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Teaching Students There Isn't Only One Right Answer

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
By encouraging students to take risks in learning you can create a group of problem solvers and critical thinkers.
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Density

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students explore and analyze the relationship between density, mass, volume and ratios. They complete a lab to define mass and volume and then show the density that equals a mass and volume formula. Their lab involves a suitcase,...
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Love of Reading Month

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Here are activities to make reading fun!
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Coordinate Crunch

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students identify plots on a graph while playing a game on a large coordinate grid and then on smaller grids.
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Our Diverse Heritage Family Tree

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Young scholars discuss family trees and create their own family trees. They research their cultural backgrounds and make oral presentations to the rest of the class during a multicultural lunch.
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Properties of Soil: Original Lesson Plan

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
This lesson is an investigation of soil properties, particularly texture, color and space for air and water. Student inspect soil samples found in their locale, perform several tests to determine different properties, and involves a ...
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Weather Instruments

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders make predictions about weather and utilize weather instruments and weather reports. They match weather components with weather instruments, and demonstrate how to read a thermometer. Students also construct and use a wind...
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Write Persuasively (Grades 3-5)

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars practice persuasive writing. For this writing lesson plan, students understand that there are different ways to write. Young scholars build a list of words that can be used for persuasion. Students develop statements to...
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Bernoulli's Principle and Winged Flight

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders study Bernoulli's Principle and Winged Flight. In this biology lesson plan, 3rd graders to see how the decrease in air pressure which occurs when air is moving allows birds to fly.
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Ben Franklin the Good Citizen

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate Benjamin Franklin's contributions to society. In this history lesson, students read about Franklin's philanthropic behavior and play a bucket brigade game to re-enact how fires were put out during colonial times.
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Just a Spoonful of Rights Makes the Responsibility Go 'Round

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore the concept of philanthropy. In this service learning lesson, students define rights and responsibilities. Students discuss the role of philanthropy in contributing to the common good. They also review historical...
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Making a Quilt

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students use vocabulary to describe the quilt making process. For this quilting lesson, students collect needed materials, sequence the steps for quilting and create an original peace quilt. Students write about their quilts.
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Earth's Ecology

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students investigate the three states of water. For this physical science lesson, students watch the video "Earth's Ecology" and observe water in its' three states. Students record observations.
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Simply Circuitry and Series Circuit

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Young scholars investigate a series circuit. In this physical science activity, students use a battery, switch, and light bulbs to build an electrical circuit. Young scholars identify the standard symbols being used in electric circuitry.
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How Can You Stay Fit?

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students identify ways that cardiovascular fitness is achieved and maintained. In this cardiovascular health lesson, students discuss what aerobic exercise is and list various activities which address cardiovascular fitness. Students run...
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Combining Coins to Make Equal Monetary Amounts

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders determine how to make equivalent amounts of money using different sets of coins. In this money lesson, 3rd graders review money vocabulary and coin values before determining how to count bills and coins in different sets to...
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Hugs and Tallies

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students act out the creation of five tally marks. In this tally mark lesson, students act out how to make tally marks. Four students stand very close together and a fifth student gives them a group hug creating five tally marks.
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Lessons from the Holocaust

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
Students prepare a reaction statement about what they read. In this Holocaust lesson plan students read several personal accounts from the Holocaust. The students answer a series of questions related to the Nazis and their concentration...
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Living History- An Intergenerational Philanthropy

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students gather information from a senior friend to write a biography. For this living history books lesson, students organize information to complete a book about their senior friend. Detailed teacher instructions for completing the...
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Interdisciplinary Lesson Plan

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders study Thanksgiving. In this physical education and spelling lesson, 3rd graders play a race game by being the first group who can spell the word Thanksgiving first.
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US Geography, The Blues

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
This instructional activity enables teachers to use blues styles and performers to think about various geographical regions of the United States. By studying different blues styles from the Mississippi Delta, Texas, and the Piedmont...
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Characteristics of Africa

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students describe basic land features and characteristics that make up the continent of Africa, describe the people of Africa, where they live, and how they live and get a sense of what it is like to live in Africa.
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The Best Gift, for Shoe-er!

For Teachers K - 5th
Students turn an old shoe into a memorable planter that's a terrific gift for Mother's Day or any other occasion.
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Infection Wars

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students explore how our bodies fight infection. Using a microscope, they observe red blood cells, white blood cells and different bacteria under a microscope.

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