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Skates
Students gain understanding of structure, characteristics, and basic needs of living things and their role in world, identify parts of skate, observe details of skate's body and skate egg case, and identify unique characteristics of skates.
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Scroll Art And Retelling Stories
Students create Japanese scroll art that represents a familiar folktale in this elementary school lesson that can be adapted for small group, or individual projects depending on ability.
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Beginning Critical Reading - Paper
In these critical reading worksheets, students read the paragraphs about paper. Students answer 3 critical reading questions about the passage.
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The Three Perfections
Students discover the various styles, form, beauty, and grace of Chinese calligraphy by examining works of art from different eras in China's history. This lesson plan includes two possible enrichment activities.
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HyperStudio Animal Project
Fourth graders create a HyperStudio project on an animal of their choice. They discuss the animal's habitat and adaptations. They also identify any interesting facts about their animal.
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Sharing
Students solve problems based on sharing scenarios. In this sharing lesson plan, students listen to a book on sharing and answer questions. Then the teacher presents different scenarios to the class and they have to problem solve to come...
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All Hands On Deck
Students study estuaries and are able to define one, and describe its features. For this investigative lesson students participate in an activity that shows them the importance of estuaries.
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Speedball
High schoolers work as a team in a game of Speedball. They are taught to value the benefits of physical activity as they investigate a new sport. Students successfully participate in a game of Speedball after participating in a drill...
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Environment: Waste Walk
Young scholars assess the positive and negative affects of humans on the environment. The lesson explores ways in which individuals and societies can reduce the negative impact on the environment. By taking a "waste walk" around their...
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Air Quality Presentation for Youth
Students read two books about wind and dust and then participate in a demonstration in which they plant seeds and compare dry, dusty soils to moist soils. They identify the rationale and methods for keeping airborne dust down.
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The Fine Art of Paper-Cutting
Students create original examples of the ancient Chinese Folk Art technique of Paper-Cutting in this middle-level lesson highly adaptable for either the Art classroom or a Social Studies class.
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Glacial Geocaching
Eighth graders measure strike and dip of given land features and explain the difference between them. They also look at rock and mineral samples for indentification, along with calculating the density. Finally, information is analyzed...
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Images of Maine: Poetry
Students read and evaluate several poems from various Maine authors such as Longfellow, Booth and Millay. They discuss the images of Maine and its people that are related in these poems and compare them to their own ideas of Maine...
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A Bridge Going Up and Down
Students recognize the purpose of the Michigan Avenue Bascule Trunnion Bridge. They examine photos of bridges and sing a song about Chicago's famous bascule trunnion bridge to investigate how
moveable bridges work.
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Logos
Students create a presentation incorporating an originally created logo to advertise a new drink product. After creating their logo, students produce create an advertising campaign for their new product. Advertisements are presented to...
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City Quiz 1
In this ESL worksheet, students answer 20 questions about the Central Library in Derby, UK. For example, "How do you join the library?"
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Picture Cards
In this alphabet awareness worksheet, students match twenty seven picture cards to twenty seven word cards for mastery of memory retention.
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Alphabet Review
In this alphabet worksheet, students name letters, say the sounds for sets of letters, and practice reading simple sentences.
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Act Den (Digital Education Network) Software Tutorials
Free online tutorials for computer software, including FrontPage, Office, PowerPoint, and Outlook Express are generously offered at this website. Students will find it easy to follow Agent Max Millennium as he guides them through...