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Air, Air-It's Everywhere!

For Teachers K - 5th
Young scholars engage in experiment activities, which illustrate that air is made of matter, does take up space, and is very important to our health. This lesson contains activities for a variety of grade levels. A very nice idea!
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How an Idea Becomes a Law

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students explore how a bill becomes a law and the actions the President may take. They create a poster illustrating the steps.
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Poetry Pals

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create the components for a slideshow featuring their own poetry, illustrations, and music. This lesson uses auditory, visual and kinesthetic (signing and clapping) learning styles.
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Newton's Laws of Motion

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders utilize Newton's Laws of Motion to explain how things move, create poster illustrating each law of motion, and present and explain their poster to classmates.
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Let's Learn About Firefighters!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students explore the world of the firefighter through various activities and wrap up the day by writing and illustrating a sentence about firefighters.
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Recycling: The Way to Save...Fad or Fact

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students write stories about recycling and illustrate them. They examine various containers and determine whether or not they are recyclable. They make a chart about the containers and visit a recycling center.
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Vivacious Vocabulary

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students practice looking up the definitions of words using a dictionary. They put the defintion of the word into their own words. They create a PowerPoint slideshow to show illustrations related to their vocabulary words. Using the...
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ESOL Lesson, Beginning

For Teachers K - 1st
Students identify the names of body parts on flashcards. The students participate in a "L" game, and illustrate a puppet and name the body parts. Students also identify the names for popular fruit. Students use all senses to distinguish...
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Segmenting: To Kill a Mockingbird

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students divide the movie, To Kill a Mockingbird, on video disc into meaningful scenes, or segments using a digitizer. They name the segments and then choose examples that illustrate an instance of money, power, or human relationships....
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Virtue And Being Noble

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students write and illustrate original cinquains based upon the ideas of nobility and virtue. The activity includes a vocabulary list of key terms and rubric for student reflection and assessment. This is intended for a 4th through 6th...
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Virtue Or Vice?

For Teachers K - 12th
Students create triptychs, pictures in three panels side by side, of certain themes displayed in the painting "Don Quixote" by Jean-Baptiste Camile Carot. Student evaluations are accomplished through participation during in-class...
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Whose money is it?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers perform research on the Web, in books and by contacting lawyers to find out what steps the court goes through to decide who gets the money. They create a chart to illustrate what laws or policies the court follows.
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It's Raining Cats and Dogs! Literary Devices and Figurative Language

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Third and fourth graders study literary devices and figurative language. They view a PowerPoint presentation (which you must create) to review hyperbole, idiom, simile, and metaphor. They read and discuss the book There's A Frog in...
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Signed Number Operations and Absolute Value

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students examine methods for adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing signed numbers. The observe animated illustrations of each operation. students discover the basic meaning of absolute value. They compute problems after instruction.
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When the Fly Flew In by Lisa Westberg Peters

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
The students will listen to the story When the Fly Flew In, and be able to identify the main idea of the story and many of the (supporting) details. Students will also develop an appreciation for the humor and illustrations. After...
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Sorting and Classifying

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders are engaged in sorting and classifying geometric shapes of various colors and sizes. They discuss the properties of these shapes and illustrate a range of classifications using Venn diagrams.
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Winter Clothing

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
After listening to a reading of The Snowy Day, by Era Jack Keats, language learners use a SMART board and drag the appropriate vocabulary word to the correct clothing article. They then record and illustrate the new vocabulary words in...
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Hippocratic Medical Rounds

For Teachers 10th - 12th
A very interesting way to model Hippocrates allows your clas to to compare world views and to illustrate how ideas have changed at key times throughout the history of science. This simulation has students role play patients and physicians.
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Her stories: African American folktales, fairy tales, and true tales

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students discuss the illustration's allusion to the myth, Pandora's Box. Students locate instances of folk sayings or expressions that make these tales seem authentic to the reader. Students draw a Venn diagram comparing Catskinella and...
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Mother's Day

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this holiday worksheet, studies write an essay titled "My Mother." Students also create an acrostic poem and illustrate personalized coupons for their mothers.
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Number Patterns/ Odd and Even #2

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
What's odd? What's even? And what is the pattern? Learners explore addition problems to answer this question, deciding if the answer to each equation is odd or even. They then draw a two-column table to illustrate the outcomes of the...
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Tyrone, the Horrible

For Teachers K - 5th
Read a Hans Wilhelm story and complete creative writing activities. Start by reading Tyrone, the Horrible and discuss the behavior in the book. Then split your class into groups to create a "bully" situation and discuss possible...
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Venn Diagram for Compare/Contrast

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Use this lesson to focus on a compare and contrast writing structure in your middle school language arts class. Here, young writers compare and contrast two texts using graphic organizers. They use a double bubble format for their...
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Chicken Soup with Rice Extension Activities

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
After reading Chicken Soup with Rice, by Maurice Sendak, incorporate some of these great extension activities into your lesson plan. Ideas include focusing on knowing the months of the year, or studying the illustrations and how...

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