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Final Topic Selection

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Read The Quicksand Book by Tomie dePaola while taking notes about the story.  Perform a read-aloud, and work your way through the text with your youngsters. With this plan, learners also write about ideas from a previous day, and detail...
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Beginning With Writing; Convey Ideas in Writing

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Walk young writers through the process of creating an initial writing sample for their portfolio. They determine their purpose, organize their ideas, and then create a draft. The lesson includes worksheets and online resources to aid in...
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Ben Franklin's Game

For Teachers 4th - 6th
A reading of What's The Big Idea, Ben Franklin? provides an opportunity for class members to practice paraphrasing, quoting, and citing sources. An exercise on how to avoid plagiarizing is also included. 
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Public Speaking

For Teachers 4th - 12th
As a quick and easy way to review public speaking skills, this resource could be used in an upper elementary or higher-ed classroom. It offers simple strategies like maintaining eye contact with the audience for three seconds. A teacher...
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Creative Writing

For Teachers 9th - 12th
While the idea presented in this resource, using emotions as a way to write creative descriptions, is a great suggestion, the example employed is troublesome. It focuses on describing fear. However, a teacher could substitute another...
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Lesson Plan 1: Introducing NaNo and Novels

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Did you know that November is Novel Writing Month? In the first of a series of lessons, class members are introduced to the NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) project.
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Uppercase W- Cursive Practice

For Students 4th - 5th
For this cursive writing practice worksheet, student trace 15 solid upper case W's, and trace dotted lines to write 35 more. They fill two lines with independently written examples of the letter.
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Two Digit Addition W/carryover

For Students 5th - 8th
In this two digit addition learning exercise, students problem solve twenty five addition equations with carryovers. Students show each step of their work as they go.
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Review of Initial Sounds: P, T, S, W

For Students K - 2nd
In this initial sounds learning exercise, students look at pictures and write the initial sound, first on a line next to the picture, then at the beginning of the word that describes the picture.
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Initial Consonant Sounds of M-N-W-L-H

For Students 1st
In this initial sounds worksheet, 1st graders circle the initial consonant sound for each of the pictured words. Students circle the sound and write the word on the lines.
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Identify Coins Worksheet (b/w)

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this coin identification worksheet, students look at the pictures of the coins on the left and the names of the coins on the right. Students draw a line to match the 4 coins to their name.
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Solving Eqautions w/ Division & Multiplication: Practice A

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders explore the process of solving one-step equations.  In this Algebra I activity, 9th graders solve one-step equations involving multiplication and division.  The activity includes translation of verbal expressions to...
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2D Kinematics w/ String Racers

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students calculate the speed of string racers. In this physics lesson plan, students measure the time in several trials and get the average. They graph their results using a spreadsheet.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Banana Bread

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
Show your future bakers how to choose the right baking pan by calculating the volume of a pan. The resource compares two pans, one with decimal edge lengths and is too small for the recipe and one that may work. Your number crunchers are...
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Odegaard Writing & Research Center

Strong Body Paragraphs

For Students 6th - 12th
Here's a handy, seven-step guide to crafting good paragraphs in support of a claim. The steps are clearly explained and examples provided.
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University of North Carolina

Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr.

For Teachers 8th Standards
After reading the article "Kings Dream Everyday," class members conduct a Socratic seminar discussion of Martin Luther King's contributions to the civil rights movement. They then read and respond to a passage from Michael Eric Dyson's...
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Joseph Priestley, Discoverer of Oxygen

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Do you want to hear a joke about nitrogen and oxygen? NO. We all know there is oxygen in the air and that plants produce oxygen, but how was it discovered? Scholars read a handout, answer questions, and analyze material in the...
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Printing Practice

For Students Pre-K - K
In this printing learning exercise, students form 4 rows of uppercase and lowercase Z's. Students also write 4 words and 2 sentences beginning with the letter Z.
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Summing It All Up in a Nutshell

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students observe and demonstrate a variety of summarization strategies. They discuss the process of asking the five W questions, and apply then to a passage from the book "Sarah Plain and Tall." Students then finish the chapter from...
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Behind the Scenes: The Executive Response to 9/11

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students examine the actions of the executive branch following the September 11th terrorist attacks. In this U.S. government lesson, students watch segments of a video titled "Behind the Scenes: The Executive Response to 9/11." Students...
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Wolves

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students utilize several different sources to research wolves, after completing the K-W-L process.
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Imagery

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars read the poem The Worker by Richard W. Thomas as an example of the effective use of imagery. Then they complete a 5-senses chart describing some part of nature, e.g. sea, clouds, etc. Then they write their own poem using...
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Junior Wrters Review "The Little Prince"

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners create a piece of art reminiscent of the childhood pictures of the story's narrator, The Pilot, and engage in critical thinking using the K-W-L Chart.
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What and Where is Puerto Rico?

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Learners explore Puerto Rico. They create K-W-L charts of their prior knowledge of Puerto Rico and observe maps of Puerto Rico. They code the map for measurements and land and water forms. They explore websites to gain background on...

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