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Forest Activity: The Forest as Inspiration for Literature

For Teachers 2nd - 12th
Students analyze the role of the forest in literature. They read various literature selections, analyze the role the forest played as a setting, character, or symbol, and complete a writing activity.
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Cells

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Learners explore the types of cells and their appropriate function. After observing a PowerPoint presentation, students draw diagrams of cells. Using a specified website, learners identify parts of plant and animal cells. They answer...
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Summarizing Puts the Pieces Together

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Pupils summarize a piece of fiction. After reviewing the correct way to read and summarize, students work in groups to summarize a piece of text assigned by the instructor. They write a summary paragraph by creating a story map and using...
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Writing Strategies: A Writer's Notebook

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this writing worksheet, students read 12 strategies for keeping a writer's notebook. Worksheet is designed to be signed by student and parent when completed.
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Opposite-Word Concentration

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students participate in an opposite-word concentration game. In this grammar lesson, students use an old deck of playing cards and glue small squares of opposite illustrations to the back of each card. Students make as many matches as...
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Invent a Holiday

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Pupils compare their own special holidays and traditions and then use their imaginations to create their own holiday.
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Independent Learners

For Teachers K
Students develop a sense of self through building confidence in their abilities to become independent learners. They develop those strategies needed to communicate their ideas and knowledge of concepts taught.
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Transmission of Family Histories

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young scholars examine how different artifacts represent family history, stories, and experiences. They act as reporters for their own family artifacts sharing them with the class.
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Nursery Rhyme Mania

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students become familiar with many different nursery rhymes. They use nursery rhymes for a variety of creative activities including writing, singing, poetry and acting.
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Goldilocks and the Bears Make Their Pitch

For Teachers 1st
First graders listen to the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears and identify the pitch of the bears' voices as high, medium, and low. They improvise on xylophones a melody to accompany the bears in the telling of the story.
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Genes, Environments, and Behavior 2

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers explore how scientists study the genetic and environmental factors that interact to produce variation in behavior across a population.
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Vocabulary Zoo Game

For Teachers K - 8th
Students participate in an activity which is focused on new vocabulary words and their definitions. They study vocabulary that will be used in an upcoming read aloud. They make an animal sound each time one of the vocabulary words is read.
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100 Years Ago in History

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students conduct Internet research to investigate century-old historic events. Working individuallly or in pairs, they research assigned topics and construct a timeline for events that occured on the same day.
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All About Me: Beginning of the Year

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students retell important facts about themselves to others in the class by creating a booklet titled All About Me. They follow simple directions and present their finished booklets to their peers.
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Paragraph

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders work through detailed steps to complete a paragraph on the story "The Great Kapok Tree." They gather details from the story, and choose a standpoint for the paper using the details as a defense. The students write their...
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Scrapbook of Freedom

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders create a scrapbook using personal narratives and samples of artifacts to connect to maps of geographical locations of the Underground Rail Road. they describe at least one of the feelings a child slave might have had...
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Space: Stars and Planets

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students observe and report that the moon can be seen sometimes at night and sometimes during the day. They describe how changes to a model can help predict how the real thing can be altered. Students explain the essential fact of the...
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INVENTION CONVENTION

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students examine inventions with this lesson. They contract for a grade and then decide which assignments they plan on doing. There are no objectives for this lesson to critique or review.
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The United States During World War II

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders comprehend what social and economics effect World War II on the home front of The United States, specifically in Texas. They are asked to react to rationing or a World War. Students complete the "Home Front: the United...
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Total English Upper Intermediate: Going Back to School...

For Students 4th - 6th
In this reading comprehension activity, students read a 3 paragraph selection about the writer's time in school. Students respond to 8 short answer questions and then discuss them with a partner.
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What Building Used to Be There?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine how their city has changed and examine building preservation. In this building preservation lesson, students listen to a reading of Virginia Lee Burton's, The Little House, before making a time line of how their own city...
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The Truth About Anne Frank

For Teachers 9th
Student read the Diary of Anne frank.  In this Literature instructional activity, 9th graders study the transport of Jews to Auschwitz.  Students create a daily schedule of their lives if they were in hiding, 
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Man's Continuing Inhumanity to Man

For Teachers 4th - 11th
Students explore social justice issues. In this human justice lesson, students examine the meaning of words associated with minority groups and investigate genocide throughout history.
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Friendly Letter

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Learners write friendly letters. In this friendly letters lesson, students write a friendly letter on the given template after being given direct instruction on how to write a friendly letter.

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