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An Introduction to Elementary Statistics

For Teachers 7th - Higher Ed
Students explain and appreciate the use of statistics in everyday life. They define basic terms used in statistics and compute simple measures of central tendency.
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Extra, Extra, Write All About It!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine photographs from newspapers and write a headline and story to accompany one.
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Meet the Royal Food Family

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders use mini-books, posters, songs, trading cards and sorting activities to explore the five food groups needed for health: vegetables, fruits, grains, milk and meat. They discuss why good nutrition is important.
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Choices That Adolescents Make

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the different types of information available to adolescents. They analyze the decision making process of adolescents and examine the basis for egocentric thought. They analyze to what degree peer pressure affects...
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Team Teaching - Spanish

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Pupils present a Spanish grammar topic to the class. In pairs, they select and research a grammar concept, create an over-head transparency, homework assignment, and a quiz to use with the presentation, and teach their concept to the...
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Create a Career Flyer

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discuss as a class the many different careers and their positive and negative attributes. They create a tri-fold flyer which highlights positive aspects of the career in an artistic and visually interesting way. They highlight...
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A death in the Royal Family: Dealing with Loss

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students read and discuss the story "Prince Talks About Magical Grandmother." They list ceremonies of traditions associated with emotional times in their lives. Students prepare a script for a video message to Prince Charles designed to...
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World War Ii - Holocaust Oral History Project

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders conduct an interview with someone who lived through World War II. They watch a video of an interview, develop a list of interview questions, record their interview, and write and publish a summary and transcript of their...
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PE on Parade

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students showcase what they are doing in physical education classes. They volunteer to participate in this activity and perform activities that they do every day in their PE classes. They demonstrate their skills in a one minute...
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Taxonomy

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers analyze the complexity of organism classifications based on certain criteria.  For this classifying organisms lesson students study taxonomy and gather information and leaves to do their own experiment on...
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Using Technology For Vocabulary Development, reading Comprehension, and Word Identification

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders define unknown vocabulary words and decode unknown words in their reading using a Quicktionary Reading Pen and Franklin Spell Checker. They create reading comprehension questions that are incorporated into a classroom Web...
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Cardio-Vascular Endurance

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students in a special education class work to improve their endurance. As a class, they complete the same exercises at the beginning of each class trying to increase the number of reps. They are also introduced to healthy eating habits...
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Social Studies: Who Burned Down Barnum's Museum?

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Learners examine the social conflict of the 19th century and the destruction of the American Museum. In pairs, they conduct Internet research and attempt to solve the mystery of who burned down the museum. Clues to the mystery are found...
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Extra, Extra Write All About It!

For Teachers 7th - Higher Ed
Pupils examine photographs from newspapers and write a headline and story for one of the examples. In this news writing lesson, students analyze a photograph as a class and discuss it. Pupils analyze photographs and example headlines...
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Bring on the World: Football Around the World

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students explore the existence of football in the world. For this current events lesson, students examine how football is played using an interactive whiteboard. Students compare its existence in the United Kingdom and in African nations.
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Making Good Decisions

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine the "Little Planet Times" and discuss how to solve the town's problem. In this literature/problem solving instructional activity, students record the opinion of each of the council members and role play their position....
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students discuss Huck Finn's decision about whether or not to turn Jim in to the authorities. In this language arts lesson, students are reading Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn. After reading chapter 31, students discuss the conflict Huck...
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Lesson Plan

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students practice their writing skills. In this writing perspective instructional activity, students review The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and consider the points of view of the main characters. Students write descriptions of a...
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Running a Student Cooperative

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars form a classroom cooperative. In this service learning lesson plan, students explore how to form and run a cooperative and decide as a class how to implement their cooperative plan. Young scholars use funds raised from the...
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Ocean Careers Investigation

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Young scholars gather information about different careers of the Ocean Adventures expedition team.  In this career studies lesson students work in groups, read an interview with an Ocean Adventurer, and see the importance of working...
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Conflict Resolution

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students examine ways to resolve conflicts. In this conflict resolution lesson, students define conflict resolution and write down situations where leaders deal with conflicts. Students work in groups to create a PowerPoint on ways to...
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Caps For Sale

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Learners read the story Caps For Sale and read companion stories, predict in a chart, work with rhyming and word families, answer short answer questions, and more. In this reading lesson plan, students take 5 days to read the...
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Groups We Belong To

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners explore society by completing a class identification activity. In this student identification instructional activity, students participate in a classification activity in which learners with a certain hair, eye or clothing color...
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Lunar Field Trip

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students take a virtual tour on Google Moon of what human life would be like on the moon. In this moon lesson plan, students also compose web diagrams, make charts, make a time line, investigate problems, and more.

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