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Crazy Frog Dance
Students demonstrate the ability to use basic walking steps in several body directions while demonstrating rhythmic accuracy with their steps. Students discover that dancing makes their heart go faster and is good exercise.
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Word Play
Students recognize the parts of a sentence while working on their locomotor skills. Students, in teams, race to words on index cards. The team collecting enough cards to create a complete sentence wins. Additional variations on the...
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Noodle Knockdown
Young scholars take a variety of poses to practice overhand throwing. In this overhand throw instructional activity, students participate as attackers (throwing the ball) or defenders (trapping the ball). Young scholars will be assessed...
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Developing Awareness: An Intercultural Communication Lesson Plan
Young scholars, divided into two groups, are put into a new culture, where they must create their own body language for greetings, etc. They learn aspects of other cultures such as body language, discourse patterns, male and female roles.
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Scattered Square Dance
Take a good, square look at this introductory square dancing instructional activity. Each square dance move has what is termed a "call." Teach some beginning calls to your young dancers. They can be scattered around so that their focus...
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Soccer - Lesson 19 - 2nd Round of World Cup
Lesson 19 out of 20 soccer lessons is round 2 of their class world cup tournament. There is no skill teaching here, but hopefully some assessment can be done during this tournament. All players are occupied, either playing or refereeing.
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Rhythmic Movement
Explore how waves move in the ocean with your young learners. Fill a two-liter bottle half full with colored water, and have the youngsters move the bottle to make waves inside of it. Then have them listen to the song "Wipe Out"....
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Conflict
Middle schoolers take a close look at the different forms that bullying can take, and share their ideas of ways to stop bullying in schools. Learners get together in groups of three and come up with a scenario that depicts a conflict....
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Soccer - Lesson 10 - Dribbling Practice & Mini Games
Lesson 10 in this soccer unit has the players practicing their dribbling skills before embarking on their mini games. Practice dribbling with the inside of the foot, the outside of the foot, dominant foot, nondominant foot, different...
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Finding Your Spot in The World; Geography, Maps, Multi-Culturalism
Students use a variety of maps to locate their home, their school and the origin of their ancestors.
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Finding Your Spot in the World
Young scholars learn the concept of movement by locating their house and the houses of their ancestors.
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Maniac McGee: Find Your Match
Students explore similarities and differences between people. For this diversity and literacy lesson, students read Maniac McGee and consider character traits. Students play a game in which they locate classmates with similarities and...
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Ecology
Sixth graders identify the steps of the different cycles of matter, while learning to use WP utilities.
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Volleyball - Lesson 9 - Winning the Point
Pass, set, spike! Putting all these skills together and running some practice drills is what lesson 9 is all about. It's not as easy as it sounds. Passing with accuracy, setting where the hitter can spike, timing the hit. It all takes a...
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Reinforcement Lesson in Place Value
Here is a wonderful place value game for your pupils that is played with dice. Very clear instructions on how the game is played are included in the plan. According to the author, they will "groan in disapproval" when it's time to stop...
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Where is Away?
Focusing on where are garbage goes once we dispose of it, learners explore environmental concerns. Using a clear format, this lesson leads learners through a discussion of waste reduction, recycling, and composting. Then, they discuss...
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Give Respect
Young learners explore what it means to be respectful. This resource includes a two page chart depicting rules for different settings at school such, as the cafeteria and the playground. What does following the rules look like? What does...
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Illustrations in Report Writing
Students create a short report using all the steps in the writing process including a bibliography. They explore different pictures that relate to their topic and download an image for the internet into their report. A helpful rubric is...
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Volleyball - Lesson 3 - Setting Up to Attack
The focus of Lesson three in this 20 instructional activity volleyball unit is setting the ball. Proper technique for hand position, contact position, stance, and facing direction are reviewed. These skills are practiced individually and...
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CEENBoT Pictionary
Define and review math vocabulary. Use the CEENBoT to draw pictures that represent each vocabulary word. Pupils work in groups to play math pictionary.
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Anticipation Guide for Death of a Salesman
"It is better to ignore something unpleasant than to face reality." Readers of Death of a Salesman complete an anticipation guide before tackling Arthur's Miller's tale of Willy Loman and his sons. After completing the play, class...
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Collaborative Choreography, Contrasting Emotions
Young scholars demonstrate choreographic principles, processes, and structures.
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Language Arts Writing Project
Middle schoolers practice writing open-ended questions about a specific topic. They use proper grammar and syntax in their questions that are typed into a word processing file. A rubric is included in this lesson plan to help with...
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Avoir, Être, et Le Passé Composé
The activity begins with direct instruction: how and when do we use avoir and être to form the past tense? After identifying the verbs that use either avoir or être, French learners write about five things they did the week prior. Then,...