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Bean Bag Challenge

For Teachers K - 1st
Students practice their eye-hand coordination through a bean bag game. They use their large muscles to move through a series of bean bag skills. They also utilize their listening skills.
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The First "Colored" World Series

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students utilize reading and listening skills in order to discover the key issues in American history and Black baseball history. Students investigate the beginning of the Negro Baseball Leagues and its signature historical baseball...
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Debating Iraq

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students analyze the main themes of President Bush's UN Speech and discussion of the NewsHour report on the Iraq Debate. In this debate lesson plan, students answer pre-listening questions and view a transcript of the speech. In groups...
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Picture It-Robot Writing!

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders use their listening skills to sketch draft pictures of robots described in paragraphs read by their teacher. They transfer their robot sketches to word processing documents using software drawing tools.
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Breaking News English: Argentina 3 Mexico 1

For Students 6th - 7th
In this ESL worksheet, students read or listen to an article about the Argentina and Mexico World Cup soccer game. Students complete all or some of the 100 activities available here including discussion, listening, vocabulary and...
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A Journey To Japan Through Poetry

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders gain an appreciation for writing, analyzing, reading and listening to poetry, viewing poems as a motivation for studying Japanese culture and tradition. They study and create their own haiku and tanka poems with illustrations.
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Music Magic

For Teachers 1st
First graders improve comprehension skills through music and drama.
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The Best of Baroque

For Teachers 6th
Students study about listening strategies, as well as the culture, music and two prominent composers of the Baroque period, namely J.S. Bach and G.F. Handel. They demonstrate their understanding of the content through several assessments.
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Chrysanthemum

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students identify the main story elements in the book Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes. In this literacy lesson, students listen to the book and use a guided reading ball check for comprehension. Students answer questions such as "Who are...
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In the Middle - Middle School Poetry

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students analyze and interpret poems.  In this poetry lesson, students are read poems aloud, discuss the meanings in groups, and complete two worksheets after listening to the poems.  Links to the worksheets and discussion questions are...
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Musical Imagery

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners experience musical imagery. They link this musical concept to literary imagery to gain an understanding of the use of imagery in both genres. After listening to a varriety of sounds, students will compose and perform a melody.
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Tall Tales and Urban Legends

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students identify and interpret what tall tales, urban legends, and cyberlore are and to find them in their own lives. They practice telling and listening to these types of tales and explore why people tell them. Students also identify...
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How Does Power Affect Conflict?

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students use several short stories to analyze different types of power. While discussing the role of power in these short stories, students will practice communication skills essential to conflict transformation, specifically attentive...
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Romare Bearden

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students identify artwork by Romare Bearden and to explain his techniques. They look for cut and pasted papers and images, paint, ink and pencil designs, shapes and spaces and the rhythms therein. They listen to music by looking at...
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You Too Can Haiku

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students conduct Internet research and explain the history of Haiku. After listening and reading various examples of Haiku, students use their own vocabulary and practice their math skills to determine the correct number of syllables...
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Sound Portraits

For Teachers 1st - 8th
Students observe a variety of sounds which can be heard within their schoolyard habitat by sitting quietly by themselves for five minutes, listening, and then recording the sounds around them by drawing them.
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Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students dictate a story to the teacher. They practice key vocabulary. They be exposed to the language experience approach to writing. They watch a video as a listening exercise.
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Leaving on A Jet Plane

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Young scholars create an airplane by listening to directions. They also to measure the pieces for the airplane and compare and contrast their test flights.
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FACS: Communication Games

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students practice sending and receiving messages (nerf balls). They practice eye contact, focusing despite distractions, nonverbal communication, getting along with others, problem solving, and listening skills.
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Philanthropic Behavior/ Cooperative Learning

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students increase listening comprehension and use critical thinking skills to make a picture. In this philanthropic behavior lesson plan, students draw pictures in three parts. Each part is drawn by another students. Students share their...
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Swimmy

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore the themes of the book Swimmy by Leo Lionni. In this literacy lesson plan, students dramatize a character from Swimmy and identify common themes such as cooperation and caring. Students create a new ending to the story.
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Thinking About Money

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students evaluate various approaches to spending money.In this spending money literacy lesson, students broaden their financial goals by reading "Alexander Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday" and "A Chair for My Mother."Students use a Venn...
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World Meteorological Day

For Students 7th - 8th
In this World Meteorological Day worksheet, students read or listen to a passage, then match phrases, fill in the blanks, choose the correct word, unscramble words and sentences, put sentences in order, write discussion questions and...
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Spring-Aloud Read

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students study the season of spring and create stories about the season. In this spring season lesson, students read books about spring and discuss the season. Students then color and create a mini-book about Spring.