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Travel Tips! A Guide for Smoother Field Trips
Suggestions for making your next field trip successful, rather than stressful.
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Charlie Brown and Friends
Charles Schulz' Charlie Brown and Friends, a collection of Peanuts comic strips, provides young readers with an opportunity to engage in full-class discussions, work in groups to examine how Schulz develops his characters, and...
Center for the Advancement of Ethics and Character
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
C.S. Lewis' The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is the anchor text for a three week unit that focuses on responsibilities, ethics, and virtues. While specific lesson plans are not included in this overview, a focus and discussion...
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"Mind Reader" Math Trick
Students perform a math-based card trick and explain the concepts behind the trick. They video tape classmates performing the trick. Finally, they write a paragraph explaining the trick.
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The Clay Marble
Students probe the story, "The Clay Marble" by Minfong Ho to identify examples of courage, quick thinking, and perseverance. The lesson creatively extends the plot of the story by celebrating the heroin's birthday many years after the...
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Doctor, Doctor, Gimme The News
Seventh graders work together to develop a health-related experiment to display at the school health fair. Using the human body systems, they use the Internet to research a health problem through a controlled experiment. They are...
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Fair and Impartial
Young scholars compare the meaning of the words fair and impartial by putting together a graphic organizer. In this fair and impartial lesson plan, students use 2 sports examples to compare the meanings of fair and impartial.
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Long Term Temperature Changes Essay
Young scholars interview Elders in their community about how temperature changes have affected their lives. In this temperature change lesson plan, students interview the Elders about the societal and environmental changes that have...
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Grade 10 - Personal Development (Mental Well-Being)
Tenth graders propose strategies for enhancing and maintaining emotional health and well-being encourage respect for others.
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Sportsperson of the Day
Students follow the classroom and game/activities rules. They demonstrate responsibility by wearing tennis shoes to class, assisting others, taking care of equipment, helping clean-up, show respect and kindness to others during class time.
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People Who Care
Second graders brainstorm how they care about certain people in their lives. They discuss how they take care of those people or pets. They draw a picture of the people who care about them.
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Kids Health: Sibling Rivalry
"Sibling rivalry is totally normal. Rivalry means competition, and you probably know that siblings are your brothers and sisters. So put themtogether and sibling rivalry is competition between brothers and sisters! Read about rivalry and...
Read Works
Read Works: Passages: Paired Text: "World's Greatest Robot" by w.m. Akers
[Free Registration/Login Required] The paired passages "Streetcar!" and "World's Greatest Robot" explore the nature of sibling relationships. Question sets are provided for each passage separately and combined.
Read Works
Read Works: Sibling Face Off
[Free Registration/Login Required] An essay about the complicated relationship between siblings. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
ReachOut USA
Reach Out Usa: Fighting With Your Sibling
ReachOut fact sheets are written by young people for young people and edited by a mental health professional. This page discusses why siblings may not get along and offers suggestions for handling conflict with a sibling.
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Kids Health: Welcoming a New Baby Into Your Family
Having a new brother or sister can create many opportunities and challenges for you. You can show how responsible you can be by helping as much as you can. You will have to deal with all the attention that the baby receives from your...
Read Works
Read Works: Siblings
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a brother and sister whose relationship starts to change as they grow older. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Kids Health: Things to Expect When Your Mom Is Pregnant
"Maybe you've always wanted a baby brother or sister and your parents just told you you're going to have one. Perhaps you've always liked being an "only" and now your parents have announced that you'll have a brother or sister soon....
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Family: Big Sister
A story about what it is like to have a big sister. Includes audio narration in 17 additional languages with text in English.
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Kids Health: A Kid's Guide to Adoption
If you have any questions about why some people choose to adopt children, or how they go about adopting a child, this is the place to find out.
PBS
Pbs Kids: It's My Life: Family
A peek into the dynamics of family life provides useful tools to help with sibling rivalry, divorce, family vacations, and more. Listen to kids' testimonials, role play, express digital creativity, and take real-time surveys on current...
TES Global
Tes: Teaching Shakespeare: Themes: Family
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a collection of links to help students see how Shakespeare used the theme of family relationships that are still relevant today.
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: Tillena Lou's Day in the Sun
Tillena Lou and her siblings spend a lazy day imagining what it might be like if they were other types of animals. What would they need to survive? Synopsis: Tillena Lou explores her home and discovers interesting things about the...
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Kids Health: When You Are a Twin or Triplet
"Have you ever wondered what it feels like to be a twin?" KidsHealth considers the types, troubles, and terrific things about twins and triplets.