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Building Sensitivity and Awareness
Students recognize the needs, disabilities and attitudes of seniors. For this sensitivity awareness lesson, students work with residents of a senior citizen residence and build a relationship with a senior. Students simulate the...
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Tom's Tempting Tongue Twister Truly Tangled My Tongue
Learners explore what makes a good tongue twister. They identify parts of speech in different tongue twisters and create a tongue twister that truly tangles the tongue.
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Tribal Truths
Students research and analyze the interactions of American Indian tribes with Meriwether Lewis and iam Clark. Then they stage displays to inform the public about their findings.
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Route 66
Students research the Internet to locate information about the Route 66 Festival. They focus on the history of the route in Illinois and create a web page of information.
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Underground Railroad
Learners navigate the Scholastic Underground Railroad site and listen to journey of the Underground railroad. In this Underground Railroad lesson, students use maps and compare and contrast the differences between the North and South...
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Cooking: Solar Oven, Cornbread, and Butter
Young scholars build a solar oven and prepare cornbread in it. In this solar oven cooking instructional activity, students follow instructions to create a solar oven. Young scholars are given recipes for butter and cornbread to follow...
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Evaluating Expressions Using Tiles
Sixth graders are shown a variety of algebraic equations. In groups, they use tiles to represent each expression in the equations. To end the lesson, they solve story problems with one and two unknown variables. Individuals share their...
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Honor Your School and Community Heroes
Pupils honor local heroes. In this community heroes lesson, students create an award or plan an event honoring a local hero. Pupils are encouraged to be creative!
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Decoding Machine
Fourth graders use their decoding machine to find the value of their spelling words. Encourage partners to create a message for each other to decode.
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MAXXI
Students consider building design. In this architecture instructional activity, students read an article titled, "MAXXI." The reading is not provided with the instructional activity. Students discuss the reading and design their own...
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To Walt Whitman
Students examine the poem To Walt Whitman by Angela de Hoyos. They divide into groups. Each group creates a poem written from one of two perspectives: to Walt Whitman or to de Hoyos from Whitman.
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Fun With Braille
Students explore the Braille alphabet. For this social studies lesson, students use an enlarged copy of the Braille alphabet to create a set of Braille flashcards.
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War Stories
Students watch the film "The Perilous Fight: America's World War II in Color". Using the film, they work together to develop proper interview questions to use while talking to World War II veterns. After the interview, they research...
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Ordering the Alphabet
First graders copy words onto index cards. They glue the index cards onto a large sheet of paper in alphabetical order.
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CyberHunt: Ancient China
Students participate in various web based activities about ancient China in order to discover the accomplishments of this extraordinary culture. In this history lesson, students explore the Chinese paper making recipes, and the special...
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Name Games
Students develop a sense of self. They complete several activities involving their name. They disuss what names are useful for safety purposes.
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Olympics
Students participate in Olympic events. In this Olympic Games lesson, students research information about countries involved in the Olympic Games and prepare to participate in a closing ceremony for their school Olympics.
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Huddle up with a Character based Economic Plan to help Community Friends
Young scholars complete Perseverance, Courage, and Caring lessons from Get into the Game: Beyond Winning to properly prepare students for cooperative group learning and create a class climate conducive for a successful unit. They create...
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Fossil Hunters!
Students explore the various ways in which geologists create fossil records. Working in pairs, students create a model of a fossil record through a hands on activity. They relate their experience to recent discoveries in geology and...
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Career Development (Career Skills Awareness)
Students assess their transferable skills and relate them to occupational and lifestyle choices. They apply research skills to acquire information related to job possibilities and career interests.
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Break the Pentomino Code!
Students read and analyze the book, Chasing Vermeer. They discuss the main story elements, analyze how pentominoes are important to the story, use a pentomino code to decipher a message, and create a secret code of their own.
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My Favorite Things
Pupils identify "masterpieces" and mass-produced objects. They explain why they value a given object and determine what physical materials were used to create the objects. They create a class book featuring objects that they value.
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Use Parts of Speech to Improve Sentence Beginnings
Students demonstrate the parts of speech in sentences. In this grammar lesson, students highlight and identify the parts of speech in sentences.
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Homelessness
Students explore the importance of soup kitchens. For this philanthropy lesson, students brainstorm ways they can be philanthropists. Students watch a puppet show about a young girl who doesn't have enough to eat at home and has to go...