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Signing a Poem

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students interpret poetry though movement. In this poetry lesson students take a poem they've previously read and discussed in class and work in pairs to develop gestures for each line.
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Where I'm From: Imitative Poem

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students analyze 'Where I'm From' by George Ella Lyon. In this poetry lesson plan students examine the content and structure of the poem and mimic it to create a similar poem of their own.
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6 Room Image Poem (adapted from Georgia Heard’s Awakening the Heart)

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students explore emotions and memories in preparation for poetry writing. In this poetry activity students use a graphic organizer and prompts to begin to describe a specific memory which they will turned into a poem.
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"The Royal Raven" Activities

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students complete two activities related to their reading of The Royal Raven by Hans Wilhelm. In this interdisciplinary literacy lesson, students explore their own talents, interests and the external differences found in others based...
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Through My Eyes

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders read the book Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges. In this segregation lesson, 5th graders read Ruby's story to find out what happened in her life. They write their own narrative about what 'first' they would most like to...
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Diversity of Life

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
Students identify the difference between eukaryote and prokaryotes and examine the structure of bacteria.  In this bacteria lesson students examine the different ways that bacteria are classified through an activity. 
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Common Theme in Folktale: 900 Versions of Cinderella

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders examine various stories that have a Cinderella theme.  In this Language Arts lesson, 7th graders compare and contrast stories.  Students write various journal assignments in regards to the stories. 
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Model Data with Quadratic Functions

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students model data using quadratic equations. In this algebra lesson, students simplify and factor quadratic equations. They graph the function using collected data and analyze the parabola.
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We Garden: My Life as a Fruit or Vegetable

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore agriculture by participating in a role-play activity. In this farm to fork lesson, students ask and answer questions as though they were a specific plant about to be eaten. Students write responses to critical thinking...
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Getting Started With Java-Background

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Young scholars study the history of computers including hardware and software, binary representation of data and examine the beginnings of programming languages. They investigate the development of software and the fundamentals of...
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Getting Started with Java

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students discuss the history of computers and describe how hardware and software make up computer architecture. They review the binary system and the evolution of programming languages then discuss the fundamental concepts of object...
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Applied Skills Assessment

For Teachers 4th
In this skills worksheet, 4th graders answer 48 questions from the Indiana Statewide Testing for Educational Progress in Language Arts and Mathematics.
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Be My Valentine, Amelia Bedelia Word Scramble

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students solve a word scramble based on Amelia Bedelia. In this word scramble lesson plan, students fill in the blank with the appropriate Valentine word. They have to unscramble the word to make the sentence make sense.
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Windsail Design

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers fit quadratic models to windsail designs.  In this fitting quadratic models to windsail designs lesson, students compare quadratic models of sails with different measurements and mast size.  High schoolers vary...
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Fraction Strips

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this fraction strips worksheet, students cut out each strip and put them back together as building blocks and/or put them back together from greatest to least.
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Digit Reversal Correction: 6 Doesn't Mix

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students practice methods of remembering by association. In small groups, children explore directions of numbers. Students practice procedures for digit reversal correction.
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Word Adaptation

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders differentiate evolution and adaptation. In this biology lesson, 7th graders make new words from a given word by adding or changing a letter. They set up a T-chart and enumerate how adaptation is like or unlike evolution.
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Animals from Afar

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students visualize the scope of the Roman empire by illustrating the geographic origins of various imported animals. They study how exotic animals were imported into Rome from the farthest regions of the empire.
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I Am Me and More! Assemblages and Pepon Osorio

For Teachers K - 6th
Students discuss their role and importance of being a part of a community. After listening to a story, discuss how an artist's memories affected his pieces. Using the internet, they research the different roles of community members.
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Exercise 23--the Regular Pentagon on a Given Side

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers examine and study how to recognize the characteristics of a regular pentagon and demonstrate how to construct one. They become aware of associating a regular pentagon to its term of a double map and practice the concept...
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Lives of Stars

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Pupils take notes on the lives of stars. In this lesson on stars, students take notes alongside a PowerPoint presentation about the lives of stars.
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What's the Best Age to Retire?

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Learners examine the retirement age. In this global studies instructional activity, students read a selection (the selection is not included) regarding the retirement age in different countries and discuss the content of the reading...
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Introduction to the Script Department

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students study drama and plays. They study the job of a playwright and discuss plot and conflict in a play script. Together, as a class, they access an online resource site to find information about playwrights and then decide upon and...
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Mirror Curvature

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students investigate parabolas as the shape of a telescopic mirror.  For this Algebra I/Algebra II lesson, students explore the relationship between the coefficients of a quadratic function and the shape and position of the...