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The Mini Page: Make It a Good New Year
The New Year is a time for reflecting on the previous year in order to make resolutions and set goals for self improvement. With multiple suggestions towards becoming a better classmate, student, friend, and healthy person, the resource...
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Who Am I?
Middle schoolers use a graphic organizer to brainstorm information about their lives. They utilize brainstorming techniques in a writing exercise, and create a graphic organizer describing their lives. They set personal goals for the...
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Motivating the Students
Teachers explore various ways to motivate students. They consider star charts and effort charts to create a point system for motivation. They explore setting goals, progress markers, questionnaires, feedback sheets, and personalizing...
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Wilma Unlimited: Ambition and Goal Setting
Students listen as the teacher reads a book about an Olympic Gold Medal runner who made her big dream come true despite her hardships with polio. In this Wilma Rudolph lesson, students think about and discuss what big dreams are and see...
Teacher Created Resources
Angelina and Sarah Grimke: Sisters of Social Reform
Who are the Grimke sisters? Scholars find out with a worksheet that details the struggles and triumphs of the lives of Angelina and Sarah Grimke. After reading an informational text, class members have the opportunity to show what they...
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Understanding the Complexities of Setting with Where the Lilies Bloom
After reading Where the Lilies Bloom and researching the wildflowers and herbs mentioned in the novel, class members create a mural that reflects the setting of the novel. Groups design the background, the houses of the characters, the...
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Goal: Print and Color
In this word recognition instructional activity, learners trace the word "goal," write the word independently, and color the picture of a basketball goal.
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Am I Balanced? and My Energy Balance Goal
A two page worksheet. The first worksheet - Am I Balanced - has young learners drawing or writing on a plate what they ate. Then they write their day's activities on a shoe. A nice way to look at energy in and energy out for one day. The...
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Control the Classroom from Day One
Avoid the beginning-of-the-year scramble by having a strategy for the first few days of school.
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Reading Skills Profile
Assess your young learners' reading skills, from sounding out words to general comprehension and identifying facts vs. opinions, with this excellent learning exercise. The resource also includes a goal-setting learning exercise that...
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Worksheet 5: Developing Policy Goals
In this research guided project worksheet, young scholars develop policy goals as they respond to 7 short answer questions that challenge them to assess community needs.
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My Reading Goals
For this reading goals worksheet, students write their name at the top of the sheet and their reading goals on a suitcase shape with 6 lines.
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My School Goals Form Worksheet
In this school goals form activity, students fill out the suitcase shaped form with the things that they would like to learn, or subjects they would like to improve in school.
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President Obama's Address to Students Across America
Students write about goals, responsibility, and persistence, and listen to President Obama's speech. In this President Obama lesson plan students create concept webs, listen with a purpose, and list the challenges of our generation.
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Personal Learning Project
Students watch the movie "Cool Runnings", they identify and categorze examples of dreams and examples of goals reflected in the movie. They work in small groups and discuss the movie to begin to generate the concepts behind the terms...
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"Dreaming of Success" Unit
Students recognize the importance of planning for the future. They think about and project themselves into the future. Students become aware that everyone encounters challenges in life and that they can be met and obstacles can be...
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President Obama's Address to Students Across America
Students listen to President Obama's speech, and discuss its meaning. In this President Obama lesson students learn about the president, about how to deliver a speech, and the ways they can make a difference. They create posters, write...
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Money Matters to Me
Fourth graders explore economics by identifying financial goals. In this consumerism lesson, 4th graders discuss money matters and how to conserve an income when they get older in order to achieve their goals. Students collaborate in...
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Thinking About Money
Students evaluate various approaches to spending money.In this spending money literacy lesson, students broaden their financial goals by reading "Alexander Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday" and "A Chair for My Mother."Students use a Venn...
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Goals, Interactions and Outcomes
Middle schoolers recognize both sides of a dilemma through use of a Human Interaction Outline. In this Goals, Interactions and Outcome lesson, students create a diagram to show opposing views of fishermen and oil companies. Middle...
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The Goals of the March on Washington
Who else had a dream other than Martin Luther King, Jr.? Pupils explore civil rights leaders in a fourth lesson out of a series of five about people who paved the way to freedom for African Americans. The inquiry-based unit has your...
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Goals -- Lesson 2
Students watch the movie "Rudy" and identify his long and short term goals. Individually, they develop a list of their own short and long-term goals and share them with the class. To end the lesson, they discuss how the goals we make...
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My Goals
In this goals activity learning exercise, students list 2 goals for their school year, why they are important, and the steps they'll take to reach the goals.
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Goals
Students discuss their goals for the short and long term. They develop plans to help them achieve their goals. They bring all of their plans together and publish it in a school newspaper.