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Place Value
Fourth graders play a game. In this place value lesson, 4th graders learn the place value of numbers and how to read them. Students work in groups to play a game to practice their place value skills. Students can also use the Internet to...
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Musical Alphabet
Students play a musical Alphabet game after listening to the book "Alphabet Letters" by Rolando Merino in this Language Arts lesson for early-elementary classrooms. The lesson includes an idea on how to evaluate student comprehension.
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Segmenting and Blending Words
Students are introduced to the concept of segmentation and blending of words. As a class, they are shown various words and are asked to determine the amount of letters and sounds in each. To end the lesson, they participate in a...
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Rhythm
Third graders sing in 3/4 meter with an upbeat. They write a poem using descriptive words. Students move at different speeds to show quarter, half and eigth notes. They play a math game involving the number of beats a quarter, half and...
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The Fountain of Youth
Seventh graders study Ponce de Leon and the Fountain the Fountain of Youth. Using a real life analogy, 7th graders compare the skills of a conquistador to that of a professional basketball player. They discover reasons why the...
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Branches of National Government
Learners view video clips and play a game to teach them about the three branches of the National Government. In this government lesson plan, students use the SMART Board, their notebook, and slides.
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Riddles and Words
Students play vocabulary game in which they create riddles and answers.
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Using O. Henry's the Ransom of Red Chief To Develop a Larger Vocabulary
Ninth graders expand their reading vocabulary in order to increase comprehension. They play a game using vocabulary from a novel.
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Introduce Vocabulary: Blueberries for Sal
Students discover the meaning of tier two vocabulary words. In this vocabulary instructional activity, students read Blueberries for Sal, listening for 3 pre-selected, tier two vocabulary words. Words are defined by the teacher and...
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Introduce Vocabulary: Two Bad Ants
Students discover the meaning of tier two vocabulary words. In this vocabulary lesson, students read Two Bad Ants, listening for 3 pre-selected, tier two vocabulary words. Words are defined by the teacher and students practice...
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Silly Sentences
Students make sentences and then play a silly game of switching the subjects and the predicates to create hilarious new sentences.
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A Visit to the Rain Forest
First graders preview "The Great Kapok Tree" by discussing the cover and the tree. They read the book and acknowledge the animals. They play a sequencing game in groups to identify the order the animals appeared in the book.
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The Fraction Race
The students participate in a game involving a hula hoop and basketballs. After each student participates in the activity, they write their game score in fraction form using the points they earned over the points possible.
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Guess the Secret Code
Students practice blending sounds into words. After the instructor demonstrates blending phonemes to make words that can be read, students are divided into two teams for a word blending game. Given the initial and final sounds,...
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Fly on the Ceiling
Fourth graders complete activities to increase their understanding of coordinates. They listen to Julie Glass' book, The Fly on the Ceiling, before playing fly tic-tac-toe and Swat the Flies, in which they use ordered pairs to state the...
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Diseases on Ships
Students create a presentation on one of seven diseases common to sea going ships. In this diseases on ships lesson, students research diseases commonly found on ships of the late 16th and early 18th centuries. Students...
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Coins: Names and Value
Students read the story Benny's Pennies and play a matching game where they match the coin to it's value. In this coins lesson plan, students use the SMART Board to view coins.
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Symmetry Collage
First graders, in groups, studying symmetry, compose collages and bulletin boards.
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Branches of Government
Students participate in a sorting activity to research and categorize the three branches of government. They listen to teacher read aloud and write questions for a game based activity
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Fitness Pursuit
Students participate in health-enhancing physical game of Trivial Pursuit and identify the benefits and effects of health related fitness.
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Guess Who?
First graders write riddles about each other using descriptive words. They try to guess who the person is when the riddle is read aloud.
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Native Americans and Topography at Rose Bay
Students visit a wetland ecosystem. While they are there, students explore how to read topography maps of Rose Bay.
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Neural Pictionary
High schoolers explore the nervous system. They pictorially illustrate terms that deal with the nervous system. Students play a "pictionary" game to review nervous system vocabulary words.
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Two Vowels Making one Sound
First graders become word detectives and find words with the vowel combinations: "ee" and "ai". In this phonics lesson, 1st graders read the words they find and create pictionaries of the words read.