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Infectious Diseases
Seventh graders create a brochure for a fictional pharmaceutical company.
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Metrics
Students discover the need for a universal measurement system. They practice using basic metric units in measuring distance and weight.
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What I Like
First graders identify their interests and examine careers related to those activities. They complete a handout, discuss their interests, and draw a picture to go with their chosen career.
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"Rivers of Change"
Third graders research the Los Angeles River Basin and how it has changed over time.
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Graph Your Foot!
Learners measure their own foot and place the outline on a graph. They make connections between the size of their foot and the bar graph that represents it.
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"Weather Watch"
Students investigate components of weather and the climate in areas around the country. They analyze data from the University of Michigan weather website, complete a weather watch worksheet, and graph weather data.
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Animal Adaptations to Various Environments
Fourth graders examine animal adaptatations for various animals and different environments throughout the year. They use the Internet to research these environments and apply them to the animals.
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FDR-Hitler: Conflicting Political Systems
High schoolers compare and contrast the governments of the United States and Germany during World War II. Using different media, they identify the actions of both countries during the war and their major mistakes. They write a short...
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Eat Your Sprouts Part I
Students will conduct a lab on the oxidation of an apple. The students will learn that the oxidation process can be halted when lemon juice is applied to the flesh of an apple because the lemon juice contains vitamin C, an antioxidant....
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Africans and Women in Jamestown
Students examine the first settlement at Jamestown and its citizens. Using the internet, they discover the role of women and Africans in Jamestown. They role play what the settlement was like before and after women and Africans coming...
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What's Living in My Mouth?
Students articulate in written and oral formats that bacteria can be found living everywhere. They explain in written and oral formats why the immune system is necessary. Students are presented with an opportunity to see bacteria alive...
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Running/Wiffle Ball
Students explain the basic rules for wiffle ball. In this physical education lesson, students record the steps they took during their 4 mile run. Additionally, students participate in a game of wiffle ball.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning: Great Grouping Strategies
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides ways to organize cooperative groups so that meaningful discussion will occur. It also offers a worksheet for determining learning styles that is useful to develop groups. SL.9-10.1c Active Partic
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Work 911: Cooperative Communication
This site defines "Cooperative Communication" and provides examples and information as to how to apply it. Although the article is geared toward the workplace, it applies to all forms of communication, especially when negotiating....
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Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning Evaluation Instruments
A teaching resource to use when evaluating cooperative learning group assignments including Coop Learning Self Evaluation, Peer Evaluation Form, The Double Form, Progress Assessment, and Coop Learning Rubric 1 and 2. Free downloadable...
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning Evaluation Instruments
A teaching resource to use when evaluating cooperative learning group assignments including Coop Learning Self Evaluation, Peer Evaluation Form, The Double Form, Progress Assessment, and Coop Learning Rubric 1 and 2. Free downloadable...
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning Evaluation Instruments
A teaching resource to use when evaluating cooperative learning group assignments including Coop Learning Self Evaluation, Peer Evaluation Form, The Double Form, Progress Assessment, and Coop Learning Rubric 1 and 2. Free downloadable...
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning Evaluation Instruments
A teaching resource to use when evaluating cooperative learning group assignments including Coop Learning Self Evaluation, Peer Evaluation Form, The Double Form, Progress Assessment, and Coop Learning Rubric 1 and 2. Free downloadable...
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning Evaluation Instruments
A teaching resource to use when evaluating cooperative learning group assignments including Coop Learning Self Evaluation, Peer Evaluation Form, The Double Form, Progress Assessment, and Coop Learning Rubric 1 and 2. Free downloadable...
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Broward Education Foundation: Let's Do Lunch! [Pdf]
The purpose of this project is to teach students the life skills they need when dining in public. The project begins with a discussion of eating out and the students are polled as to how often, if ever, they eat in a restaurant with...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Get on Your Mark, Get Set, Go!
In collaborative/cooperative groups, students will review basic vocabulary and concepts for data and statistics. Students will create, collect, display, and interpret data in the form of frequency tables, bar graphs and circle graphs.
Organization for Community Networks
Ofcn: Adjective? What's an Adjective?
What is an adjective? This site features a lesson plan that will allow students to think creatively and work in small groups. This will sharpen your grammar skills.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Decimals: The Master of Many Disguises!
In Cooperative/Collaborative groups, this lesson will actively engage students to represent decimals in different forms. An "Essential Question" will be used to activate background knowledge and set the purpose for understanding how to...
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Thinking Fountain: Liquid Layers [Pdf]
Students contrast the densities of oil and water in this lab activity. Can be done in groups or individually. This resource is in PDF form; requires Adobe Reader.