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How to Write a Movie Review from a Pet's Perspective
When would two paws up denote a blockbuster film in your classroom? Only when young writers create movie reviews from a pet's perspective in this imaginative expository writing practice. This engaging topic begins with a class discussion...
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Why is Hawaii's Ocean Important?
Studying the oceans? Focus on Hawaii's ocean with a resource packed with activity-based worksheets. Everything from products that come from the ocean to the abundance of plants and animals that call the ocean their home, Hawaii's ocean...
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History and Musical Aesthetics
What are the musical elements that characterize a school's fight song or its alma mater? Class members listen to examples of fight songs and alma maters from various schools, play a listening game, and then create a list of the...
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Who Am I?
Students classify organisms into one of five categories: producer, consumer, decomposer, predator, or prey. Students play a "Who Am I" game. Signs are hung on the backs of fellow students They must ask questions to determine what...
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Playing Vocabulary Basketball
Learners view a slide show featuring famous athletes and educational institutions that have played a part in the history of basketball. They participate in a game in which a basketball is tossed from person to person as facts and...
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I Can Buy Anything I Want: Consumer Debt and Social Responsibility
A clear, comprehensive overview of consumer debt, credit, interest, international currency, and social responsibility, this 45-minute session falters in the application stage. You'll need to create a way for learners to demonstrate their...
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Explore the Arctic: A Scavenger Hunt Game
Students identify major concepts related to the Arctic region and take scientific information and convert it into a usable form. They then gather data from a variety of resources and create an Arctic Scavenger Hunt Game.
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Ever Changing Pumpkin Faces
Students create different faces and facial expressions on a real pumpkin using laminated black face items. In this facial expressions lesson plan, students can use the pumpkin to show feelings.
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Playing to Learn
Young scholars brainstorm about video games that are designed to teach. They create and perform in small groups a live action "video game" that teaches a concept covered in class this school year.
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Nine Men's Morris
In this worksheet, students play the game of Nine Me's Morris which is similar to tic-tac-toe and checkers. Students are presented with a diagram of the playing board and instructions for play.
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Pumpkin Seed Multiplication
Students practice multiplication facts. In this multiplication lesson plan, students participate in a pumpkin seed multiplication game where they match up addition sentences and multiplication facts. Game board and number sentences are...
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Buzzing for Products
Students practice multiplication playing a game. In this multiplication lesson plan, students pick numbers and multiply them together. Students are awarded points based on which "hive" their answer falls in. The student with the...
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Adjective Fun
In this grammar worksheet, students create sentences by using the adjectives they chose on cards from a game card grid that is provided. They get points for correct adjective use.
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Fraction Memory
Fraction fanatics play a memory game using equivalent fraction cards. Individuals pair up with another player and match one fraction to another that represents its simplest form. The teacher's advanced preparation mentions that you will...
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Fitness Four Square
Students play the common game of Four Square while incorporating fitness into the activity. They participate a variety of exercises that work on strength and flexibility.
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Bingo!
Students participate in a game to identify word wall words. In this decoding lesson, students play a variation of the game "BINGO" and identify sight words on the word wall.
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Bon Appetite Arcade Lesson
Students research nutrition by examining the food pyramid. In this culinary activity, students identify the concept of a balanced meal by researching the different groups on a food pyramid. Students utilize the web to play a game titled...
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The Amazing Prefix Race
Students participate in a competitive game of reviewing prefixes. In this word parts lesson students are given a prefix and one member from each team must race to the white board to write a word that contains the prefix.
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Rhyme Match
First graders match rhyming words. In this rhyming lesson students play a game with a partner matching rhyming words and a coordinating picture. The student pairs make a list of rhyming words that fit with their game.
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Do You Know Deborah Sampson?
Fifth graders apply information about Deborah Sampson to create a Jeopardy type game. For this Deborah Sampson lesson, 5th graders read information text about the Revolutionary War Patriot before using the information to develop...
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Cataracts of the Nile Reviewing Egyptian History
Students investigate and answer questions about the people, places, and events of ancient Egypt and their contributions to world civilization. In small groups they participate in a game answering review questions about ancient Egyptian...
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Dynamic Data Range, Mode, and Median
Students practice statistics skills by calculating range, mode, and median. In this 4th - 6th grade lesson plan, students calculate range, median, and mode of given numbers while playing a game.
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Place Value Partners
Students practice place value. In this place value lesson plan, students partner up and place their numbers in the correct place value position. One student creates the number, while the other student receives the number. They switch...
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Twelve Angry Men
High schoolers assess their understanding of Twelve Angry Men. They create flashcards for vocabulary terms, summarize one of the acts, construct a diorama and complete character wheels. They choose from other activities including...