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Consonant Cowboy/Letter and Sound Recognition

For Teachers K
Students play an educational computer game, complete a letter recognition activity and close the game appropriately. They sing the alphabet song as the teacher holds each corresponding card with the letter and picture as support.
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States And Shapes

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Learners work together and investigate the shapes of 50 states. They identify the states that they find hardest to recognize. The group then list the states in order from most difficult to just difficult to recognize and create a...
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"Shapes" Dance Lesson Plan

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders create dances by manipulating shapes with their bodies.
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Locomotor License

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students participate in a simulation to practice motor skills and moving safely in the space they share with others.
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Four Corner Fun: A Review Game

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders practice academic skills by answering multiple choice questions. They role-play as fibbers or players and respond to questions accordingly, going to the A,B,C, or D corners of the classsroom. Fibbers can go to any corner.
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Say What? (A Murder Mystery)

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students practice their performance, expression, and logical thinking skills by asking questions and speaking in correct tones. They attempt to meet IEP requirements in these areas by presenting murder mystery clues using the appropriate...
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Ecosystems

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners work in small groups to create a poster illustrating the flow of energy through a typical ecosystem, then present their posters to the class.
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A Course in Basic Skills

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders complete a course in basic skills in order to meet the standards for sophomore year. Using one of their classmates papers, they identify the main idea, topic sentence and theme. They also identify the transitional words...
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Concrete Poems

For Teachers 1st
First graders listen to several poems containing shapes as well as selected concrete poems. They brainstorm a list of their favorite things and then come up with ten words that relate to the top five things chosen by the students. They...
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Negotiating And Resolving Conflict

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students study the art of negotiation and review problem-solving strategies. They use this information to solve problems that relate to school, United States, and world issues.
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Spider Activities, Experiments and Projects

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners examine seven spiders and put them into two or three groups based on their structural similarities. In groups, they create a cladogram proposing possible ancestral relationships. Students design an experiment related to their...
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The Pony Song

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students sing "Three Little Pigs", the "Pony Song", and "The Animal Blues" in this elementary school music lesson. National and State Standards are addressed. Assessment rubric is included for grading and student evaluation.
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Leading Lives

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore a field of knowledge through the life of a leader in that field. They write a high-quality biography of the leader of their choice. In the end, publishing of the biography is completed on the Internet.
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Teaching Elementary Social Studies: Lesson Presentations

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students demonstrate the cumulative knowledge while practicing the skills of lesson delivery for Elementary Social Studies. They set up for the lesson and then teach it to professional peers. They are assessed by the professor for the...
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Collecting and Pressing Plants

For Teachers K - 3rd
Learners engage in a lesson that is concerned with the study of native plants and classifying them according to a kind. They press them into a journal while identifying them according to species. Students compile the samples into a...
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A Guide (on the Side) to Physics

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students engage in a lesson plan that is concerned with the concepts related to the study of Physics. They participate in class discussion and list common misconceptions of Physics. Students write and discuss the problem of Science...
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Caring for Hair

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Student explore the diverse ways that people care for their hair. In this Teaching Tolerance lesson, students interview hair-care providers to learn the hairstyles and hair care that they provide to their customers.
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Working for Water

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students examine the ways that government works to help improve aquatic habitats. In this water habitats lesson students view a video and plan a school restoration project. 
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Bill of Rights in the News: Election Issues 2008

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners consider First Amendment rights. In this Bill of Rights lesson, students complete an activity guide regarding constitutional rights issues raised in the 2008 presidential election. Learners respond to discussion questions...
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Polling and Statistics

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Learners investigate polling. For this statistics lesson, students collect data-on polling and graph their data on a coordinate plane. They identify biased and non-biased polling.
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From Kakawa to Chocolate: The Evolution of Chocolate Throughout History

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the history of chocolate and its consumption. In this chocolate history lesson, students discover how industrialization changed the way humans consume chocolate. Students use the provided worksheet to note details they...
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Sound Effects

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students listen carefully so they can say their "part" during a reading of a Cinderella story. In this listening and speaking lesson, students saying their "part" on cue during a reading of a familiar story. They actively listen to the...
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Coho Salmon Enhancement

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learners build a fish trap across a small stream. The purpose of the trap is to collect baseline data of Oncorhynchus kisutch, Coho salmon, smolt numbers coming out of a spring-fed pond. Other biological data also be measured.
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The Seminole Wars

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Pupils investigate the Seminole Wars, their events, and treaties. They create a timeline, label a map of Florida showing the Seminole population and do research about life on an Indian reservation.

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