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Bee Dance

For Teachers K - 5th Standards
Everything a bee does serves a purpose. Learners in grades one through five explore the behaviors of bees through reading and dramatic puppet play. First children will create honey bee puppets, then they will discuss how bees dance to...
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Renaissance: Rebirth to Revolution

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders use a variety of resources to research the Middle Ages and Renaissance over a nine-week period. Working in cooperative teams, they become experts on specific topics. Students hold a Renaissance Faire and role-play as...
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Ender's Game: Ender's Shadow Projects

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Most likely intended for a secondary remedial class. This lesson engages high schoolers in literary analysis through a creative project. They choose one project focused on taking the protagonist through a hero's journey. This link...
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Seasons

For Teachers 3rd - 9th
English language learners celebrate the seasons with games, songs, and readings. 
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Ancient Rome

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate information about the leaders of Rome. In this ancient Rome lesson, students research Roman warfare and military leaders in order to write and present their own one-act plays based on Scipio, Hannibal, Julius Caesar,...
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Lights, Camera, Action! The Role of SCRUM in Parliament

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Young scholars explore the purpose of SCRUM in Canadian government, and the roles played by both politicians and the media during SCRUM. They assume roles as politicians and media personnel and stage a SCRUM of their own.
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Legal Aspects Of Fetal Tissue Transportation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the current legal status of fetal tissue transplantation. Students engage in a role play discussion of a specific case study. Students explore the ethical controversies surrounding this procedure. Students formulate...
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Romeo and Juliet Promptbook - The Balcony Scene

For Students 10th - 12th
In this Romeo and Juliet worksheet, students view three versions of the balcony scene. Students discuss why the director chose the elements for the film versions. Students then complete a prompt-book activity analyze the setting,...
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Paws in Jobland

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students research a specific job. In this lesson about jobs in the Health Sciences area, students learn about jobs. Students utilize the book "Paws in Jobland" to explore Health Sciences jobs. Students answer ten questions from a...
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Cinderella Stories

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students listen to the Scottish tale, The Princess and the Golden Shoes, creating a character chart. They develop a newspaper containing news stories, personality profiles, and editorials regarding The Princess and the Golden Shoes.
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Adapting Shakespeare's Classic from Romeo and Juliet

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students view a new adaptation of composer Charles Fran¿¿ois Gounod's opera "Romeo and Juliet", based on Shakespeare's 16th-century play. They conduct research on the era in which Shakespeare lived, write and respond to letters from...
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Contraception: Communication

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students investigate human health by completing a worksheet in class. In this sexual activity lesson, students identify the importance of contraceptive devices and birth control. Students complete role-play scenarios in which two people...
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It's About You

For Teachers K - 4th
Students build connections between census information and community decision-making by reading a reader's theater script. In this reader's theater lesson, students practice reading fluently and learn about the government. The reader's...
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Careers in Television

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students discuss and research how a news program is produced. They watch a web based video before working in small groups to produce a news program. They role play different jobs as they produce the program to share with at least one...
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Music Twister

For Teachers 3rd
Distinguish the sound of musical notes and correctly name them. In this music instructional activity, participate in a game of musical twister where the circles are renamed with musical note names. Additionally, display recognition of...
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Lattimer Massacre: What's Beneath the Surface?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers research the growth of unions due to issues related to the Lattimer Massacre. They research primary source documents and create posters, skits and role plays.
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Telephone Messages

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students practice having telephone conversations. They create their own phone message after practicing with each other. They also identify the different parts of a telephone.
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Helping

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students awareness is raised when they are called to look after one's surrounding and have a good attitude toward helping others and working cooperatively. Students write down times of day and how that time was wasted and time helping...
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Discovering Aristotle's Three Forms

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners, working in small groups, role play different kinds of governments--oligarchy, monarchy, dictatorship, and democratic republic. They portray their form of government in a skit, while other groups guess which kind of government...
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Where Am I?

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders listen to a Japanese folk tale called "The Traveling Frogs". They role play the story using puppets or costumes. They locate Japan on a map and discuss several geography topics. They independently write about ways they...
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Matrices and Vectors

For Students 12th - Higher Ed
In this matrices and vectors worksheet, learners solve 9 various types of problems related to forming matrices and vectors. First, they set up each system of equations listed in matrix form using mathematical notation. Then, students...
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ASPIRIN (Assess Simulated Presentation Involving Realistic Injury Now)

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Pupils integrate biology and chemistry into a medical framework. They nterpret observations and data and evaluate their hypotheses in the light of the data obtained.. They make appropriate diagnosis and recommend treatment.
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Telephone Game

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students practice their listening comprehension by playing the "telephone" game.  In this foreign language lesson, students listen to a story read by a teacher in their target language and try to remember the details by writing 5...
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The Reunion

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students dramatize a postwar reunion between people who held opposing views during the U.S. Civil War.