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EngageNY

Comparing Estimated Probabilities to Probabilities Predicted by a Model

For Teachers 7th Standards
Small groups devise a plan to find the bag that contains the larger percentage of blue chips. they then institute their plans and compare results to the actual quantities in the bags. 
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Conducting a Simulation to Estimate the Probability of an Event II

For Teachers 7th Standards
Add some randomization into simulations. The 11th installment in a series of 25 presents two new methods to use in simulations--colored disks, and random numbers. Pupils use random numbers to run simulations where the probabilities make...
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Assessment
Fluence Learning

Writing About Literature: What Is Happiness?

For Students 8th Standards
Jack London's heart for adventure has come to define the spirit of America and its frontier. Selected passages from the foreword The Cruise of the Snark take eighth graders through London's construction and voyage of his ship before...
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Activity
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Over the Hill

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Can you hear me from there? Pupils determine the place to build a cell tower on a hill. The class uses constraints and creates a scale drawing on a coordinate system to calculate the exact location of the base of the cell tower.
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Building Background Knowledge: The Internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII, Part 1

For Teachers 8th Standards
It is all in the details. Scholars read The Life of Miné Okubo and pay special attention to details that reveal Okubo's character. Completing their Understanding Miné: Character Traits graphic organizers and recalling the descriptions...
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Writing the Children’s Book: Day One

For Teachers 7th Standards
With a brief mini-lesson, scholars learn about using strong verbs, sensory details, and precise descriptions. Next, pupils continue working on their children's book storyboards before choosing their strongest pages for peer critiques. 
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Academy of American Poets

Thanksgiving with Richard Blanco's "América"

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Traditions, like the times, are a-changin'. Middle schoolers conduct a close reading of Richard Blanco's poem "América" and consider how Blanco's family approached his suggestions for adopting a new approach to their Thanksgiving meal.
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Curated OER

Shoe Shuffle

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students review the "word choice" writing trait, and recall how to use descriptive words to paint a picture. They write a description of one of their tennis shoes without sharing it with classmates. They place a shoe on display while the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Solve the Mystery Photo

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Pupils observe a mystery photo and use descriptive language to solve the mystery. In this descriptive language activity, students use scientific observation to figure out a mystery photo. Pupils rationalize their thoughts with...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Making Suggestions

For Students 7th
In this making suggestions worksheet, 7th graders read, analyze and discuss all the avenues of how to join various descriptive words into sentences. Students join together four sets of words into four complete sentences.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Pronouns

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students play a game. In this pronouns instructional activity, students watch a video and read a book about pronouns. Students review types of pronouns, fill in missing pronouns in sentences, read a newspaper article and find as many...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Vocabulary Unit 1-4

For Students 6th - 7th
In this Vocabulary worksheet, students complete four parts on four pages by matching vocabulary terms in a variety of activities.
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Organizer
Curated OER

Major and Minor Characters

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this reading worksheet, students complete a chart about two characters from a book. Information includes the character names, how they look, how they act, how they interact with others, and how the student might relate to them.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Zeros of Polynomials

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Young scholars graph polynomials. In this Algebra II lesson, students investigate the graph of a polynomial to determine the value and the number of zeros. This lesson requires the use of a graphing calculator.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Math Tag

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students play the game tag inside the classroom with three or four designated 'taggers'.  In this math game lesson, students have to solve a math problem to be unfrozen once they are tagged.  When the frozen student has correctly...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Adjectives Mastery

For Students 2nd - 3rd
For this descriptive adjectives worksheet, learners observe a picture of a poodle dog, write adjectives describing it, and create complete sentences using their adjectives. Students write 12 answers.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Animal Action

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students construct descriptive sentences. In this cross curricular music and descriptive writing lesson, students listen to classical music and pantomime actions that correspond to the music. Students write descriptive sentences...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

What's in the Box

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders verbalize, write, and illustrate descriptive vocabulary words and/or descriptive phrases while attempting to guess an unseen object, which has been hidden in a box by teacher.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Who Am I? (Intermediate Grades)

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students write "Guess Who?" poems in a descriptive manner. They listen to the poems as they are read aloud and try to guess who the poem belongs to.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Which Shoes Are Mine?

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders write down detailed descriptions of the shoes they are wearing that day. They participate in a relay descriping their shoes as they go.
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Curated OER

Writing to describe

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Learners examine descriptive writing. In this writing lesson plan, students listen to an audio version of the diary of Lt. Polly Hatchard and her expedition to the South Pole. Learners explore the components of descriptive writing and...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Appreciating the Language and Interpreting the Meaning of Hamlet's Soliloquy

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students analyze Hamlet's soliloquy, "To be or not to be."  In this Hamlet lesson, students define unfamiliar words in the soliloquy and interpret the lines.  Students then read the lines aloud and identify descriptive words. Students...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

All About Me - A Poem

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders brainstorm unique qualities they possess in a All About Me worksheet. They write free verse poems about things that most people don't know about them. They brainstorm descriptive words to enhance their poems and rewrite them.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

And Then What Happened?

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students analyze paintings by using verbs, adjectives, and nouns. In this visual arts lesson, students view a painting of a storm and a calm sky. Students use various verbs and adjectives to discuss the characteristics of each painting....

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