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What is cooperative negotiation?

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders differentiate between positions, interests, and values.  In this current events lesson, 10th graders analyze, in a response to literature, the failure of a fictional negotiation.  Students demonstrate the ability to use...
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Letters to Poets

For Teachers 7th - 10th Standards
Add a strong poetry instructional activity to your literature unit. Middle and high schoolers investigate their writing voices with journaling and group discussion, then choose a famous poet to study. They write letters to their chosen...
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Native American Indian Musical Instruments

For Teachers K - 5th
Young scholars listen and react to recordings of Native American Instruments with each student completing a corresponding Reaction Worksheet after listening to the recordings.
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Moving With Adverbs

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the concept that adverbs describe the verb. They move around the general space doing various locomotor skills. Students alter the way they are doing the skills by listening to the adverbs being called out by the teacher.
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Solar System Search

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students learn the names of the nine planets. They are then given a worksheet which they use to identify the planets based on actively listening to the teacher's oral description. This is a great listening activity.
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The Seasons of the Year

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students learn about the four seasons. They collaborate in pairs, publish a book, and share with the class. They also brainstorm and collaborate with each other providing literacy skills through listening, speaking and writing activities.
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Boogie Woogie with a B: Using Alliteration while Exploring Patriotic Tunes

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Are you looking for a way to bring writing into your history instructional activity - or history into your writing instructional activity? This cross-curricular activity is helpful and fun, no matter what class you're teaching! Using...
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Patterns in Poetry: Part 2 -- Sound

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students understand a variety of poems listening for sound letter correspondence, rhyme scheme, assonance, and alliteration. In this language arts lesson, students practice listening and reading skills to complete patterns in poetry. ...
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Tale of the Tooth Fairy

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students share social and cultural traditions and values. They develop listening strategies to explain what is heard.
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Communication

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students identify good listening and talking skills and discuss verbal, written, and non-verbal communication. They create collages of magazine pictures demonstrating non-verbal communication.
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The Three Little Pigs

For Teachers 1st
First graders complete a fairy tales characteristics chart after listening to varoius fairy tales. Individually, they listen to three different versions of "The Three Little Pigs" and complete a separate chart comparing them as well....
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Peter and the Wolf

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students create movements to music that reflect focused listening, write story using complete, coherent sentences, design and perform class play speaking clearly and at an appropriate pace, and retell Peter and the Wolf story, including...
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ESL Holiday Lessons: Elimination of Violence Against Women

For Students 6th - 10th
In this language skills worksheet, students read an article about Elimination of Violence Against Women. Students respond to 6 matching questions, 29 fill in the blank questions, 30 multiple choice questions, 12 word ...
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Smiles Change the World

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore their feelings when someone smiles at them. In this smiles lesson, students practice listening skills while discussing what makes them smile with a partner.
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ESL Holiday Lessons: International Museum Day

For Students 6th - 11th
For this language skills worksheet, students read an article on International Museum Day. Students respond to 6 matching questions, 29 fill in the blank questions, 30 multiple choice questions, 12 word scramble ...
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ESL Holiday Lessons: Valentine's Day

For Students 7th - 11th
In this language skills worksheet, students read an article about Valentine's Day. Students respond to 6 matching questions, 29 fill in the blank questions, 30 multiple choice questions, 12 word scramble questions, 30 short answer...
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I Am Special and You Are Special Too #4

For Teachers K
The students listen to a book about being different and investigate that everyone is different, but special in their own unique way. The students draw a picture of themselves using multi-cultural markers. Along with the drawing, the...
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Nutrition and Food Security

For Teachers 5th
Examine the three basic nutrients and their effects on the body. Fifth graders will research data to construct a bar graph and then  demonstrate the relationship between malnutrition and food security. This is a very comprehensive...
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The Crucible

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students participate in a layered curriculum unit. Credit is earned for learning, which comes about through listening, discussion, reading, and/or doing. They are verbally assessed for each activity chosen to complete.
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Character Education-Honesty

For Teachers 1st
First graders learn the importance of honesty as they practice problem solving, listening, and sequencing skills. The lesson uses the story, " Too Many Tamales."
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Rhyme at Circle Time

For Teachers K
Students study the importance of clean hands and practice the literacy skills of listening, matching, auditory discrimination, vocabulary, and rhyming. They illustrate their rhyme chart with drawings or photos taken doing the different...
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Red is the Word!

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Through the use of stories, artwork, and the KidPix program, youngsters explore the color word red, and engage in activities around the word. Teaching kindergartners about the color words can be so much fun. This could be adapted for any...
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Entrepreneurship - Product Marketing

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students demonstrate critical thinking skill when creating and producing a salable product. They exhibit appropriate presentation and listening skills. They communicate effectively through written language.
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The Gingerbread Person

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students think about what it means to be intelligent and fast (able to run)/athletic. After listening to the story, 'The Gingerbread Boy,' students write their own stories about a gingerbread girl and a female fox.