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Lesson Plan
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "What Size?"

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Excellent classroom activities for building students' character. This activity encourages students to use their knowledge and experiences, mathematical skills, and higher-order thinking skills.
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Lesson Plan
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "What Size?"

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Excellent classroom activities for building young scholars' character. This activity encourages students to use their knowledge and experiences, mathematical skills, and higher-order thinking skills.
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Lesson Plan
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "Read Write Count"

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Excellent classroom activities for building students' character. Activity allows students to build their critical thinking skills, as well as math concepts and the relationships between reading, writing, and thinking.
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Lesson Plan
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "Read Write Count"

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Excellent classroom activities for building students' character. Activity allows students to build their critical thinking skills, as well as math concepts and the relationships between reading, writing, and thinking.
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Lesson Plan
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "Picture Stories"

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Excellent classroom activities for building young scholars' character. This activity focuses on students' critical thinking, creative, and comprehension skills. Good resource.
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Lesson Plan
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "Picture Stories"

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Excellent classroom activities for building young scholars' character. This activity focuses on students' critical thinking, creative, and comprehension skills. Good resource.
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Lesson Plan
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "What to Purchase"

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Excellent classroom activities for building students' character. Enhances students' understanding of different types of writing and their own writing for different purposes. Good site.
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Activity
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "You Tell Me"

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Excellent classroom activities for building students' character. Helps with students' comprehension skills, higher-order thinking skills, knowledge and inference skills, grammar and usage. Good resource.
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Activity
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "If I Had Power"

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Excellent classroom activities for building students' character. Enhances students metacognitive skills, higher-order thinking skills, and makes students more aware of their environment. Good resource.
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Activity
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "Two Sides"

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Excellent resource for empowering students to become better learners. This lesson includes promoting the love of reading, helping students understand different points of view, different genres in literature, and critical thinking skills....
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Activity
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Character Ed "Interpreting Maxims"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Excellent resource for empowering students to become better learners. This lesson includes motivating students to read, encouraging students to use critical thinking skills, cooperative learning and shared experiences, and appreciation...
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Activity
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Character Ed "I Have a Story to Tell"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Excellent resource for empowering students to become better learners. This lesson includes acquainting students with the narrative writing process, emphasizing the importance of writing, encouraging students to use imagination,...
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Activity
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "Beauty"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Excellent resource for empowering students to become better learners. This lesson includes promoting cooperative learning, encouraging the integration of knowledge and creativity, the importance of looking beyond the physical, and the...
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Activity
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "If I Wasn't Me"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Excellent resource for empowering students to become better learners. This lesson includes encouraging students to use their knowledge and metacognition, as well as helping students implement reading, writing, and thinking connections...
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Activity
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "Womanhood"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Excellent resource for empowering students to become better learners. This lesson includes encouraging students to become more aware of the role of women in society, and promoting appreciation for the contributions of women.
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Activity
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Character Ed "Not What It Seems"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Excellent resource for empowering students to become better learners. This lesson includes enhancing students understanding of metaphors, creative writing, and using life experiences to create poems and writing pieces.
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Activity
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "What If?"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Excellent resource for empowering students to become better learners. This lesson includes promoting student interest in history and helping students understand how the past influences the present.
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Activity
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "Feelings"

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Excellent classroom activities for building students' character. This activity focuses on a student's feelings in providing them with a sense of self-discovery and understanding of their value. Good resource.
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Unit Plan
Other

The Disgustoscope

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a resource to teach optics, while building a modified kaleidoscope that will provide 3-dimensional images.
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Activity
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Putt Putt Golf in the Math Classroom

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Putt-Putt golf can be a great tool in helping students understand angles and their reflections. Here a teacher demonstrates the "Course," set up in his classroom to assist in explaining to students how to use geometry and angles in...
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Lesson Plan
Museum of Science

The Museum of Science: Classroom Activity Be Inventive!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Student activity that requires the design, construction, and testing of a compound machine to solve a problem in their environment.
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Activity
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Character Education "History's Heroes"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Excellent resource for empowering students to become better learners. This lesson includes helping students appreciate historical events, enhancing students' understanding of the difference between narrative and expository text, and...
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Activity
Exploratorium

Exploratorium: The Ear Guitar

For Students 3rd - 5th
This simple activity helps students understand the role of vibration in producing sound.
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Lesson Plan
Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Vincent Van Gogh's Flower Beds in Holland

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A simple lesson plan on the concept of opportunity costs or sacrifices. A short quiz on this concept is also provided.