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Health Education: Sports Protection
Fourth graders look at personal protective equipment. For this personal health lesson plan, 4th graders identify personal protection equipment needed for sports and recreational activities.
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Egg-cellent Landing
The classic egg-drop experiment gets a new bounce with an activity that asks pairs to design a lander similar to one used to land a rover on Mars within a fixed budget. The activity provides a great introduction to the idea of terminal...
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Abstaining from Drugs
Students state refusal skills to promote abstinence from tobacco, drugs, and alcohol. They work in cooperative teams to complete a blindfolded race through an obstacle course by identifying refusal skills.
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Gerunds and Infinitives
In this gerunds and infinitives instructional activity, students fill in the blanks to sentences with gerunds and infinitives based on the sentence before them. Students complete 20 sentences.
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Safety Safari
Second graders discuss personal safety in and around the home. They explore their classroom, looking for animal signs with safety rules on them, thus completing a "Safety Safari." They discuss all of the rules they find and promise to...
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Sentence Match
Fifth graders explore the concept of equivalency. For this math lesson, 5th graders write their own word problems and pair them to appropriate algebraic number sentences.
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Body Systems Unit
Second graders complete a unit of lessons on the body systems. They watch the video, Magic Schoolbus Inside the Human Body, trace their bodies and construct the systems on the tracing, simulate the digestive system, and participate in...
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Convince Me!
Students analyze advertisements meant to persuade a reader to purchase a certain product or service to find out what stands out about the ad or what it is about the ad that persuade readers. They complete an analysis chart, and discuss...
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Paraphrasing
In this paraphrasing instructional activity students are tasked to paraphrase five short passages. Students write their paraphrase and can then self check against sample answers.
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Thar She Blows!
Learners identify the advantages and disadvantages of wind farms and turbines. They examine how weather conditions can affect their effectiveness and how engineers are trying to solve the problem. They discover how engineers use this...
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"Working in a Hat Factory"
Students analyze the understanding of what a producer is. Students distinguish between producers and consumers. Students produce a hat of his/her own. Students will share creations with each other.
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Riding the Gravity Wave
Students write a sketch of an artist or athlete that has pushed the limits on gravity. They explore concepts of rhythm, balance and friction. They examine how engineers design sports equipment.
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The Force of Gravity
Third graders observe and analyze the forces of gravity. They are going to pretend to go on a bike ride and listen carefully as you describe the terrain. Students respond appropriately to the forces of gravity. They throw the ball into...
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Compound Words
In this compound words worksheet, 4th graders complete a crossword puzzle as they answer ten statement clues or questions associated with a spelling unit on compound words.
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How Do Things Fall?
Students observe falling objects. They discover the rate of falling is based on air resistance and not the weight of the objects. They discuss how engineers use this type of information to design aerodynamic shapes.
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Safety Fun
In this safety rules activity, students study the image of the person and the safety rules they are following. Students write a sentence for each example that tells how each child is being safe.
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Law and Order
In this ESL learning exercise, students read 14 sentences about what is legal. Students complete each sentence with either "can, have to, don't have to, mustn't" so that each is correct for their own country. Example: In my country, you...