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Settling the Plymouth Colony
Students use the Internet and graphic organizers to research the Plymouth Colony the experience of the Pilgrims. Students compare and contrast different colonies and develop a timeline showcasing their research.
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Coming to America
Students discover their families' reasons for coming to America. They view the video "Molly's Pilgrim" and discuss the story. They interview family members as to why they came to America.
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New Year Celebrations in Korea
Students investigate the New Year's holiday looking at the American tradition in comparison to Korea. This helps to point out the qualities of the holiday for those who live in Korea.
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Journeys from Afar
Middle schoolers explore the significance of their own and other's life journeys. They appreciate the differences and similarities between migrants' and refugees' journeys. Students identify obstacles faced by migrants and refugees when...
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Lunar Cycles
Eighth graders conduct internet research on a specific website to collect information about Lunar Cycles.
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Learning Online
Students use online tutorials. In this online learning activity, students explore online learning websites and use tutorials to learn about a topic of their choice.
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ESOL Basic numbers and SHapes
Students review then recognize the letters A-Z both uppercase and lowercase and the numbers 0-100. They practice letters orally then play a letter writing game and number game as a class.
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Dream Houses
Students explore different types of homes and how the environment effects the types of houses people construct. In this houses lesson plan, students learn about environmental factors and cultural factors that play in to why people build...
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Where We Buy Food
Second graders investigate how to buy food by going to the store. They use pictures of farming and different types of food to engage in the lesson. It includes key vocabulary that puppets use while telling a story to the students. They...
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George Washington's Birthday
Students recognize George Washington and why his birthday is celebrated as a national holiday through pictures, a story, crossword puzzles, and other activities involving other presidents.
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The Rose Center
Students utilize Internet sites to improve word recognition, increase vocabulary and comprehension of the English language. They complete a worksheet stating facts from selected Internet sites. They write a composition about the web...
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What Happened on Pa Lia's First Day?
Students discuss feelings about their first day in a new school and the difficulties of making new friends. They listen to a story about a girl who has moved to a new school, then compare their situation to hers. Nice instructional...
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Personal Budgeting Project
Young scholars create an Excel spreadsheet of a personal budget by estimating their possible income and monthly expenses from a worksheet. They group together to create a family unit and use the personal budget sheets to plan a family...
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Creating a School Web Site
High schoolers create websites for their school. They work in groups as a web team and devise a self-management plan. As they work on projects reflecting school life, the team edits what may appear online as the school's web site. ...
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Fraction Strips: Adding Fractions
Third graders problem solve using fraction strips. In this adding fractions lesson plan, 3rd graders create fraction strips to help identify fractional sizes (fourths, eighths, thirds) and to solve word problems.
Everything ESL
Everything Esl: Tale of the Tooth Fairy
Teach about American culture while developing language, listening and reading skills. This lesson plan includes the TESOL goals and standards.It provides many follow up activities.
Other
Esl Galaxy
Free help for the ESL teacher. You must have Windows Media Player installed to view some of the resources.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Nature Reflections: Interactive Language Practice for Ell
Detailed lesson plans and materials designed for ELL/ESL students that has them observing, discussion and writing about, and from the perspective of, plants and animals. Students create a book (may be bilingual) to be reviewed by peers....
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Read Write Think: When I Was Young In, a Literature to Language Experience
Past meets present in this lesson in which students practice verb tense when they write personal short stories that they then publish in a flip book.