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Project Assessing the Need
Students determine ways to serve the community. In this service learning lesson plan, students list human wants and human needs and repeat the activity for community wants and community needs. Students contact local agencies to conduct a...
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All Kinds of People - Myself
Students complete activities to study artists and self-portraits. In this self-portraits lesson, students make a collection of photographs of themselves from their lives and draw self-portraits using a mirror. Students draw portraits of...
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The Flag of China
Students produce a picture of the flag of China. In this flag of China lesson, students follow directions to create a picture of the flag of China. Students compare their work to a photograph
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Fun With Fractals
Young scholars use fractals to analyze nature. In this geometry lesson, students work in groups using technology and math to communicate. They identify where in the real world fractal can be seen.
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Workshop: Health Challenge
High schoolers conduct Internet research in order to better understand the concepts of sustainable health design. For this design and architecture lesson, students gather data and creat a materials kit that responds to the challenges of...
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Parallel Lines and Properties of Slope
Students define functions to be graphed using the Y=key. They demonstrate how to set up a standard viewing screen using Zoom 6. They discuss and explore mathematical questions on a worksheet.
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El Salvador: How Can My Breakfast Harm the Birds?
Sixth graders explore how their food choices can have an impact on the rain forests. They examine coffee farming and how their techniques can harm birds in the rain forest. Students design two farms with sustainability of bird habits in...
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D. A. M. Agriculture Lesson Plan
Students explore agricultural concepts and how humans modify the physical environment. They participate in card sorting activities to determine agricultural concepts: Dependence, Adaptation, Modification (D. A. M.). Students identify...
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Dance, Dance, Dance
Use dance and song to help your charges in adding whole numbers to 10. In this adding to 10 instructional activity, learners become the manipulatives as you add them.
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Dear Pen Pal
Keep your class in conversation with others across the country or across the sea by writing letters to pen pals. The activity calls for students to be pan pals with pupils in Africa; however, the listed steps could be used for any...
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Scenarios: Beginning, Middle (incidents), End
Young scholars investigate writing scenarios that can be performed. They examine the parts and levels of scenarios that can actually be performed.
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Dinosaurs
Students are introduced to the various types of dinosaurs and write in their journals about their favorite one. After listening to a story and watching a filmstrip, they color a few pages in their Dinosaur Friends Book. They also examine...
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Deciding the Mode
Are your young writers having difficulty distinguishing between expository and persuasive writing? Discuss the difference between the two, and how some prompts can be responded to in either fashion. Included here is a simple lesson plan...
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A Rewarding Endeavor
Develop and conduct a survey to find out if people would return an envelope of money they found. Include options for giving it to the police, advertising for the one who lost it, etc. The survey results are published in a writing piece.
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Making Logic Out of Madness
Tenth graders organize and interpret data from a student health program. In this physical education lesson, 10th graders use a body composition analyzer over 8 weeks to determine the validity of a student health program. Data obtained...
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It's a Wrap!
Students investigate symbols and colors on the Osage blanket. In this visual arts instructional activity, students examine a blanket from the Osage culture and identify symbols on the blanket. Students create a class blanket, including...
Illustrative Mathematics
Quinoa Pasta 1
Here is a great opportunity to introduce your mathematicians to a food they may never have heard of, quinoa. It may help to show a short video on quinoa, or make some quinoa for the class to try. Once they get over how to say quinoa,...
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Introduction to Minerals
Students discover how crystal structures go together to create minerals. In this earth science lesson, students work in groups to create 3-dimensional shapes of crystals that they then put together in a compact structure.
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The Age of Jackson
Students study the image of Andrew Jackson. For this presidential history lesson students investigate the political image that was groomed by Jackson as they examine advertisements. Students compose essays regarding the topic.
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Social and Cultural Issues in the Civil Rights Movement
Learners watch videos, listen to speeches and analyze the information that is presented about the civil rights movement. They examine visual art of the period.
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Circumferences, Diameters, and Radii
Students explore circumferences, diameters, and radii. In this math lesson plan, students measure circumferences in inches and compute radii and diameters, given different circumferences.
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A Trip to Colonial Virginia
Students consider prices while planning a trip to Colonial Virginia. In this budgeting lesson, students construct an itinerary of events for a vacation. Students are responsible for working within the approved budget.
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Time Line of Astronomy Events and Discoveries
Learners work in groups to present a segment of a timeline of events and discoveries in astronomy. In this astronomy lesson plan, students teach their classmates about their section of the timeline.
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Discovering the Breakdown
Fifth graders investigate diseases of the respiratory system. In this respiratory system lesson, 5th graders research, using a variety of sources, the common diseases this system. They determine the causes of a breakdown in the system...