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Experience This!

For Teachers 1st
What would you do if you had to go to school all day every day? Tillie tackles this problem in Sharon Creech’s A Fine, Fine School. After a discussion of how Tillie got the principal to change his ways, brainstorm with your class...
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African American Literature in Art

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students compare art and literature by examining a contemporary painting by Glenn Ligon and the essay by James Baldwin that inspired it. They write an essay about a personal experience that relates to the theme of being an "outsider."
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Just Pass It

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate a minimalist dance using two props, a chair and a pillow. They demonstrate transferring a prop from one person to the next in a task-like manner. Then they work as a group to transfer a prop with restrictive guidelines.
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Basic Ideas of Inheritance

For Teachers K
Students enter personal information into a database. The information is used to reinforce the ideas of inheritance that is found in 1st Grade Science. Access to technology is essential for this lesson. Adding the use of a mirror for...
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Rates of Puberty Change

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders investigate the reasons for why individuals go through puberty at different times and rates. They conduct a personal worth role play to encourage diversity and self-acceptance. Group discussion is used for scaffolding the...
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The Emancipation Proclamation

For Students 8th - 11th Standards
Start your class on the Emancipation Proclamation. The entire text of the Proclamation is included here along with two questions to answer. Space is provided to allow pupils to write their responses right on the page. Use this as a quick...
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Interpreting Lao Design Drawing

For Teachers K - 6th
Students identify symmetry as a word and concept using drawings. The lesson is cross-cultural using traditional Lao Art. The goal is to then apply the skills of symmetry to personal works of art that are produced.
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Printable Story Starter: The Get-Away

For Students 3rd - 4th
This fun, creative writing prompt invites young writers to continue the story of Boe and Tim, who discover a hot air balloon while escaping from their big sisters. The worksheet provides a space where learners can finish the middle and...
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Finding Your Big Voice

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students use their diaphragm to create vocal vibrations, vocal sounds, and project sounds through an open space. In this sounds lesson plan, students learn how to use their voices to project through an auditorium.
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Game template

For Students K - 6th
Playing games can be a fun way to learn social engagement skills. This is nothing more that a 11 block game template, but it can be used with special needs or Autistic children to foster social skills. They will need to follow...
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Tolerance: Words that Hurt/Words that Heal

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students "role-play" the part of a person who says unkind things and are photographed while doing so. They then act out a story about making friends. They practice saying kind things and are photographed. Word bubbles are added...
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Design a State Seal

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders examine the meanings of symbols on the Ohio state Seal. They create their own personal seals which include three items about themselves. They write explanations about their seals.
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Making Connections

For Students 4th - 5th
In order to maximize reading comprehension levels, young readers must learn to make connections to the content. This worksheet applies to any reading and provides spaces for readers to document relevent personal experiences, prior...
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Communication

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Using a unique approach, learners practice communication skills. Placed in groups of two, one person creates a structure using Legos or Knex, and then gives his/her partner instructions for creating a duplicate without allowing them to...
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Squeebles Maths Bingo

For Students 1st - 4th Standards
The math monster has scared away all the ice cream parlor's customers and taken the ice cream ingredients. Only an accomplished math bingo player can save this ice cream business. 
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Evaluate Decisions

For Teachers 6th - 9th Standards
When people and characters make choices, there are positive and negative consequences. Focus on a situation in a text your class is reading and analyze the characters' decisions. There is space in the graphic organizer to write about...
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National Gallery of Canada

Who Am I?

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Connect design elements and principles to identity a culture with a discussion and related art activity. After analyzing artwork in relation to design, class members talk about personal and cultural identity. Using items that represent...
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Grade 3 Spring Themed Word Problems: Problem 1

For Students 1st
In this math worksheet, 1st graders solve one story problem which involves multiplying single digit dollar amounts plus addition of money without pennies. There is a work space for students to show their calculations.
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West Virginia Challenge

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this West Virginia worksheet, students read ten sentences that give a clue to a place, event or person in the history of West Virginia. Students choose the answer that best fits each clue.
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Storytelling: Writers' Workshop Learning Center

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Evaluating a variety of narrative texts can help build strong writers. Pupils identify plot elements and their relation to personal experience, then apply what they gleaned from the class discussion to create their own narratives.
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Rocket Science

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars examine what it takes to be a rocket scientist and other related careers.  In this rockets  instructional activity students use the Internet to do their research.
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Pronouns and Clauses

For Students 4th - 5th
In this pronouns and clauses learning exercise, students complete a passage using 7 appropriate pronouns, write how many clauses there are in 4 sentences, underline the main clause in each one and write a short story with a beginning, a...
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Martian Travelers

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders complete a WebQuest about life on Mars. In small groups they conduct the WebQuest online, and write down five facts using a minimum of three different references. Students then organize and present their information to...
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Carpool

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young scholars observe general and personal space. They scatter in general space and students with hoops are cars, those with pinnies are police officers. Everyone else is a pedestrian. If tagged, the pedestrian must complete five...

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