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Where Will You Go?
Fifth graders research and plan an imaginary vacation. In this travel planning lesson plan, 5th graders work in pairs to use an atlas, calendar, review airplane schedules, encyclopedias, magazines, and the Internet to research...
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Where'd You Get That Paper and Pencil?
Third graders make a poster display of objects made from trees. In this wood products lesson, 3rd graders read "The Giving Tree," discuss things that are produced from trees and watch the videos "Let's Make a Pencil," and "How Paper is...
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Opposites Attract (Elementary School)
Second graders generate a list of opposites found in the book, "Kaleidoscope of Kids". They use newspaper and magazine pictures to find opposites.
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Summer Safety Activity: Time to Tidy Up
Students find that cleaning up can be easy. In this early childhood lesson, students practice fine motor skills while making their classroom more safe. Students create large storage boxes.
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Lesson 2, Student and Teacher Behaviors in Science
Learners explore ethics. For this science ethics lesson, students examine science lab classroom ethics as they consider various scenarios that encourage authentic student discussion and the formulation of guidelines and principles.
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Old Style in High Style
Students explore how fashion has mirrored the attitudes and lifestyles of people in different cultures throughout history and create fashion magazines reflecting their findings.
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Career Bulletin Board
Young scholars examine and discuss different careers. They use magazines and newspapers to find pictures of a career of interest to them. They create a career collage for a bulletin board display.
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Fact and Opinion Detectives
Third graders see how to distinguish facts from opinions in a child's news magazine. After a lecture/demo, 3rd graders utilize a sample story and a worksheet which gives them practice in distinguishing fact from opinion.
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Animal Groups
Learners explore animal groups. In this animal science activity, students use pictures from magazines and classify the animals into five categories. Learners share why they categorized the animals the way they did.
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California Missions Project-Using Publisher
Students create a California Missions magazine that includes a Table of Contents, pictures, and websites. For this culture and history lesson, students research missions and write and create a magazine article about it.
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Ad Creation from Admongo.gov
Students explore consumerism by completing a worksheet. In this advertisement lesson, students discuss the relationship between the media and consumerism while analyzing advertisements from the Internet, magazines and T.V. Students...
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Getting Dressed For Success
Students in an ESL classroom describe and identify different clothing items. In groups, they compare and contrast the various clothing tradtions found in each home country. They discuss the importance of clothing and how they should...
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Ad Awareness from Admongo.gov
Students explore mass media by completing worksheets in class. In this consumerism lesson, students discuss the meaning behind advertisements and how they are used in television, the Internet and print. Students analyze a group of ads in...
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Who I Am Collage
Students create a collage about themselves and their interests by using magazines and pictures. In this who I am lesson plan, students present their collage orally to their classmates.
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Knowing the Ropes
Learners become familiar with the Core Democratic Values that are the fundamental beliefs and constitutional principles of American society which unite all Americans. Each student is responsible for finding three pictures in magazines...
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Technology and the Great Depression
Students examine how technology affected the Great Depression era. They view a video, conduct Internet research, and write articles for a class technology magazine.
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Creative Collages
Students create a collage that reflects their personal identity. They use a combination of words, magazine pictures and personal drawings to create a collage that reflects their unique personality.
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Love, Kindness, and Friendship
Students explore the goal of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. They find pictures from magazines that show love, kindness, and friendship and other things that would make Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. happy. Students discuss why they selected...
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Facing the Day
Students utilize magazines to find pictures that display emotional states/moods. Each student creates symbol cards using magazine pictures to help indicate how they are feeling on a given day. Individuals are instructed by the teacher...
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Now We Teach Six Rs
Students explore recycling. In this ecology activity, students sort classroom garbage into items that can be reused, reduced, or recycled. Students brainstorm ideas for reusing items and discuss ways to celebrate Earth Day at...
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Interior Design - Space Unit
Students review the elements of design with a focus on space. During a lecture, they complete a listening guide and ask any questions they might have. Individually, they are given paper to design the classroom in regards to placement...
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Career Stereotyping
Students learn about gender biases. In this careers lesson plan, students list possible careers with the gender associated with them. Students discuss gender biases and complete an activity where they find pictures in...
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Nonprofits Are Necessaary
Students research community nonprofit organizations. They identify their purposes and graph them. The search telephone books, websites, and magazines for information on local organizations. They write in journals how nonprofit groups...
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I Spy
Second graders investigate the properties and uses of rocks. They sort magazine pictures into the categories of living and nonliving, play a game of I Spy for objects made of rock, and make rubbings of the rock items for their Rock...