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Trust Circles
Young scholars explore trustworthiness. In this character development lesson, students brainstorm synonyms for trustworthiness. Young scholars consider two communities to which they belong, and compare and contrast these communities by...
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Word Hook--Set 2
In this vocabulary worksheet, students complete a word web that has sections for the word of the week, antonyms, synonyms and the word definition.
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The Mountain Community: Why Flagstaff?
Students identify geographical features that hindered or promoted settlement in the city of Flagstaff, Arizona. In this settlement lesson plan, students write a summary of what they learned and identify geographical features on a map.
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The Price is Right - Advertisements
Fourth graders design written advertisements using cut out items from catalogs or newspapers in order to persuade consumers.
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Happiness and Well-Being
Students explore happiness and well-being. In this personal health lesson, students determine whether governments can or should cultivate happiness as they participate in a discussion activity.
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Be the Kiwi: History of New Zealand
Students discover details regarding the settlement of New Zealand. In this New Zealand history lesson, students read about the Maori people in their textbooks and then complete a vocabulary square activity worksheet.
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Listening for Tone
Students read and listen to various poems as they are read by different readers using different tones. They read "Jabberwocky" and in groups, determine what they think the nonsense words in the poem mean. The groups compare thier ideas...
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Investigate a New Word from "Notes from the Trail"
Learners read and take notes from Notes from the Trail. In this reading fluency lesson, students read back and share their notes finding 7-10 new words. Learners define, write an unrelated sentence and present.
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Body Movement
Second graders interpret and transform drawn lines into locomotive movements. In this improvised movement lesson, 2nd graders draw a line on a piece of paper and use the elements of dance to interpret and transform their draw line into...
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Teaching Tolerance: Taking Action on the R-Word
Students explore the use of derogatory language and labeling others. In this discrimination lesson plan students research word origins, how different terms came to be used in a negative sense and what it would be like to have a negative...
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Westward Ho: The Difficulties of Emigrants Moving West
Young scholars research the journey west of 19th century emigrants. In this pioneer lesson, students read the letters and diaries of a fictitious family traveling on the Oregon Trail. They mark their route on a US map, create a chart...
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Desert Views - First Impressions: Travelers on the Gila Trail
Students draw animals and plants that are described to them as they read passages of people who traveled across the Gila Trail in the Southwest. In this Gila Trail lesson plan, students also write a letter describing a plant or animal in...
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Spelling List D-6
In this spelling worksheet, students write each of 21 words two times. This list contains words with ile/il, sight words, and academic vocabulary.
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Lesson Plan - ESL Vocabulary Lesson Plan - Opposites for Advanced Level Learners
Students in small groups work on opposites worksheet.
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Looks Like Snow
Students listen to the teacher read the book, The Jacket I Wear in the Snow, and create vocabulary and graphic cards from the story.
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Working Watermelon
You're going to wish you had a watermelon for this lesson! Class members read about watermelons and make a salad in class to sample. They also perform estimates, measurements and calculations on a watermelon. They predict what percentage...
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Collocation Pelmanism
Pupils read and analyze the article, "Lexical exploitation of texts," and become aware of the concept of recycling new words. They practice this concept several times in class before they take on the memory game pelmanism in the follow...
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Rooting One's Way To Meaning
Students use a thesaurus on the internet to explore the meanings of Greek and Latin roots. They find definitions of given words, draw a concept map for root words, and write four synonyms for each word. Students discover how Latin and...
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Reflecting on the Far Right
Students examine the London assembly election of 2008. In this political parties lesson, students research the platform of the British National Party. Students visit suggested websites to determine the party's core beliefs.
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The Annoying Orange
In this orange worksheet, learners watch a video of a talking orange called The Annoying Orange, answer multiple choice questions, fill in the blanks, name kitchen items, and more. Students complete 7 activities total.
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Vocabulary Words for Week 2
In this vocabulary worksheet, students learn four new words: protrude, lunged, donned, and devastating. Students complete 30 varied questions about these words and their meanings.
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Vocabulary Exercise
In this vocabulary worksheet, students fill in the blanks, group items into categories, match objects to definitions, and more. Students complete 5 activities total.
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Are Cellphones Killing Honeybees?
Students read an article about how honeybee are sensitive to the electromagnetic fields generated by cellphones. For this ESL lesson, students work as partners to complete a table of information relating to the many bee species in...
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Chalkboard Challenge: Literary Terms
This interactive PowerPoint simulates a "Jeopardy" game that addresses figurative language, cause and effect, and other literary terms. Players can chose which category and amount they would like to play on the Game Board.