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Finding Balance in Our Lives

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students identify the different areas of imbalance in their lives.  In this personal lifestyle lesson plan students learn different techniques to help them create more balance in their lives. 
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Where The Wild Things Are

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders brainstorm where they think wild things exist. Then using the same strategy they discuss natural surroundings from using prior life experience. This part of the lesson can also be done with using a nature hike. Students...
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Lesson Six Where People Live

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students investigate where people live. For this early geography lesson, students read Make Way for Ducklings! by Robert McCloskey and then discuss what neighborhoods are as they identify them on landscape picture maps.
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A Journey to Paradigm Shifts Guided Through the Lives of Gandhi and King

For Teachers 6th
The students read "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens. Through this study the students will learn what paradigms are, and how to distinguish whether the paradigms they have established in their lives are positive or...
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The Play's the Thing: The Drama of Cyrano de Bergerac

For Teachers 8th
Students practice dramatic 'living' through various drama activities. In this drama lesson, students define drama, view examples of dramatic elements in Cyrano de Bergerac and Roxanne, define characterization within the dramas, study the...
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What Lives in Water: Pre and Post Activities

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this multiple choice instructional activity, students answer questions about fish and how fish live. After visiting the aquarium, students chart the different creatures they see during their visit and solve mathematical equations of...
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Living to Avoid The Criminal Justice System

For Teachers K - 12th
Students brainstorm a list of negative stereotypes in the African-American society. In groups, they develop ways to decrease the chance of them living in poverty and being in trouble with the law. They develop ways to solve problems...
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Who Lives in a Wetland?

For Students 5th - 6th
In this science worksheet, students list the names of 14 animals that live in a wetland. The animals are pictured and numbered. Students identify the animals and color the picture.
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Lessons in 'Little Theater' Echo in Students' Lives

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners explore the drama of real life. In this journalism lesson, students read the USA Today article titled "Lessons in 'Little Theater' Echo in Learners' Lives," respond to discussion questions regarding the article, and complete an...
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Lesson One: How Change Affects Our Lives

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders discuss fears and how their lives change as they grow up. In this change lesson, 6th graders read the poem "Whatif" by Shel Silverstein. They discuss things they are afraid of or what they used to be afraid of. 
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Proper Nouns: Things

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this identifying proper nouns worksheet, students recognize proper nouns that name things in sentences and write them on the lines. Students write twelve short answers.
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Living By the Book

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students read a story individually or in groups to begin the lesson. As a class, they discuss their viewpoints on reading and compare it with the viewpoint of those living in Fiji. In groups, they compare and contrast American and Fijian...
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Keeping Things Toasty in New Zealand

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students identify the signs of a volcanic eruption. In this earth science instructional activity, students compose a letter to their neighbor convincing them of an impending eruption. They recognize the danger in living near a volcano.
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Monarch Egg

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students investigate the stages of the Monarch butterfly and its life cycle.  In this butterfly life cycle lesson, students discuss when, where, and how the Monarch butterflies lay their eggs.  After discussion, students...
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Observing Plants

For Teachers K - 1st
Students identify how plants affect the survival of a caterpillar and what plants need to survive. They plant three bean seeds in the three containers, placing two containers at a sunny window and the third one in a dark closet and label...
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Field Trip to Living History Farms

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Young scholars tour "Living History Farms" in Iowa. In this field trip preparation instructional activity, students observe ways Native Americans began growing crops in the 1700's as well as how the farm changed in the 1800's. Upon their...
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Where We Live

For Teachers K - 7th
Students make a 'where we live' chart to find what's common and unique about where they live. For this living analysis lesson, students complete a chart about where they live.
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Vegetable Colors

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this vegetables activity, students draw a label some green vegetables. Students then draw a label some non-green vegetables. Students then tell where non-green vegetables grow.
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What Makes a Dog a Dog

For Teachers 1st
First graders recall and verbally list the parts of a dog, or a chosen subject, based on observations using the senses. They discriminate between living and non-living subjects, and create artistic representations of the parts of a dog.
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Curriculum Corner

Guest Teacher Plans (Grade 2)

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Be prepared the next time you're in need of a substitute with a daily plan equipped with an assortment of activities covering subjects math, reading, word work, writing, and science. 
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K20 LEARN

It's Alive! Or, Is It?

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Seems like a fairly simple question—until you begin asking your class! Get pupils acquainted with the characteristics of life through pairs classification, discussion, and scientific reading. The lesson plan, part of the K20 series, also...
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Pace University

Pollution

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Over the course of 10 days, scholars take a pre-assessment to place them in one of three leveled groups. Whole-class and in small groups, pupils take part in read-alouds, field trips, hands-on activities, and complete learning contracts...
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Science Matters

Mighty Microorganisms

For Students 3rd - 5th
How can you tell if a microorganism is helpful or detrimental to an ecosystem? Learners inspect slides or pictures of microorganisms and record their observations to...
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PBS

The Lorax

For Students K - 6th Standards
Accompany a reading of Dr. Seuss' tale, The Lorax, with a five-item worksheet. Questions challenge scholars to list characters' names, use text details to answer inquiries, and describe the moral of the story. 

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