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Narrative Techniques: Plot Lines

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders develop plot lines as a part of narrative writing process. For this plot lines lesson, 8th graders work in learning groups to create a plot line for a piece of literature they've read. Students discuss the general plot and...
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Investigating Volume

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders investigate and make conjectures about volume. In this geometry lesson, 9th graders analyze data and predict the outcome. They calculate volume using different tiers.
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Science

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders study the theory of plate tectonics.  In this activity lesson plan students complete an activity to determine how seafloor spreading and volcanoes contribute to solving the plate tectonics...
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This is Effective

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders discuss the concept of cause and effect. They write a cause and effect statement involving a physical activity.
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Disappearing Magic Factors

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students identify, through the number of rows and columns, the factors related to the product. In turn, they also discover how to find the missing factor, which is part of the fact family for that product.
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The Laughing Leaf

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students demonstrate real-object writing. They discuss a leaf that has human attributes, and using a real leaf write a story about a leaf that tells them a joke, and create an illustration of themselves and their leaf.
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ESL Activity - Authentic Cooking Experience

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students encounter imperatives used for the instructions for this cooking experience. They review selected vocabulary terms for food and the process of cooking. Students identify adverbs of sequence (first, then, etc.). They follow the...
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Stories Behind Pacific Northwest First Nations' Images

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students investigate Canadian culture by examining mascots of the 2010 Olympics.  In this Canadian history lesson, students read a Vancouver Olympics guide to identify three Canadian mascots and their importance to the First Nations...
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Governance

For Teachers K
Students explore government by researching Native American history. For this First Nations culture lesson, students define the Aboriginal action of speaking in a circle as a group. Students discuss their likes and dislikes with the class...
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How Do I Learn Best?

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students discover their learning styles. For this language arts lesson, students read about the various learning styles. Students determine their learning style and discuss how they can use this knowledge.
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The Envelope Please

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students examine and research the importance and functions of the skeletal system in vertebrates. They construct a 10-foot geodesic dome to illustrate the importance of architectural frameworks and create a clay animation movie.
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Piggies

For Teachers 1st
First graders listen to the book, Piggies, and act out the events of the story with premade puffball pigs.
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Household Chemicals & the Environment

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners conduct a laboratory experiment designed to investigate the effects of chemicals, soil quality and pollution on seed growth and plant yield. They consider how best to maximize agriculture in the long term.
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I've Got the Blues!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students identify the musical form of the 12-bar blues. They identify a problem from the "Farming in the 1940's" section and compose a 12-bar blues song. make comparisons between problems of the 1940's and today.
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Cooperation and Conflict Resolution

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders participate in a variety of activities designed to promote cooperation and positive conflict resolution. In cooperative groups, they create a comic strip or poster, play cooperative musical chairs, write a journal entry...
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Where Did the Science Experiments Go?

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Hands-on science experiments are essential for student learning.
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Nature Notes

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students spend some time outdoors and record their observations of abiotic conditions, geologic surroundings and living organisms. They reflect and write about the experience of being observant in nature.
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Ld Pride: Learning Styles Explained

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This resource helps explain the different styles of learning. Also includes tests to see what kind of a learner you are.
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University of South Dakota: What Is Your Learning Style?

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out what learning style you have by taking this interactive quiz. After taking the quiz, read and understand more about the three major learning styles: visual, auditory, and kinesthetic.
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Alphabet Sound Recognition With Motions

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A fun activity for kinesthetic learners! Students learn motions to go along with letter sounds. This site includes a link to a building fluency site.
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SMART Technologies

Smart: Area of a Triangle

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
This SMART whiteboard activity will help students learn the formula for finding the area of a triangle. Students will practice what they have learned by using examples created for visual and kinesthetic learners.
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SMART Technologies

Smart: Exploring Explorers

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This is a lesson activity which is written to engage visual and kinesthetic learners in their study on explorers: Leif Eriksson, Christopher Columbus, Erik the Red, Vasco Da Gama, John Cabot, Marco Polo, and Ferdinand Magellan.
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Ld Pride: Learning Styles Explained

For Teachers 9th - 10th
LdPride.net offers resources that explain the different styles of learning. Tests can also be found on this site that helps determine which intelligence you favor most.
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Ad lit.org: Do Learner Types Need in Style Instruction?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
How does the mind work - and how does it learn? Teachers' instructional decisions are based on a mix of theories learned in teacher education, trial and error, craft knowledge, and gut instinct. Such gut knowledge often serves us well,...