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Obstacle Soccer
Students practice soccer dribbling, passing, and trapping skills, which enhance students' self-reliance, trust and independence.
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Blue Zones: Out with the old and in with the new
Seventh graders read articles about the Blue Zones, life expectancy and healthy and unhealthy habits of people around the world. In this Current Events lesson, 7th graders participate in class discussion of key terms and concepts...
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Sign Language
Students create short video tutorials on various American Sign Language signs. This lesson is a six-day project that begins with internet research and ends with student self-evaluations of project results.
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Coordination and Flexibility
Students practice controlling their motion and reflexes by participating in different motor skill activities. In this physical education instructional activity, students utilize bean bags and hula hoops to help create flexibility...
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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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How New Words are Created
Learners complete a matching activity, matching words with "method of formation." In this language arts lesson, students complete sentences using rhyming pairs, break down words into 2, and complete a creative exercise, blending 2 words...
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A Difference of Mind
Young scholars discover the individual variance in brain response to its four main functions. They perform activities related to each function at four stations set up in the classroom. They discuss their responses as a class.
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The Hero: Writing and Responding
Pupils identify heroic character traits that they admire and that inspire trust and result in service to others. They identify the heroic traits of a character of their choosing and defend their reasoning using evidence from the text and...
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The 35mm Camera Lesson
Ninth graders explore the 35mm camera. They discuss and identify the various parts and characteristics of the 35 mm camera. Students examine the two aspects of a 35 mm camera that control the light.
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the New Explorers:Into the Depths
Students explore the self preservation mechanism that is inherent in the Great Lakes. They examine how scientists are studying Great Lakes, and what their predictions are for these national treasures.
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Grocery Bag Fun
Students improve their ability to catch and control an object with a plastic grocery sack.
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Introduction to Pests
Pupils study common pests. They examine pest damage and self-protection against pests by reading a story, creating a class book and playing a game.
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Shapes and Review of Locomotor Skills
Students engage in a series of loco-motor activities based on shapes. In this loco-motor lesson, students demonstrate physical skills through races, jumping, hopping, galloping in circles, squares, rectangles and triangles.
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Destination Reading
Young scholars practice reading skills and comprehension through the use of computers and the educational software "Destination Reading" provided by Riverdeep in this self-directed lesson.
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Sequence Graphs
Investigate arithmetic and geometric sequences by using a graphing calculator to determine if a sequence is linear or exponential.
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Jellybeans Up Your Nose
Jellybeans Up Your Nose, by Jeff Moss, prompts a discussion of responsible and irresponsible behaviors. After reading and discussing the poem, groups of fifth graders examine a Dr. Seuss-ism, from Geisel’s Seuss-isms, and report back to...
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Stories of Painkiller Addiction: Contemplating Nature vs. Nurture
Does having an addict in your family make it more likely to become one yourself? Explore the genetic risk factors, as well as the prominent environmental influences, for substance addiction in a lesson that encourages awareness and open...
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Children of Alcoholics Group
Ninth graders identify characteristics of alcoholism, resources available to them and their family within the community and school, and look at strategies to help them increase safety and anger management strategies too.
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Talk it Over and Work it Out!: Compromise
Fourth graders explore, analyze and discuss how to interact with others in ways that respect individual and group differences. They identify and practice the skills used to compromise in a variety of situations. Each students studies the...
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Tic Tac Toe, Get Off My Toes
Fourth graders describe the importance of recognizing and forecasting conflict and taking steps to solving it. They analyze conflict situations, follow the steps for solving conflict, and provide solutions involving compromise.
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The Quilting Connection....a Teaching Unit on Slavery, the Underground Railroad And Quilting
Students research the Internet, read designated books and selection, participate in discussions and write short reports while completing this series of lessons about slavery and the Underground Railroad. As a final project, they design a...
Global Oneness Project
Practicing Empathy
Spread the love with a heart-warming lesson plan about Jeffrey Wright, a physics teacher who helps his class cultivate empathy by himself being an empathetic role model. After watching a video about how Jeffrey works his magic, class...
National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science
Abracadabra
How has Magic Johnson managed to stay so healthy, despite being HIV-positive for over 20 years? If you have ever taught about HIV and AIDS, you have most likely been asked such a question. By examining a case study and role-playing as...
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All About Me
High schoolers examine their own personality traits and preferences. They use this information to write an autobiography.