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What’s So Bad About “That’s So Gay”?

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Learners explore the concept of inappropriate language. In this prejudice in language instructional activity, students examine how the phrase "That's so gay" is language that hurts others.
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Communication Skills

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students practice and model good listening skills, become aware of the effects of cultural and other biases that affect communication.
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Do You Mean?

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students examine old sayings. In this interpretation lesson, students read and interpret traditional sayings or proverbs. They discuss how these sayings can help improve their lives, behavior or how they treat others.
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Survey Savvy

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore various aspects of design innovation. In this design activity, links are provided to three innovations from the Design for the Other 90% Web site in order for students to study and evaluate them. Students are challenged...
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Using Words to Work Things Out

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students explore appropriate ways to communicate feelings.  In this character development lesson, students listen to Hands are not for Hitting and several other books about expressing emotions appropriately.  Students observe puppet...
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One Thing Leads to Another

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students analyze the storytelling methods in wordless books.  In this visual storytelling lesson, students write a story that correspond to a specific wordless picture book.  Students create their own wordless picture book after...
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Groups We Belong To

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore society by completing a class identification activity. In this student identification instructional activity, students participate in a classification activity in which students with a certain hair, eye or clothing color...
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Koala Lou: A Lesson on Love From Australia

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students will learn how family members can help and support each other as they listen to the story Koala Lou by Mem Fox. They will also learn about Australia as they study the animals illustrated in the book.
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Flex Those Muscles

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars explore the muscular system to examine the different types of muscles in our bodies and how they work with other body systems. They discover how muscles help us chew food and laugh. Videos are used as part of this lesson.
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Immigration Explorations, Part I

For Teachers 5th - 11th
Young scholars visit a number of sites on immigration that were created by other children. They evaluate the sorts of research students carried out to create the site, how it is structured, what sort of information and graphics are...
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When Sophie Gets Angry-Really, Really Angry

For Teachers K
Students explore feelings. In this language arts lesson, students realize that books help in talking about feelings. Students discuss how they feel during the reading of a story and listen to each other in answering various comprehension...
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Protecting Man's Best Friend

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Young scholars read about how dogs help people. In this language arts instructional activity, students select a topic and create a presentation about dogs. Young scholars choose the type of presentation to create.
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Who Needs Friends?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students discuss how to be a good friend to others. They create a list of characteristics to use in more future lessons. They reflect on they type of friend they are in journal writings.
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Anty-Bodies

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students compare and contrast likenesses and differences to others by creating a life-size picture of themselves. In this character building activity, students dictate a sentence about comments on sharing and display them with their...
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Using Reported Speech

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students fine tune their communication skills to include expressing the ideas of others, as well as their own opinions. They must practice a number of times before feeling comfortable using them in every day conversations.
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The Fantastic Kindergarten Zoo

For Teachers 1st
First graders create their own zoo to share with other classes and parents. Groups create displays for the animals. Have each group brainstorm how they create a display for their animal.
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Word Bank Power Tool for Writing

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners use a word bank to help them do their writing and reading. The idea is that they would keep adding to this list as they move from grade to grade.
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Picture a Business

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers create helpful books about local businesses to show what resources are available to their community.
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Finding Yourself Through Autobiography

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars read the writings of individuals whom they know and admire. They see that writing about themselves is worthwhile and important and helps them become better writers. They share their own life experiences, write about...
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Sentence Structure

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders examine good sentence structure and identify the subjects and predicates in a variety of sentences. They read the sentences on a handout and evaluate them for their structure, highlight the subjects and predicates, and...
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Universal Love

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students discuss the importance of various cultures getting along with one another. Individually, they think of a time in which they helped someone who was worse off then them and share it with the class. To end the instructional...
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Author's Purpose

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Young scholars discuss and define what folk and fairy tales are. For this literature lesson, students construct their own working definitions for folk and fairy tales. Young scholars choose to work as a class or in cooperative groups....
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You're History

For Teachers 6th - 11th
Students write personal histories. In this historical analysis lesson, students explore their own places in history as they read the diaries of others and write their own.
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Language Arts: Laws of Life

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students participate in the iEARN Project by completing a questionnaire about values and lessons they have learned. They read sample essays by other students in the project about their views on the laws of life. They then write and post...

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