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Pizza Box Projects

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students use pizza boxes to draw and research their own Asian country.
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Artistic Angles

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders practice measuring angles by using protractors.
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Celebrate Books: A (Book) Week of Fun!

For Teachers K - 12th
Students celebrate Book Week by participating in a variety of fun literature-based activities.
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Dramatizing Folktales, Legends and Myths

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Pupils read different folktales from Native American cultures. They work together to act out different scenes. They discover the difference between folktales, legends and myths.
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Senufo Painting

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students create a Senufo painting in the same style as the Fakaha tribespeople from West Africa. They listen to a teacher-led lecture on Senufo painting, develop a sketch of an animal and masked figures, and draw their figures on burlap.
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Using Graphic Organizers to Generate Genre Definitions

For Teachers 3rd - 11th
Students listen to or read a variety of stories and then work individually or in groups to complete graphic organizers that will help them focus on elements within different types of stories. They write definitions for a variety of story...
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Travels With Charley

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders engage in a literature study that uses a variety of texts in order to maximize their exposure to different reading situations. They examine each book in order to practice skills of reading comprehension. They recognize the...
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ToxMystery Lesson Plan 1: Introduction to Common Household Chemical Hazards

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students participate in ToxMystery, a computer game, where they discover potential environmental health hazards in rooms of a common household. For this lesson on household safety, students first brainstorm possible hazards in the...
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Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners explore Spanish speaking countries.  In this multi-cultural literacy lesson, students research a country in which Spanish is the official language, and create a related travel brochure on the computer.
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Celebrating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Students honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the principles he stood for: justice, equality, freedom, and peace.
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Who are Our Leaders?

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students discuss and identify current state and national leaders, and relate two specific details about them.
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Make a Model of a Wright Flyer

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Young scholars recreate a model of the 1903 Wright Flyer out of Styrofoam. Students practice following instructions, and discover information about the Wright brothers' engine-powered glider.
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Million Dollar Project

For Teachers 5th
Each student is given the task of spending $1 million. The way students spend their money is dependent on a theme such as "creating a dream world," "taking a trip," or "doing something to better society." Each student researches,...
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Tracking down Good Information on the Web

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders brainstorm on whiteboard Web authorship and what they think they need to know about information on a website in order to judge its content. They research the solar system websites and present them to the class with their...
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Carrie's War by Nina Bawden

For Students 5th - 6th
In this Carrie's War learning exercise, students analyze each chapter through word level, sentence level, and text level evaluations for ten chapters. Students respond to short answer questions about six characters in the book.
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State to State Scavenger Hunt

For Students 4th - 5th
In this states worksheet, students utilize the Internet to access one specific website to locate the answers to five fill in the blank statements about the states found on a United States map.
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Subtraction: Decimals

For Students 4th - 7th Standards
In this decimal subtraction worksheet, students solve 15 problems that require them to subtract decimal numbers with 1-5 digits.
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Vote for Me!

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students conduct a mock presidential interview. In this US presidents lesson, students research the lives of former U.S. presidents and then role play interviews of the "presidents."
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What does it mean to be American?

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students create a mural depicting what it means to be an American. In this being American lesson plan, students pull out magazine ads that depict what it means to be an American, then they make a mural out of it, and finally they present...
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Thanksgiving Then and Now

For Teachers K - 12th
Students create a Venn diagram to compare the Pilgrim's "First Thanksgiving" with today's Thanksgiving celebration. They use one type of graphic organizer, a Venn diagram, talk and read about the Thanksgiving celebration of 1621 at...
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Interviewing a Historical Figure

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learners examine a historical figure by designing an interview for them.
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Dance Research Essay

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students discover and appreciate the history, characteristics, and significance of a specific dance style. They to pick a dance style that they are interested in and would like to research.
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Cultural Multimedia Projects

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders research a cultural element (art, music, literature, food, clothing, religion, etc) and work as a group to create a multimedia presentation. This lesson focuses on the process of creating a multimedia presentation.
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Day you were born newspaper

For Teachers 4th - 10th
Pupils construct a newspaper about historical events that happened on the day they were born. In this newspaper lesson plan, students write an editorial, create a visual, find a political cartoon, and insert an interview.

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