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Bigger Flowers
Students discuss flowers and their parts, examine works by Georgia O'Keeffe, and draw, color, or paint large flowers.
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What do you know about your town?
Students create a PowerPoint about the community they live in now and long ago. In this community lesson plan, students fill out graphic organizers about town events that have happened and create timelines as well.
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Elements
Middle schoolers explore the periodic table. In this Chemistry lesson plan, students will review how Mendeleyev predicted the missing elements in the periodic table. The middle schoolers will then be assigned one of the missing elements...
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Night by Elie Weisel
Students read "No News from Auschwitz" and answer the study questions as an introduction to the novel. They record reactions to the essay and compare with reactions after reading "Night".
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Professional-like Multimedia Slide Show
Students chose a topic from the current curriculum to develop a PowerPoint presentation about. They present the PowerPoint in a professional manner which includes the way they are dressed and the way they interact with the audience. Each...
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Say What?
Students explore the literal and figurative meanings of twenty-nine phrases and sayings. This unit of nine lessons integrates written expression and convention to demonstrate the value of idioms to the language.
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Into To Adverbs
Students explore the function of adverbs. While taking notes during the class lecture, students explore the parts of speech and label the adverbs. They identify the types of questions that adverbs answer and explore the difference...
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Family Lessons in Philanthropy: The Drive
Students investigate family philanthropy. In this family philanthropy instructional activity, students review vocabulary such as community, family, service, volunteer, tradition, and caring. They listen to Valerie Flournoy's, The...
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Exploration and Encounters
Fourth graders research explorers of the New World. In this American history instructional activity, 4th graders conduct internet & textbook research about various New World explorers. Students compare and contrast the...
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Middleton/Kuna History Teleconference
Third graders study the history and building of Middleton and Kuna. They create timelines of significant events in the towns' histories. Finally, they create a website dealing with Middleton and Kuna history.
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Embrace Space
Students use the internet to gather informatino about the solar system and space. In groups, they create a slideshow in which they use illustrations from the internet and include their own text. They complete the lesson by going on a...
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Punctuating Dialogue
Students punctuate sentences containing dialogue. In this dialogue lesson students solve and create sentence puzzles which are sentences cut into individual parts.
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Folktales: "The Storytelling Stone"
Pupils create a folktale after finding out the importance of folktales in different cultures. In this folktales lesson plan, students determine the definition of a folktale and read a "The Storytelling Stone." Pupils then...
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Immigration Graphs
Fourth graders study immigration. In this graphing lesson, 4th graders make a population graph of people who have immigrated to Indiana.
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Fabulous Alliteration
Fourth graders explore an alliterative tale called Four Fanished Foxes and Fosdyke. They listen to the story, then brainstorm their own lists of alliterative words and make their own alliterative tales. Some nice worksheets are attached...
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Composer/Musician Study
Students research a musician or composer of their choice and present their research through a written paper and free choice activity. This lesson can be done over the course of five to six classes with some homework. The paper...