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Sorting Lids
Young scholars practice sorting lids in different ways so that each group determines a sorting pattern. They examine how to work in groups while sharing ideas. They establish group work relationships that become apparent to the teacher...
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Day and Night
Students discuss why day and night occur after visualizing a teacher-led demonstration.
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WWII Homefront Roundtable
Students play a role in a roundtable discussion after researching how the war impacted their character. Students play roles such as: African-American, American Indian, Japanese-American, German-American, Italian-American, Jewish refugee,...
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Uchiwa Lesson Plan
Young scholars view images from Japan's Summer Festival celebration. They create a uchiwa fan to use while doing the Kuma River Dance.
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Who's Sharing Our Stories on "The Hill"?
Students explore parliamentary structure. They study the roles & responsibility of key players or representatives. This lesson presents a wide variety of rich activities students can engage in to further their understanding of...
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Rainbow Friends
First graders recognize the colors of a rainbow. They explain the uniqueness of each person in the classroom. They work cooperatively with one another.
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West Virginia Quarter Reverse: Over, Under, In, and Out
Students examine the images on the West Virginia quarter reverse. Using the quarter design as a model, the discover the meaning of directional terms. They play a game where they have to listen to and follow directions and complete a...
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Looking for Newton
Students discuss the rhyming pattern of various types of poetry. With a focus on limericks, they follow the specific rhyme scheme and create a limerick about Newton. They share their poem with the class and write another one related to...
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Looking For Newton
The lesson has sufficient background information for the teacher to implement the lesson. Students are asked to summarize the three laws of motion. They also conduct classroom activities to role play the Laws of Newton.
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How History Changed the Way We Eat
Students participate in a lesson that is concerned with the history of the food pyramid and how it evolved and changed into its modern state. After being presented with the information they conduct classroom discussions about the research.
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Is it Partly Cloudy or Partly Sunny?
Learners investigate the concept of weather and how it is created. They review relevant vocabulary related to weather. Students predict weather given slight background knowledge. The lesson includes background information for the...
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Weather and the D-Day Invasion
Students study the weather that occurred during the invasion of Normandy. They research using the Internet to locate information about the invasion and the meteorologists who helped during the war effort. They
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Friction and Machines
Fifth graders experimentally determine the relationship of friction to the functioning of machines. They demonstrate that rollers can decrease frictional force and increase speed and research to discover other ways that friction can be...
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Endangered Species
Students research the issue of species endangerment by exploring threatened animals, their habitats, and the environmental challenges associated with them. They explore the relationships between living things and their environment....
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Remembering Our Veterans Data Management Project
Seventh graders utilize data collected from various sources based on Canadian military statistics to consolidate their understanding of data management. Students plan and create a PowerPoint presentation using this data including in...
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Charting Identity: Building Community in the Classroom
Learners define identity as it applies to them and their classmates. Using real-life situations, they discuss how identity plays a role in their school and community. They practice creating identity charts and write journal entries to...
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WRITING THE WIND
The student will compose sentences using adjectives that describe windmills.Review adjectives. Write a noun on the board and have students name the appropriate adjectives. 2. Hand out worksheets and review directions for making windmill...
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Arts of Asia in Reach
Students explore the traditions and celebrations of another culture and research a city or community in Japan. They then examine traditional Japanese music as well as practice several dance steps and discover their significance in...
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Left and Right Worksheet - Vehicles
In this positions of objects worksheet, 1st graders practice recognizing left and right by following the circling directions in each of the 6 boxes of pictures.
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Left and Right Worksheet - Animals
In this positions of objects worksheet, learners practice recognizing left and right by circling the animals according to the directions for 5 exercises.
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Having Beary Much Fun with Core Knowledge
Students participate in a teddy bear themed unit to improve their social and reading skills along with other core knowledge subjects. In this social and reading skills lesson, students complete 8 units of activities to learn about social...
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Feltboard Storytelling
Young scholars read African folktales and retell the story using feltboard. In this folktale lesson, students read the story Why the Sky is Far Awayand use feltboard to retell the stories.
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The Witch of Goingsnake
Ninth graders explore legends and specifically the legend of Geronimo. In this legend activity, 9th graders watch a movie 'Geronimo: An American Legend' and answer questions about the video.