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Buying Clothes

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students create a story about friends going shopping with new vocabulary. In this creating a story lesson plan, students use new language and number words in their story.
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Bargaining

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Learners create a newspaper or magazine advertisement for clothing and personal items. Students make statements of preference regarding these items. Learners engage in a role play where two people are bargaining for various items.
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Travel Photos

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students describe photographs. In this travel photos lesson, students view a slide-show of travel photos in order to assist them with developing photo captions.  Students describe details, events, and persons from the photos in the...
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Telephone Game

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students practice their listening comprehension by playing the "telephone" game.  In this foreign language lesson, students listen to a story read by a teacher in their target language and try to remember the details by writing 5...
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Charades

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students play a charades game to communicate what they like or don't like when they travel. In this travel lesson plan, students play the charades and then read and write sentences about a past traveling experience.
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Silent Movie

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Learners examine the impact of movies and television. In this communication lesson, students share filmstrips that lack sound and determine the genre of the segments. Learners discuss popular movies and television shows from different...
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Time Capsule

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students create a rough draft for a time capsule project. In this time capsule lesson plan, students bring in items to put into a time capsule and write a rough draft to submit to their teacher.
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Communicating with My World

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students create a time capsule. In this oral presentation and history preservation lesson plan, students provide feedback for their time capsule project, work with a partner to write an oral presentation, and present their time capsule...
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Daily Routines

For Teachers 2nd - 12th
Students describe the daily routine of a person using a different language.  In this foreign language vocabulary lesson, students discuss the different items people use to get ready every day and practice using those vocabulary terms....
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Grooming Activity

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Learners discover the essential items to properly groom for a nice event.  In this cleaning habits lesson, students discuss and identify important cleaning items such as a brush, shower gel, cologne, etc.  Learners create a chart and...
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Planning an outing

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Learners create a scenario where they go on a date with another person and write a draft of their presentation in the form of a fashion show. In this scenario lesson plan, students do all of this in the foreign language they are studying.
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Writing A Story

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students write a story about past events and translate it into English. In this story writing lesson plan, students watch video clips, look at examples of stories, and write ones themselves.
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Transportation Lesson

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students practice using transportation vocabulary in a foreign language.  In this language arts lesson, students utilize the vocabulary terms for locations in order to give directions and find a specific place.  Students answer a...
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Planning a Community Service Project

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students practice using a new language to plan a community event.  In this civics lesson, students practice writing a proposal for a community project using their target language.  Students brainstorm in small groups what their project...
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Group Rehearsal

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students study their national and family heritage while working in groups.  In this personal history project, students examine the family shield or crest of the teacher while preparing to create and share their own with the class....
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Let's Read the Newspaper

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students investigate the format of a typical newspaper.  In this journalism lesson, students read a newspaper from a target language and discover the vocabulary associated with the news.  Students work together as a newspaper group each...
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Correspondence

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students write a pen pal letter to narrate a special event in the life of a young person in the TL culture. In this pen pal lesson plan, students read and respond to letters by their classmates.
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Creating Our Newspapers

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students write newspaper articles in groups to form a class newspaper. In this newspaper lesson plan, students share their work with another group who critiques it.
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About Discussions

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils exchange opinions, express feelings, and listen to presentations of others about an argument. In this discussion lesson plan, students learn how to listen and respond for an argument they intend to have.
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On the air! Interviews

For Teachers 4th - 7th
In this mock interview lesson, students view pictures of famous personalities and determine which of these personalities they would like to interview. Students follow the three step interview process and conduct a mock interview with a...
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The Louisiana Purchase

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students take a closer look at Lewis and Clark's expedition. In this Louisiana Purchase lesson, students play an interactive game based on the expedition and respond to questions about the game once they finish it.
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Creating a Brochure with Word

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students watch a PowerPoint presentation about how to create a brochure using Word.  For this word processing lesson, students create a three-fold brochure about a topic of their choice. 
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Forces of Change

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders discuss various ways in which landforms change over time. They, in groups, research and create a reference book about landform change including tsunamis, earthquakes, weathering, erosion and volcanic eruptions.
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Who Were the First Americans?

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explore Native Americans through a PowerPoint presentation.