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Uen: Vocabulary Words in Context
For this lesson, 5th graders will use context clues as they learn new science vocabulary words through listening, reading and discussing the new content. The terms are associated with the reshaping of the earth's surface.
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Uen: Lots of Labels
This instructional activity gives ideas on how to use labeling within the classroom to help students connect print with a message.
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Uen: Tortoise and Hare Races
In this activity students use the fable "The Tortoise and the Hare" while learning basic mapping skills.
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Uen: Lesson Plan: A Newspaper?
Hands-on lesson plan that helps students learn about fractions using a the content and layout of a newspaper.
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Uen: Colorful and Musical Feelings
In this lesson, students will communicate their emotions through drama, art, and poetry. Mouse Paint, by Ellen Stohl Walsh, Hailstones and Halibut Bones, by Mary O'Neill, and Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" will be used during this engaging...
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Uen: Trb 5:1 Act. 4: Chem. Reactions Borax & Glue, Cream
For this experiment for Grade Five, students develop an understanding that chemical changes in matter do not affect the actual mass of the matter.
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Uen: Playing the Stock Market
This Utah Education Network lesson provides directions for engaging middle schoolers in playing the stock market.
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Uen: Identify and Create Rhyming Words
In this lesson students will listen to poetry or rhyming books and recognize rhyming words.
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Uen: Expanded Notation and Scientific Notation
After middle schoolers listen to the story If You Hopped Like a Frog by David M. Schwartz, students will investigate expanded and scientific notation. Middle schoolers will practice writing large numbers in scientific notation. Then...
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Uen: Listen to Me Tell You the Story
Students will listen to familiar stories and choose their favorite story among them. Then students will make puppets for each of the main characters from their favorite story. Students will share a puppet show to a small audience.
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Uen: Expressing Thoughts & Feelings
Students will practice using vocabulary associated with feelings. Students will investigate discovery topics with the following categories: bad day discovery bucket, flannel board discovery bucket, dramatic discovery bucket, name...
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Uen: Goals
As a response to 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens by Sean Covey, students will select and write down personal learning goals that relate to their work based learning experiences. Several reproducible sheets related to goal setting are...
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Uen: 1st Grade Act. 08: Then and Now
This lesson engages students in understanding the concepts of "past" and "present" events. Students will sort objects and discuss to reinforce segmentation and blending skills.
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Uen: Name Bingo
Students will gain a sense of community during this lesson. Students will play School Bingo, engage in the shared reading of Chrysanthemum, and then play Name Bingo with the students' names featured on the Bingo cards.
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Uen: Dress for Success
Students will learn about the different types of attire necessary in a business environment. Interview attire and business casual are included in the content of the lesson.
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Uen: Be Proactive
This student engages learners in buidling self-esteem skills so that they will acquire employability skills.
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Uen: Vivid Verbs W.5.3.d
This lesson plan engages students in analyzing word choices. Students will write descriptive paragraphs about interesting magazine pictures and ensure that they are using vivid words in their writings.
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Uen: Seed House
Students will communicate in oral, artistic, written and nonverbal form as they study seeds and their growth. Students will plant seeds, make observations about the seeds' growth, and report their observations to peers .
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Uen: 1st Grade Act. 15: Frederick
In this instructional activity, students will listen to the tradebook, Frederick, a book written by Leo Lionni. Students will engage in visualization as a post-reading acitivity. Then students will create drawings of places that are...
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Uen: 1st Grade Act. 24: Interactive Writing
In this instructional activity, young scholars will listen to nonfiction books about items that sink and float. Students will participate in filling in words to fill in a teacher-created chart that is connected to the information. Young...
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Uen: 1st Grade Act. 12: The Little House
This lesson introduces students to cycles and patterns. Students will engage in shared reading. Students will learn word patterns and repetition in language cycles. Students will learn that time in math and cycles of change in science...
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Uen: 2nd Grade Act. 10: R E L a T I O N S H I P S
This lesson engages students in making short words. Students will regroup the short words into word families and discuss the findings with classmates.
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Uen: Art Smart
Young scholars will learn about the symbolic meanings associated with various colors. Then students will design a piece of art with colors that are reflective of their personal emotions.
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Uen: Hinges I, Hinges Ii
In this lesson, literacy-based cards will spur participation as students use small motor skills, personal space, and boundary awareness. Color cards and number cards will also be used to cue the children to move in specific ways.