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Round Robin Post-It Review

For Teachers K - 12th
Learners of all ages participate in a unique review activity. They work in a small group setting on individual review questions designed by the teacher. Each individual answers a key review question on a notecard or sticky note and...
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Photojournalism: A Record of War

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore who has photographed war and why. They examine Mathew Brady's process for photgraphing the Civil War. Students investigate how photographic equipment has changed and improved through time. They analyze primary source war...
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Email Buddies

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Collaborate with another class (or school) and have your learners share ideas about their reading through the use of email. Perhaps you'll create a specific question or a few questions for writers to choose from. Not only will they...
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Accordion-Book Summary

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Introduce your young readers to the book review. Groups of writers practice the basic steps of writing a book report and complete an Accordion-Book Summary activity. The lesson includes book report basics and directions to make...
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Endocrine And Reproductive Systems

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students investigate the hormonal levels that are created with the endocrine system and tie it to the act of sexual reproduction. The instructional activity discusses how the respiratory system is organized as a comparison to the...
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Identifying author's purpose

For Teachers 7th
Why is it important to know an author's purpose? After reviewing the three main purposes of writing, seventh graders write a persuasive letter to convince why summer school is better than taking the summer off. They can then join in a...
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Literary Analysis of The Minister's Black Veil

For Teachers 9th - 12th
After reading The Minister's Black Veil, by Nathaniel Hawthorne as a homework assignment your class will complete a literary analysis.  Learners will analyze important element of the story and take notes to help support their essays....
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The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders use literature journals and discussion groups to summarize and improve their reading comprehension. In this reading skills lesson plan, 2nd graders discuss animals they've loved and read the story The Girl Who Loved Wild...
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Stop Sign Punctuation

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students use punctuation and capitalization. For this grammar lesson students use stop signs in the place of periods. Students cut out sentences and put stop signs in appropriate places. Students indicate capitalization where needed.
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Chapter 9: Language Processing: Humans and Computers

For Teachers Higher Ed
Designed to accompany An Introduction to Language by Victoria Fromkin, Robert Rodman, and Nina Hyams, this powerpoint addresses a number of language, technological, and sociological topics. The slides could be helpful in either a...
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Exploring Afghani Culture through Literature

For Teachers 10th - 12th Standards
Hosseini Khaled's The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns are the anchor texts in a semester-long course that explores Afghani culture and traditions.
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Front Page News

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students write original earthquake articles typically found on the front page of a newspaper. Each student has the freedom to write in a variety of writing styles (lead story, human interest story, editorials, etc.). They research...
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Freshman Project-Part 5

For Students 9th
In this project worksheet, 9th graders display their data, the make a graph and they answer analysis and conclusion questions on their experimental design project. They discuss the variables of their experiment, their major findings,...
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Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders enjoy learning more about animals and their habitats as they explore the Internet sites in these Student Activities based on the main characters in Mrs. Frisbee and the Rats of NIMH.
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Veterans Day Newspaper

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine the reasons for and origins of the Veterans Day holiday. They define key vocabulary terms, read and discuss the article "The Origins of Veterans Day," conduct research and complete a worksheet, and create a class...
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Amazonian Travel Brochure

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students create a brochure. In this Amazon research lesson, students research a tourist attraction in the Amazon and develop a travel brochure.
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Summer Reading and Writing Assignment: Fahrenheit 451

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders explore Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. In this reading and writing lesson plan, 12th graders read the book and think of five books to save from the fire. Students write an essay explaining why they'd save them. The essay...
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A "How To" Project in the Science Fiction Genre

For Teachers 4th - 8th
You can have students use science fiction elements to create a "How To" brochure that can stir the imagination.
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Vivid Adjectives

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students review adjectives and play a game where students compete to see who can write the most adjectives for a given noun. They write a story about one topic and try to use a variety of adjectives in sequence tto describe a noun.
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Newspaper Poetry

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers cut out nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs from newspapers and create poems using words they have found.
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Descriptive Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students discuss the importance of using adjectives in writing. They separate into five groups, each group is given a bag with an object inside to describe using just one sense. They write a description of a Hershey's Kiss using adjectives.
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Let's Make A Dill

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students perform an "autopsy" on a dill pickle to determine its' cause of death. After finding "clues" inside the "body," students organize facts and use their imagination to write an epitaph. As an alternative, students may view a...
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At the Governor's Mansion

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students visit Florida Governor's mansion online, and create class book about interesting facts and trivia.
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The Teller of the Tale, Part 2

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students discuss character types and their qualities. They select two characters and write about their dress, speech, habits, attitudes and beliefs. They write a monologue as the characters presenting a moral theme.

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