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Sight Word Line-Up

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students use sight words to correctly line up. They are given a card and are to match it up with the set taped to the floor. They read each card and show it to the class before they move to their destination.
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Harriet Tubman: Recognizing the Human Agency

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders examine the contributions of Harriet Tubman to the history of Canada. They read a handout, complete a handout in small groups, and write a speech evaluating how Harriet Tubman changed history.
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Personal Learning Profile

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students, after completing a Personal Learning Profile pre-test Survey, take a Personal Learning Profile pre-test. They explore personal interests, spiritual beliefs, strengths, needs, and habits. The questionnaire is completed on the...
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Personal Learning Profile

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the life of Ghandi in order to find out how they learn. The choice of Ghandi was made because many students are not familar with him. Then student engage in different modalities of learning and take learning style...
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Youth and Class, Gender and Ethnicity

For Students Higher Ed
In this Youth and Class worksheet, students complete a chart by explaining some of the key functions of youth subcultures, write about the meaning of age categories, and describe how subculture is a form of resistance.
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Pumpkin Seed Multiplication

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students practice multiplication facts. In this multiplication lesson plan, students participate in a pumpkin seed multiplication game where they match up addition sentences and multiplication facts. Game board and number sentences are...
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America's Infrastructure: Miller Center National Discussion Debate Series

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Junior high and high school learners study infrastructure and its relationship to the current economy. They review handouts, watch a PBS clip, and review case studies in order to answer provided questions and role play over...
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Learning to Give: Generosity of Spirit Folktales

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students read two Inuit folktales about life and death. For this language arts lesson, students study the models of giving found in these Inuit tales about life, death, grief, sacrifice, and generosity. As the class reads these tales,...
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Nuremberg Remembered: Guilt and Responsibility

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners explore the Nuremberg trials. For this Holocaust instructional activity, students research the Nuremberg trials. They gather primary sources or documents to support their arguments for the charges against people examined in the...
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A Budget Can Help Young People Cut Their Spending

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the concept of budgeting. For this budgeting lesson, students read an article about how a budget helps young adults keep track of their spending. Students discuss financial issues that young adults have to deal with as...
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You Scratch my Back, I'll Scratch Yours

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students explore the concept of interdependence. In this integrated interdependence lesson, students interpret graphs and charts that require them to analyze the relationship between Mexico and the United States. Students also...
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WWI Home Front

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine WWI topics and answer questions about them. In this WWI propaganda lesson, students examine cartoons used during WWI and answer questions about the propaganda. Students then read letters about influenza and complete...
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Holocaust Research Project

For Teachers 7th - 11th
Students research multiple aspects of WWII. In this Holocaust lesson, students will use several primary source documents to write a 3 page pater on subjects concerning WWII, such as Kristallnacht, Ethnic Cleansing and the Holocaust.
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Electric Light Tower

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Students examine the San Jose Light Tower as an example of the development of urban lighting circa 1900. They view a slideshow, conduct research and write newspapers to chronicle the lighting ceremony from a variety of perspectives.
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Hydrates Worksheet

For Students 9th - 12th
In this chemistry worksheet, students look for the concepts connected to hydrates and answer the variety of questions given for the assessment.
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Now You're Speaking My Language; Deciphering the Symbols of Early Civilizations

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars explore early attempts at written language. In this early civilizations instructional activity, students investigate first attempts at written communication. Among the civilizations covered are Mayan, Greek, and Egyptian.
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Second Grade English/Language Arts Quiz

For Students 2nd
In this language worksheet, 2nd graders complete multiple choice questions about sentence structure, parts of speech, dictionary work, and more. Students complete 15 questions.
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US Geography Landmark Commercial

For Teachers 7th - 10th Standards
Experience famous geographical landmarks around the United States right from the comfort of your very own classroom. Learners research national landmarks, such as the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone National Park, and Niagara Falls, and then...
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Tunes for Bears to Dance to: Questioning Strategy, Discussion Web

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Readers of Robert Cormier's Tunes for Bears to Dance to are asked to consider the morality of the central character's actions
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Celebrating our Heritage Buildings

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders create a scavenger hunt with clues related to a building they have researched. Working in small groups, they use the internet and traditional resources to find information pertaining to a historical building. Students use...
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Describing Characters - Cloud Grows

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students complete descriptive writing about the appearance and actions of a horse. In this descriptive writing instructional activity, students use the 'Cloud Grows Character' to chart the horse as they watch videos of his growth stages....
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A Formal Analysis of Science Fiction

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students write a five paragraph expository theme. They explain in their theme how the story they read qualifies as science fiction. Students write using all the conventions of English correctly.
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The Cyrano Project

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students participate in a variety of activities in a thorough study of the play, Cyrano De Bergerac. They discuss the themes of the play and how they relate to their own lives. They produce and perform their own interpretation of the...
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Survival Story

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students discuss the pros and cons of being deserted on an uninhabited island. Then they write their own survival stories and complete a story jacket.