bird migration. Students discuss the needs of birds and play a game in which they "migrate" in order to meet their needs.
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Signs of Autumn

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders study photosynthesis and explore how chlorophyll is important to leaves and why leaves change colors in the fall.
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Medieval Games

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students participate in a theme-based field day base on Medieval games. They integrate the field day activities into an academic study of medieval times.
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How Would You Spend a Million Dollars?

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students plan and organize a theme to spend one million dollars. They select a theme, research prices of items on the Internet, organize the information into a spreadsheet, write an introductory paragraph, and create a final project.
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Cultural Recipe Book

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders design a cultural recipe book that promotes cultural development and an appreciation of the students' ethnic backgrounds. They research on the Internet, the historic perspective of specific cultures. The project concludes...
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Crazy Hair

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students decorate small styrofoam cups with faces and plant grass seeds in the cups in this Science and Art lesson for the early-elementary classroom. Emphasis is placed upon the science of seed growth. The lesson includes resource links.
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Casual Pattersn in Air Pressure Phenomena

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students experiment with a jar, plastic bag and a rubber band to perform a science experiment. Students study the photocopy of Thinking About Relational Causality. Students explore the concept of a pressure-related phenomenon that...
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Placebo - 1

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore the placebo effect, thus producing the positive effects of acupuncture without needle insertion. Students discuss echolocation. They participate in hands-on/minds-on activities in reflected sound waves. They...
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Account-Recording Adjusting/Close Entries for Service Business

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars discover how to journal adjustments and post them into general ledger accounts. They explore what a post closing trial balance is and why it is prepared at the end of a fiscal period. They complete an outline and play...
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Living or Nonliving

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders brainstorm a list of the characteristics of living and nonliving organisms. Individually, they find four nonliving and living items and the characteristics that make them fit into one of the categories. To end the...
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PEOPLE OF THE STONE AGE

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders summarize how early people interacted to meet basic human needs. They observe how increased numbers of people and the search for food led to migration. Students analyze how the interactions among people led to the...
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Pumpkin Patch

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students create a pumpkin art project that outlines the life cycle of a pumpkin in order to learn the growth process of this particular vegetable. In this pumpkin art instructional activity, students first review the life cycle of a...
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Animal Life Cycles

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students participate in numerous activities to gather information about parts of the life cycle. In this life science lesson plan, the teacher choose from a number of activities to create or support an interdisciplinary unit about the...
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What Is a Community?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners determine ways they can help in their communities. In this community involvement activity, students read a story that facilitates a discussion about neighborhoods and communities. Learners name the communities they belong to...
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What's All the Fuss?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate why air quality is important. In this environmental lesson, students research air quality and create an infomercial that explains why air quality is important. Students use video cameras to record their presentations.
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Three Legged Relay

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students participate in a three legged relay. In this physical education lesson, students use teamwork to win a three legged relay race.
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Ice Cream in a Bag

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students observe phase change of matter by making ice cream in bags. In this states of matter lesson, students work in pairs to churn their own ice cream in plastic bags. They make predictions about how long it will take for the milk to...