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Fun With Graphs

For Teachers K
Students create a hands-on graph then complement this by making a computerized version of the same graph using Graph Club. They read various graphs, so as to be more prepared for state exams which require this concept.
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The Japanese Kite Stories

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders recognize the importance of making and flying of kites in the Japanese culture. They make up a story about themselves, their families, or just a story that was written by a third grade Japanese student when creating their...
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Signs of Spring

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Pupils identify the first signs of Spring. They track birds and butterflies on their journey North.
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"Shapes" Dance Lesson Plan

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders create dances by manipulating shapes with their bodies.
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Tortoise and Hare Races

For Teachers K
Students listen to the fable, The Tortoise and the Hare, and participate in various map skill activities. They manipulate magnetic tortoises and hares on metal cookie sheets to practice direction, and construct racing tortoises out of...
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Classify UT Plants and Animals

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students practice using 2 different plant classification keys to identify species. They make choices between the similarities and differences between their object and the classification scheme.
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Haring All Over

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students view a web site showing various artworks by Keith Haring. They discuss pattern and design through line and color. Then they create an original artwork using color, shape, line, and pattern.
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How Do You Get to School?

For Teachers K
Students, through a literature based assignment, explore basic modes of transportation and examine how different things move at different speeds.
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Go Far in a Car

For Teachers K
Students listen to the song, The Wheels on the Bus. They are shown the book, This is the Way We Go to School. Afterward, they learn the phonetic principle of rhyming words.
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What a SHAPEly Fit!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners identify and explore the attributes of polygons. They design and create a quilt square using polygons, and produce a class quilt.
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Powerful Poetry

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students examine Haiku poems and analyze their meanings. They create a whole class Haiku, then develop their own poems.
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Theatre

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students, in groups, explore how to devise theatre and produce a polished piece to perform in front of an audience.
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What's Up at the Rim?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students are sent on a scavenger hunt to find as many plants as they can in nature.
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Native Americans and Topography at Rose Bay

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students visit a wetland ecosystem. While they are there, students explore how to read topography maps of Rose Bay.
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Task-based Grammar Teaching

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students compare a photo of themsevles now to a photo from ten years ago. They write how their life was different then from now and then present the information to the class.
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Algebra 1 Uniform Motion Problems

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create and solve their own word problem dealing either with planes, trains or automobiles.
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"Afternoon on the Amazon" by Mary Pope Osborne

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Young scholars read and complete activities dealing with the book "Afternoon on the Amazon". They create webs of words used in the book and write about what they have read.
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Invasion of the Habitat Snatchers!

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders investigate invasive plants found in a park or school environment and acknowledge the problems caused by the plants. They describe 4 methods of control of invasive plants.
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East Asian Study Seminar

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners research and experience the culture of Zen Buddhism. They engage the practice of meditation by practicing themselves in a variety of contexts with different cultural readings.
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Geometric Shape Dances

For Teachers K - 4th
Students use movement and dance in order to strengthen mathematical understanding of different geometric shapes. The movements are imitating the drawing of shapes and they pick one to make into a dance. Upon beginning the dance music can...
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Whose Parts Do I Have? (Wings and Things)

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students identify an animal and a body part and then matches a body part to a specific animal. This will assess their ability to sort organisms and objects into groups according to their parts and describe how the groups are formed and...
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Metaphors, Personifications, Similes, and Hyperboles

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders discuss prior knowledge of the terms simile, hyperbole, metaphor, and personification. They then listen to the definitions of each and write a hyperbole, personification, simile, and metaphor to describe a Mr. Potato Head...
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Native Americans

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders discover that different Native American groups had different ways of living because of their environment. They discuss with the teacher to learn that different environments have different food choices. They then research a...
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Animal Adaption to Environment

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore the concept of adaptation as a means of surviving in varied environments. They discuss human adaptations and then view slideshows and video that present animal adaptations in the following environments: cold regions,...

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