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Stroke Length Does Matter
A guide for competitive swimmers to take a look at how stroke length contributes to swimming efficiency. There is a PowerPoint and several websites for the swimmers to visit to gather information. They then keep track of their swimming...
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How Wet Can You Get?
Students visit a swimming pool and brainstorm different water sports and what benefits swimming has over other types of exercise. They then discuss buoyancy and water pressure and when how objects sink or float before playing a game of...
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My Favorite Thing to Do
Students complete the questions to detail their favorite after school activities. In this after school activity instructional activity, students fill in the blanks using the word bank to detail information about their favorite after...
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Partner Poetry
Students interview each other to get to know one another better. They discuss hobbies, achievements, sports, and music. Then they each write a poem about their partner.
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Seasons and Weather
Students, in an open forum with the teacher, discuss the four seasons and all the activities they do during each season. They tie in all the different types of weather that is experienced during each season. In conclusion, the students...
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Cross the Line
Students explore labeling and stereotypes in a safe way.In this getting acquainted lesson plan, students answer a predetermined set of questions about personal experiences, characteristics and feelings.
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Trivia Time
Students participate in a trivia game and follow directions during a down time.
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NickNews: Winners and Losers
Students view the excerpt from NickNews entitled, "Winners and Losers." In groups, they categorize a variety of words and images relating to weight, healthy eating, and healthy lifestyle. They discuss adopting positive eating habits,...
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Loves and Hates
In this verb activity worksheet, young scholars match the definitions and the words in the first exercise. Students then match the verbs with the words. Young scholars write any other words that go with the verbs. Students then divide...
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Journalism - The Attention Grabbing Topic Sentence
Students act as journalists to grab audience attention with the topic sentence for their writing. They write paragraphs in quantities appropriate to grade level.