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Hey, Get a Job! A Teen Guide for Getting and Keeping a Job

For Teachers 8th - Higher Ed
Students research the job marketplace and try to find a job for themselves. In this job search lesson, students make a list of possible job sites, read the Child Labor Laws, and complete the application process for a job. Students create...
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Cultural Comparisons Interview

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students interview a family member and give an oral report. In this oral history lesson, students create interview questions relevant to an American historical period. Students interview a family member and present an oral report to the...
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Exploring Community Through Local History: Oral Stories, Landmarks and Traditions

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers explore the history of their local community. In this local history lesson, students analyze primary documents to develop an understanding of the local culture and traditions of their local community.
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State Dinners And Funerals: Protocol And Diplomacy

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners investigate the use of dinners and funerals as protocol in the life of American Government. They conduct research using the internet and a variety of resources. The information is used in order to answer key questions about...
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Chado: The Way of Tea

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students participate in a tea ceremony in order to explore the multisensory experience that can be enjoyed as a bowl of tea and the various tea utensils are viewed, contemplated and experienced in this High School instructional activity.
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S'More Mores

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Learners consider social practices common to their target language. They work in pairs to research social practices common to the target language society that differ from those in the United States. They prepare a three-minute...
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Amazing Artists

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine how social and cultural factors affect artists. In small groups they select a specific artist, and conduct research. Students then use a digital camera and digital video camera to create a mini-movie about their artist.
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Helmet Safety/ Travis's Story

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders investigate the concept of walking and riding a bicycle as necessary forms of transportation. They watch a video about bicycle safety and write a reflection about notes taken from the video. Students conduct an experiment...
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MOSAICS

For Teachers All
Visual arts instructional activity emphasizing pattern and design in individual student mosaics made with paper and reviewing line, shape, space, and color. The individual mosaics will be used to create a border for a group mosaic in...
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Pathways to the Future

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers draw a pathway and create a movement phrase along that same path using specific movement vocabulary. The phrases are performed in class and rubrics are used for assessment. Meets State standards for the arts.
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Center Stage -- Focus on the Elderly

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners role play and identify the perspectives of senior citizens. They develop a plan on how to interact with the elderly successfully. They examine children's books on how to relate to the elderly.
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P a g e - b y - P a g e

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers discuss the writing process and take notes on the five steps and how they can be used in other subjects. They examine a newspaper article and after reading it they identify the five W's and H. They brainstorm to come...
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Reality Ethics

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
Students suggest ethical decisions to problems and determine the basis and authority for them as ethical decisions.
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Utilizing ClarisWorks Newsletter

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students produce their own communication channel with their parents by establishing a monthly newsletter. The newsletter will be used to improve the communication channel between home and school. Student groups are assigned a topic of...
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So, You Think You Understand Parliamentary Democracy ?

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders experience first hand the complexity of the political process. They analyze the relationship between party policies and the political spectrum and develop an understanding of how Canada's laws are debated and passed.
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Letters of Recommendation

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students write letters of recommendation. They discuss uses for letters of recommendation including jobs, colleges, scholarships, and internships. They discuss who to ask for letters of recommendation and obtain two to three letters of...
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Intermediate Sentence Completion 4

For Students 5th - 6th
In this sentence completion learning exercise, students read the sentences and choose the best word to complete the sentence. Students complete 12 sentences.
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Jewish Culture

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the Jewish culture by listening to a guest speaker who discuss holidays, religion, and key events. They recognize and write various vocabulary words to describe one Jewish Holiday in their journals.
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Comparing Chinese And Japanese Ceramics

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students discuss the conception of beauty by considering and contrasting the appearance and use of Chinese and Japanese ceramics in this lesson for the middle or high school classroom.
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Winter Holiday Attitude Adjustment

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students create kind sentences or compliments for each classmate in this feel-good instructional activity ideal for a Language Arts classroom just before Winter break. The instructional activity includes examples of positive comments...
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How Do We Utilize Flash Tools to Improve Research?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students complete Flash Movies. They identify how to use the Push Button Component in Flash and how to create Scenes. They demonstrate how to use buttons to move within a Flash Movie and finish movies for their Research Projects.
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Biochemistry Taboo

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Pupils play a "Biochemistry Taboo" game using their knowledge of Biological chemistry and taboo cards. This lesson can be used as a review or an introduction into concepts covered in Biochemistry and includes a pre-activity worksheet.
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Speleothem Formations

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students examine how speleothem formations can be simulated. Students follow directions carefully in this laboratory experiment, and keep a written account of everything they observe. After five days, the students share their experiment...
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Unite for Literacy: Friends: Say Something Nice

For Students Pre-K - K
Young children demonstrate how to talk nicely and use their manners. Includes audio narration in English, Spanish, and Turkish with text in English.

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