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The House
Oú est la cuisine? Several activities are suggested here to develop and further vocabulary acquisition for your beginning French speakers. They draw pictures of different rooms in a house and place objects around the room. Then, using...
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Why the Common Core?
The Common Core: filling in the gaps and preparing for life beyond college
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Building Collegiality During Teacher Appreciation Week
Acknowledge the teachers in your life and on your campus as we celebrate all educators during Teacher Appreciation Week.
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Every Student Counts: Building a Positive Learning Environment
Join in the effort to end bullying through building a positive learning environment for everyone.
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Fun Field Trip Funding Ideas
Whether it's a lack of funds or lack of time, check out these great ideas for getting creative with field trips.
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Get Organized! Three Websites All Teachers Should Know About
Bring classroom planning into the digital age with these time-saving, flexible web tools.
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Making Grading Manageable, Efficient, and Purposeful
Maintain your workload through focused assignments, expressed objectives, and clear rubrics
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Heredity
Learners are introduced to the basic principles of heredity. Through discussion and discrimination activities, they review the role of chromosomes and distinguish between those traits that can and cannot be inherited. Students use...
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Traceable Numbers Practice
Support young mathematicians with learning to write the numbers zero through nine with a tracing worksheet. A simple activity that allows learners to practice writing each number twice, before asking them to write their age and favorite...
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A Webpage with Frontpage
Students design a school webpage. In this webpage design lesson, students use Frontpage software to build a successful, attractive, and informational Web page.
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Assistive Technology
Students engage in a lesson that is concerned with the use of technology in order to help students with special needs. They take part in a lesson that is designed to help a specific student with an Individual Education Plan and focus...
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Future Career Visions
Students explore a variety of careers. They research careers they may be interested in pursuing. Students create a Career Flyer or Brochure and a PowerPoint presentation to present to the class.
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Communicate and collaborate using technology
Students participate in a collaborative project with another class and view their process of creating the project using technology. Then they use a digital camera and send pictures electronically, saving the pictures to the school's...
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Search the Web
In this technology worksheet, students write the words in the correct order using the theme of technology. The answers are found by clicking the button at the bottom of the page.
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How Are Our Toys Different From Those in the Past?
Learners identify the characteristics of toys today. In this technology lesson, students bring in their favorite toy to class and discuss its characteristics. Learners compare the toy to other favorite toys of their past in order to...
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Computer Security:
Students watch a video on computer safety and then complete activity sheets about the characters in the video. For this safety lesson plan, students are provided with the worksheets.
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JOB POD Career Podcasting Project
Students use Podcasting technology as a part of a career exploration. In this career and technology instructional activity, students research and write a documented research paper on the topic. Students use specific skills such as...
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Vocational: Observation of Children
Students, pursuing childcare careers, discover the purposes and procedures for observing children. After examining various Websites, they construct electronic portfolios which are available for parents to inspect. Finally, students...
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The Joy of Community Field Day
Students engage in community related activities to recognize and thank local merchants. Merchants raise awareness regarding what resources are available in the local and neighboring area for students and their families.
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Famous Michiganians
Fourth graders research a famous Michigan's using a variety of sources, encyclopedias, biographies, Internet resources, etc., to find out what the person was like and how they looked. They prepare written and oral reports working...
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What Can Scatterplots Tell Us?
Eighth graders use data from surveys conducted with parents, peers and themselves to create computer-generated scatterplots. They make inferences from their scatterplots.
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What Did I Learn Today?
Students are given a calender to take home and show their parents what they learned during the day. They write sentences and draw pictures for their calendar. They are able to keep their parents aware of what is happening at school.
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Cultural Corner- "Mexico"
Students use print and electronic resources to gather information about Mexico. They present a mini-museum to share with students, parents, and other interested classes around the district. They present their information in a video...
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Population Growth
Students investigate the biodiversity of living things and how they are interdependent upon each other. They conduct research using a variety of resources. Specifically students create a graph to show how a population can grow in an...