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Water Gardening
Students study the details to watering a garden. In this water resource lesson, students visit several websites and watch a PowerPoint about watering a garden.
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Exploring Community Through Local History: Oral Stories, Landmarks and Traditions
Students explore the history of their local community. In this local history lesson, students analyze primary documents to develop an understanding of the local culture and traditions of their local community.
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A Grand Showing
Students promote philanthropy. In this service learning lesson, students create video documentaries based on service learning projects they completed and then share the video with their peers and community.
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Native American Culture Region Collages
Young scholars research various Native American tribes. In this Native American history lesson, students follow the provided rubric to create collages on the cultures of selected Native American tribes.
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Interrupting Chicken
Pupils read the book Interrupting Chicken about someone who keeps interrupting. In this reading lesson plan, students discuss how they should not interrupt in class.
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Revolutionary War: The Battle of Oriskany
Young scholars evaluate the decisions several New Yorkers made about which side to support during the Revolutionary War and analyze the Battle of Oriskany to determine whether the Tories or the Rebels won the battle.
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Staying Healthy Year Round
Young scholars will read literature about the seasons and observe and describe the weather in each. The group will compare and contrast the activities of people during different weather conditions showing how they adapt to changes. They...
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Amazing Americans
First graders research amazing Americans during the first 100 years of American history. After a lecture/demo, 1st graders use a worksheet imbedded in this plan to write 2-4 sentences about 4 of the Americans presented in class.
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Sharks
Students research sharks, the food chain, and the water habitat shared by humans and sharks.
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Wandering in Washington
Young scholars plan a sightseeing and shopping trip around Washington, DC taking into account train safety messages. They write about the experience in their jounals and must include five safety messages.
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Border Teatro
Students analyze elements unique to the Chicano art form of the teatro (theater) and examine history connected to the form, namely the farm workers' movement of the 1960's.
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The Western Hemisphere on Review
Sixth graders research a country in the Western Hemisphere. They write a research paper and present a five-minute presentation on the country. They use PowerPoint to give their presentations to the class.
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Local Government and Leaders
Third graders research their local government and leaders. Throughout the instructional activity, they engage in discussions, a visit by an elected local government official and research. In addition, 3rd graders study some basic facts...
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Information Fluency Unit
Fourth graders, after defining the task and searching for some creative strategies, role play being a Park Ranger who tries to save Big Bend from being removed from the National Park system in Texas. They support the keeping of Big Bend...
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Writing a Children's Book -- Young Authors
Pupils practice their writing skills by creating a children's book. They integrate five elements of short stories into the narrative. They share their stories with their book buddies.
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Shhh! I'm trying to learn this digraph
First graders identify the digraph /sh/ in written and spoken language. After a brief discussion of the independent and combined sounds of the phonemes /s/ and /h/ students practice identifying initial and final placement of the new...
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The Lott House - a History Mystery
Students read a newspaper article about the historic Lott House in Marine
Park, Brooklyn. They study the history of slavery in New York and uncover the secrets of a historic Brooklyn farmhouse that kept slaves and later protected them...
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The Immigrants of Brooklyn: Now And Then
Students compare the immigrant population during the pre-Civil War era (1855) to that of today (2000 census data). They interpret circle and bar graphs comparing immigrant populations in Brooklyn yesterday and today, and create a class...
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Ugly Duckling: Definitions of Beauty
Learners examine the degree to which physical appearance influences how one is viewed in society. They draw a timeline of the history of beauty and complete a visual scavenger hunt of history.
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Civil War Battles Word Search
In this Civil War battle worksheet, students search for and locate names of Civil War conflicts. To assist in identifying names, a list of 25 battles is provided. An answer key is provided.
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Benjamin Franklin Timeline
In this US history worksheet, learners fill in a time-line with information about Benjamin Franklin's life. They begin with Franklin's birth in 1706 and fill in 8 more events in the Patriot's life.
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What is Manga?
Students research graphic novels. In this manga lesson, students work in small groups as the read graphic novels in literature circle format.
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Discovering Our Legacy of Giving
Seventh graders examine the characteristics of philanthropists. In this cross- curricular lesson, 7th graders evaluate the character traits of people from a film. Students write a metaphor about responsibility to community.
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Sharing Our Legacy of Giving
Students explore the concept of philanthropy. In this service learning lesson, students research or interview a local philanthropist. Students write a biography about the philanthropist and share it with others.