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Predicting a Mystery's Solution

For Teachers 6th Standards
Who killed Sam Westing? Model for your class members the components of a good prediction, and how to use these components to predict a mystery's solution. Class members use what they have learned to craft predictions while reading Ellen...
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Irregular Word Fluency: Password

For Teachers 1st
Utilize your learners' spare time by having a "password" that learners must recite before they enter or leave the classroom. As suggested here, provide an irregular word that your first graders are trying to develop. How efficient! 
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Olympic Games Snowboard Design: Winter Sports, Snowboarding, Graphic Arts, Global Cultures

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students gather information about a country and work as a team. They use their knowledge to create a snowboard design that represents the country they pick. They explore locations, languages, flags, and emblems for various countries.
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The Dictionary Game

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students play The Dictionary Game--also called Balderdash as a way to learn new vocabulary words.
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Plain English

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers take an educational game/quiz on using plain English. Students examine the three C's of reporting--clear, concise and correct. High schoolers study the importance of using plain English in journalism.
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Storybooks and Games

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Young scholars explore stories, games and coloring pages on an interactive website. In this pre-reading activity, students have free access to stories, coloring pages and simple games at the Lil' Fingers website.
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Rules For the Home Game

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice naming furniture in this Home Game. Students also use prepositions of place to describe where the furniture is.
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Comprehension Game for Guided Reading

For Teachers K - 1st
Students play reading comprehension games. In this guided reading lesson plan, students play a comprehension game made by the teacher. Students may play the game before or after reading the story. 
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Meet You at the Midden: Map Game

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders use a sketch map to interpret map symbols in order to participate in a game. Using the game cards, they identify reasons why people modify their environment to meet their needs. They compare and contrast how people lived...
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Word Games from the Turn of the 20th Century

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders research games from the early 20th century and compare them with contemporary games. They create their own games including objectives, equipment, number of players and rules. They test the games by playing them.
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The Meishi Game

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
In this Meishi game worksheet, students create six small identity cards, exchange them as self-introduction cards with other students and try to collect as many cards as they can to win the game.
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Copy Cat Game

For Teachers K
Students participate in a game about copy cats. They follow an adult leader as they perform positive and negative behaviors. They are to react only to the positives.
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Floogle Game

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students participate in a game of concentration, listening, and speech. While standing in a circle, students pass around an object which has been named a nonsense word. Two objects are passed around the circle, in opposite directions,...
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Sign Language Tag

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students work on their sign language skills using yarn balls to tag with and cones for boundaries.
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Australian English Slang Terms – Part 2

For Teachers 4th - 6th
In this Australian English slang terms worksheet, students research, discover and match the fifteen Australian slang terms on the left with the correct meaning on the right.
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Winter Olympics History Year by Year

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Investigate the history of the Winter Olympic Games. After researching this event and compiling necessary statistics, pupils use a graphic organizer to chart their findings. A template for a chart is included in this resource. Have your...
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Cyber Currency, Currently

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars explore the value of currency and how to save and earn interest. In a key lesson, kids even get to purchase items in their classroom's general store. It's a fun way to learn the importance of being financially literate!
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Animals in Ancient Rome (Grades 7-8)

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Young scholars explore the role of animals in ancient Rome through the interpretation of a fictional account.
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The Family: Louisiana Family Folklore

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Young scholars determine that all families create and pass on folklore. They research stories of their own names and draw parallels between their own and others' naming traditions. They infer characteristics of their communities'...
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Economics

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders write about a time they have experienced supply and demand affecting price. In this economics lesson, the students define basic economic words, then the teacher introduces a real-life example of supply and demand affecting...
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Ancient World

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders play a powerpoint jeopardy game. This can be used as a test or as a way to review information. This is a culminating test for our unit on Ancient Worlds. The jeopardy game is based on goals in math, language arts, and...
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Summary Scramble

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Pupils write summaries that contain the main ideas and the most significant details of a reading selection. For this language arts lesson plan, students first play a game in which groups compete against each other to put the summary of a...
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Left/Center/Right Game

For Teachers K - 1st
Students practice "left" and "right" as they play a game in which they try to figure out which of 3 inverted cups holds a hidden ball.
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Sound Spelling

For Teachers K
Practice how to change words by switching out letters that make different sounds with youngsters. The teacher encourages spellers to, "Think of words that rhyme with "bug." As the kids come up with words like, "rug," "tug," and "mug,"...