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Personal Hygiene Regimen

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify and describe the importance of maintaining good personal hygiene. Individual students write a paragraph describing their personal hygiene regimen. Products used for personal hygiene are identified. This lesson is...
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Making Math Meaningful in March Madness

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine the statistics of March Madness, the college basketball tournament. They watch videotaped basketball games to collect data for further analysis using Word and Excel. They analyze the data in a variety of activities...
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American Revolution (And What if There Had Not Been One?)

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders create scenes that might have existed if the American Revolution had not taken place. They use information they have gathered to plan, produce, and present a variety of products from the perspective of a British citizen in...
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Civil War on Sunday

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders read "Cvil War on Sunday" together and discuss characters, setting, problem and resolution. They determine facts from fiction used in the story and research drummer boys in the Civil War or Clara Barton using the Internet....
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Introduction to Fractals: Geometric Fractals

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the concept of fractals. In this fractals lesson, students discuss Sierpinski's Triangle using an applet. Students discuss the patterns involved with fractals. Students discuss the area of Sierpinski's triangle as the...
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Alphabetical Order

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students complete an online alphabet activity. In this alphabetical order lesson, students identify the list of words in alphabetical order. Students discuss ordering using the alphabet and practice with the second set of words. Students...
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Which Witch is Which? (Elementary, Language)

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students define a set of common homonyms, such as mail and male. They use these definitions to write sentences with each word.
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders practice vocabulary and parts of speech using chosen words from the novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
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More Body Parts

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders, using Total Physical Response strategies, learn additional body parts in Spanish.
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Finding Remainders in Pascal's Triangle

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students use clock arithmetic to find remainders. In this patterns in math lesson, students explore the relationship between clock arithmetic and remainders using a computer applet. Students also identify patterns in Pascal's triangle...
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More Complicated Functions: Introduction to Linear Functions

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners explore the concept of linear functions. In this linear functions instructional activity, students translate linear functions from tables to graphs to equations. Learners use an applet to write a function rule for a linear...
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Defining Agriculture and Natural Resources

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students define agricultural using concept maps. For this agriculture lesson, students use concept maps to determine the ideas that are related to agriculture such as farming, food, flowers, and forestry before defining the word...
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My Farm Web

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students examine the role of agriculture in everyday life. In this agriculture activity, students read books such as Harvest Year and identify products which from from the farm. Students fill in a word web using the knowledge they gained...
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Before the Tsunami

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students practice their conversation and writing skills as they strengthen their ability to talk and write about the past. For this ESL lesson, students narrate a series of past events using past simple verb forms.  Students then...
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Close Reading of a Sonnet

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Learners practice reading sonnets line by line to find the message of the sonnet.  In this sonnet instructional activity, students read a sonnet one line at a time as the teacher projects it for the entire class.  As each line...
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Party, Party, Party!

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers explore social situations by participating in a role play activity. In this student psychology lesson, students identify the different social situations they will enjoy as they grow older including weddings, housewarming...
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"Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger" Vocabulary

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
In this vocabulary worksheet, students use a word bank from Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger to complete a set of 10 questions/activities.
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Poems and Translation (from Spanish to English)

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars read and are read various poems in their native language of Spanish. In groups or individually, they translate the poems into English and practice speaking English by reading them to the class. They answer comprehension...
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ESOL Filling out a Form

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students review new vocabulary for filling out a personal form orally and then practice writing. They observe an example modeled by the teacher then complete worksheets independently.
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Estimation

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore the concept of estimation. In this estimation lesson, students discuss making estimates through teacher led discussion. Students use the Internet to complete an activity where they must estimate the length of lines.
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The Differences Among Us

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students compare cultures. For this writing skills lesson, students collaborate to chart the tradition and cultural beliefs of their classmates. Students use their finding to write comparative essays regarding the similarities and...
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A Postcard from America by Robert Olen Butler

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Pupils read "A Postcard from America" by Robert Olen Butler and complete comprehension activities for the text. In this close reading instructional activity, students view postcards and read the example text. Pupils complete close...
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Describing Family Members

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders examine the use of possessives when describing family members. In this ESL family description lesson, 4th graders examine the role of family in their native language before looking at pictures of families assigning names...
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Telephone Game

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students practice their listening comprehension by playing the "telephone" game.  In this foreign language lesson, students listen to a story read by a teacher in their target language and try to remember the details by writing 5...