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Push or Pull?
Utilizing the Nebraska State Quarter, pupils learn about the pioneers who had wagons that were pulled across Nebraska by oxen during the westward movement. Excellent worksheets are embedded in the plan that guide them through this fine...
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Introduce: Comprehension Strategy: Comprehension Monitoring
Help readers develop awareness of comprehension issues and employ tools for better understanding. The best way to begin this strategy is to model it through a think aloud. Choose a book scholars will also be reading, preferably one they...
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The Power of Nonviolence: What Is Nonviolence? What Does It Cost?
Your young learners will delve into the language of primary source documents in order to identify the characteristics, benefits, and costs of nonviolence. The lesson plan includes a mix of activities, including an anticipatory activity,...
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Getting the Most Nutrition from Your Food
Healthy eating is a habit that one can never start too early. Learners in grades five through seven, work through a series of activities and informational reading to understand how to make good food choices. You'll find a full...
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Integer Intro
Read a series of word problems and have your class identify the process to solve them. They practice identifying, comparing, and ordering integers. They focus on recognizing opposites and the absolute value of number. An assessment...
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Label Language
Kids use a handy label decoder to better understand what they read on food packages. They analyze the nutrition is a variety of pre-packaged food items by filling out a food label worksheet. A food model kit link and three additional web...
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Attention! Salute! Pledge!
Third graders recognize the American flag as a symbol. In this symbols lesson plan, 3rd graders review the video "U.S. Flag: Proper Use" and identify what the stars and stripes represent. Students view an online clip of how to fold the...
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Sampling Rocks
Students explore Earth science by identifying types of rocks in their schoolyard. In this geology lesson, students collect a group of rocks from their playground and categorize them based on color, shape and size. Students read the book...
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Physics: Motion and Disease
Students read media and identify examples of science technology and society. In this physics lesson, students learn about acceleration and velocity. Students estimate how many people would have come in contact with a person who...
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Building Bridges for Young Learners--Culture
Students explore the concept of "culture." In this cross curriculum literacy and world history lesson, students listen to a letter written by a child from Namibia, then compare and contrast life in Africa with their own life. Students...
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Curriculum Connections with Keiko Kasza
Students read books by the author Keiko Kasza and complete critical thinking skills, and connections to different subjects. For this language lesson plan, students connect the books to language arts, social studies, science, math,...
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Diagramming Annabelle Lee
Eighth graders examine the parts of the Edgar Allan Poe poem, "Annabelle Lee." After listening to the poem, 8th graders utilize a study guide imbedded in this plan to help them diagram the poem. A great lesson plan on poetry!
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The Quirky Quadrilateral
Fourth graders identify and classify different triangles and quadrilaterals. Then they demonstrate an understanding of plane and solid geometric objects and use this knowledge to show relationships and solve specific problems. Students...
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Locating Echo
Students read the book The Adventure of Echo the Bat. In this animal science lesson, students read the book and create a chart labeled "Land Feature," "Habitat," and "Food." Students fill in the table according to where the character...
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Applied Science - Science and Math Lab
Students make a prediction. For this applied science lesson, students guess the number of items in a jar. Students create a bar graph to show the predictions and the actual amounts.
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Rocking the Cycle!
Time to rock out! Discover the "life" cycle of the average rock using an illustrative stations lab and stimulating pairs game. Roll the dice to determine your fate: will it be melting in magma or chilling out to form igneous rock? The...
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Parts of a Tree
Students identify four parts of trees. In this plant biology lesson, students read the book Trees and conduct Internet research to identify the parts of the tree. Students take notes from each website and complete an included worksheet.
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MLK: using Nonviolence to Make Positive Change
Young scholars read about Martin Luther King and discuss the rights and responsibilities of citizens. For this Martin Luther King lesson, students recognize the vocabulary words associated with freedom and nonviolence. Young...
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Officer Buckle and Gloria; How to Stay Safe
Young scholars listen to the teacher read a book about a police officer and his trained dog and make connections to their own personal safety habits. In this safety instructional activity, students create a classroom bulletin board of...
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Religion in Social Change: What's God Got To Do With It?
Students determine how religion influences social change. In this religion and social change activity, students examine how the religious beliefs of Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. were inspirational as they worked to reduce...
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Our Illuminated Alphabet
Students examine artwork and create their own. In this writing and illustrating instructional activity, students view illuminated letters from the Getty Museum's collection and discuss art vocabulary. Students examine the...
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Evaluating Web Sites for Bias
Students become familiar with checklist they use to evaluate Web content for bias. They use the checklist to evaluate two Web sites from very different sources.
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Becoming Africa's Wildlife
Students take a "trip" to Africa. In this Africa lesson, students watch a National Geographic video on animals from Africa. They pick an animal to research, create a poster about, and make a field guide.
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Immigration: Stories of Yesterday and Today
Students use Web technology to access immigration history and develop an understanding of the concept of immigration. Then they develop oral history writing skills, including note-taking and conducting an interview and read for detail....