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Bog Science
Students study bogs. They tour, collect physical, chemical, and biological data and analyze a pristine bog community. Using the data, they draw a map and a cross section of the bog.
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Learning Empathy Through Art
Students create poems based on the Haiku form and research about WWII. Class discussion and classroom readings of student work finish this lesson. Emphasis is placed on Standards in the Arts.
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Privacy in the Age of Video Surveillance: This Is Not Your Father's Candid Camera
Eighth graders examine the use of video surveillance in the corporate world and other life situations. In groups, they determine how many times and in what situations they believe they are being watched. They use the Constitution to...
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The Affects of Environment on Native American Culture
Students research the culture of the Native Americans. In this U.S. History lesson, students are given the major geological areas where the Indians lived prior to the arrival of the Europeans, then they create a notebook that...
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Racism No Way
Students explore different cultural influences and their contribution to Australian identities. They reflect on their own backgrounds and making links with their peers, reflect on our heritage. Students view My family- My Australia,...
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Electrical Power Equipment
Students identify various electrical equipment and safety signs and the importance and dangers associated with each. They use cards of power equipment and create a presentation that includes the name of the power equipment that they...
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The Art of Motion
In this motion activity, students write 2 or 3 techniques for showing motion in cartoons. Students also draw 3 cartoon panels of 2 automobiles on a highway, one moving at a constant speed and the other one accelerating.
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Shopping
In this ESL worksheet, students role play that they are shopping with a friend. One students plays the costumer and the other plays the store employee.
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Words with sh, ch, tch, wh
In this blending of consonants worksheet, 4th graders complete a story by filling in sixteen blanks from a spelling list of words with ch/sh/tch/wh. Students find and circle each of their answers in a word search puzzle.
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Verb Phrases
This worksheet tackles the topic of verb phrases by providing an explanation of a verb phrase followed by several examples of verb phrases and their meanings. Students complete fill in the blank sentences with the correct verb phrase.
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Companies Racing to Build Electric Car
Students examine how they use batteries, then read a news article about how cars are being designed to use batteries. In this current events instructional activity, the teacher introduces the article with a discussion and vocabulary...
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Appliance Energy Use and Cost
In this energy usage activity, students use a chart comparing the average monthly kilowatt-hour use of different household appliances to complete 4 short answer questions.
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How Strong is the Solution
Students investigate the strength of solutions. In this scientific inquiry lesson plan, students examine various solutions of food color and water as they discover the concentration of the solutions by adding bleach to clear the color.
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Life in Ancient Mesopotamia
Students reconstruct and make drawings of vessels in the same manner as an archaeologist. In this archaeologist lesson plan, students each get a piece of a broken pot and they have to work together to put it back together. Once it is...
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Fantasy crossword
In this crossword learning exercise, students fill in a crossword where all the clues have to do with images of fantasy stories. Students fill in the crossword for 52 clues.
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Sad Seasick Sailors
Learners role play the voyage on the Mayflower. In this United States history instructional activity, students play the parts of Pilgrims and sailors and discuss how to solve various conflicts during the "journey."
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Beginning Sentence
In this completing the sentence learning exercise, students practice building sentences. Students are given a sentence with missing parts and are to pick a word or words that best completes the sentence. There are twelve sentences in all.
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The Iroquois Nation
Students explore the culture of the Iroquois in order to write a new version of Cinderella. In this lesson plan on the traditions and life of the Iroquois, students engage in several activities, 8 different center and conduct research to...
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Hands-on with Wool
Students understand how to spin wool. In this spinning wool lesson, students recognize how to ply and dye wool. Students understand that this is the process used years ago.
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What Kind of Santa Claus You Are.
Students use a photograph analysis sheet to analyze primary sources (photographs) of the Great Depression in small groups. They then write a poem about kids in the Depression Era that reflects their comprehension of the period and...
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African American Experiences: Window to the Past
Students examine African life during slavery on the Internet. In this slavery activity, students use the Internet to research slavery and create a scrapbook. Students review pictures of slavery and label them as primary or secondary...
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Dr. Seuss Science
Students read Bartholomew and the OObleck by Dr. Seuss and experiment with solids and liquids. In this science and reading instructional activity, students observe and discuss the properties of liquids and solids. Students...
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It's a Secret! Writing Prompt
Students write the ending to <i>It's a Secret</i> by John Burningham. In this creative writing activity, students are read the first two pages of <i>It's a Secret</i> and they continue writing what they...
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Light Reflections
Students explore light. In this physical science light instructional activity, students display objects on a projection screen and investigate how light absorbs, refracts, transmits and reflects. Students discuss common features of...