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Jazz music, Dance and Poetry

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Learners view video and become familiar with the type of movement in jazz dance.  In this jazz dance lesson, students write a cinquain about jazz dance.  Learners recognize the elements of jazz dance and the type of music associated with...
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Guided Reading: Chicken Sunday

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students write about giving a gift. In this writing lesson students read the book Chicken Sunday by Patricia Polacco. Students read silently and discuss the story with their classmates. Students write about wanting to buy a gift for...
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The Life Cycle of the Mealworm

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders provide a habitat for live mealworms and observe their life cycle. In this animal life cycle and scientific inquiry lesson plan, 4th graders create a habitat for a live mealworm and observe and record related data as it...
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Ms. Wiehler's Spring Chalet Dinner Specials

For Students 6th - 7th
In this integer instructional activity, students play a credit/ debit game, complete 2 worksheets with addition and subtraction of integers, and answer a story problem. 
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Classifying Defending Information about Main Idea

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students read and highlight important information gathered from text.  In this reading strategies lesson, students define classify and then classify the important information they find. Students share and reflect on their answers.
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Determine the Main Idea

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners identify the main idea of a reading passage. In this identifying the main idea lesson, students read short passages, highlight or underline important information and record the main idea of the passage. They participate in a...
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Story Summaries; The Three Little Pigs

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore language arts by completing a graphic organizer in class. In this story structure instructional activity, students read the classic tale "The Three Little Pigs" and discuss the main characters, conflict and setting....
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A Quest for Author Importance

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Class members discover information about an author through a WebQuest and a brochure project.
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Portfolios To Be Proud Of

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Class members can create their own personal websites while collecting and celebrating their writing.
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Behind the Music Project

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Authors write about what they know, and that does not exclude songwriters. Invite partners to explore the story behind a song. They analyze and discuss the lyrics, conduct research online, create a poster, and put together a two-minute...
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Pill Bug Taxis

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students study pill bugs and their behaviors.  In this pill bug instructional activity students complete a lab activity that includes sketching a pill bug and testing environmental conditions. 
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Food Web Lab

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore the predator-prey interactions and how humans have an impact on the food web.  In this food lab lesson students complete a food web activity and discuss what they learned. 
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Oysters Are Habit Forming!

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Students examine the relationships within a salt marsh habitat. In this habitat lesson, students examine the various kinds of symbiotic relationships in a salt marsh habitat.
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Retelling and Summarizing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Having students use a rubric to score a piece of writing is an excellent practice. They read a passage titled, "Firefighters," and discuss different summaries that were written about it. They evaluate several summaries then score them...
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In Text (Parenthetical) Documentation

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
How and when to use parenthetical citations in research writing is the focus of a text-heavy presentation appropriate to high school seniors or college level writers. The bulk of the slides, designed to illustrate a lecture, deal with...
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American Romanticism 1800-1860

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
The major writers of the 1880s are the focus of a text-heavy PowerPoint designed to accompany an introductory lecture on American Romanticism. Characteristics of the movement and Romantic sensibilities are listed but not illustrated.
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British Romanticism: An Introduction to the Social/Cultural Contexts

For Teachers 12th
The major tenets of British Neoclassicism and Romanticism are listed in a presentation that also notes the significant  consequences of industrialization. No context is provided for the slides of the paintings.
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Star Light, Star Bright

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Four modules are a part of this stellar lesson plan. Space scientists view the electromagnetic spectrum, they generate waves on a computer screen in order to measure frequency and wavelength, discover how light is related to temperature,...
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The Waterfront Debate

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders debate a resolution about a planned waterfront community from the point of view of various interest groups. They have a "Town Meeting" in which members from each interest group debate their researched opinions for points....
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How Dense is Salt Water?

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Young schoolers explore the concept of linear regression. They determine the mass and density of salt water. Pupils add salt to water and record the density as salinity increases, and perform a linear regression on the data to model the...
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Murder in the First Degree - The Death of Mr. Spud

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Secondary learners investigate exponential functions in a real-world scenario. They collect data on the temperature of a cooling baked potato, enter the data into lists, and graph the data using a scatter plot before finding an...
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Dynamic Algebra

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Explore 5 classical problems of algebra.  They will solve problems involving Heron's formula, fractional equations, vector equations, apollonius' sphere, and transversals. The idea is to lead to new perceptions and visual thinking.
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Is There a Limit to Which Side You Can Take?

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Calculus high schoolers find the limit of piecewise functions at a value. They find the limit of piecewise functions as x approaches a given value. They find the limit of linear, quadratic, exponential, and trigonometric piecewise...
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Exploring Derivatives Using Lists

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Learners explore lists and determine the derivative for that list. They use regressions to discover equations. 

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