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Go Fish card game for recognition of vocabulary words
Students play Go Fish card game (with a teacher made deck of cards) for recognition of vocabulary words
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Let the Games Begin
Pupils analyze how the New York Times uses small feature stories to cover aspects of a major international event, such as the Olympics, before it actually occurs. They brainstorm their own ideas for short feature stories on the Olympics
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Pop-A-Top Math Game
Students play pop-a-top math game to practice solving addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problems.
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If You Were Katy: Let's Play a Game
Students simulate sound effects from Katy and the Big Snow. They read and discuss Katy and the Big Snow, create sound effects for the objects in the book and practice sounding out beginning sounds for words. After sounding out the words,...
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Three in a Row Calendar Game
Students explore a calendar. In this calendar and math instructional activity, students view a video clip about using a calendar. Students participate in a game in which a game board is used to identify days of the week, dates, and months.
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Sports and Exercise Activity
Eighth graders practice utilizing motor skills by participating in different sports activities. In this physical education lesson, 8th graders participate in racquetball, shuttle cock, and baseball style activities in order to...
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Sea and Learn - Lesson Plan: Dockyard Maties
Students solve word problems involving money using all four operations listed, and convert pre-decimal currency into decimal currency. They discuss how dockyard mates were paid and the equivalence with today's money, and complete a...
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Canadian Citizenship Game
Middle schoolers develop a game based on their research of the roles, rights and responsibilities of Canadian citizenship.
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Limiting Factors/Evolution Game
Young scholars play a board game with provided cards which help them realize that limiting factors may restrict an organism in its development and productivity and direct evolutionary pathways.
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The Globe Game
Students locate continents, oceans, and major mountain ranges on the globe. In this globe lesson, students play a toss the globe game. They name the continent, ocean, or major mountain range that is located closest to their right thumb...
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Seabird Survival Adaptation Card Game
Students study seabirds and how they have adapted to their environments. In this activity based lesson students will play a card game that will allow them to have a better understanding of seabirds and their adaptations.
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Snake and Sight Word Board Game
Students practice sight words. Game begins with the first student rolling a die and moving the number of spaces shown on the die. If they lands on a shaded square, he or she turns up a card and reads it aloud.
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Reading: Alphabet Uno Card Game
Young scholars use the game of Uno to help them learn their numbers and colors. The cards have letters on them instead of numbers.
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Class: What's Fair Game
Fifth graders study fair trade by role-playing a cocoa bean farming situation. In this fair trade lesson, 5th graders role-play as cocoa bean farmers and buyers to learn about fair trade. Students complete a worksheet to assess their...
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The Changing Coral Reef Community Game
Students examine organisms that inhabit the coral reefs and their living requirements. For this coral reef lesson students chart population changes and play a game.
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Vocabulary and Language Function Game
Students work together in teams to play a game to discover definitions of words and their language functions.
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Comparing Fractions War Card Game
Fifth graders participate in an exercise in which they practice using fractions. After reading a book, they review the rules of the game as a class. To end the lesson, they determine the lowest common denominator for different fractions.
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Differentiated Learning
Young scholars select a method of presenting on a given topic by rolling paper dice which have various presentation methods on them. They produce the activity and share it with the class.
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Writing: The Reporter Game
Students participate in a game in which they create stories for an imaginary newspaper. In this journalism and writing lesson, students are encouraged to write more than one story.
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Environment Debate Game
Students participate in a role-play activity to discuss environmental problems on which they have previously conducted research.
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FCE or CAE Cloze Practice Games
Learners play a "Disappearing Sentence" memory game with a sentence from an exam paper. They write cloze tasks for each other to practice for the exam.
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Heartfelt/Handmade Activities: Genre Painting
Students examine genre painting. They explore the Illinois State Museum website, identify how genre paintings were composed, analyze the activities of an Illinois farm in the 1850s, and create a genre painting of current everyday...
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Learning the Component and Information Found in the Newspaper
Fifth graders work in a group to identify and reference the index, front page, metro page, state and local pages, as well as the sports, comics and classifieds in the newspaper 90% of the time during the game of "Identifying and...
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Criminal Activities
Students investigate Justice Week in Britain. In this current events instructional activity, students visit selected websites related to law and order in the U.K. Students may create their own anti-social art as a culminating activity.