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Historical Heroes and Today's Heroes
Pupils identity characteristics of a hero. In this heroes lesson, students discuss what it means to be a hero and work in small groups to find characteristics of a hero and people they consider heroes. Pupils choose three...
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Japanese Abstract Wind Sock
Students create Abstract Wind Socks using brown paper bags, markers, kite string, and basic art supplies in this Art lesson for the elementary classroom. Abstract concepts are emphasized and it is recommended to only use primary colors.
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Design a Pollinator
Students make a scientific drawing of a pollinator with at least five traits that make them well adapted to a given plant(s). They describe in their science notebook the adaptations that make their pollinator well suited to a given plant.
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Heritage Deer
Students trace body parts to create a deer in this excellent Kindergarten lesson plan that teaches basic Art skills and cultural awareness. The lesson plan includes a materials list, vocabulary used, a bibliography, and is best suited...
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Explorit's Chemistry Quiz
In this chemistry instructional activity, students complete a six question multiple choice quiz about chemistry. This is an on-line interactive instructional activity.
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Become a Member of the Mission to Mars Team
Pupils examine the various jobs of the Mars Mission Team, organize them into categories and write a formal application for a position on the Mars Mission. Entries are made into the logbook and on-line Field Journals read.
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Posters and People
Students create and design posters reflecting the types of litter harmful to aquatic wildlife. They explain the dangers of fishing line to aquatic wildlife, plastic bags to dolphins, and fish nets to fish. They design a poster to...
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Culturing Plants from Embryonic Plant Tissue
Student groups use lima beans to represent dicots and corn to represent monocots, soak the seeds, and separate the embryos from the cotyledons. They then place the seeds in Petri dishes in agar and observe for at least one week recording...
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Organizing A Corporation And Paying A Dividend
Students engage in a lesson that is concerned with the establishment of a corporation. They apply accounting principles to different situations in order to make payments on a dividend. Students also investigate the basic accounting cycle.
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Structures Of Life
Students investigate the basic conceptual structures of plants, with the focus being the parts that contain seeds. They comprehend that organisms that have fruit for the holding of seeds for replication of the species. The students work...
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My Daily Work Sample
In this literacy instructional activity, 2nd graders complete some simple daily work in order to better comprehend basic math and writing skills.
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Past or Present Perfect
In this grammar worksheet, learners read the sentences and then write past or present perfect on the line to show the correct verb tense.
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Matching Meals Nutrition
Students play a matching game to practice pairing foods with their food groups. In this health and nutrition instructional activity, the class discusses food choices, then students play an on-line memory game.
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Addition With Decimals
In this decimal addition worksheet, students add two and three-digit numbers containing decimals. Twenty problems are given. Some decimals don't line up perfectly.
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NCTA Lesson Plan on China
Students identify China's geography, especially arable land, rainfall, crop growing areas, rivers, and mountains. Students select a technological advance to draw a diagram of the particular advance make transparencies of the diagram,...
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Matching
In this ESL verbs learning exercise, students analyze 7 pictures that depict people in action. Students match these pictures with the verbs that describe them.
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Links Away: Looking Back and Moving Forward
Students explore fact families. In this math lesson, students use links to model a fact family. Students solve addition and subtraction problems.
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Sensory Elements in the Environment
Pupils verbally and visually identify visual elements found around them everyday.
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Math Who Am I?
In this math facts review activity, students read the description of each math term and try to guess what the answer is. Students may check their attempts by circling the third letter in the box which gives the answer.
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The World of Integers
Review operations related to rational numbers and integers using the include PowerPoint presentation, "Interesting Integers." Young mathematicians classify rational numbers as being natural, whole, or integers and read an article about...
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Time Line Reporters
Individuals in your class research the origin of an animal and present their discoveries to the class. The first appearance of the animal and its date of extinction are indicated on a class time line.
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Tiles, Blocks, Sapphires & Gold: Designing a Treasure Map
Young cartographers in groups hide treasure at school and then create a map to find it using pattern blocks and tiles. They make paintings with clues to create a visual representation of the location of their treasure. Groups present...
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Existence and Uniqueness of Square Roots and Cube Roots
Teach cube roots by building on an understanding of square roots. The third installment of a 25-part series asks learners to solve simple quadratic and cubic equations using roots. Scholars compare square roots and cube roots throughout...
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Discovering New Units
Students use Cuisenaire rods to explore common denominators. In this fractions lesson plan, students build Cuisenaire representations of fractions, then find their equivalent counterparts to find the common denominator.