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Looks Like Respect, Sounds Like Respect, Feels Like
Students explore philanthropy through art. In this service learning lesson, students discuss the diversity in their community and use their senses to create tolerance posters.
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An Introduction to Quadrilaterals
Students explore the concept of quadrilaterals. In this quadrilateral lesson, students play with a floor tile applet to see that there are many types and characteristics of quadrilaterals including parallelograms, trapezoids, rectangles,...
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Ayiti: Children of Haiti Summit
Ninth graders explore the core challenges faced by children in Haiti. In this World History instructional activity, 9th graders examine the impact poverty has on access to education, nutrition, basic healthcare, and child...
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Children Just Like Me
Students study the issues and plight of the developing country of Bangladesh. In this developing country instructional activity, students study a fictionalized case with actual statistics to learn about issues facing children in the...
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Physics: Motion and Disease
Students read media and identify examples of science technology and society. In this physics lesson, students learn about acceleration and velocity. Students estimate how many people would have come in contact with a person who...
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The World in a Classroom
Students calculate percentages of different kinds of people in the world. For this diversity lesson plan, students will see the percentages of different people and different incomes based on if the world only had 100 people in it.
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Panther Trivia Pursuit
Sixth graders design trivia game about panthers. In this panther trivia game lesson plan, 6th graders use the Internet to research interesting information about panthers, write the facts on note cards, and create a game based on...
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What Makes a Cat a Cat?
Young scholars investigate the lives of pets by videotaping them. In this animal life activity, students videotape a cat and other pets using school cameras in a computer lab. Young scholars review the footage from the cat...
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Inventors and Inventions 2:Air and Space
Students fly their own paper airplanes. In this flight lesson, students create paper airplanes and see whose plane will fly the farthest. They discuss what factors affect the flight and attempt to create a plane that will go farther.
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The Life Cycle of the Mealworm
Fourth graders provide a habitat for live mealworms and observe their life cycle. In this animal life cycle and scientific inquiry lesson, 4th graders create a habitat for a live mealworm and observe and record related data as it grows....
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Native American Pebble and Pot Game
Students participate in a game using 12 manipulatives. In this addition and subtraction instructional activity students play a game originated by the Native Americans and look at a number of items and calculate how many...
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Medieval African Kingdoms
Seventh graders examine the geography and political history of West Africa. They role-play as applicants to a company that transports customers to any historic time period. Working in teams, they create promotional products encouraging...
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Please the Trees, But Not These, Please!
Young scholars study trees. In this forestry lesson, students complete a variety of activities where they learn the basic parts of a tree and their functions.
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Which Method Will You Choose? Finding Solutions to Systems of Equations.
Ninth graders investigate systems of linear equations. For this Algebra I lesson, 9th graders determine which method is the best for solving a systems: graphing, substitution, or elimination. Students choose...
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The Roman Record
Using Google Earth, Google Docs, and other Google Tools, collaborative groups of seventh graders research and then create and share online newspapers reporting on the early development, geographical features, political issues, and...
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Teaching: The Next Generation
Technology integration is an important part of teaching 21st century students.
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Phonemic Awareness Infusion
Students explore and describe various kinds of work experiences and skills practicing the regular past tense -ed sounds. They practice pronouncing those sounds with verbs within their reading passages as well. In addition, they repeat...
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Is It Paella?
Students observe a picture of a paella dish. Using a worksheet, they follow directions to explore international dishes. Afterwards, students play a similar game. In groups, students describe dishes and play a vocabulary game.
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Dot-Commerce
Students analyze the impact that e-commerce has in their community, as well as in small traditional communities that one might not expect to be part of the dot-com marketplace. They develop business plans for imagined businesses.
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Kidding Around Down Under
After reading an article, "From an Alternate to a 'Miracle Kid' in a Flash," youngsters discuss the kind of commitment required for a teenager to become an Olympic athlete. A variety of activities is suggested, and the popular topic...
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The U.S. Constitutional Tradition
Students study the Constitution and then in an interactive group activity create a "Second Constitutional Convention" specifically designed to evaluate and trim down the number of amendments.
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Conflict in the Frontier town of Deerfield
Students use primary sources to investigate, explore and represent varying perspectives on the 1704 Deerfield Raid. They consider the reasons Deerfield was at the center of English, French and Native American conflicts in the early 18th...
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Studying Birds in the Field
This is a well-designed science activity which helps young scholars learn the behavior of different species of birds. Working with partners and in small team, students learn to scientifically observe birds.
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