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Follow One Step Directions From Peers
Middle schoolers practice taking directions from their peers during group activities. With teachers, they practice the directions and then gradually start practicing with their mainstream friends. They are given marks on a chart noting...
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Trees and Their Parts
Students research trees and their parts. For this forestry lesson, students participate in various learning stations to identify trees by matching the photographs of the tree to the correct name.
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Pendulum Lab
Students predict how changing the pendulum components affect its period. In this physics lesson, students calculate the period using different masses. They analyze lab result and complete assigned worksheet.
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Korea: Resistance to Western Ideas
Tenth graders interpret how the Tonghak movement was a reaction to Western ideas. They determine that many nations resisted Western ideas and respond to one of the following essays at the end of the lesson plan.
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Making a Grocery List
Students explore vocabulary words related to groceries. Students examine words that can be used immediately, in every day life, particularly in the grocery store. They demonstrate the sounds of letters. Students match labels and sentences.
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Lifestyles of the Tribe, or Tomorrowland?
Eighth graders identify with and analyze through writing various Indian cultural values and how they fit in the modern world. Students organize data utilizing Educational software programs and present their opinions and inferences in a...
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Creative Writing
Fourth graders participate in an observation hike in this lesson. They orally share observations from their hike, and develop a paragraph in a shared writing exercise. Finally, the write their paragraph about process writing in their...
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Ecology: Trees
Fourth graders, while working in the classroom and the computer lab, utilizing supporting facts from previous lessons, write a creative story that imagines a world without forests. They write, type and print their stories and turn them...
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Alphabetizing Words Beginning with R and S
Learners alphabetize words that begin with R and S. In this alphabetizing lesson, students complete a worksheet in which they alphabetize words that end with R and S. After a classroom discussion about how to alphabetize, learners...
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Place Values - Subtracting
Students explore the concept of subtracting a number from a place value. In this subtracting from a place value lesson plan, students subtract numbers from a particular place value.
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Incorporating Japanese Music into the Music Classroom
Fourth graders experience the music and arts of Japan as they explore the language and culture of the country in this lesson plan. A variety of musical elements from the culture are demonstrated.
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Ingenious Inventions
Fifth graders complete a variety of activities as they study the various tools and machines that have been invented throughout history that have made life easier and tasks less difficult for modern man.
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A Peace Maker in the Aftermath of War
Students discover how Barbara Reynolds was involved with the atomic bomb in World War II. In this World War II atomic bomb lesson plan, students work in groups to research WWII. Students present their findings with pictures and discuss...
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What is Southeast Asia?
Learners participate in various classroom activities designed to teach them about the location and cultures of countries in Southeast Asia.
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Pardon me. Do You Have exChange for a Dollar?
Young scholars are familiar with United States currency-dollar and cents. They are asked to compare it with currency of another country. Students explore currencies of various countries using the Internet, video, and hands-on...
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Adding Punctuation
Students explore using correct punctuation in their sentences. they discuss the various punctuation rules. Students practice putting the correct punctuation in a list of sentences.
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Fractions-Word Problems
Students participate in completing a math worksheet of word problems that involve fractions. The worksheet is included in this lesson plan along with the answers to the word problems. The worksheet can be used as the assessment piece...
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George Washington
First graders gain background knowledge about George Washington. They visit a website to find out additional information. Students create a web on chart paper of his important events, write a non fiction book about hima nd share their...
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Language Arts: Take Me to the Hall of Fame
Learners write persuasive letters supporting a trip to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Once they have written the letter, they respond to it from the coach's point of view. In addition, students compose various conclusions to their letters.
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Finding the Missing Letters and Sequencing
Students discover missing letters of the alphabet. In this letter recognition instructional activity, students identify the missing letters in a short alphabet sequence. Students complete a worksheet as an assessment.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Goals for First Grade: Early Reading and Writing
Children go through certain phases of reading development from preschool through third grade- from exploration of books to independent reading. Find out what children at the first-grade phase should be able to do, and what teachers and...
Read Works
Read Works: Classify and Categorize 2nd Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to classify and categorize items, characters, and information. The third activity is based on the book Splish! Splash! Animal Baths by April...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Book Report Alternative: The Elements of Fiction
Analyzing a book takes the form of creating their own when students complete this activity. The stated goal is to help students "Read like writers." Includes link to a template for student use.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Establishing Expectations
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides an explanation about the importance of setting high expectations for students. Goal-setting related to reading independently is included in the module. An example of a school-wide reading...