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Maintaining Employment

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students discuss the importance of asking for help during work situations and role play in small groups. They complete clarification worksheets then role play different situations and practice new vocabulary.
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ADULT ESOL LESSON PLAN--Level 3--Obtaining Employment

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students examine and view a variety of employment facts/legalities that comes with employment in the United States including social security, income tax deductions and W-4 forms, just to mention a few.
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Calling All Actors and Actresses

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students read decodable, leveled text with expression. After the teacher demonstrates reading with expression and reading with a flat affect, students discuss which reading made the text more exciting. In groups, students practice...
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Islam - Hajj and Eid-ul-Adha, Panel Debate Teacher's Information

For Students 8th - 10th
In this panel debate worksheet, students argue their assigned character's viewpoint regarding the importance of reading religious material. The worksheet is a guide for teacher's to utilize when holding a panel debate in class.
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Vertebrates And Invertebrates

For Teachers 4th - 6th
In this science lesson, students classify pictures into categories of vertebrates or invertebrates. After a class discussion, students divide into groups, and are given plastic baggies that contain photographs of each. The groups must...
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Fables With Dolch Sight Words

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders read classic fables, consider their meaning and then re-write them using a prompt if necessary. This lesson plan presents many classic fables that students can read, and re-write, using their powers of imagination.
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Power to the People

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students work together to research leaders of disadvantaged groups. They identify how these people use the nonprofit sector to make positive changes. They discuss how the leader uses the democratic core values and present the information...
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Independent - To Be or Not Top Be: Press Conference

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders deliver an oral presentation on the American war for independence to small groups. They use a rubric to give each other peer feedback on the strengths and weaknesses of their presentation.
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Environmenal Detectives at Work

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners investigate influence of one human on our natural world.
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Youth Engagement

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students examine and then discuss opposite sides of controversial issues such as neighborhood curfews, lowering voter age, etc. They learn civic responsibility and cultivate tolerance for others' opinions.
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"how To Think Like an Archaeologist" Suggested Pre-visit Activity for Historic Jamestowne

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students study grocery receipts to simulate the archaeological activity of classifying items. They discuss the receipts as if they were find lists.
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"How to Think Like an Archaeologist" - Suggested Pre-Visit Activity For Historic Jamestown

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners examine how archaeologists use artifacts to explore other people and their cultures. They discuss types of artifacts, analyze receipts for clues, and discuss how what the items bought reflect about people.
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Graph Around the Room

For Teachers K
Students discuss the importance of taking care of their bodies. They brainstorm ways to take care of their bodies. They create a graph.
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Advances in Civilization: A Car or a Horse?

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders investigate the ways in which horses made transportation, hunting and agriculture much easier for the native peoples. They then compare advantages of a horse "back then" to the ease transportation (mainly cars) make on our...
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Fifty Toes

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Learners guess the subject of the given problem by reasoning. Then they discuss the ways that the problem could be solved by keeping track of their counting in 10s and showing their work.
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True and Honorable Wives?

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students discuss whether men or women are smarter. They divide into groups and review Act 2 of Julius Caesar and look for incidents of characters reading or mis-reading "signs", and making either wise or foolish decisions.
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Simple Machines or Are They?

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Learners discover basic machines and how they make completing work easier. They identify two basic machines, the inclined plane and the lever and the functions of these simple machines.
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"Know How" to Line Up

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students identify and define several movements physically acted out. They participate in a freeze activity in which they line up performing different movements. For example, they line up (1) if they are doing a strength exercise, (2)...
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Day Seven - Bible Love Makes the World Go Round - Corinth

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students examine passages in the Bible and identify characteristics of love.  In this Bible study lesson plan students compose poems or narratives about love, complete a written activity and engage in discussions. 
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Family Communication Style

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders explore the different ways that families communicate with each other. After a lecture/demo, 8th graders generate a list of relationships that might benefit from practice in the art of conversation and communication.
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How Prophet-able Are You?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the role of prophets/advocates in society and define qualities and characteristics of an effective prophet. They list qualities of prophets and discuss which characteristic is most important.
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Creature Creation

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders listen to a read aloud of a fictional story about a frog. They compare the characteristics of the main character with a real frog. They work with two partners to create a creature; one student draw the head, one the body,...
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Sculpture, Hands, and Rodin

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners explain that Rodin saw hands as able to express the emotions of the entire body. Our hands are important tools and means of expressions. They create a sculpture based on a pantomime they make with their hands.
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What Can We Learn From the Past?

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students observe items from their past, making inferences and observations about their own culture based on these artifacts. Students then share with the class what they learned about their own culture, giving all students more...