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Madrigal Dinners
Students investigate Medieval times. In this world history lesson plan, students discuss what a madrigal dinner was and what madrigals were. Students role play being a part of a madrigal dinner with pretend food and real life music they...
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Water - Solid and Liquid
First graders conduct a science inquiry by comparing water in its liquid and solid form. The students describe the different stages of water and complete a worksheet answering questions about each form of the water. Teacher assessment...
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Personal Responsibility
Students write in their journals. In this writing and responsibility lesson, students write about personal responsibility. They have three writing choices to choose from that all deal with this central theme.
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Match the Trucks
Students discover the many types of delivery work vehicles in the world. In this transportation lesson, students investigate how our local products get here, and where they come from. Students solve a work sheet based on transportation...
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Acting with Integrity
Middle schoolers discuss the meaning of integrity. In this language arts lesson, students work in small groups to read scenarios and discuss how integrity applies to all scenarios. Middle schoolers discuss what the benefits of having...
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Alliance Game, International Alliances
Ninth graders play the Alliance simulation game, which allows them to explain how alliances made before WWI influenced the makeup of the war and its outcome.
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Solving Math Word Problems
Students use five word problem solving skills to solve a variety of math word problems. They observe the teacher modelling the five steps, and in small groups complete two worksheet word problems. Students read the problem, find the...
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24 Hour Party Robots
Students read an article about robots and social behavior. As a class, they write down new vocabulary words they are unfamilar with in the article. In groups, they discover what all the words have in commom and identify the type of...
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Jewish Ghettos and Death/Concentration Camps
Students trace and explain the antecedents, causes, major events, and global consequences of World War II, including the Holocaust. They assess the conditions of Jewish inhabitants of the Ghettos and death/concentration camps and the...
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Words in the News: Climber Resuced From Dangerous Peak
Students discuss information about the world's highest peaks. In groups, they work together to match new vocabulary words with their definitions. They read an article about resucing climbers from peaks and answering questions.
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How a Blue Crab Changes as it Grows
Young scholars explore the BlueCrab Archives website. It includes pictures of a blue crab as it goes through the stages of molting. Students often become confused with the term molting since it is used in different ways in the animal...
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The Secret Ballot - Voting in Australia
Students participate in classroom activities to develop an understanding of the secret ballot and the process of voting in Australia. Working in large and small groups they use the secret ballot and the various stages in an in-class...
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Apply Technological Design and Scientific Habits of Mind
Students are introduced to the principles involved with technological design. In groups, they use the Internet to research an important historical innovation and how it changed the world. They discover the barriers that were involved in...
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Technology and Change
Young scholars write a paragraph explaining how a technological innovation from a particular country has affected the world. Using a variety of resources, students identify a technological innovation, giving accurate historical and...
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Student Experiment Flies On NASA Space Shuttle!
Students design and construct an experiment that will be launched into space aboard a NASA research shuttle. How better to gain and appreciation for (and, hopefully, a love of) scientific investigation than to do real science and be...
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Skates
Students gain understanding of structure, characteristics, and basic needs of living things and their role in world, identify parts of skate, observe details of skate's body and skate egg case, and identify unique characteristics of skates.
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Women in Jazz
Students watch a video: "VH1 Millennium Jazz Festival From The White House" to become familiar with prominent women in jazz. They discuss the vocally oriented nature of jazz and the contributions made by women on and off stage.
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Words in the News Maradona And the 'Hand of God' 24 August 2005
Learners study vocabulary about football and the World Cup. They complete word work and read an online article looking for answers to specific questions.
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Explorers Stopped in Russia
Learners read an article about an explorer attempting to walk around the world. They complete vocabulary exercises and take a quiz. They identify several examples of homographs in English and complete a worksheet.
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BEWARE OF POISONS
Middle schoolers research and explore all the safety conditions to being exposed to poisons in real-world situations. They review/discuss/investigate about types, sources, effects and responses of poisons by creating general questions to...
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Education Evaluation
Eleventh graders examine their human right to an education. For this American Law lesson, 11th graders evaluate how well the world is doing when it comes to providing a free, equal, quality education to our youth. Students create a...
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The Reformation in England
In this world history worksheet set, students read two pages of information about the Reformation in England and Martin Luther. They read about the stages of the break from Rome. There are no questions associated with the page.
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TRADITION WITH A TWIST
Students come prepared with their strips previously cut and sew some strip sets together and have them cut the completed strip sets into sections. They stack the needed sctions for the required blocks of units and set all units together.
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Can't Bayou this Water Cycle
Students identify the stages in the water cycle. They observe a local water source and view the cycle in action. They create their own water cycle using software.