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Scale Drawings

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students discuss the importance of scaling drawings. In this math lesson, students create a scaled drawing of circuit boards. They explain why accuracy is very important when scaling.
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Adjectives

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students add adjectives to a paragraph to make it more exciting and describing. In this adjectives lesson plan, students compare 2 paragraphs, one with adjectives and one without, and then add in their own to another paragraph.
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The True Story of Abbie Burgess

For Teachers 1st
First graders read a story about Abbie Burgess. They identify at least three specific actions exhibiting traits of courage and responsibility. Students explore ways children and adults become heroes by helping others out in a time of...
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Looking and Learning in the Art Museum

For Teachers 7th - Higher Ed
Students prepare for a trip to a museum and review the elements of art. In this museum and art lesson, students define the difference between looking at a reproduction of art and an original. Students identify the elements of art in and...
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Slang Quiz: Mixed

For Students 6th - 8th
For this English slang worksheet, learners complete sentences by finding the definition of the English slang used.
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Continents and Oceans on the Move

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students create an awareness of the vast percentage of water covering the earth. They relate similarities/differences between topographical maps and other maps of various time periods. Students examine how to use a topographical map.
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Archaeology

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students read archaeology books, define it and discover how math and science help us learn about the past.  In this investigative lesson plan students give a description of archaeology and two facts that they learned. 
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Adding Integers

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Young scholars explore the concept of adding and subtracting integers. In this integer instructional activity, students use strips of paper (various sizes) to add and subtract integers. Young scholars visualize the process of adding and...
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Parent's Choice

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students evaluate Web sites offering services, programs and supplies for Students. They write Web guides, directing parents and guardians to useful information, and write letters to companies offering recommendations for improving sites.
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Recycling Vocabulary Wheel

For Students 4th - 6th
In this recycling activity, students write definitions for recycling words in a wheel. Students write definitions for the words aluminum, paper, decomposers, and steel.
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Introduce Vocabulary: Clouds

For Teachers K - 3rd
Young scholars read the book "Clouds" and select 3 Tier Two vocabulary words to build their vocabulary. In this  "Clouds" lesson plan, students  listen to vocabulary words and think about how the words are used in the...
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The Dictionary Game

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students play The Dictionary Game--also called Balderdash as a way to learn new vocabulary words.
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Building Your Vocabulary

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students read a book and write down any words that they do not examine. They also look up the words in a dictionary and write down the definition and a sentence for each word.
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Newsinary

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers demonstrate dictionary and vocabulary skills. They create an index card book containing a page for each letter of the alphabet that includes a word, definition, and sentence.
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Cool, Clear Water - Or Is It?

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students use a problem solving method to offer a solution to one of the water quality problems within the Kansas Lower Republican River Basin. Groups research a problem area, then produce a skit, poem, song or story to illustrate the...
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Word Books

For Teachers K - 6th
Young scholars explore art and writing. They create a word book consisting of new words that they come across in their reading or words they hear from people. Students create a cover for their word books.
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AN EMBRYOLOGY PLACE MAT

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create a place mat to attain the following objectives: determine the important ideas, concepts, and definitions relating to a list of embryological terms. Match the terms with their definitions and create short quizzes for them.
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Words That Name Feelings

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this feeling words activity, students read the words that describe feelings and their definitions from the word box. Students then read the descriptions and write the word from the box that tells how each person is feeling.
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Do You Value That Digit?

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders explore the term digit using large number and comma cards as they create numbers. In this digit value lesson, 6th graders identify the value of digits in large numbers and receive additional practice with the new...
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Mind Your Business

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Learners explore how to identify the range, median, and mode in a list of numbers by using concrete materials.
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Monster Dictionary

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore several retrieval strategies to find information in a variety of sources. They organize the information they find and create a Monster Dictionary that includes imaginary monsters and their definitions.
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Ecological Communities:The Prairie

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Young scholars study the meaning of ecological community and recognize its complexity.  In this ecology lesson students diagram a food web.
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Penguin Paradise

For Teachers 1st
First graders discover where penguins live, what they look like, what kinds of food they eat, and other interesting facts. They communicate statements of information through the composition of a one paragraph summary about a penguin.
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Guess What It Is?

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders write and present a descriptive 'powergraph' that describes a secret object using prior knowledge of adjectives, clustering graphic organizers, and presentation skills. Authors read powergraphs and classmates 'Guess What It...