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Preposition Practice
Young scholars learn about prepositions. In this grammar lesson, students define prepositions and learn how they work. Young scholars study a list of common prepositions and locate them in sentences.
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Changing Roles in Africa: Traditional vs. Modern
In this African culture worksheet, learners read a selection about the role of tradition on modern Africa and then respond to 7 short answer questions. Students also complete a Venn diagram.
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Urban Changes
Students explore how landscapes undergo constant changes with urban development. They plan and build their own "city" by including features that have minimal resource demands to sustain the city itself.
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Cecilia's Year
High schoolers read the novel "Cecilia's Year". They answer questions to test for reading comprehension. They also relate the story to their own life.
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Relationship Role Plays
Young scholars connect a scene from a play they are reading to events in their own lives. Working in male/female pairs, students act out a scene from "Hamlet." Pairs work to role play a scene as an extension of the one they have read,...
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Beaver Ecology
Learners explore the lives of bgeahvers. They identify the physical and behavioral adaptations that help beavers survive in their environment. Students compare and contrast how beavers influence the ecology of both forest and aquatic...
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The Solid South Switcharoo
Learners examine primary sources. In this lesson on political parties, students view historic documents, speeches, and photos to trace the rise and fall of particular political parties. Learners will be looking at the success of each...
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Measure Up!
Young scholars examine parallax and angular measurements. For this investigative lesson students calculate distances of objects and map their results.
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Zoom, Zoom, Zoom
Third graders participate in a pre-writing activity that reinforces organization in writing. They write a piece of narrative writing using the traits of organization.
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Connecting to Colonial Music
Students listen to songs from the French and Indian War period. They answer questions about the song and identify any historical terms. They examine the role of music in their own lives.
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Respect
Students brainstorm what they believe having respect for someone else means. Individually, they share their own experiences about a time they felt respected and a time they did not. To end the lesson, they participate in a role-play...
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KS5 Film and Media Studies: Documentary
Students generate their own definition of documetary. They watch and discusss a series of extracts that demonstrate the breadth of the documentary form. Students create a defintion of the term documentary that takes into account the...
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Christmas in Great Britain
Young scholars investigate the Christmas customs of Great Britain. In this holiday lesson, students construct pomander balls and sing English Christmas carols.
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Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape Questions
In this reading comprehension learning exercise, students respond to 6 short answer and essay questions based on the poem "Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape."
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Orienteering II
Students name the parts of a compass and comprehend the function of each part. They define paces and tallies and use them in a real world situation. Students are shown the proper use of radio terminology. They use a map and compass to...
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The Derivation of (Pi)
Seventh graders groups measure the diameter and circumference of each of the circular objects in the room. They record their results on their student worksheets and access a computer spreadsheet program to compile their results.
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Reading Lesson Plan
Students use and recognize new vocabularies of the weather and a simple writing structure --Today is __________.
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Feeling Crabby?
Pupils analyze data to investigate the influence of water depth on size among deep-water crabs. They interpret results from this data, and apply the results regarding appropriate fishery regulations.
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Placing Plates
Second graders investigate the task of making a large hexagonal plate by putting together smaller ones. The lesson has detailed example problems for the teacher to use during direct instruction. The manipulative activities strengthen the...
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What Is Electricity
Fourth graders develop an understanding of static electricity and discover how to detect a charge by using electroscopes. In this electricity lesson, 4th graders complete a lab on electricity and discuss the results with the class.
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Field Trip to School
Students better explain the diversity and adaptations of living organisms.
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Number Nut: Numbers and Counting: Counting From One to One Thousand
A game where the player must first click on the number that is one less than a number between one and one thousand, then on the number that is one more.