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Planning a Community Service Project
Young scholars practice using a new language to plan a community event. In this civics lesson, students practice writing a proposal for a community project using their target language. Young scholars brainstorm in small groups what...
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Correspondence
Students write a pen pal letter to narrate a special event in the life of a young person in the TL culture. In this pen pal lesson plan, students read and respond to letters by their classmates.
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Creating Our Newspapers
Students write newspaper articles in groups to form a class newspaper. In this newspaper lesson plan, students share their work with another group who critiques it.
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Terrific Taste Buds
Learners explore descriptive writing by eating food in class. In this descriptive word lesson, students assess different foods in class such as jelly beans and utilize their vocabulary to describe the taste. Learners read the story...
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Illustrated Beauty
Students examine images and inscriptions on Idaho quarter reverse, discuss peregrine falcon's importance to state of Idaho, read and research about peregrine falcon to gather information, and create picture book about falcon.
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Factual Writing: Instructions
Students write step-by-step instructions for tasks. In this factual writing lesson, students complete an online activity. Each group also writes directions for completing a task. A worksheet is available for more practice.
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Jeopardy Game
Students practice discovering a target language by playing a game of Jeopardy. In this foreign language instructional activity, students utilize their target language vocabulary to answer Jeopardy style questions they prepared the day...
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Telephone Game
Students practice their listening comprehension by playing the "telephone" game. In this foreign language lesson, students listen to a story read by a teacher in their target language and try to remember the details by writing 5...
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Dysfunctional Eating
Sixth graders study the concept of dysfuctional eating including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, fad dieting, and having an unbalanced diet. They watch and discuss videos about eating disorders and then they...
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Division as Repeated Subtraction Reteaching Worksheet
In this division as repeated subtraction reteaching worksheet, 2nd graders examine how to use repeated subtraction in a box at the top of the page. They complete 2 short word problems by circle pictures and writing the answers on the line.
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Class Bear Book
Students discover writing their own name with the help of "Brown Bear, Brown Bear. What Do You See?" to create context for the activity. They create a page for a class book with the help of the teacher. The dialogue for the new book is...
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Dream Book Collage
Students construct and illustrate a three-page book of their dream(s). Students write a sentence to describe each page.
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Illustrating and Writing a Short Story
Students use their art materials to go outside and draw a picture of a scene. They can also write down specific notes in a small spiral notebook about the scene they want to remember so they can write their stories. They complete their...
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Insect Book
Fifth graders select an insect and create a page for an Insect ABC book to display their research. They choose an insect from a given letter of the alphabet and use KidPix to illustrate. They write 2-3 sentences describing their insect...
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Sense of Sight Lesson
Students sequence what they saw in the book Maisy's Nature Walk. In this sequencing lesson plan, the teacher reads the book and the children listen and observe. Once the book is read, the students have to sequence what Maisy saw on her...
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E.T. Write Home
Students read the book, The Magic School Bus Lost in the Solar System, and discuss the planets visited by the characters in the book. They write journal entries from the viewpoint of E.T., writing letters home describing his travels in...
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Making Books
Students make a variety of books using the computer program iPhoto and digital images of their choosing. This lesson plan for the upper-elementary classroom includes an example of student work and four possible lesson plan extensions and...
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"The Popcorn Book" by Tomie dePaola
Students read "The Popcorn Book" by Tomie dePaola and complete a variety of comprehension exercises. They discuss the text, identify facts presented in the book and the evidence supporting those facts and fill in the blanks of a worksheet.
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Geo Jammin' By DeSign - Day 3, Lesson 14: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
Learners explore characteristics of symmetry, write a definition, and locate the line of symmetry on a shape.
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Do You Judge a Book by Its Cover?
Students cut pictures out of magazines that relate to their lives, glue them on bags, and share with classmates.
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You Do Judge a Book by Its Cover
Students view several magazine pictures of different types of people and answer questions that lead to a realization of how stereotyping occurs.
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Sneaky Peeky Symmetry Book
Students examine lines of symmetry with different shapes. Then students create their own books of symmetry with different two-dimensional shapes on each page.
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Stick To The Topic
Second graders engage in a instructional activity that is concerned with the increase of writing conventions. The teacher models the writing process for the students. The students work with the teacher to create a shared writing piece...
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Reading and Writing Cursive
Students dicsuss importance of neatness in cursive writing. They work with a partner practicing cursive writing. They write and answer questions using cursive writing skills.