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Top Ten Summer Lesson Plans: Make the Kick Off to Summer Fun!

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
The right summer lesson plans can help both teachers and students spend the final days of school in a fun and productive way.
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Career Interest Record Update

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students create and update Career Interest Records to indicate their current career interests. Students evaluate what they want to be when they grow up and how their interests have changed since the previous year.
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Building Background Knowledge: Jigsaw to Build and Share Expertise about the 2010 Haiti Earthquake, Part 2

For Teachers 5th Standards
Calling all experts! Using the educational resource, pupils work together in small expert groups, reading an article about the 2010 Haiti earthquake. As they read, they record two main ideas and supporting details from the text.
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The Iditarod Trail

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students research and read about the Iditarod Trail and then make a presenation showing their findings.
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Lawnfield and Other Ohio Presidential Homes

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers investigate the residences of presidents found in the state of Ohio. They conduct research in the internet and also looking for buildings dedicated to the memory of presidents. The information is used in order to create...
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South America Commercials

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create commercials that promote travel to South American countries in this middle-level lesson plan for the Social Studies classroom. The lesson plan suggests using educational software including MS Word, MS Powerpoint, and MS...
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Lost in Translation

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students reflect on the uses of mathematics in their daily lives and work in pairs to design brochures that make specific mathematical concepts clear and interesting to a popular audience.
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Summer Fun Activity: Dream Vacations

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students can turn the block area into a travel agency. In this early childhood problem solving lesson, students use creative-thinking and language skills as they design a play environment.
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Looking at Owls in Literature, Art, and Science

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders investigate the characteristics of owls through various science and art activities. They analyze drawings by J.J. Audubon and complete a Venn diagram comparing the similarities and differences of different kinds of owls,...
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Design Technology- Grow Your Own Grub

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students design a protective cover for outdoor plants. In this agricultural lesson plan, students use chicken wire, plastic sheeting, and empty bottles to construct a cover for lettuce leaves. Students take digital photos of their project.
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An Introduction to Data Reading and Computations

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students discover data reading and computations. In this math lesson plan, students collect nutritional data about intakes of certain foods compared with daily recommended allowances. Students create their own data charts based on their...
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Spanish 2 Chapter 4

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students participate in a layered curriculum instructional activity with activities like the following: Students design a 15 slide power point presentation using vocabulary in sentences that is in Spanish. They make a high quality...
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The Market Power Game

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils play a game to evaluate the power of competition in the four types of market structures. They describe characteristics and give examples of pure competition, monopolistic competition, oligopoly, and monopoly.
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Five Great Reasons to Live on the NC Coast

For Teachers 1st
First graders create ClarisWorks Slide Show on "Five Great Reasons to Live on the NC Coast," incorporating pictures from various sources, use word processing skills to write brief explanation of their reasons, and create individual flap...
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Informal Group Portraits

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explain one artist's approach to the Impressionist's use of art elements and design principles. They create an Impressionistic painting that contains two figures.
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Baseball - America's Pastime

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students complete Internet research about baseball and baseball players. They complete a variety of activities including writing an epitaph for Jackie Robinson, a news article about him, and make graphs displaying salaries of a number of...
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Social Studies: Geographic Regions

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders create Powerpoint presentations about the five themes of geography in regions of the United States. They focus on the Northeast, Southeast, and Midwest regions. Students use both pictures and words in their shows.
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Stakeholder Debate: Ethics and Lead

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students work in teams to develop a presentation and handout representing a particular point of view in a Lead Debate. They synthesize their varied knowledge of lead and its issues, organize this knowledge, and present it persuasively to...
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Social Studies: Regions of the United States

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders create Powerpoint presentations of various geographic regions of the United States. They focus on the Northeast, Southeast, and Midwest regions. Students combine their individual slides into a class presentation.
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ROCKING ON TO THE ROCK

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers view the illustrations of family life in the early colonies and make a list of 10 things they see. Then compare those 10 items with your life today. Then read some of the novel "Constance" and write down 8 things that...
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ANCIENT INDIA

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders engage in a variety of activities in order to study the culture of Ancient India. They read text in order to answer specific questions. Students make a crossword puzzle to review vocabulary among many other exercises in the...
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The Sugar Cane Curtain/ Defining Political and Social Struggles Between Haiti and the Dominican Republic

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders explore historical events that created conflict between Dominican Republic and Haiti, examine how need for cheap source of labor has led to exploitation of Haitian workers, and discuss how topography of island of...
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Activity Plan 5-6: Architects at Work

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students build on what they know to make new discoveries. In this early childhood lesson plan, students engage in a block-building activity to develop language, math, and fine-motor skills.
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Biomes

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students research different biomes and find its climate and what plants and animals that can be found in them. For this biomes lesson students search the Internet for their information and fill out a biome chart. 

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