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Coil Vessels with Symbols
Eighth graders explore symbolism in Renaissance art, use ceramics vocabulary, and demonstrate craftsmanship in working with clay.
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African Ceramic Portrait Vessel
Students create a piece of art inspired by traditional African pieces.
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Healthy Choice Shopping Frenzy
Pupils learn the categories of the food pyramid. In this food groups lesson, students learn to categorize food. Through this activity pupils scoot to different food groups learning about the foods that belong in each group.
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Frosty the Snowman
Students practice throwing at a target. In this target throwing lesson, students participate in a wintertime game as they practice their overhead throwing skills.
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Halloween Stations
Young scholars rotate through 8 stations, each with a Halloween theme. The stations help develop the following skills: rolling a ball, throwing overhand and underhand, eye-hand coordination, and muscle strength.
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Haunted House Challenge Fitness Stations
Students rotate through ten physical fitness stations. They perform various stretching and strengthening activities for three minutes at a time.
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Winter Wonderland
Students brainstorm a list of the activities they can participate in during the winter months. In groups, they rotate between stations in which they can practice or try the different winter sports. To end the lesson, they can play the...
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Caveman Tag
Students practice fleeing and dodging skills, spatial awareness, some experience with normal tag games.
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Shopping at the Lift and Carry Store
Students are provided with the opportunity to practice proper body alignment when lifting, carrying and lowering an object.
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Is It Kinetic or Potential ?
Seventh graders explore real life activities that demonstrate kinetic and potential energy. They, in groups, classify the activity card statements as kinetic or potential. They should also include where the potential and kinetic energy...
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Halloween Carnival
Students, in order to participate in the carnival, dress out and participate in a Fitness Activity for the day, e.g., 2 minute jog, warm-up by stretching, etc.
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Obstacle Soccer
Students practice soccer dribbling, passing, and trapping skills, which enhance students' self-reliance, trust and independence.
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Target Kicking
Third graders use eye-hand and feet-hand coordination to perform the tennis forehand.
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Spook Walk
Students work together with a partner in which they blindfold. With their partner, they must communicate directions to them that allows them to make it across the spook walk. To end the lesson, they discuss the communication skills they...
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JoJo's Circus: 100 Days and Counting and Hoop Happy
Students watch an episode of JoJo's Circus on the Disney Channel. While viewing, they note how many things they see represented by the number 100. As a class, they practice counting numbers by tens and end the lesson by dancing to music.
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Punctuating Adverb Clauses
In this grammar activity, students review and discuss the general rules for punctuating adverb clauses. Students then place a comma where one is needed in ten sentences with adverb clauses.
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Playing in the Snow
Students practice dribbling and passing skills. In this basketball skills lesson plan, students rotate through a series of winter-themed stations with a partner and practice dribbling while jumping low hurdles, dribbling around "snowmen"...
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Dirt Cups
After a hard day examining and dissecting worms, why not put your feet up and snack on a few? Here is a really cute idea that can be used to celebrate Earth Day or to accent a thematic learning experience. Kids use clay pots, gummy...
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Solving Open Sentences Involving Absolute Value
In this math worksheet, students solve 6 open sentences and graph solutions using a line graph. Students then express 2 story problems in terms of inequalities. Students then write open sentences for 2 graphs.
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Reuse, Reduce, Recycle Paper
Students experiment with recycling paper. In this paper recycling lesson plan, students conduct an experiment in which they dissolve newspaper in water and cornstarch to make new pieces of paper. They add color or flowers to the new...
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The Letter Bb
Students participate in a variety of activities to practice words with the Bb sound. In this Bb sound lesson, students use craft rolls to create butterflies. Students create a letter book with B words
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Integrated Social Studies and Cooking Lesson
Fourth graders study the Civil War and discuss what soldiers ate during that time period. In groups, representing Union and Confederate soldiers, they follow recipes, prepare, eat, and share Union hardtack and Confederate Johnnie Cakes.