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The Hatfield and McCoy Feud

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Learners explore West Virginia history with regard to Mountain and Appalachian Culture. They compare and contrast life now with life 100-150 years ago. They write and illustrate a short story about the life of children 100-150 years ago....
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Compound Words

For Teachers 1st
First graders discuss what compound words are and what they look like as a whole group.  In this compound words lesson plan, learnerseach have a single word card and pair up with another student to create a compound word. A valuable,...
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"Voicing" - A Believable Account with "The Glory Fields" by Walter Dean Myers

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Dr. Seuss and Walter Dean Myers team up to cover the topic of prejudice. Using The Sneeches (about the culture clash between star-bellied and bare-bellied Sneetches) and The Glory Fields (about a boy coming to America on a slave ship),...
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Meet Your Neighbor: Action Verbs

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Get your kids moving on the first day of school! This action verb activity doesn't have to be used as an ice breaker, but it sure will work as one. Simply place pairs of cards face-side down on the carpet, each with an action verb...
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Human Body Series - Digestive System

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
With articles entitled, "What's Puke?" and "What is a Fart?" this digestive system lesson is sure to be a gas! Elementary anatomists do a belly dance to illustrate how food moves through the digestive system and then design a board game...
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Giving Game--Planning to Make The World

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers, in groups, examine plans to make the world a beter place. They evaluate the plans based on feasibility, practicality, and do-ability by students their own age.
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"Hello" Game

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students listen as the teacher sings the first phrase of the "Hello" song (included with the lesson). They respond by singing the second phrase. They learn to pronounce the hello equivalent in other languages. The teacher sings the first...
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5th Grade Health Newsletter

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders choose health related topics of interest to them, research the topics employing a variety of resources, and then produce a newsletter using the technology available to them. The topics selected are also part of the 5th...
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Do the Hokey Pokey in Many Languages

For Teachers K - 8th
Students replace the body part words in the tune The Hokey Pokey with the same body part words in other languages. They learn the vocabulary more readily because of the connection to music.
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Yes But Dialogue Game (3+)

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Young scholars work cooperatively to explore and practice dialogue improvisation.
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Computer Science Unplugged

You Can Say That Again! – Text Compression

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Compression, the process computers use to store information, is the focus of a resource that presents two different stories that describe the concept of compression by eliminating repeated letters and replacing them with a pointer. The...
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Common Idioms 1

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this language arts worksheet, pupils learn that idioms are spoken or written sentences where the meaning is not obvious. Students match the 10 idioms to their meanings.
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The Game of Life

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Learners describe what it means for a marine animal or fish to be threatened or endangered after playing game simulating extinction.
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Paragraph Matching

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this paragraph writing game, students will take turns trying to make a match between topic sentences and the correct body sentences. This game is played like Concentration/Memory.
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Phonics Jeopardy Grade Two

For Teachers 2nd
This phonics review PowerPoint provides second grade students with an interactive review of phonics. Playing a "Jeopardy" game enables students to review concepts such as long vowels, blends and digraphs. This is an interactive and fun...
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Fly Swatter Spelling

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Young scholars practice spelling words by swatting fake insects.  In this vocabulary lesson plan, students participate in a spelling game in which teams must spell a word correctly one letter at a time.  Young scholars may fix one...
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Vocabulary Charades

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Learners explore new vocabulary words by participating in a group activity. In this vocabulary role-playing lesson, students collaborate in groups to play a game of charades with new vocabulary words. Learners are given points based on...
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Identifying Symbols

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders explore the meanings of symbols. After creating a symbolism match game, they work on analyzing symbolism in their reading. Next, they read text and record concepts that are being repeated through the story, and use their...
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Blackboard Baseball

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders prepare eight questions about the topic they are studying.  In this board baseball review lesson plan game, questions are rated from easy to difficult and haw many bases students receive. The  students are grouped in two...
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Writing Process

For Teachers 6th
Test students on what they know about the writing process and general grammar terms. The game is fashioned after the "Jeopardy" quiz show, where the answer is phrased in the form of a question. There are 25 questions and answers.
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American Indians Heritage Series: The Inuit's

For Teachers K
Students become aware that people lived in America before Columbus came.  In this Inuit culture lesson, students discuss lives of the Inuits. Students listen to Mama Do You Love Me, A Promise is a Promise and The Polar Bear Son: Inuit...
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Capitals, Oceans, And Border States

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students investigate geography by completing games with classmates. In this United States of America lesson, students examine a map of North America and identify the borders of Mexico and Canada as well as the Pacific and Atlantic....
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I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! And Other Stories

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students read a story by Dr. Seuss and create characters from the story. In this lesson about reading a story, students will read I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! And Other Stories. Students make a tiger tail with a felt strip, attach it to...
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A Christmas Carol

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders examine the life and times of mid-1800s England in Dicken's time. They compare/contrast Christmas today and during Dicken's day, discuss the book's characters, play a game from the 1800s, and read a Reader's Theater...

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