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Break the Pentomino Code!

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Learners read and analyze the book, Chasing Vermeer. They discuss the main story elements, analyze how pentominoes are important to the story, use a pentomino code to decipher a message, and create a secret code of their own.
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Biodiversity Word Walk

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students visit grounds where hidden letters are revealed. Once the hike is finished the jumbled letters are pieced together to spell a single theme word. The word offered here is Diversity, which at nine letters, means nine stops.
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Critic's Choice

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders read three to five genres and choose one as a favorite. They write an essay persuading the class to read the genre. This lesson serves as a nice introduction to different styles of literature.
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Fictional Narrative Writing in Mathematics

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders discuss variety of fictional writing genres and connect each to familiar story that has been read, use creative and analytical skills to develop original piece of fictional writing that incorporates math skill, and share...
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Historical Background of Nightjohn Lesson Plan

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders use first-hand slave narratives that show conditions of slavery. They paste text into Appleworks and publish with a picture clipped from web sites. They create a group account of life during slavery to prepare for reading...
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Time Travel

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students investigate the concept of time travel and quantum physics. They complete a Webquest, read excerpts from the book, 'The Time Machine,' play an online time traveler game, and read and evaluate newspaper articles about time.
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Backseat Travelers

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders investigate the geography of the Southeast regions of the United States. They conduct Internet research, listen to the book "No Star Nights," and plan and write a trip through this regions.
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Exploring Satire - Jonathan Swift

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students study about satire and find examples Part One of GULLIVER'S TRAVELS. They then write an essay about the examples they found and how the writer used satire in his literary work.
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Metals, Nonmetals, Metalloids

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students recognize that metals, nonmetals, and metalloids have common attributes. They Identify physical and chemical properties. Students define ores and identify where ores can be found.
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Water and Ice

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students examine how water changes state, from a liquid to a solid.  In this water lesson students study the water cycle and how temperature and pressure effect it. 
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Authors of the Past and Present

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students research a chosen author. In this authors lesson plan, students pick one author from the list provided, do research, and write a paper.
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Keys to the House

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders examine the process to rent and buy homes.  In this Economics lesson, 12th graders study the obstacles people have when trying to find a home.  Students participate in a simulation on housing.  
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Integers

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students perform order of operation using integers. In this algebra lesson, students apply properties of integers as they add, subtract, multiply and divide integers. They work in groups to complete a RAFT assignment.
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Genetics of Flowering

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore plant DNA.
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Vinegar Experiment

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders mix vinegar with different substances and explore the reaction. They record data from the experiment. Students examine chemical change, reaction, physical change and physical reaction.
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Science, Sounds And Hearing

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers examine various sounds that are played on musical instruments. They conduct an experiment to listening to different instruments. They define significant vocabulary like "vibration" and "oscillation". Students suggest...
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THOAN -Think Of A Number

For Students 4th - 6th
For this puzzle worksheet, students think of a number and follow twelve computations to do with that number. The answer to the puzzle is always one. Students make their own set of steps.
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Reading Is Fundamental

Reading Is Fundamental: Illustrate a Story: Mystery of the Mummy's Maze [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Print this short mystery story for your advanced English language learners to illustrate. The story gives preterit and pluperfect tense practice.
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National Health Museum

Access Excellence Mysteries: The Mystery Spot

For Students 9th - 10th
Here are a list of interesting interactive mysteries to go along with your science lessons. Students go through a short story and then try to solve the mystery. Topics include space, environmental issues, disease, and forensics. These...
Interactive
PBS

Pbs: From Big Bang to the End of the Universe: Mysteries of Deep Space Timeline

For Students 9th - 10th
A timeline of the history of the universe, and our understanding of it, since the Big Bang. Click on a marker on the timeline for a short description of the event.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Waves: The Three Color Mystery

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students are presented with a challenge question concerning color blindness and asked to use engineering principles to design devices to help people who are color blind. Using the legacy cycle as a model, this unit is comprised of five...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Taking the Mystery Out of Writing a Mystery

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This mystery-writing instructional activity focuses on the structure of a short story and the elements of a mystery in particular. Students complete the entire writing process: prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing....
Activity
Scholastic

Scholastic: Play: The Mystery of the Missing Munchies

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Short play about the holiday season that students can perform. Click the teacher page for discussion and extension activities.
Primary
University of North Carolina

Unc: Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 1849 Tales

For Students 9th - 10th
Download Edgar Allan Poe's "Tales," which was published in 1845, four years prior to his death. Read popular short stories such as, "The Black Hat," "The Fall of the House of Usher," and "The Purloined Letter." Also, read biographical...

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