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Vitamin A
Students explore non-locomotor movements and instrument improvisation creating accompaniments to the song "Vitamin A" in this elementary-level General Music lesson. The lesson nutrition messages links and student challenges for advanced...
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Area And Perimeter Powerpoint
Pupils engage in a study using technology in order to attempt the comprehension of using perimeter and area. They use powerpoint to solve different problems. This helps to keep learners engaged in the process of practice and clarification.
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I Know Where You Are!
High schoolers study what a GPS is and use it to challenge themselves and find positions on a map. In this investigative instructional activity students find various points on a map using a GPS system and answer questions on a...
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It's All in the Genes
Twelfth graders investigate the inheritance of traits through several hands-on activities that illustrate the transmission of genetic characteristics. Students study advanced topics including multiple alleles, polygenic traits,...
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As Large As Life. . . A Poster of a Human Body System
Learners explore the major systems and functions of the human body. In this anatomy activity, students make life-size outlines of bodies, diagram body systems, and present their work to their classmates.
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Comparing Characters Across Two Short Stories
Ninth graders listen to a read aloud of two short stories focusing on literary devices. The write about the settings and realism of the stories, and decide each main character handles the conflict he faces with nature.
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To Infinity and Beyond...Magazine of Planetary Studies
Students demonstrate their creativity by creating a magazine to express expository text. In this expository text lesson plan, students create a magazine in groups to creatively make text interesting.
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Dance Production
Students go through the experience of creating a dance. They use the correct vocabulary when creating the dance in writing. Students choreograph the steps needed to perform the dance in sequence. Then they perform the dance for final...
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Free Radicals Attack!!
Learners review and practice soccer dribbling/ball handling skills while studying basic concepts of how free radicals and antioxidants affect the body. As the molecules move throughout the space with their electron, the free radicals...
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Lesson 6: Natural Resources
Young scholars create a travel poster about a favorite place in Florida. In this Florida lesson, students research their favorite place and use desktop publishing to create a poster. They also make a brochure using Microsoft Publisher.
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Mystery of the Alaskan Seamounts
Students study seamounts and the processes that form them. In this Gulf of Alaska lesson students interpret data and investigate a hypothesis.
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The Process of Design?
Students analyze the architecture of Louis I. Kahn. In this architecture analysis instructional activity, students analyze how a design is conceptualized and compare examples. Students complete image based discussion and two related...
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Comparison/Contrast Composer Study
Pupils choose two composers to research and complete a compare and contrast study of them. In this composer research lesson plan, learners select two composers to research. Pupils use Internet sources, the library, and music class...
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We Thank You, Veteran!
Fifth graders use information from videos, picture books, and relatives' military backgrounds to write a short or extended message of gratitude on a greeting card for local veterans.
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Walking Poetry
Fifth graders write walking poetry using the Walking Poetry Checklist and a teacher poem as an example.
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The Human Jigsaw
Fourth graders, using Thomas Paine's "The Crisis, No. 1" from The American Crisis, form a human jigsaw.
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Talking Storybooks
Students create talking storybooks that primary students can read and listen to independently. They create the presentations using multimedia software.
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Breakfast: Healthy for Me and Healthy for the Environment
Young scholars develop criteria for a healthy and environmentally friendly breakfast and use these criteria to design a breakfast menu. They use a decision chart to evaluate their choices which is imbedded in this plan.
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Research Report
Students review research skills and discuss types of information, e.g. fact/opinion, examples/evidence then research and gather information to answer a given set of research questions. They write a multi paragraph report using the...
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Want Ad
Learners create classified ads for jobs. They discuss careers where their target language can be used and review background information about careers. They prepare want ads to describe preparation for and activities for three different...
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Language Arts: Solch Sight Words
First graders recognize Dolch sight words on cards and texts. They practice the selected words by creating short sentences. After reading different fables, 1st graders create their own illustrations to accompany the stories. Once they...
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Connecting the Dots? Geometry and Architecture
Learners examine the connection between geometry and architecture. In this geometry and architecture lesson, students view a video which details a geometry class design project. Learners then use the Internet in a scavenger hunt to find...
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The 1828 Campaign of Andrew Jackson: Issues in the Election of 1828 and Beyond
Learners research the campaign and election issues of Andrew Jackson. In this presidential election lesson, students research the campaign of 1828. Learners then list the important issues. Students discuss the political advertisements in...
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What Critters Tell Us About Water Quality: A Macroinvertebrate Lesson
Young scholars explore our ecosystem by investigating the quality of our water. In this aquatic insect lesson, students examine a group of random insects collected from different streams and ponds in the area. Young scholars record their...