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Journal Writing: Daily Activities

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students use present tense verb endings by describing his/her routine daily activities, demonstrating verb endings. They listen to teacher's description, taking notes. They write their own journal entries about their own daily routines.
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Career Bytes Interview

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Pupils conduct career-based interviews. In this career education lesson, students research careers and interview career professionals to produce a video that features ins and outs of the career.
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Adopt An Ecosystem

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders choose an ecosystem to observe the interaction of living organisms with biotic and abiotic factors in that ecosystem. They keep journals of observations and reflections in order to have a resource for further...
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Campus Nitrogen Budget

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students are given guidelines to college level nitrogen budgeting. Students brainstorm the campus links to nitrogen budget. Students pick topics or subtopics for individual or group research. Students develop research plan, keep good...
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Is that Tree Safe?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine the parts of the tree and examine the health of trees in the vicinity.  In this tree safety activity students work in groups to complete a stated goal. 
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Your Map of Rights

For Teachers 6th - 11th
Students explore the Bill of Rights, which rights have limitations on them, and how these rights apply to their personal lives. They write their own Bill of Rights for the class community.
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Gearing up for Grammar

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students input autobiographical information to apply in a Diamante' poem that utilizes the different parts of speech. Students interact with each other sharing their autobiographical information completed on the database created....
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Technology Integrated Lesson

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students investigate symmetry in the real world. In this geometry lesson plan, students inter-relate math and technology. They create and name a variety of polygons.
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The Functions of the Heart

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore the function of the human heart. In this heart anatomy activity, students participate in activities offered at an Internet website to discover the characteristics and jobs of the parts of the human heart.
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Spineless - YES... Helpless - NO!

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students distinguish between invertebrate and vertebrate organisms while examining the zoological classes of a number of invertebrates. They illustrate a food web of these organisms and investigate the impact of humans on the oceanic...
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Assistive Technology

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students engage in a instructional activity that is concerned with the use of technology in order to help students with special needs. They take part in a instructional activity that is designed to help a specific student with an...
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Learn the Shapes

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students examine and identify the similarities and differences of two-dimensional shapes. They play an I-Spy shape game, participate in a classroom Shape Search, and create illustrations of shapes for a shape collage.
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Will Biotech Crops Solve World Problems?

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Students read an online article to examine what biotechnology and agricultural biotechnology are. They answer questions and complete worksheets based on the article's information.
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Graph Theory

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Students explore the concept of graph theory. In this graph theory lesson, students participate in hands-on activities that enforce graph theory. Students manipulate graph applets on the internet. Students create a graphical model of...
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Weather "Why"

For Teachers K
Students research weather and explore how to use their research information. In this weather information lesson plan, students visit a given website for weather forecasts. Students graph the weather, sing weather songs and select a class...
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Jazz-Age Intrigue

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders read The Great Gatsby and explain the jazz age. They use jazz age terms to create their own short story, scene, or letter.
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How Do New Species Form?

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Learners read an article by Niles Eldridge about species and the environment and break into small groups to discuss it. They write essays noting strengths and weaknesses of punctuated equilibrium and gradualism, or other topics listed.
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Dialogue Practice with the Continuous Tenses

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students work with a partner to write dialogues using the present continuous, past continuous, future continuous and present perfect continuous tenses about an real situation. They perform the dialogues in front of the class.
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WRITING AN ARTICLE FOR A CHILDREN'S MAGAZINE

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars engage in the writing of a magazine article. They focus upon the reading of a children's fiction book and create an informative narrative. They create main ideas and supporting details for the article. The supporting of...
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Community Helpers

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students identify examples of community services, identify jobs/services performed by community helpers and relationships between community needs and community services, and work cooperatively to create Bubble map, flyer, and Powerpoint...
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Making Decisions by Group: The Jury System

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students discover how to work cooperatively within a group and communicate their ideas clearly in order to reach an agreement. They summarize their experience in writing and hand down a verdict of guilt or innocence based on the...
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Government Websites

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars search for government sites and create master lists by category. They list Executive, Judicial, Legislative and Special Interest Group sites.
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Inching Our Way Into The Metric System

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate the Metric System. They discuss the history of the Metric System, convert various units of measurement into the Metric System, and solve problems on a spreadsheet.
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Personal Collecting

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students attempt to form a collection of actual objects or research from a variety of sources. They write a formal proposal for the contents of the collection before beginning.