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Schedule Changing Prepositions

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners discuss the appropriate and inappropriate reasons for requesting a schedule change at work. They create scripts for requesting a change that uses appropriate prepositions and prepositional phrases. Students practice using...
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Health Education: Bullying

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders demonstrate steps to take if someone is being bullied. For this health lesson plan, 2nd graders role play situations that call for them to sop bullying behavior. Scripts and tips are included.
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Dust Bowl Depression

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students examine the Dust Bowl and the impact it made on farm families. In this U. S. history lesson, students role play a writer searching for a family that moved during the Great Depression. Students uncover what prompted families to...
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Compare 2-D Shapes

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders examine the attributes of two-dimensional shapes. In this geometry lesson, 2nd graders play a game in order to identify two-dimensional shapes and to name them.
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Sexually Transmitted Diseases

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the issue of sexually transmitted diseases and discover that someone may have an STD with no symptoms. In this sexually transmitted diseases lesson, students complete a worksheet as a large group. Students discuss how...
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Performing Sonnets

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Students use Shakespearean sonnets as part of a poetry analysis lesson plan. In this sonnet lesson plan, students perform a sonnet by Shakespeare but treat it as a script to be acted out. Students work in pairs to create motions for two...
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Jeopardy Game

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students practice discovering a target language by playing a game of Jeopardy.  In this foreign language lesson, students utilize their target language vocabulary to answer Jeopardy style questions they prepared the day before....
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Fairness and Justice

For Students K - 5th
In this fairness and justice worksheet, learners read a list of steps about how to be a fair person and complete a set of discussion questions based on a referenced video program. Suggestions for related activities and writing are also...
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Using Visual Art to Create Scenes

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students review scene structure and the elements beginning, middle and end. They view a piece of art to stimulate an idea for a improvised scene. Students work in small groups, create and then perform their scenes for the rest of the...
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Lights, Camera, Action!

For Teachers 4th - Higher Ed
Students participate in an alternative reading assessment using a video camera and script. In this alternative reading lesson, students work as a group to perform their reading story. students memorize their lines and film their play.
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Have You Heard About the Clinton, New Jersey Story?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners role play one of the three given situations. They discover how to deal with a conflict in a positive way. They discuss the role of radon in their community and complete another role-play scenerio.
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Stories

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students read and discuss a story in Spanish. Creating a poster board, they write the names of the characters in the story. In pairs, they write sentences about their characters they have chosen to role play. They practice and perform...
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Exploration Activities

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars examine the stages in finding, removing, and processing mineral resources. They participate in the "Exploration Hunt" and "Leasing Mineral Rights" activities to better get a handle on their studying.
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Mills of New Hampshire

For Teachers K - 12th
Students locate mill sites on a New Hampshire map. They describe who worked in the mills and their working conditions. They examine the environmental impact of the mills and work together to find out more information about mills.
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Indians at Arras

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers research the role played by Britsih Empire troops in the First World War. They analyze the natrue, origin and purpose of propaganda. Students watch the "Newsreel", they are asked to write down everything that they can...
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Geo Jammin' - Day 5, Lesson 19: Hey, Hey, Whaddaya Say!

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students rehearse scripts by recording themselves on audiotape and then playing it back to self-assess strengths and weaknesses.
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Women of Substance ~ Broadcasting Their Stories

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students research the Boston Women's Memorial. Showing their fifth grade buddies around the memorial, they examine the lives of Abigail Adams, Phillis Wheatley and Lucy Stone. They create scripts for a public service announcement while...
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Cubing Strategy

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders interview each other in the role of civil war personalities. In this Civil War instructional activity, 5th graders create a script and video of an interview with classmates who are portraying characters from the Civil War....
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Who's Inside The Mitten?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students use the Jan Brett story, 'The Mitten,' to develop self-confidence and improve their oral language skills. They also practice performing in front of a group. Students take on the various roles that the animals play in the story.
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"I am Not Well": Unspoken Endings and Unscripted Scenes

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers analyze Act 4, scene 1 from the play, Merchant of Venice. They hypothesize the content of an unscripted moment and response, look for evidence in the text to support their hypothesis, rewrite the scene, and perform it for...
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Expression in Action

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students observe and demonstrate a variety of strategies for reading with expression. They listen to the teacher read different sentences with and without expression and discuss the differences. In small groups, they read the short...
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What? Did Caesar Swoon?

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students discover the "dumb show," a scene that enacts a story silently while focusing on an example from Hamlet. Divided into groups, they act out the silent scene from the play. Again, in groups, they create a "dumb show" from Julius...
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HIT THE TRAIL

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students draw three cattle trails that passed through Indian Territory, using a written description of the trails and will create a diary of trail life. Students research a historical trail as assigned. Students share their information...
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Radio Broadcasting Before Television

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students compare the radio to other forms of mass communication. In this Radio Broadcasting Before Television lesson, students learn the different types of radio shows in the 1920s and 30s. Students write and perform radio scripts...