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Cloze Instruction And Herringbone Technique

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students sort out important information and create a visual framework for reviewing in the future. They organize a large quantity of information thus helping with learning and remembering details, cause and effect, comparison and...
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Water and Ice

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners make observations of ice as it melts. In this phase change instructional activity, students observe ice as it melts in a cup. They discuss their observations and place the cup of water into a freezer to change it back into ice.
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Shell Graphing

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore the four quadrants of a coordinate grid.  In this graphing instructional activity, 5th graders trace sea shells in each of the four quadrants of a coordinate grid and then label the ordered pairs on each...
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Reaching Into Your Genes

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners interact with a video to explore the basis for the science of chromosomes. They perform a chromosomal analysis called a karyotype and explore how seemingly minute errors in chromosomes can lead to devastating illnesses.
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Basic Needs of Plants

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders conduct a plant experiment.  In this basic needs of plants instructional activity, 2nd graders observe plants for two weeks. Students record data from their plants in journals. 
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Climate Change Challenge

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Students participate in a demonstration in which they role-play polar bears and habitat components to demonstrate the impacts of climate change on the Arctic Ocean ecosystem.
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A Family of Planets-Science Puzzlers, Twisters & Teasers

For Students 5th - 8th
In this space science worksheet, students complete 7 science puzzles, riddles, word scrambles, and teasers about the planets and solar system.
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Investigation - Patterns

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students create a pattern out of pattern blocks. In this math lesson, students work with a partner to investigate the pattern they have. Within that group, students continue to design the pattern by adding the next two pieces....
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Learning Opportunities around the World

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students discover how education effects them and their community in a positive way. In this community lesson, students engage in a class discussion about the benefits of public education and play "community I-Spy."
Interactive
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Grade 3 Basic Math 1

For Students 3rd
In this grade 3 math learning exercise, 3rd graders answer a set of 20 multiple choice questions covering a variety of grade 3 concepts. Answers may be submitted online.
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Math Basics-Grade 2

For Students 2nd
In this math worksheet, 2nd graders complete 15 multiple choice questions covering a variety of grade 2 concepts. Answers may be submitted online.
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Characters' Feelings Or Motives

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders use the text, "Fair's Fair" to examine how characters' feelings and motives are built throughout a text through descriptive phrases. They look at what a character does and says to record on their writing frames. Finally,...
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Dodging Responsibility

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students examine what makes people be responsible. For this responsibility lesson, students chart the good and bad things that happen if you take responsibility and if you don't.
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Cause and effect Relationship

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students examine folk’s tales for Cause and Effect. For this literature lesson, students read "The Origin of Fire" and "The Origin of Medicine” and look for cause and effect. They use a TI Navigator to write down their findings.
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Understanding Place Values

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers use the study sheet in the lesson to examine the different place values discussing examples on the board. They then complete the problems on the worksheet independently.
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Money and Business

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders use play money to complete tasks that allow them to see if the budget they came up with works. In this budget lesson plan, 3rd graders create their own budget and test it out with the play money.
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Hector's World - Lesson Plan Episode 3 - "It's a Serious Game"

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students analyze how to tell if an adult is trustworthy. In this trustworthiness lesson, students watch an episode of "Hector's World" and discuss how to tell if an adult is trustworthy or not. They draw a picture of a person who they...
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ADULT ESOL LESSON PLAN--Concepts of Time and Money

For Teachers Higher Ed
Pupils, after reviewing the vocabulary words on the board and being shown several examples, in pairs practice naming the months, days of the week and their abbreviations in order.
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Fairytale Cake

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students recreate characters from the story, "The Fairytale Cake." In this fairy tale characterization lesson, students first listen to fairy tales read aloud. They then use play dough and plastic bowls as pretend "cakes and icing", and...
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I Love a Parade

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students receive a worksheet that describes a parade. They tell what the 10th item in the parade will be. Students draw the parade, and tell the pattern they see using letters. Students design their own parade with the same pattern. They...
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Introduction To Floral Morphology

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners create a model of the four basic whorls of flowers using a water bottle, construction paper and Q-tips. They then examine fresh flower specimens to see how the basic structure can vary in different species of flowering plants.
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Better Lesson: Missing Numbers to 50

For Teachers 1st Standards
SWBAT use patterns on a 50 chart to identify missing numbers.
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Better Lesson: Missing Numbers

For Teachers 1st Standards
SWBAT identify patterns on a hundreds chart. SWBAT use patterns and structure of the hundreds chart to identify missing numbers.
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Beacon Learning Center: Missing Numbers

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
The learning exercise has student identify the missing numbers in a number sequence.