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Make Your Point with Power
Seventh graders create a PowerPoint presentation. In this technology lesson, 7th graders use information they're learned in previous lessons to create a PowerPoint presentation.
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Tall Tales
Students read tall tales and then write their own tall tales. In this tall tales lesson plan, students read tall tales, write their own, produce plays, and watch videos of their tall tales.
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Incentives Matter
Students identify what motive people. They will learn about both positive, and negative incentives. They will use this knowledge to make predictions about how people will behave. They will apply this knowledge to economics.
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Rules and Consequences in the Classroom
Students study rules and consequences as well as learn positive, healthy behaviors in and out of the classroom. In this behavior instructional activity, students discuss behaviors that got them into trouble at home. Students name trouble...
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What Is Cloning?
Students differentiate between reproductive and therapeutic cloning and then use research, discussion, and writing in journals to examine their own personal opinions on these subjects.
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Respect
Students explore and discuss why Aretha Franklin's song "R-E-S-P-E-C-T" has been so popular over the years. They survey a variety of definitions and perceptions of what truly respect is and how one shows respect to others as well as how...
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Ocean Creature Classification
Students develop a Taxonomic Key for marine invertebrates from pictures they are given after practicing together with common objects, such as shoes. They then compare their key to a provided Ocean Invertebrates Taxonomic Key.
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Group Initiatives
Students explore the names and qualities about members in the group. They each say their name and something about themselves. Students gather around in a circle. They listen to the teacher as he or she says the name of someone and throws...
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Determining the Age of Fossils
Students examine the concept of radioactive dating. In this radioactive dating lesson, students investigate how to determine the ages of fossils and rocks as they learn about half-life radioactive decay.
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How Prophet-able Are You? Ancient Advocates for Change
Students read and analyze classical literature of the ancient Hebrew prophets dealing with societal injustices. They identify present-day prophets, and write an essay about how the common good would be affected if people listened to the...
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Pablo Picasso
Students explore the connections between major world events and the ways artists have responded through their work. They discuss Picasso's Guernica. Students explain why Picasso painted Guernica. They create their own personal...
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How to Answer Moral Questions
For this character education worksheet, students respond to five short answer questions related to ideal moral judgment. First, they explain why it is important, which components is most difficult, and how one engages in rational and...
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Asking for Help
Young scholars consider calls for help. In this personal health activity, students design advertisements meant to motivate reluctant people who need help to go ahead and ask for it.
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Brainstorming Research Questions
Students examine and participate in an inquiry process. They brainstorm recall, comprehension, and synthesis questions for a research topic, and write the questions on sentence strips.
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Freedom Fighters
Students are introduced to the concept of segregation and explore its affects on society. They participate in a role-play about segregation, read books about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., create self-portraits, sing songs and participate...
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Language Arts: What Is a Family?
Students discuss the attributes of a successful family after listening to the poem,"What Is a Family?" After sharing information about their own families, students work in groups to act out scenes from books that were previously read...
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Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
Third graders explore their culture in comparison to Japanese culture by reading the book, Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes. They identify islands of Japan, create a Venn diagram comparing Japanese culture to American culture, and...
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Be Responsible at School - Secondary
In this secondary responsibility poster, students read about the need for responsibility in older students. They read questions and answers about responsibility that are shown on the poster. They read about and give examples of times...
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Writing Quiz
In this writing instructional activity, students complete a 9 question on-line interactive exercise about correcting errors in sentences. Students correct one misspelled or misused word in each sentence.
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Searching for Ourselves in Novels
Students select a novel of their choice and complete assignments that are self-assigned. Students display responsibility in completing self-assigned projects and meet deadlines.
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Vocational: Fashion terms
Students view a Powerpoint presentation on fashion industry vocabulary and locate examples in magazines that illustrate the terms. On black construction paper, students assemble collages of the magazine pictures representing each of the...
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Making Subjects and Verbs Agree
In this grammar activity, students choose and circle the appropriate form of the verb that agrees with the subject in twenty-three sentences.
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Reduction of Adverb Clauses of Time
In this grammar worksheet, learners learn about reducing adverb clauses to adverbial phrases. They then rewrite 4 sentences using what they just learned.
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Gender, Age, and Health
In this gender, age, and health in American society worksheet, students respond to 7 short answer questions and answer 13 fill in the blank questions regarding their role in American culture.