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WH AT' S Y O U R A M B I T I O N?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students read and analyze an excerpt from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain. Students use the Six Traits of Writing to compose an essay on a personal life ambition that each students may have. Students use prewriting strategies and...
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Ten Crucial Days- How Can the Underdog Win?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students identify the strategy that General Washington used to defeat a stronger force. In this Revolutionary War lesson, students investigate how Washington won the battles of Trenton and Princeton by watching the video Ten Crucial...
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Artifacts

For Teachers K - 4th
Students examine different artifacts and determine the difference between personal and cultural objects. They collect items from their home of cultural importance as well. They identify all they can from artifacts they are given to analyze.
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Promoting Academic Success

For Teachers 8th - 9th
Students apply basic time management skills to their lifestyle and implement study skills. Also, they should be able to implement management techniques in their daily lives as well. Students list activities and assignments and determine...
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Conflict Resolution Lesson Plan

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders investigate conflict and social justice. For this conflict resolution lesson, 4th graders consider conflicts they have experienced and think about how they could have applied conflict resolution strategies to change the...
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Unlocking Word Meanings

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders investigate eponyms in the English language. In this eponym lesson, 4th graders participate in a teacher led lesson on the definition of an eponym. They complete a worksheet in which they determine which eponym became part...
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What Part of the Earth's Surface is Covered by Oceans?

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders investigate oceans. In this Earth science lesson, 3rd graders predict how much of the Earth's surface is covered by oceans. Students determine if their predictions are accurate by throwing a globe to...
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The Artist As Entrepreneur: You Say Tomato, I See Tomato

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils compare phone negotiations with in person negotiations to identify the non-verbal communication that is produced in face-to-face meetings. They practice forms of non-verbal communication by reciting the alphabet and showing a...
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Cinderella Stories

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students listen to the Scottish tale, The Princess and the Golden Shoes, creating a character chart. They develop a newspaper containing news stories, personality profiles, and editorials regarding The Princess and the Golden Shoes.
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Social Letter

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students write social letter to friend or penpal in target foreign language to demonstrate knowledge of vocabulary and complex language structures, write with understanding and facility, and use appropriate presentational strategies to...
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Up, Up, and Away With Fluency

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Student improve their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing decoding and rereading strategies, young scholars to complete a timed assessment of their words read per minute and record their progress after...
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Quilt Codes

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners list criteria to evaluate credible historical sources and defend their criteria in an essay. In this historical sources lesson plan, students review information of historical sources as well as the facts and pictures.
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Tuck Everlasting: UDL Team Lesson Plan

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners participate in a differentiated activity about Tuck Everlasting. In this Tuck Everlasting activity, students work on comprehension strategies that are leveled for their reading ability. They focus on the ability to tell the main...
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Journaling and Diaries

For Teachers 8th - 9th
Students create a record of their own journal and demonstrate the use of a journal/diary. They explore the purposes and benefits of journaling for themselves personally as well as for us in today's world (emotionally and historically).
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Reading Artifacts

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students explore and analyze categorizing objects, material culture artifacts, from a variety of perspectives, to consider the story behind each one. They research skills by assessing how to look at artifacts as cultural outsiders would....
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Do Your Best At School

For Students 4th - 6th
In this poster worksheet, students read strategies and encouragement for doing their best work in school. They read reasons for doing their best, listening well, trying new things, and trying hard.
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Organization: Look at What I Organized!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore organization by participating in an object sorting activity. In this indexing lesson, students examine their classroom and identify materials that should be organized in order to make the room more efficient. Students...
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My Name Is Me!

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students write about themselves. In this personal writing lesson, students write their name vertically down a sheet of paper and think of a self descriptive word that matches each letter of their name. Students write a descriptive...
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Buying, Selling, Profits

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners follow the framework of the Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA). In this FCCLA lesson plan, students research the clothing market from the perspectives of consumers and business owners. Learners also...
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Nutritional Needs

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students determine caloric needs for an active person and what role nutrition plays in one's energy,  For this nutritional needs lesson, students discuss the definition of calorie and identify high calorie foods.  Students work...
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Reading Clues

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Critically Evaluating Alarming News students use a guided reading strategy to explore news articles about the Washington-area sniper attacks, and conduct a roundtable discussion to investigate public reaction to the case. October 17, 200
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Texas History

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders discover the importance of certain Texas historical people, places, and times. They develop an Inspiration slide which displays the five to ten summarized facts as well as a picture from the Clip Art program.
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Picture Writing

For Teachers K - 12th
Students use pictures to help them communicate their ideas. They write personal books or journals using pictures. Students can create daily blogs usig the internet and create a weekly newsletter.
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Accounting -- Journalizing Purchases and Cash Payments

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students comprehend what a partnership is, how a merchandising business is set up, what a vendor is, how to use invoices, as well as journaling purchases for cash and on account. They get an introduction, review games, and are quizzed on...