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Fun with Phylogenetic Trees

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders differentiate angiosperms and gymnosperms. In this biology lesson, 10th graders construct a musical phylogenetic tree from information they gathered on resource websites. They present their project in class.
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Coming to America

For Teachers 2nd - 12th
Students read one book together about the immigrant experience. Teacher asks students to identify some of the themes around immigration contained in the book (example: prejudice).
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Electron Current Flow

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students observe how an electrical current passes through a conductor and the relationship between voltage and resistance.  In this investigative lesson students participate in an activity that allows them to see the correlation between...
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Santa Claus Around the World

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Learn about the legend of Santa Claus around the world in ESL holiday plan. In it, learners explore the many ways that Santa Claus is depicted in cultures around the world. There are some excellent masters included in the plan that help...
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Description Quiz

For Students 8th - 9th
Several things are missing in each picture, can you identify the missing objects? There are two descriptions here: one for a landscape, and the other shows a classroom setting. After reading the descriptions of each (in French), your...
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What's Your Favorite Food?

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Advanced beginner to intermediate ESL level learners, use English to communicate in social settings by conducting a survey. They ask questions to develop new vocabulary and build communication skills.
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After Reading: "Plot the Plot" Activity in the Library Media Class

For Teachers 6th - 8th
"Plot the plot" of "The Adventures of the Speckled Band" with your young readers. Take a few days to read Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's short story as a class or in pairs, having learners write down what they consider to be the most important...
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Build Mastery: Prediction

For Teachers K - 3rd
What do you think will happen? Use a graphic organizer to help learners predict what will happen in a text. Consider modeling the chart using a familiar story, pretending you don't know what happens. Show scholars the book, explaining...
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Review Parts of a Book

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Begin the year with a review of the parts of a book. Exercises in the unit plan ask emergent readers to identify the information on the cover of a book and on the title page, to explain the purpose of a table of contents, and to describe...
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Life Cycle of a Butterfly: Kidspiration

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders view a video about butterflies and recall its life cycle. They will also complete a Kidspiration slide show to illustrate the life cycle of a butterfly and study a word list of butterfly vocabulary to include in their...
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Advertising in the Contemporary World: An Introduction to Persuasive Texts

For Teachers 7th - 8th Standards
Beginning a persuasive writing unit with your middle schoolers? Approach it through something that persuades us all: advertising! Through studying video and print advertisement, your class will practice Common Core skills for reading...
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Word Up Project

Mini Games

For Teachers 3rd - 10th Standards
You've got a few minutes left at the end of class to practice vocabulary, but what can you do other than call out a word and ask for definitions? Play one of these 12 quick games! Each game is explained in detail and easy to modify for...
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How Weather Affects Our Lives

For Teachers 1st - 6th
English learners practice basic weather terms from listening to two books. They keep a daily weather record for two weeks to record the type of weather, as well as the high and low temperatures for each day. Next, they complete a simple...
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“The Story of an Hour” Extension Activities: Teacher’s Guide and Notes

For Teachers 8th Standards
Enhance and extend instruction of "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin with one or all of these ideas. You might want to cover characterization and summary, or improve understanding of context clues and irony. You can cover any...
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Ethos, Logos, and Pathos in Civil Rights Movement Speeches

For Teachers 7th - 8th Standards
Examine three speeches while teaching Aristotle's appeals. Over the course of three days, class members fill out a graphic organizer about ethos, pathos, and logos, complete an anticipatory guide, read speeches by Martin Luther King Jr.,...
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High Five Blend and Word Family Game

For Teachers K - 2nd
Practice using word blends and learning about word families by participating in a class game. Learners will collaborate as teams in a game by throwing beanbags onto a shower curtain with word blends on it. They will say the sound their...
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Washington Education Association

Preparing a More Useful Sub Plan for Your Substitute Teacher

For Teachers K - 12th
Make your substitute's life easier by using the prompts on a one-page resource to a craft a profile of your classes and your daily routines. A great-first page for a substitute teacher folder.
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Structuring English Language Development in the School Day

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Making simple changes in the classroom will allow for effective, sheltered instruction for English Language Learners.
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Pebbles, Sand and Silt -- Categorizing Fiction and Informational Books

For Teachers 1st
Primary readers complete the activities in a Pebbles, Sand and Silt FOSS kit. As a class, they are given a group of rocks and they are to categorize them based on their activities in the FOSS kit. They use this information and apply it...
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Elephant Eggs

For Teachers K - 1st
Study the short and long sounds of the letter e. Learners will practice words and tongue twisters using both the short and long vowel /e/. They use letter boxes and letter tiles to spell words containing the target sound. To close the...
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Comic Books in the Classroom

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
You can use comic book projects to teach a variety of curriculum topics.
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Chapter One Review

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Designed to review chapter one of Allez, viens!, the French textbook, this resource simply presents a list of questions the teacher will ask the class to review vocabulary. If you do not have access to this textbook, this resource will...
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Colorin Colorado: How to Develop a Lesson Plan That Includes El Ls

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this article, readers will learn how to develop a lesson plan that will include ELL students. This article highlights that effect lessons, that will inclusive of ELL students, will work to build background knowledge, provide explicit...
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Teachers First: Adapt a Strategy: Adjusting Lessons for Esl/ell Students

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This site provides a lengthy list of class activities with links to strategies, videos, resources, and online tools for adopting each one for English language learners.