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Project 7a B-b-b-Ballad!

For Students 6th - 12th
For this ballad composition worksheet, students compose a ballad in any key as they write a 12 line rhyming poem and continue to follow the other 6 steps to create their original ballad.
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Gettysburg: The Civil War's Costliest Battle

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students research the Civil War and the Battle of Gettysburg. In this Gettysburg lesson, students analyze journals and letters written by the Gettysburg soldiers. Students define Civil War soldier vocabulary words. Students compare and...
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What Really Happened?

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders recreate scenes from the theories about the disappearance of Amelia Earhart. In this history and theatre lesson plan, 6th graders review the story of Earhart using a flip chart. Students work on one act plays to depict one...
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And Then What Happened?

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Learners analyze paintings by using verbs, adjectives, and nouns. In this visual arts lesson, students view a painting of a storm and a calm sky. Learners use various verbs and adjectives to discuss the characteristics of each painting....
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Renaissance Realities

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students analyze passages by Niccolo Machiavelli and Francis Bacon as an analysis of Renaissance ideas in contemporary situations. In this Renaissance writings lesson, students read excerpts from Machiavelli's The Prince and multiple...
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Investigating Crickets and Their Body Parts

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders investigate the body of a cricket. In this biology instructional activity students use tools to gain information about the insect the cricket. Students observe and identify features and describe how these features help the...
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Ready? Set. Punctuate!

For Teachers 1st
First graders read Yo! Yes?  with the teacher, and and discuss the period, questions mark and exclamation point. For this languge arts lesson, 1st graders practice motions to go with each mark, listen to the story again, and perform the...
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Sing Your Way Through Phonics Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students read words containing the dipthongs ow, ou, oi, and oy. They write and spell words containing the dipthongs ow, ou, oi, and oy.
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Three ways into the play 'Stone Cold'

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders, in groups, write pieces of a script in a particular style that they are introduced to. They also study how tension and irony work together in scripts.
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A Response to Chaim Rumkowski's, "Give Me Your Children" Speech

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students examine the history of the ghettos and read Rumkowski's letter. Using journal and diary entries, they identify types of resistance used during the Holocaust. Writing a letter, they use references to Rumkowski's original letter...
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His Story/Her Story/Your Story

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers read a variety of biographies to gain insight on the experiences of an African-American's life. Individually, they try to determine the time period it was written and compare the event with ones that occured in their own...
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American Revolutionary War: Two Sides...Two Perspectives

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars 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...
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Stone Fox Plot Frame

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders recall the major plot points of a chapter book. After reading the chapter book "Stone Fox," they students describe the plot framework through use of a worksheet. Students are then divided into group to act out selected...
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The Ballot Box Battle

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students practice note taking skills, study the life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and write a persuasive letter. They listen to the picture book biography of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and use the information from the biography to write a...
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Worksheet 2. Reading: A Terrible Morning

For Students 5th - 7th
In this grammar worksheet, students complete the passage on the page by writing in the correct form of a verb from the word pool in each blank space. There are 13 blanks to fill.
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Comparative Adjectives

For Students 4th - 5th
In this comparative adjectives worksheet, learners fill in the spaces with the appropriate comparative adjectives in 8 sentences, write two sentences for the following : showing equal comparisons, comparative adjectives, unequal...
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Intermediate Matching - Office Words

For Students 6th - 7th
In this ESL matching activity, students draw a line from the names of office supply items to their definitions. They match 8 office supply items such as copier, printer, computer, and fax machine.
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Travlin' Through the Basin: Guided Imagery

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students listen to a story. In this imagery lesson, students listen to nature sounds of the Everglades, water and forest. Students listen to a reading of the Tangipahoa River guided imagery passage. Students share their feelings inspired...
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Reading: A Terrible Morning

For Students 4th - 5th
In this verb forms worksheet, students read a story about a terrible morning that has words missing. Using the 11 words in a word bank, students write the correct form of the verbs to complete the story.
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Dazzling Digital Poem Project

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders create a digital poem using PowerPoint, Audacity.com, and www.freeplaymusic.com. In this digital poem lesson, 8th graders write and edit original poems. Students utilize figurative language and imagery in poems and review...
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Media Literacy: Discovering and Understanding Propaganda

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders study different types of propaganda and select an issue that is significant to them.  In this exploratory lesson students design and create posters on the topic of their choice and write a narrative describing it. 
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Coming Home from the life of Langston Hughes

For Students 3rd - 12th
In this Coming Home from the life of Langston Hughes worksheet, students read the book Coming Home from the life of Langston Hughes and answer short answer questions about it. Students complete 10 questions total.
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Sunflowers

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Learners grow their own sunflower and create their own sunflower art work. In this sun flower lesson plan, students base their art work after Van Gogh and other artists that used sunflowers.
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Who's Speaking?

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Learners study the components of a good speech. They write, practice and present a speech on a topic of interest.