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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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Graph It with Coffee!

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students interview employers and employees at local coffee shops about sales and profits and create graphs comparing and contrasting information obtained about the businesses.
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Sleep Today - No, Maybe Tomorrow

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners read and interpret handout about sleeping habits and disorders, and plan and create classroom bulletin board that displays causes, disorders and effects of sleep deprivation.
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First You See It - Auroras!

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners read science article on auroras and create a class bingo game with the scientific terms.
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The Solar System

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students research origin of solar system, discuss theories they have found, and create paper mache solar system models.
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Similes, Metaphors, and Symbols

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
Here is an outline of a lesson plan in which learners examine the use of similes, metaphors, and symbols in poetry. They define similes, metaphors, and symbols, complete a handout, and create a poem using types of figurative language.
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What's My BMI?

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners construct the Metric Pyramid from the handout. They use the Metric Pyramid to convert from standard to metric measure and vice versa. They compute their own Body Mass Index.
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Ice Cream

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore the concepts of mean, median, mode, and range as they elicit data about people's favorite flavor of ice cream. A practical application of the data obtained offers an extension to the lesson plan.
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Budget Mania

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students examine several examples of budgets to develop a facility with the components of its formation. Income, expenses, and expenditures are considered and itemized for this lesson.
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Happy Birthday!: Internet Research and Historic Events

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Talk about intrinsic motivation! Begin where your students' natural interests lie  -- with themselves -- and launch a variety of projects with this activity. Class members research important events that took place on their birthdays....
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Punctuation (The Comma vs. The Semicolon)

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Explore English by participating in a grammar correcting activity. Elementary and middle schoolers distinguish when to use commas from when to use semicolons. Then they correct twelve sentences by placing commas and semicolons in the...
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What's The Idea?

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Quite often, learners confuse the main idea in a selection of reading with the supporting details. In this lesson, pupils practice the skill of finding the main idea and the supporting details in pieces of writing. Newspaper articles...
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Working with Percentages

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students complete basic operations using percentages in a variety of real world situations. Discounts are computed and compared to a variety of prices listed in local newspaper advertisements.
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Applying Central Tendency

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders calculate the mean, median, and mode of various wages. They apply these skills to asking for pay raises. They discuss whether the mean, median, or mode provide the highest wage increase.
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Completing Simple Tax Forms

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders practice filling out IRS 1040 EZ forms. They discuss various ways people pay taxes. They assess the importance of W-2 forms and apply skills using the IRS tax table to compute how much money is owed or returned.
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Do Deductibles Matter?

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders discuss insurance and the cost of automobile insurance. They compare and contrast the costs of insurance from different companies. They figure the savings from the lowest deductible to the highest deductible.
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The Stock Market

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students explore the loss and gain made in the stock market as they invest a sum of money and report the results as percentages instead of points.
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Viewpoint and Persuasive Writing

For Teachers 5th - 10th
Practice persuasive writing skills in this thorough lesson. After selecting issues and discovering viewpoints, middle schoolers write letters or brochures created to express the individual's perspective. The ideas are presented to the...
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Build a Tasty Sandwich

For Teachers 5th - 10th
The subject doesn't sound to interesting, but with a child's imagination even a trip to the store can be an adventure. The class writes a narrative story about a trip to the store. They organize their stories to include an introductory...
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Subject and Verb Agreement

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students practice subject predicate agreement through the activities of this lesson. Selecting the correct verb to agree with the subject of the sentence is used in the preparation of documents, resumes, memos, letters, and presentations...
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Fact or Hoax? You Decide.

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students analyze the components of debating and practice what they have learned as they conduct a class debate on the lunar landing. Both sides of the issue are researched and presented to the group.
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The Dirt on the Workplace

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students examine health and safety issues in the workplace. They, in groups, discuss how health and safety issues effect their lives.
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Fact V. Opinion

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students use statements out of newpapers to distinguish between facts and opinions. They discuss these differences as well.
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The Microwave and the Jiffy Store

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young historians examine the lifestyle changes and cultural changes that occurred as a result of the challenges posed by World War II on society in general. With regard to American History and culture, pupils write an essay on the...

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