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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Leaders of Our School

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
For this lesson, students will interview administrators and faculty within the school in order to learn the importance of leadership and teamwork. Then students will create a slideshow using digital cameras and presentation software.
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Professional Doc
Common Sense Media

Common Sense Media: Give Every Student a Stake in Group Work

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Can we organize group work so that every student has ownership over their learning? This is a collection of resources that highlight some tips on how to make students' group work more relevant and impactful for everyone involved.
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Interactive
Other

Take Lessons: How to Read Body Language: Examples From Around the World

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This resource provides several examples of different meanings of various types of body language.
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Article
Understood For All

Understood: How to Help Your Child Understand Body Language

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This article provides tips on how teach children to pick up on social cues.
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Handout
Other

Kiddle Encyclopedia: Body Language Facts for Kids

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This resource provide a list of common types of body language. Each type of body language is described.
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Activity
Other

The Responsive Counselor: Body Language and Tone of Voice Lesson Plan

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This blog post from shares several activities that will help students understand how to interpret voice tone and body language.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Story Add Ons

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This is a technology-rich lesson plan which allows young scholars to explore proper language conventions while utilizing portable keyboards for word processing.
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Tourists!

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Write a dialogue for the gulls, who appear to be having some issues with the humans cluttering their beach.
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Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Question Answer Relationship (Qar)

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Question-Answer relationship (QAR) is a strategy to be used after students have read. QAR teaches students how to decipher what types of questions they are being asked and where to find the answers to them. Four types of questions are...
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Left Brained Writing Prompt: Mini Workshop: Building a Setting

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This mini-workshop provides step-by step instructions to help learners build a great setting for their stories. Press the instructions button when ready to begin.
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Left Brained Writing Prompt: Mini Worshop: People to Write About

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this mini-workshop, pupils are provided step-by-step instructions for writing about important people in their lives that they have not yet written about. Click the instructions button when you are ready to begin.
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Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: Subject Verb Agreement Exercises

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource offers five interactive subject-verb agreement exercises with accompanying printable handouts.
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Other

Peer Editing Checklist [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
An in depth review process followed by a simple checklist to use for peer review of writing assignments.
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Interactive
Quia

Quia: Parts of Speech Games

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Four interactive games for reinforcing the eight parts of speech. Created by a 6th grade teacher.
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eBook
Quia

Quia: Making Homemade Pizza (9 Steps)

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This activity aims to improve student understanding of sequencing. Students put eight actions in order to emphasize understanding and application of sequential order.
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eBook
Quia

Quia: Making Cookies (9 Steps)

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This activity is designed to increase student understanding of sequencing. Activity encourages students to put six actions in order to emphasis understanding and application of sequential order.
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Handout
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Reading Strategies: Recognize Cause and Effect Relationships

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Learn how to identify the cause and effect relationships within a text by using a list of guiding questions.
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Website
Other

Team Building inc.com: The Miracle of Pittron Steel

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The writer reviews the work of Wayne Alderson and claims that a person's beliefs can interfere with reaching consensus. The article uses Alderson's technique as a premise for all consensus building.
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Austin Independent School District

Austin Independent School District: 5th Grade Conventions Checklists [Pdf]

For Teachers 5th Standards
A series of three checklists for sets of nine weeks, designed to track fifth graders' focus on usage and mechanics in their writing.
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Handout
Other

Grammar book.com: Finding Nouns, Verbs, and Subjects

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Notes and examples of nouns, verbs, and identifying subjects within a sentence.
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Activity
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning: How to Assign Meaningful Tasks

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides cooperative grouping strategies. Students will be able to communicate effectively with the aid of this resource.
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Activity
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning: Strategies for Problematic Members

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a cooperative grouping strategy. This strategy focuses on placing students who tend to get into trouble.
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Activity
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning: Great Grouping Strategies

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a flexible grouping strategy. An explanation is provided that explains how to use tongue depressers to divide students into cooperative learning groups.
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Lesson Plan
American Forum for Global Education

American Forum for Global Education: Talking With Our Hands

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This instructional activity from the American Forum for Global Education is designed to help children understand that using hands to "convey messages" is a form of communication.