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Read with Speed
Young scholars increase their reading fluency through various techniques. After reviewing decoding and rereading as good reader strategies, students complete an initial read of a teacher selected text. They complete a timed reading...
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On Your Mark, Get Set, GO!
Students in order to become a fluent reader need to read often and repeat what they read over and over. Repeated reading helps students gain better knowledge of text. Fluent readers recognize words automatically and with this automatic...
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Historical Scavenger Hunt
Students engage in a game of History Scavenger Hunt to research significant figures found in History. The focus of the lesson coincides with the curriculum being studied for review.
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Open Word Sort: Black Hockey Players
Learners categorize relative phrases from a word bank, then analyze and discuss an article on the subject.
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Promoting Yourself Through Advertising
Tenth graders design their own ads and complete a full-size comprehensive of the final ad which showed color and final layout of the printed piece.
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Offensive and Defensive Strategies
Third graders are introduced to offensive and defensive strategies in the game of soccer. They, in groups, develop their own strategies, write them down for presentation to the instructor and try them out against an opposing team.
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Looking at Data
Third graders use two days to create, collect, display and analyze data. Classroom activities and practice build greater understanding to a variety of forms used to display data.
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Introduction: Time Word Problems
In this word problems worksheet, students read through 2 time word problems and the answers to each problem. They then solve 2 time word problems on their own.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger: Flex Appeal
Students explore how Arnold Schwarzenegger rose to the top of Hollywood's A-list through sheer muscle and determination. Born in a small Austrian village, Arnold buffed not only his body, but his image and ego.
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Nature of Game Balls
Fourth graders see how, when balls are dropped from the same height, mass and size affects the motion of the balls.
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Not Just an Average Class
Fourth graders work together to find the median, mode, and mean of their first and last names using a numerical code in this fun, interactive lesson. After a lecture/demo, 4th graders utilize a worksheet imbedded in this plan to gain...
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Haitian Immigration: Twentieth Century
Students read a narrative about the culture, heritage and history of Haiti including the contributions of Haitian immigrants in the U.S. They conduct further research on Haitian culture and prepare a presentation for the class.
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Couch Potato or Inertia Victim?
Sixth graders how primary research is carried out. They design a simple survey questionnaire to interview people about their week average television watching time. They analyze the results and write a report based on the information.
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Sporting Fever
Pupils view a video about the values that are represented by sports teams. They write a paper about the connection between sports and social values. They share their responses with the class.
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Types of Groups
Learners are introduced to the various types of groups in a society. In groups, they create a chart showing the similarities and differences between primary, secondary, and reference groups. Using magazines, they cut out pictures...
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Ramps 1: Let it Roll!
Students perform the following activity as a group so that they can gain experience with how ramps work. Students will first construct a simple ramp and then time how fast different objects roll down that ramp.
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The "B" Box
Young scholars complete a variety of activities related to the letter B and the /b/ sound. As a class they recite a tongue twister, and identify objects from a box that have the /b/ sound in their name. Students also listen to the...
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Bungee Barbie
Students discover the relationship between force and the amount of time over which the force is applied. They discover the meaning of impulse and it equals the change of momentum. Students connect things to a computer to test their results.
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How to Choose Articles
In this language arts worksheet, students read detailed information that helps students choose correct articles in their writing. Students learn about nouns that refer to one unique thing, countable nouns, uncountable nouns, proper nouns...
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Sports and Geometry
Students investigate shapes in sports. In this geometry lesson, students identify geometric shapes in sports equipment, fields, etc. Students present their findings.
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Mean, Median, and Mode
Students calculate the mean, median, and mode in a set of numbers. In this data analysis instructional activity, students put a set of numbers in ascending order and perform calculations to find the mean, median, and mode.
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2D Kinematics w/ String Racers
Students calculate the speed of string racers. In this physics lesson, students measure the time in several trials and get the average. They graph their results using a spreadsheet.
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Teachers Network: A Trip to Baseball Hall of Fame (Writing a Persuasive Letter)
This lesson focuses on improving students' persuasive writing skills. Students reseach baseball and then write a persuasive essay to convince the baseball coach that a trip the Baseball Hall in Fame would be beneficial to the members of...