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Keyboarding
Seventh graders participate in assessments related to keyboarding.  They orally defend what they have learned in assignments involving keyboarding, creating a list of 15 words, reading a news article about computer technology, and...
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Words to Guide You
Students discover how to use guide words when locating words in the dictionary.
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Fishy Fish
Learners complete a variety of activities as they explore the letter 'f'. Through instruction and modeling they examine the sound the letter makes, how to make the sound with their mouths, how the letter is written, etc.  They recite...
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Languages Around the World
Students discover languages of the world. In this global languages activity, students use the Internet to discover and translate common phrases in various languages.
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Texas Symbols
Second graders identify the Texas symbols, collect information from the Internet about one of the state's symbols, and present the information they collected in KidPix. Can be adapted to any state.
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Friendship Begins with A Smile
Students examine the emotions behind different facial expressions. They explain how it feels when someone smiles at them and practice smiling and speaking to someone with eye contact. They also demonstrate the characteristics of active...
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Bay B C's
In this unit of lessons, students examine the Chesapeake Bay area. Students learn what lives here and how humans are affecting the area.
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What an Accomplishment
Pupils identify and discuss the images on the back of the South Dakota quarter. They discuss the differences between facts and opinions, and research information about the four presidents memorialized on Mount Rushmore.
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Smiles Change the World
Students explore their feelings when someone smiles at them. In this smiles lesson, students practice listening skills while discussing what makes them smile with a partner.
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Insects?
Students classify animals. In this insects and bugs lesson, students discuss the characteristics of insects and other closely related animals such as spiders, ticks and centipedes. Students talk about the differences between insects and...
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ESL Song Activity - "Arthur's Homework Song"
In this ESL song worksheet, students listen to a song titled "Arthur's Homework," then complete true/false and short answer questions and fill in blanks in sentences and song lyrics.
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Map Studies
Students study maps and use web based activities to develop their mapping skills. In this mapping skills lesson, students use the internet to define cartography they make a list of information regarding a typical road map and explain the...
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Labeling
Students discuss the use of labels. They read the story "Cassie's Word Quilt" by Faith Ringgold. Students view the illustrations in the story. They discuss how the author used labels in the story. Students create labels for their own...
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Word Sorts And Story Mapping
Fourth graders engage in a lesson that covers the concept of using a storymap to increase reading comprehension. They possess the prior knowledge of parts of speech from previous lessons. Students fill in the blank storymap while working...
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How Resourceful Are You?
Students examine the Nevada state quarter and discuss items on the quarter, categorizing them as natural resources, human resources, or capital resources. They paste other coins into correct categories depending on the resources depicted...
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Music History - The Romantic Period
High schoolers chose one topic about the music of the  Romantic Period to write an essay about. They research this era, take notes on the important facts, and write an essay about the topic.
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ADULT ESOL LESSON PLAN--Level 5--Telephone Communication
Students, after reviewing/defining an extensive list of vocabulary terms on the board, examine/identify a variety of resources found in telephone directories (maps, government agencies, coupons, customer guide section, emergency numbers,...
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Passages of Man and Word
Third graders explore transportation and written communication prior to the Renaissance.
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Hot Hoops
Students work on jumping and landing skills and cooperation. This lesson enables students to better use in space, while learning different colors. In this game, everyone is a winner.
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B is for Bowling Green
Third graders identify important places in Bowling Green and list facts about those places.  They write complete, varied sentences using capitals and punctuation correctly and also use the Writing Process.  As a final project, a...
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Say Aaaaa for Apple
Students say words by blending sounds and phonemes. They  decode words in order to read and identify and understand the letter a.  This phoneme /a/ is one of the short vowels that are needed to read and write. They will show example of...
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Quiet Time
First graders practice making the /sh/ sound walking around the room, pretending to be in the library. They then try to say a tongue twister containing the phoneme and practice writing the letters s and h and identify the /sh/ sound in...
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Music History: Part One
Students research the various music composers of the Baroque music period.  They conduct Internet research, take notes about their selected composer, and write an essay that includes important information about their composer.
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Chuga Chuga Choo Choo
First graders identify the digraph /ch/ in written and spoken language. After a brief discussion of the independent and combined sounds of the phonemes /c/ and /h/ students practice identifying initial and final placement of the new...