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Heritage: Line Dance is a Pattern!
Line dancing is the repeating of a pattern of steps, done to music. Teach youngsters how to line dance and they won't feel so awkward when they grow up. Let them experiment with creating their own patterns and teaching their classmates....
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Strategy Script #4
This lesson is designed for college students who are having anxiety regarding public speaking. In it, the speech givers go through a process of using imagery in order to reduce anxiety. The instructor guides the pupils in visualizing how...
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The American Revolution: A Play
No lesson plan accompanies this drama about the American Revolution. With 13 speaking roles, the short script could be used for a class production, a lesson plan on the parts of a play, or to supplement your social studies curriculum.
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Using the Present Progressive
What is the present progressive, and how does it change a verb's meaning? There are eight sentences on this worksheet, and each contains a verb already in the present progressive. The pupil studies the bolded word (in present progressive...
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Jump on Tens
Give the actors in your class a chance to shine as they act out skip-counting. In their roles, they take turns shouting out different number patterns and jumping when reaching the given goals set for each number family. A fun and...
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How Many?
In this counting worksheet, students count the number of items in each problem and write how many there are. Students complete 7 problems.
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Math and Music
First graders play a variety of learning games to reinforce addition and subtraction skills.
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The Changing Me
Third graders study the human body. In this health lesson plan, 3rd graders discuss that everyone's body is growing, measure body parts using a tape measure, and color the body worksheet.
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Making Music
Students create auditory musical patterns. In this patterns lesson, students create a pattern using their hands, feet, dancing, and snapping their fingers. Students use a recorder to recreate a pattern.
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Cha-Cha Dribble
Young scholars work on dribbling with either hand. They follow directions and the rhythm of the music. Students dance to the Cha-Cha slide according to its directions and they add the dribble of the bbasketball with the number of...
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Creative Dancing
Young scholars dance a Cossack dance. In this dance instructional activity, students learn to keep the beat and follow a movement sequence to dance a Cossack Dance.
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Measuring Inches
First graders measure the length of pipe cleaners to form worms using rulers to focus on inches. They record their results and graph the measurement of each pipe cleaner. They measure their pipe cleaner "worms" in various colors and...
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Alligators
Learners investigate the characteristics of alligators. In this animal science activity, students sing a song to identify the parts of an alligator. Learners draw a picture of their own alligator.
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First Rhythmic Composition
Students apply fractions to counting rhythm in music. For this algebra lesson, students interrelate the concept of math into music as they fill out a chart identifying the names and symbols of music notes and their equivalent values in...
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Rhyming With Ramon
Students examine healthy behaviors to avoid the flu. They repeat words that rhyme, sing a song, and repeat a chant and act out the verses to reinforce healthy behaviors to avoid the flu.
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100 Balls
Students perform locomotor skills such as throwing balls while counting up to 100. In this 100th day of school physical education activity, the students play a Hungry, Hungry Hippos game to perform the throwing technique. There are...
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Have You Seen My Duckling?
In this language arts activity, students read a story called Have You Seen My Duckling? Students listen to the names of the places the duckling was hiding and identify the corresponding page numbers.
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Five Second Dash
Learners estimate how far they can run, jump, or hop in five seconds, then check their prediction. In this estimation instructional activity, student predict how far they can run, hop, or jump in five seconds and then try it.
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Tap Your Feet
Young scholars listen to, analyze, and describe music. They experience performing on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
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Solving a Legend- Exponents, Recursive and Explicit Equations.
Eighth graders play a game to solve problems. In this exponents and scientific notations instructional activity, 8th graders play a game in small groups to move colored disks from location A to location C. Students identify recursive...
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Calling 9-1-1
Students analyze emergencies. In this safety lesson, students discover when and why they should dial 9-1-1. They discuss as a group various scenarios in which they would need to call 9-1-1 and then role-play those situations. This lesson...
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Rests, Pease Porrige Hot with Game:Music, Rhythm, Beats
Students use the nursery rhyme "Pease Porridge Hot" to explore rhythm, beats and rests in music.
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Rainbows
Second graders investigate how a rainbow is made. They listen to the book "What Makes a Rainbow," and discuss how a rainbow is created. Students then conduct an experiment involving pouring a cup of milk into a bowl and adding drops of...
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Three Branches of Government
Fourth graders listen to a lecture about the government of Indiana, and the three branches of government. They discuss the reasons for the three branches and read from their text the information on government. Students play a game to...