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An Uphill Swim
Students explore the concepts and engineering principles used in a canal lock system and apply those concepts to navigate a boat through a working model of a canal lock waterway.
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Crime
Students practice orally with the vocabulary of "crime." students read for detail and practice speaking in telling anecdotes.
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Snow Treasure: Marie McSwigan
Students read and discuss Snow Treasure by Marie McSwigan.
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Ser y Estar
Students describe the physical characteristics of animals or people, using the correct form of ser and estar. They draw pictures of people expressing different emotions and write sentences describing the emotions, using the correct form...
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Individualism
Students demonstrate knowledge of the understanding of American individualism, specifically four areas: decision making, expressing opinions, competition, and obligation.
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Earned Income Credit
Students distinguish between tax deduction and tax credit, explain how the earned income credit affects the tax liability, apply requirements to claim the earned income credit, and describe factors that determine the amount of the earned...
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Affirmative Defenses
Students examine what an affirmative defense is. They explore some of the substantive affirmative defenses - self defense, duress, necessity, insanity and entrapment. They determine what purposes are served by allowing different...
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Beautiful Bovine
Students compare and contrast a human body to a cow. Using a diagram, they label and identify the functions of the cow's numerous parts. In groups, they create a Venn Diagram to compare the various types of cows with one another. They...
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Patterns and Sequences
Ninth graders examine sequential number patterns and the Fibonacci sequence. Given number patterns, they determine the next number in a sequence. Students develop their own number patterns and exchange them with another to be solved.
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Job Fair
Students develop job interviewing skills by using role play.They practice interviewing in English. The lesson targets second language learners. The activity is ideal because the role playing allows for scaffolding and clarification to...
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Kente Cloths
Second graders create examples of Kente cloths using paper, markers, and paints in this multi-cultural Art instructional activity for the second grade. The two part instructional activity includes an introduction of Kente Cloth designs...
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What is moral courage?
Students look at "Anne Frank Trust" winners' profiles and discuss what it means to have moral courage. They choose someone they would nominate for the Anne Frank Awards for Moral Courage.
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Good Apples
Students examine how individual differences add to the value of our lives. They select an apple and tell a story to a partner about their apple and the distinguishing characteristics, discuss the significance of individual differences...
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Extinction Is Forever
Students observe models of two kinds of forests with low and high biodiversity. They observe and record the effects of habitat destruction or extinction rates. They also conduct research about mass extinction like that of the ancient...
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Sutton Jumpers
Students perfect skills learned in physical education class and use those skills to create jump routines. The troupe then performs their routines for various local and state organizations. They agree to come to practice before school,...
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5-4-3-2-1 Blast Off To Reading
Students practice reading with fluency by rereading texts to increase their speed. They listen to the teacher model fluent, smooth, and expressive oral reading. They then work in a small group reading orally and self-assessing their...
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Classifying Rocks
Third graders classify rocks. In this rocks and minerals lesson, 3rd graders observe, make inferences and conclusions about rocks, minerals, soil and fossils.
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Activity #9 Tye Green Blob
Students comprehend that a chemcial change produce substances with a different composition and physical and chemcial properties. They state the differences between physical and chemical changes. Pupils observe changes that occur during...
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Euclidean Algorithm
Young scholars are introduced to the concept of a Greatest Common Divisor. They review the number systems. Students are told how the entire field of Number Theory primarily uses the integers. They are told the Fundamental Theorem of...
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Candy Math
Second graders utilize candy to complete various basic math problems. Individuals sort candies, solve addition problems, and create graphs using the candy. Each student completes the assignment by comparing and contrasting selected...
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Soil In The Amazon
Students grow plants in soil representing that found in the Amazon basin. They compare results to plants growing in fertile soil and soil fertilized with leaf compost. Students chart, average and graph plant growth by height.
Students...
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Remembering How to Remember
Students develop study skills related to creating a better memory. This instructional activity has the intent of giving the teacher and student information about memory and comprehension. It can be used in the lower and upper grades.
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Will it SINK or Float?
Students predict whether objects will sink or float in water. They classify objects as sinking or floating in water. Students identify and explain similarities between objects that sink and float.
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The Fight - Oral Fluency Practice
Second graders review the format of a statement, question and exclamatory sentences. After being read a poem twice, they discuss the concept of fluency when it comes to reading them. As a class, they read a different poem with each...