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Who Wants Pizza?
Students practice fraction skills online at the "Want Some Pizza" website. They complete activities via the internet and on square grid paper. They pull down tabs to check their answers.
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Bingo!
First graders practice and reinforce phonics and/or math skills by creating Bingo! game using computer spreadsheet. Students incorporate phonics or math skills class has been practicing onto Bingo! cards, which can be printed and made...
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My Best Handwriting Book 2 Pre-Cursive
In this printing letter F worksheet, students learn to form upper and lower case DeNelian letter Ff. Students trace letters and words before practicing their own letters.
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First Grade Goes to the Zoo
First graders summarize their trip to the zoo. In this summarizing lesson plan, 1st graders will study animals that they may see at the zoo including their characteristics and habitats. Once the trip is done, they create a word document...
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Conversation Lesson: Multinationals - Help or Hindrance?
Students engage in a debate regarding the status of nationals versus multinationals as a way of improving their conversation skills. The format for the debate is imbedded in this plan.
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Second Servings
Second graders understand the appropriate sizes for food portions. In this food groups lesson, 2nd graders create and measure a meal using correct portion sizes and correct measurements.
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Conversation Lesson: Men and Women - Equal at Last?
Students engage in a debate about equality between men and women as a way to work on their conversational skills. The format of the debate is imbedded in this plan.
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Computer Passwords
Students determine an appropriate numerical representation of a problem situation, including roots and powers. They determine an appropriate number of digits to represent an outcome. Pupils are asked to determine how many years it...
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Health Education: Stress
Fourth graders tackle stress. In this personal health lesson plan, 4th graders predict physical and emotional reactions to stressful situations.
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Talking about Advertising
Young scholars examine tools and techniques of advertising. In this advertising instructional activity, students view ads, disvuss common terms used, and analyze techniques. Young scholars are presented with situations and must design...
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Tansai Sumi Painting
First graders study Japanese art and apply the technique of Tansai Sumi (lightly colored) to create individual works of art. Painting, design, lines, and drawing techniques are covered in this 1st grade lesson.
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A Card For Every Season
First graders express themselves in simple sentences through the use of computer generated greeting cards. In this greeting card lesson, 1st graders use Microsoft Publisher to design a cover and create text for the inside of a greeting...
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Travel Magazines in the Classroom
You can use travel magazines as a means to address a variety of standards.
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Ancient Roman Monuments and Timeline
While a terrific idea, this lesson in which learners create a timeline showing the date that a variety of buildings and monuments were built in Ancient Rome, requires resources teachers may not have. It requires the use of a Smartboard,...
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Cell Pizza
Students identify parts and functions of microscope. Students watch video, Cells and Life about cell parts with actual pictures and actual cells. Students discuss video and identify parts of the cells that animals and plants have in...
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Families are Special
First graders are instructed throughout the social studies family unit that the concept of "family" has numerous interpretations. An activity incorporated in this unit involves using Kid Pix Studio.
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Multiplication Lesson Plan
Learners roll dice to come up with 1 digit numbers that they multiply together. For this multiplication lesson plan, students arrange piles of blocks and count them to complete problems.
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Lizards
Fourth graders recall lizards from the text and report their important traits. The teacher adds the information to the map. They watch the map expand while it organizes all of the lizards and their characteristics.
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Egyptian Mummification
Students explore Egyptian mummification and burial practices. They conduct research on gods, goddesses, afterlife, and mummification. Students dissect and mummify a frog "pharaoh and create a tomb wall for their frog "pharaoh."
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Going on a Bear Hunt
Students discover the value of Internet safety. Through various traditional and multimedia presentations and stories, students explore the ways in which they can gather information on the Internet with an emphasis on safe searching and...
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We're Environmentally Friendly
Fourth graders examine written works dealing with environmental issues and resolutions during a 5 week unit. They create posters, poems, and rap songs demonstrating authorship and knowledge of the environment.
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Integrity and "Thank You, M'am"
Ninth graders explore the definition of integrity through a class discussion. They provide positive/negative examples from the story and their own experiences. Students determine character traits by analyzing the dialogue in a short...
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The Middle Ages: A Time of Conflict and Change
Middle schoolers become familiar with the concepts of conflict and change and the relationship between them. They then analyze medieval social groupings to understand relationships among people and people groups.
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Readers' Theatre with African and Chinese Folktales
Students investigate genre of folklore, specifically African and Chinese folktales, and script and perform folktales with examples from The Magic Brocade and Fire on the Mountain. Seven lessons on one page.