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Off to College

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students jog to where their classroom teacher went to college using a scale that best fits their situation. They log miles on a chart until students reach their destination. Students use the colleges mascot as the graph indicator as to...
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Fuzz Gets a Big Buzz

For Teachers 1st
First graders recognize the short vowel u in written and spoken language. Through listening activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /u/ from other phonemes. Students identify the phoneme and letter in a decodeable story they read...
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Icky Sticky Mess

For Teachers K
Students practice sounding out and writing the letter "i." They listen for the "i" sound in phrases the teacher says. The students then practice writing the upper and lower case letter "i." Finally, they listen to the book "Liz is...
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There's a Mouse in the House! Aaa!!!

For Teachers K - 1st
Students recognize the short vowel a in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /a/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and identify the...
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Keeping a Sleep Diary

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders use a Sleep Diary to record their sleeping hours and their energy levels each morning and discuss whether they see a connection between the number of hours they sleep each night and their energy levels.
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Our Government Leaders

For Teachers 2nd
The students will use computer software to develop a KWL chart to determine the roles of different government officials. The chart will reveal what they already know. Then the instructor will give new information as needed.
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Possible Causes

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Young scholars review any materials from two previous lessons on emissions. As a class, they use a graphic organizer to review their stakeholder's hypothesis. They identify possible causes of global warming and discover how to solve this...
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"Sum, Sum, Sum It Up!"

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students are provided with a model of how to better comprehend text through using a summarization rubric which includes: deleting trivial information, deleting repeated information, substituting easy words for lists of items, adding a...
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Language Arts: Women in History

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students read excerpts from Amelia Earhart's autobiography, "The Fun if It," and identify her character traits. To aid visualization of her transatlantic flight, they search books and the Internet for photos related to Earhart's flights....
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Tomatoes for Toyotas

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate and become aware of our country's trade relations with East Asia with emphasis placed on Japan. They explore the global affect of technology, production, distribution and consumption as well as exchange and economic...
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Math: Am I Prime?

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders determine the difference between prime and composite numbers. On a Website, they discover a method to identify all the prime numbers up to 100 and also complete several online activities. Once they have discussed the...
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Growing in Christ: Obstacles to Growth

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students play Obstacle Jeopardy and create an Obstacle Depression Quilt.  In this growing in Christ lesson plan, students complete a double entry journal and discuss as a class the three barriers that are mentioned.  Students relate this...
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Preventing Picky Eaters

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students list the normal eating habits of children. In this health lesson, students identify common problems experienced during mealtimes. They discuss ways to better manage a child's mealtime experience.
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National Portrait Gallery: Ballyhoo! Posters as Portraiture: You Are Wanted

For Students 9th - 10th
Captioned exhibit of a World War I-era recruiting poster for the U.S. armed forces features a portrait of General John J. Pershing. Accompanying text explains the principles of design that make the work particularly effective.
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Alberta Online Encyclopedia

Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Supplementary Lessons Grade 5: Nunavut and Its People

For Students 9th - 10th
A lesson plan that has students make a poster that shows the occupations and reasons why someone would want to move to the Nunavut province.