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Using an Observation Log to enhance studies in biology
Students choose a subject or setting that be suitable for them to observe for the entire school year. They are encouraged to pick a site that they have ready access to and that they believe be interested in.
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Short Story Framework
The class gets creative after listening to a short story containing a definitive structure. They are required to think about character, relationship, and setting, while attempting to show rather than tell, in their writing. Dialogue,...
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The Forest-Life in the Wild!
Students write a description of each animal using their completed outline and include a graphic of the animal for the program, or a hand drawing. Each student chooses and writes about 2 Rain Forest Animals.
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National Sterotypes
Students develop their own ideas about the world around them. This lesson helps them improve their descriptive adjective vocabulary while they discuss perceived differences between nations through stereotypes.
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Identifying and Using Parts of Speech in Writing: Technology, Word Processing
Students identify and suggest suitable parts of speech to fill in the blanks in a prepared text (the text can easily be tailored to language ability and desired subject). They use word processing to edit the text.
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Can I Tell You Where I am?
Students participate in a lesson that is concerned with the factors of describing a neighborhood. They follow a set of target questions in order to obtain information about individual neighborhoods. The information is used The write...
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Los Artistas Hispanos (Hispanic Artists)
Learners research Hispanic artists. They complete a handout about their artist. Students brainstorm a list of vocabulary relating to the theme of art. Learners choose one work of art by each artist studied, and copy these for the paper...
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Canada Arrives in a Splash of Color
Students investigate social and political issues surrounding founding of Canada and compare their relevance to Canada today, interpret art works representing Canada's past identity and compare that identity to how Canada is perceived...
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American Revolutionary War: Two Sides...Two Perspectives
Students investigate the American Revolutionary War era from the perspective of Britain and the American colonists by researching causes, effects, events and people. They compare the views of the Colonists, and the British and recognize...
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Famous African Americans ABC Book
Students investigate the concept of a biography by using famous African Americans for a subject. Each student is assigned one biography and conducts research in order to complete an ABC book for the class that is used for display...
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Clifford's Sports Day
First graders participate in a game of three legged race that involved the practice of matching pictures or text. They use the subject of sports to create the context. Students play the game to strengthen classification and reading...
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Sorting Quadrilaterals
Tenth graders investigate the geometric concept of quadrilaterals. They are given a set of shapes and asked to sort the quadrilaterals from the others. Then working in pairs they discuss the characteristics and write down the description...
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Click! Writing Through Digital Photography
Learners take their own digital photographs and scan them onto the computer. For each photograph, they write about them and use the internet to research their subject in the photo more throughly. They are graded based on a rubric and...
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Teaching With the Power of Objects
Students define value of an object. In this value lesson plan, students identify reasons for collecting objects, compile a personal inventory of items they find valuable, and then define why those items are valuable to them. In step two...
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Heart Mobiles In Action
Students design a mobile or wall hanging that reviews the circulatory system. In this circulatory system lesson, students work in small groups to identify the structures of the heart, and create a model in the form of a two or three...
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Harvesting the Produce
Students investigate vegetables. In this multi-subject lesson, students learn about vegetables and participate in several activities using vegetables. A list of 7 materials is included.
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Guess Who I Am
In this self descriptions worksheet, students complete the sentences about themselves and then others guess who wrote it. Students complete 12 sentences.
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Moccasins are Made for Dancing
Students perform a traditional Native American dance. In this cultural dance lesson, students research two Native American dances. Students discuss the relationship between the dances and Native American culture. ...
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Hey, Get a Job! A Teen Guide for Getting and Keeping a Job
Students research the job marketplace and try to find a job for themselves. In this job search lesson, students make a list of possible job sites, read the Child Labor Laws, and complete the application process for a job. Students create...
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Landscape
Students create a landscape or cityscape. In this landscape lesson, students discover the definition of a landscape and describe various examples. Students choose three images and write "postcards" from each of the three...
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The President’s Cabinet
In this presidential cabinet instructional activity, students read the 15 descriptions of Cabinet positions and match them to the appropriate titles.
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Pyramid Power
Students observe human health by analyzing different food groups. For this food pyramid lesson, students utilize the web to complete an interactive food pyramid game as well as research the nutrition encyclopedia. Students discuss their...
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Using Gustar
Expressing that you like something in English is quite different from expressing that you like something in Spanish. Clarify gustar for your class with the information included here. Pupils can read the information on the webpage to find...
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Should I Use “I”?
Despite the formal nature of academic writing, personal pronouns frequently appear in high school and college papers. While your first instinct may be to cross them out, sometimes it's okay to use them, an idea covered in a handout that...