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Cha-Ching!

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Young scholars play the Pinky's Create a Card game for practice. Students create a class store where they experiment in the roles as vendor and consumer. Young scholars use play money to buy and sell various products, while keeping track...
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Investigating Tropical Birds

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students investigate tropical birds. They write letters for rain forest preservation to protect tropical birds. They interview a bird professional from a local bird store or a zoo and discuss how to take care of a parrot. They use Kid...
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Black History Month Newsletter

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students become familiar with the process of creating all of the elements of a newsletter. They input stored articles about famous black Americans in which they insert photos with captions and add finishing touches.
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Vamos de compras!

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students identify articles of clothing in Spanish. Using the internet, they interpret information from department stores in Spain and Panama. They practice converting pesetas to dollars in order to determine how much they can spend. ...
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Father's Day Tool Belt

For Teachers K - 6th
Students paint designs and messages on cloth nail bags using puff paint or fabric paint in this simple elementary school Art lesson for Father's Day. The lesson could be adapted depending on classroom needs and student needs.
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What is for Sale and at What Price?

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders will research information on products carried by a store (such as sporting goods, department, clothing, etc.) They will create purchase prices for the products they wish to carry. They also will decide what percentage...
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Fitness Day

For Teachers K - 8th
Students in grades K-8 participate in a school wide fitness day. On this day all students and staff walk for 20 minutes or one mile around cones placed around the playground. Drawings, a balloon release and other activities surround...
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Brain Teaser - Bells

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this logic worksheet, students solve a word problem using logic about available time to reach a school yard. Students complete 1 problem.
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Porosity

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers predict and test the porosity of sediments with particles of different sizes. They name two objects that they think has pores. Students define the term porosity and pores. They comprehend that an aquifer is the porous...
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Show Me the Money

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students study the monetary value of a penny, nickel, and dime. They simulate a candy store by calculating the proper amount of money needed to purchase candy. After viewing a video, they complete the "Handful of Coins" pictograph .
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Mathematics Through Nutrition

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students plan a meal including shopping, preparing and meal and serving it. They become aware of different foods from different ethnic backgrounds and describe the displays in the store and why the items are displayed as they are.
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Simple Machines

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders examine and identify the six types of simple machines. Using a model of each simple machine, they demonstrate the state the function of them to the class. They discover examples of simple machines at school and home and...
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Wild Flower Project

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners photograph as many different kinds of wild flowers that they see around their school. In this wild flower lesson plan, students take different pictures of wild flowers after identifying their characteristics and coming up with a...
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A Haring Event

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students research visual arts by creating a presentation in their classroom. In this art history instructional activity, students identify the work of Keith Haring by researching the web and library. Students analyze images of Haring and...
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Number Scouts

For Teachers All
What makes up a community? People, of couse. Then there are the other living things, such as plants and animals. There are also buildings, streets, schools, businesses, and vehicles. This activity makes students aware of one othe...
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A Visit to Price Chopper

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars visit the grocery store to purchase items to make trail mix which are connected to Kansas agriculture. They problem solve to determine which products to buy, then create, advertise and sell the trail mix to the student...
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Christmas Baubles

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students create hanging christmas decorations using plastic lids, glue, various colors and shapes of glitter, and tinsel in this early-elementary school Art lesson. The lesson is ideal for the holiday season or can be modified for any...
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Second Grade Time Capsules

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders leave clues from the past for students of the future by creating time capsules filled with artifacts from the year. These artifacts are buried along with others on school grounds somewhere. Students identify and analyze...
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A Shapely Activity

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore polygons in various shape activities. In this polygons lesson, 5th graders discuss and identify polygons by their number of sides. Students sort ceramic tiles by the number of sides on each piece. Students explore...
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A Collage of American Icons: Presidents and Symbols

For Teachers K
Students use KWL charts, stores, news, books, and movies to learn about the Presidents and symbols of America. In this Presidents and symbols lesson plan, students participate in many activities that introduce them to the leaders and...
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Getting to Know the Products from Trees

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
In this tree products lesson, young scholars read the book Tell Me,Tree: All About Trees for Kids, discuss how people make products from wood, define producers and consumers and then go on a treasure hunt for wood products at home and...
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Early American Leaders

For Teachers K - 5th
Students discover what the qualities or characteristics of a leader are by describing the traits of the principal of the school, followed by the leader of the town, state and country. In this leadership instructional activity, students...
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Making Stained Glass Windows

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students, in groups, research several European cathedrals from the Middle Ages. They design stained glass windows and decorate a school window with their design using black construction paper and cellophane.
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Building Perspectives App

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Learners explore a perspective application of the TI-73. In this middle school mathematics instructional activity, students view the front, back, right, and left views of a city to determine the height of each building in a city plan.

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