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The New York Times

401 Prompts for Argumentative Writing

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Sometimes the hardest thing about an argument essay writing assignment is coming up with a question. A four-page list of prompts includes a range of topics, from social media and smart phones to video games and sports. The list is a...
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Childnet International

Responding to Cyberbullying

For Students 6th - 12th
After watching a short video about cyberbullying, individuals play an online cyberbullying game and then create their own Digizen that expresses their values and presents their vision for themselves, their friends, and the world at large.
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PhysEdGames

Speedway!

For Students 1st - 8th
Get teams running around the perimeter of a court like a racetrack speedway. One person from each team—the number of teams depends on class size—runs around the "speedway" in the same direction, making it back to their team with a...
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Education.com

Winter Break Survival Kit

For Teachers Pre-K - 5th
Help parents and children survive the long winter break with this collection of fun activities. Offering suggestions for volunteering during the holidays and making family New Year's resolutions, as well as a variety of crafts and games,...
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PhysEdGames

Fresher

For Students 3rd - 8th
Split the class in half. Set up two cones on opposite ends of the gym, using the gym lines as boundaries. These are the jails. The object of the game is to tag another player that is "older" (not in age) than another. The "fresher" a...
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PBS

Symbiotic Strategies: The Secret Lives of Sharks and Rays

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners investigate the interaction in an oceanic ecosystem. For this symbiotic relationship lesson, high schoolers investigate how ecological relationships evolve over long periods of time in order to maintain balance and stability of...
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Curated OER

Playing to Learn

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students brainstorm about video games that are designed to teach. They create and perform in small groups a live action "video game" that teaches a concept covered in class this school year.
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Curated OER

Virtual Reality

For Teachers 6th - 11th
Students consider the implications of playing violent video games. In this current issues lesson, students visit selected websites to research virtual violence and video game censorship.
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Curated OER

Couch Potato

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this leisure time word search, students analyze 12 words in a word bank that pertain to being a "couch potato" and playing video games. Students locate the words in a word search puzzle.
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Statistics Education Web

The Egg Roulette Game

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Hard boiled or raw? Which egg will you get? A hands-on activity has scholars explore the impact of conditional probability. Based on a skit from the Tonight Show, pupils model the selection of the two types of eggs using beads. They...
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Nemours KidsHealth

Asthma: Grades 6-8

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Two activities teach middle schoolers about asthma and how it can affect people's lives. After reading a series of articles and watching two videos that provide background information about asthma, pupils design an interactive game that...
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Bowland

Football, the Beautiful Game

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Discover how to use mathematics to make a stronger soccer team. Young soccer enthusiasts use given data to make decisions about a soccer team. They decide which position to assign each player, consider what makes a good pass and...
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New Mexico State University

Agrinautica

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Individuals play a computer game to terraform planets. Learners add plants, animals, fungi, and minerals to the planet surface by creating numerical expressions that represent the objects. After playing the game for a while, the class...
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Creative Learning Exchange

The Infection Game: The Shape of Change

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Encourage the spread of knowledge in your class with this cross-curricular epidemic simulation. Pulling together science, social studies, and math, this lesson engages students in modeling the spread of infectious diseases, collecting...
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Computer Science Unplugged

The Orange Game–Routing and Deadlock in Networks

For Teachers 4th - 12th
How is data able to move in a congested network? Groups simulate moving data around a congested network by passing fruit around a circle, following specific rules, until everyone ends up with their own fruit. Extension activities include...
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NASA

How Does a Hurricane Form?

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Young meteorologists examine the formation of a hurricane in a resource focused on severe weather conditions. Once they learn that a hurricane is also a tropical cyclone, and detail the different levels associated with tropical storms,...
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Positively Autism

Pirate Matching

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd
As part of a series of pirate-themed vocabulary activities, learners with autism match a series of images with the same image found on a game board.
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Baylor College

The Variety and Roles of Microbes

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Mini microbiologists play a card game in which they group microorganisms by groups: virus, fungus, protist, or bacteria. Then they identify the roles different microbes play in the natural world and explore how humans effectively use...
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Lesson Planet Article
Curated OER

Rainy Day Games And Lessons

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Bad weather can be a great reason to take a break from the regular curriculum and learn using the imagination, and games.
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Curated OER

Computer/Video Game Illustration

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students review catalogs of different types of video or computer games. In groups, they write an explanation for each game. They create a screen highlight from a game of their choice and illustrate it on a piece of construction paper....
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Curated OER

Find Somebody Who... 2-- Icebreaker Game

For Students 5th - 6th
For this icebreaker game, students get to know their classmates by finding people who fit each of the 30 descriptions on the page and writing their names in the blanks.
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Curated OER

Find Somebody Who... 1-- Icebreaker Game

For Students 5th - 6th
In this icebreaker game, students read 30 descriptions of people and find classmates who match them. Students sign their names in the blanks next to descriptions that fit.
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Curated OER

Basketball - Hoops - Team Sports 2

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Hoopsters! Looking for something to use to teach your hoopsters a bit about the game of basketball? Use this very comprehensive PowerPoint to teach everything from the history of the sport, to skill techniques, to game plays. Included...
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Center for Technology in Teaching and Learning

MedMyst: Disease Defenders

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
The news often refers to a team of experts handling situations and outbreaks of illnesses. Young scientists learn about such a team as they train to prevent infectious disease outbreaks  Scholars meet three experts, learn about their...

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