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Creating with "Found Sounds"

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students are placed in small groups for this project. Groups collect and use ordinary objects to create a "Stomp" like performance.
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Dialog Expansion, Structure Drills

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students practice speaking sentence patterns used in classroom dialogs. They use new vocabulary within the sentence patterns.
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Math is Beautiful

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students explore how geometry is used on the composition of artworks by artists from different cultures. This lesson is equally suited for a Math or Art classroom at the late-elementary or early-middle school level.
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Fruit And Veggie Prints

For Teachers K - 6th
Students discover the art of printmaking and practice painting skills in this Art lesson for the elementary classroom. Paints, brushes, sponges, paint trays, and fruits and vegetables are all required to produce the prints in the art...
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Science: Leaf Study

For Teachers 1st
First graders go on a leaf-hunting expedition around the schoolyard. They determine from which trees they fell using identification cards. Students read several books about leaves and apply their artistic skills by using the collected...
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Measurement Tools

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students understand the concept of how to use different measurement tools for specific purposes. Students take pictures of various objects that can be measured using a digital camera and then making a power point presentation.
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Motions and Forces

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders investigate the construction of a magnet and the force it produces. They identify various materials as magnetic or non-magnetic, discuss the properties of magnetic properties, and conduct an experiment with a compass and...
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Schoolyard Dig

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Learners begin the lesson plan by being introduced to the new vocabulary associated with archaeology. In groups, they use the school grounds to simulate their dig site. They record all the objects they discover and what can be gathered...
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Cargoes from Three Continents Ancient Mediterranean Trade

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders begin the lesson plan by researching the different types of ships and shipbuilding techniques used to help trade in the Mediterranean Sea. Using different objects, they determine what one can tell about a society and...
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Where in the World is Tacky the Penguin?

For Teachers 1st
First graders complete activities related to they story they are reading in class. Through art and measurement activities, 1st graders relate a story from the "Tacky the Penguin Series" to everyday objects and ideas they encounter.
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Game 3-1

For Students 5th - 6th
In this vocabulary learning exercise, students answer the question, "What is it?" to identify the object in each picture. Each picture features a part of the body. The learning exercise is intended for use with English language learners.
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Prepositions of Place

For Students Higher Ed
In this preposition instructional activity, students will focus on words of location. Students will read eight questions, and respond according to the picture next to each question showing where an object is located.
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Chapter 1 Vocab- Matching

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this ESL word/picture matching worksheet, students examine 7 pictures of common objects. Students match them to the words that describe them.
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House 3

For Students 2nd - 3rd
For this ESL asking/answering questions worksheet, students examine a picture of a common household object or a room in the house. Students read the question and answer it on the line provided.
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The Same Shapes

For Students 2nd - 3rd
For this geometric shapes worksheet, students complete a chart in which a word or phrase from the word bank is used. Students read the name of the shape, study a picture and write the name of another object of that same shape.
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Relative Dating in Archaeology

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students create a timeline that explains how ancient cultures used artifacts. In this Relative Dating in Archaeology lesson, students examine artifacts and draw conclusions about their origins. Then students analyze antiquated objects or...
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History Close to Home: Creating Your Own Special Museum

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students create their own museum exhibit. In this museum creation lesson plan, students research their local history so they can decide on a theme for their exhibit and what objects they will use in order to design a museum exhibit. A...
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Treacherous Trash

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners recognize the harmful effects people have on the environment. For this environmental lesson, students simulate water pollution clean-up by using tangled objects and untangling them in a cooperative group. Learners identify why...
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Recycling: Creative Uses for Items

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders list creative uses for old objects. In this recycling lesson, 3rd graders work in groups to brainstorm creative, new uses for old, everyday items. This is the first lesson in a unit on recycling.
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What Makes you Hot?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners manipulate different variables in a model and make inferences about the temperature on Earth.  In this heat lesson students calculate the blackbody radiation of an object at a certain temperature. 
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Using Contractions

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders study the use of contractions. In this contraction lesson, 2nd graders examine what contractions are and how to form them properly. They use a song to learn which words to change when forming contractions before writing 6...
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Vocabulary Lesson-Pre-K Through Grade 2 and ESL

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Learners say the name of pictures of simple objects, people and places, choosing 15 to use for the lesson. Students glue pictures in a scrapbook and write the word for each picture beside it. Learners complete word recognition worksheets...
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Inches and Centimeters

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this measurement worksheet, students measure various classroom items in inches and centimeters. Students measure 6 items in inches and centimeters.
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Science and the Envrionment

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students utilize a digital camera to record interesting objects in their environment.  In this ecology lesson, students participate in a mini-field trip around their campus as they take 2-3 pictures of the school environment.  Students...

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