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Less is Best

For Teachers K - 2nd
A continuation of the lesson The Teacher is Missing, this plan focuses on refining and remembering a previously recorded class list of rules. Included in this resource are several discussion prompts aimed at getting learners to consider...
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Multicultural Bingo

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Create classroom community with this Bingo icebreaker, which has the group finding out interesting details about one another. For this version, individuals have a 25-square grid, each square containing one multicultural experience or...
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Personal Strengths, Talents and Goals

For Teachers 4th
It's important to discuss individual strengths, goals, and talents. With a partner, fourth graders create a PowerPoint presentation of one of their classmates, showcasing their goals and talents. They then complete a worksheet showing...
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Someones Else's Shoes

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Build a caring and empathetic classroom community. This presentation provides several scenarios to discuss. It focuses on how each scene makes a person feel, then how someone else might feel. A great way to start a discussion or to build...
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PPT
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7's times tables

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Make practicing the 7's times tables fun with this interactive quiz game. Each slide contains a 7's times table along with four possible answers, learners race to choose the correct one. Build memory skills, automaticity, and your...
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Little Hands Help the Homeless

For Teachers K - 12th
Students explore, analyze and study the concept of the homeless. They cover a wide range of classroom, community and career activities that define, develop, encourage, support and defend the homeless as well as what we can do as...
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Mini-Economy

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders perform jobs in order to sustain their classroom community. After completing a brief overview of how local economies are sustained, they complete job applications for classroom jobs. Students perform their jobs throughout...
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Place as a Mirror of Self and community

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders study difference and community by exploring a special place in their lives.  In this Geography lesson, 8th graders discover a geographic place of importance to them and their family.  Students summarize what many different...
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Hello My Name is . . . Helvetica

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students play various games to help create a classroom community. In this name recognition lesson, students combine their name recognition skills with newly learned art and geometric vocabulary. First students discover vocabulary that...
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A Peaceful Place is Powerful for the Mind

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students explore conflict resolution techniques. They develop strong conflict resolution techniques and create a peaceful classroom environment that promotes learning. Students teach others in the community about how to create peace.
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Community Explorations

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Young scholars identify the strengths and weakness in their community. They take a community walk and take pictures of people interacting with the environment and the "green spaces" in their community. They then write a persuasive essay...
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From Crowded Classrooms To Broken Streetlights: Exploring Ways To Effect Change in Our Communities

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students discuss issues of concern to their communities and explore the variety of avenues available for concerned community members to address these issues and effect change.
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Community Centered Neighborhood Development

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders explore the culture of the neighborhood.  In this Social Studies lesson, 9th graders examine the different development sites in their community.  Students research the zoning regulations. 
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PPT
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Goods and Services

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
This PowerPoint presents facts about goods and services. The presentation defines goods and services in simple language and links to webpages that provide further information. Students may also review the information by clicking the...
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Sticking Together: Sharing Our Stories, Our Differences, and Our Similarities

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students create a classroom community. In this character education lesson, students discuss the functions of communities and then work in small groups to write stories to be shared with their classmates.
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Lesson Plan
Missouri Department of Elementary

I’m Thumbody!

For Teachers 4th Standards
Positive and negative thinking is the focus of a lesson that boost self-awareness. Beginning with a whole-class discussion, scholars brainstorm what positive thinking looks and sounds like then compares and contrast the two types of...
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Lesson Plan
Missouri Department of Elementary

My Action Plan

For Teachers 12th
To complete a study of the importance of developing a positive self-image, high school seniors complete an "Action Plan for Maintaining Who I Am" worksheet. They then submit their finished worksheets for inclusion in their Personal...
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Missouri Department of Elementary

Juggling New Opportunities

For Teachers 9th
Life is like trying to juggle three tennis balls! That's the big idea in a lesson that asks freshmen to consider that sometimes juggling the areas of their lives (social/emotion, academic, and career) runs smoothly and sometimes not so...
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Thoughtful Learning

Recognizing Bullying

For Teachers K - 12th
Boost social awareness with an activity that challenges scholars to recognize bullying. Participants read 10 scenarios and respond after carefully examining behaviors such as body language, facial expressions, and frequency. 
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Missouri Department of Elementary

The Quest for Magic Minutes

For Teachers 7th Standards
A "Magic Minute" activity asks class groups to develop a commercial to advertise a way to turn a time-waster into a time-saver. Ad groups begin by brainstorming time-wasters and then problem-solve was to turn them into time-savers. After...
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Advocates for Human Rights

Creating a Welcoming School and Community

For Students 8th - Higher Ed Standards
The final activity in a unit study of immigration and human rights asks class members to design a project for their school that builds support for immigrant classmates. To prepare for this project, individuals use what they have learned...
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Activity
Virginia English Bulletin

Book Trailer Projects From Classroom to Community

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
Invite your pupils to express their understanding of a novel through a collaborative video project. Groups choose a novel from those you have studied in class, select four scenes, storyboard the scenes, film the scenes, edit the film,...
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Multicultural Youth Leadership

For Teachers 8th - 12th Standards
Teens of the world, unite! Take your class or club on a multicultural journey through the relationship between cultural values and teen leadership skills. Groups work together to learn about one another's cultures while examining the...
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Unit Plan
Voices of a People's History

Voices in The Classroom

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Everyone's perspective of the past is different. A thought-provoking unit gives young academics the opportunity to explore their perspectives on history and their neighborhoods. Based on the work of Howard Zinn, each lesson explores...

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