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Stone Soup

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders examine recipes to determine the importance of the sequencing and ingredients. They talk about their favorite family recipes while discussing connections foods brings to families. While reading Stone Soup they focus on the...
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Illinois Wildlife Scavenger Hunt

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students complete a scavenger hunt on a CD-ROM. Using the program, they discover which animals in Illinois are endangered and the types of animals living in their county. They classify the animals into class, families and phylum as well.
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En mi familia

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Read En mi familia and discuss families with your young Spanish learners. Who is in their family? What are the roles of each person there? Does one person generally cook? Youngsters learn the vocabulary for activities that people do in...
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Pet Food Safety A Con

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners use the internet to research pet food safety laws. In groups, they examine what happened during the pet food recall earlier this year and what is being done to improve the situation. They write a news feature story including...
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Celebrate Your Culture

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders share some special occasions/events observed by their families/neighborhoods, and special activities/traditions connected with the event. They identify their own culture's customs and those of others.
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Putting It All Together: The Personal Plan of Study (Part 3)

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders discuss the culminating activity to a unit in which they determine how they will present their "Design for My Future" and "My Personal Plan of Study." They pull together all of their work from the unit before writing a...
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Erase Homelessness

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students research the plight of homeless individuals and families, locally, within their country, or elsewhere. They problem-solve ideas to help alleviate homelessness. They then dramatically illustrate their solutions to be the problem...
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Erase Shivering

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students explore how poverty may affect children during winter months. They examine possibilities to obtain warm clothing for low-income families. Students create illustrated posters to encourage people of affluence to assist those in...
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Medal Of Honor Lesson Plan

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Young scholars make a list of human accomplishments and how those accomplishments are honored. Next, they determine people in their families, school and community who display qualities that deserve to be recognized such as bravery and...
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Menorah Banner Lesson Plan

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students investigate Chanukah, the Jewish Festival of Lights and examine the role of the Menorah during the celebration. They determine how dreidel, latkes, and the daily lighting of the Menorah are special to Jewish families. Finally,...
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Poetic Teapot Card

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Young scholars recognize the role of loved ones in their families and the many things their parents and others contribute to their lives. They write an acrostic poem about their mother, father, or other important person. They then make a...
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Pop-Up Stepping Stones

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Students become aware that humans exhibit a predictable growth pattern and then research their families progression of child birth. They collect their research data and design a keepsake of their milestones in chronological order.
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Walking Trail Adventure

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Learners identify local needs for recreational spaces by interviewing diverse classmates, families, and community members. They work in small groups to consider space needs and a possible place for installation. Students sketch, make a...
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My Family Crest

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students design a detailed drawing of their family crest. They incorporate imagery that's relevant to their family's life. Students consider the variety os shapes for the family crest- circles, ellipses, and triangles. They represent...
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My Family Tree

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Encourage your language learners to draw and write about their families. Depending on their skill level, pupils can illustrate or describe family members on a colorful tree template.
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School-Home Links: Describe Your Family

For Students 1st - 2nd
Choose a familiar topic to practice writing. A prompt is given asking learners to write two complete sentences that describe their families. Pointers are written at the bottom to help writers check that they started each sentence with a...
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I Am Special and You Are Special Too #6

For Teachers Pre-K - K
We are All Alike…We Are All Different is the springboard for the creation of an illustrated book in which young writers record their impression of themselves, their families, and their interests. Sharing the completed books in circle...
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Arrays of Food

For Teachers 2nd
This lesson is based on video clip 220 from the Count on it! series, however the same problem can be posed with out the video. Learners work independently to determine the amount of dried food they will need for a camping trip. Each...
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Budgeting: You Can't Manage What You Don't Know

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students discuss budgets. In this mathematics lesson, students watch an episode of Biz Kid$ about budgeting, participate in a guided group discussion, and create a pamphlet to teach others how to budget their money. Extension activities...
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Exploring the Normal Curve Family

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Young scholars find different characteristics of the bell curve. In this statistics instructional activity, students analyze a family for a specific characteristic. They identify the shape, center, spread and area as they analyze the...
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The Brief American Pageant: The South and the Slavery Controversy

For Teachers 9th - 11th
The unseemly world of American slavery is on display in these slides, which include informational images about slavery in the South. From maps about cotton production to graphs about slave-owning families, these images will make a...
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Jobs in School

For Teachers K - 1st
Talk about the types of jobs found at school, in the community, and in families. This discussion-based presentation encourages the class to talk about what jobs they see, what they think those people do, and what they'd like to do when...
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Favorite Vegetable Survey

For Students 2nd - 4th
What's your favorite? Use this chart template in your lesson on data collection and graphing. Learners record classmates' favorite vegetable in a survey, and then graph the results. A labelled graph is provided here- print both pages...
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Cloning a Living Organism

For Teachers 6th - 12th
It's the attack of the clones! Not to worry; these are just plant clones. Teen horticulturalists will enjoy growing their own clone into a plant in an activity designed to be revisited after a few weeks. It is one experiment that kids...

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