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Breaking News: School Bans Hugging and High Fives

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students explore current events by analyzing a news article in class. In this school ban lesson, students read a story about a high school in London that has banned physical contact between all students. Students answer study questions...
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Tile Patterns that Grow

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore how a pattern built with square tiles grows and describe the change from stage to stage. They predict later stages of a tile design sequence and create math equations related to the growth of tile designs.
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Juliette Low - Founder of the Girl Scouts

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders identify the founder of the Girl Scouts Juliette Low. They name reasons as to why clubs are created and brainstorm a list of other clubs they know about. They read the story "The Green Leaf Club News" and discuss why she...
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Pascal's Triangle

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this math worksheet, students read the discussion about the importance of games. They create a game as directed. They also read the rules for the Pascal Triangle.
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Government and Politics

For Students 11th - 12th
After a class lesson the U.S. Constitution and its amendments, students can apply their knowledge to this activity. Several questions prompt students to add missing key terms, such as the year the Constitution was written and the number...
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You've Got My Vote!

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore the ruling of the US Supreme Court on the ballot recounting ordered by the Florida State Supreme Court. They work in small groups to research and compare the judicial and electoral processes.
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The Fantastic Kindergarten Zoo

For Teachers 1st
First graders create their own zoo to share with other classes and parents. Groups create displays for the animals. Have each group brainstorm how they create a display for their animal.
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Common Commas

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students write a sentence using three objects that they have in front of them. They identify where to place commas in their word series sentence, and read them outloud to the class.
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Super Duper Summarizer!!!

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders review the technique of silent reading and study how to summarize what they read. Next, they examine the five steps to summarize a passage and apply it to a reading of Patricia Nikolina Clark's, "Mr. Pilling's Pond." Using...
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Summarization Mapping

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students observe and demonstrate the strategy of summarizing the main idea. They discuss six rules of summarizing, and observe the teacher summarizing the first chapter of the novel "The Incredible Journey." Students then read chapter...
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Reductions in Sentences

For Students 8th - 10th
In this sentence reduction worksheet, students create shorter sentences by using one of three types of reductions. Students use either a time adverb clause reduction, a cause/effect adverb clause reduction, or an adjective clause...
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Redesigning the Classroom

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers redesign the classroom space. In this geometry lesson, students part take in making classroom rules and assigning value to the space in the classroom. They investigate measuring and problem solving in this lesson.
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Medieval Times: Role of the Church

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students create a presentation on the role of the church in Medieval times and compare it to the role of the church in the present.  In this Medieval Church instructional activity, students discuss present day churches and research the...
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My So-Called Digital Life

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars create posters informing students on school technology services and rules.
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Comic Strip Creations

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils identify nouns, adjectives, and verbs from the newspaper. They create a math story problem, then create a comic strip using dialogue from words found in the newspaper.
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What's Past is Prologue

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine a picture of a Cuban billboard and discuss what the billboard signifies. Students then consider the impact of the end of Fidel Castro's rule by reading and discussing the article ¿What Was Once Theirs.¿ Students...
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Rocks and Minerals

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders examine different types of rocks and classify rocks by their different characteristics. In small groups they sort their rocks into two categories, then create three categories to sort by on a sorting worksheet. Next, they...
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The Function Box

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students explore arithmetic and numerical patterns. After observing a teacher created function box, students describe a pattern and predict what will "come out" of the function box. They explore patterns such as geometric shapes,...
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Lessons in Loss, Year of Impossible Goodbyes

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students determine how the Korean people dealt with the loss of their land and traditional lifestyle in response to invasion and emigration. They create a list of items and people they have lost. From this they complete a journal...
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Health Education: Opinions

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders consider the opinions of others. For this personal health lesson plan, 3rd graders demonstrate how to effectively and respectfully express opinions that differ from others as they create and follow rules for productive...
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Statistics: Misleading or Accurate?

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students explore the concept of misleading statistics. In this misleading statistics lesson, students play a game of tag and graph the number of times each student gets tagged. Students use the graph to determine the fastest runner in...
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Techno PC: Computer Lessons for Elementary Students

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Pupils explore computer science by participating in mini activities. In this graphic design lesson, identify the different components on a personal computer and define their purpose. Students utilize Microsoft Paint to create a digital...
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Mail Merge Certificate

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students are introduced to how to perform a mail merge in a word processing document. Individually, they create the field names and the main document to be used for the merge. To end the lesson, they print out the documents merged and...
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U.S.-Cuba Relations

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students study the history of United State/Cuba relations. In this diplomacy lesson, students research selected websites to gather information regarding various topics of significance between the U.S. and Cuba since 1868. Students...