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Measuring Visual Acuity

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students examine the principles of visual acuity and how it pertains to sight.  In this measuring lesson students complete several activities on vision. 
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Living with Visual Impairments

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students study what causes visual impairment and disability later in life.  In this visual impairments lesson students complete lab activities that includes assisting a person with vision problems. 
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Outdoor Observation

For Teachers K
Students examine their outside environment. They use their senses to make observations of the four seasons. They keep a chart of all of the data they have collected.
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Getting Oriented

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students explore the geography, culture, and philosophy of Asia using all five senses and information about China and Japan. This lesson plan is detailed and may take several days of in-class activities to complete.
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What Can I Do?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students identify how they are feeling and deal with feelings constructively. In this conflict resolution lesson, students explore their feelings through discussion. Students read and complete the What Can I Do? e-sheet. Students "think...
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Tastes Like Christmas, Exploring Taste

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explore the four familiar tastes and taste buds.
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Internet Leaders Scavenger Hunt

For Students 4th - 5th
In this leaders scavenger hunt worksheet, students research 10 different leaders important to history. First, they read each questions to determine who they need to search for using the Internet. Then, students write their response in a...
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Is It A Crime To Be Gay?

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
Students stage a parliamentary committee hearing in the newly independent Eastern European country of Boldovistan. Role playing characters with differing attitudes towards homosexuality, students testify on legislation to abolish laws...
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The Sounds of Summer

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students experiment with measuring the speed of sound in an open field by clapping hands and measuring the time delay between the clap and hearing the sound at a long distance. Students practice solving equations at completion of activity.
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Expression is the Key

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders listen to the reading of "For Sale" by Shel Silverstein which is read very expressively. They review sentence structure remembering that reading the sentence should always make sense especially when read with expression....
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OWL Makes Reading Fun!

For Teachers K - 1st
Students study the sound the 'ow' makes by picking out words on a poster that contain the sound and by listening to 'Mr. Brown Can Moo Can You?' They raise their hands each time they hear a word with the 'ow' sound. Next, they find...
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Divulging in Detail

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students rely on their senses to write descriptions of an object within their view. They incorporate different parts of speech in their descriptions. They write a descriptive paragraph about their object.
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Seeing The Picture

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students practice visualizing elements from a poem or story. While reading the poem "Snowball," the instructor models what they see when they read the passage. Students draw a picture of the main character of the poem "Danny O'Dare"...
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Descriptive Writing

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students write a description of an animal.  In this descriptive writing lesson, students discuss ways to write to appeal to all five senses.  Students then describe an animal in a paragraph and pair up to guess the animal.
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The Holocaust: Valuing Creation

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Learners write a descriptive essay.  In this Holocaust lesson plan, students discuss what it must have been like for Anne Frank to stay inside for two years.  Learners try to appeal to all five senses in their descriptions. 
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Like, Wow

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers read Hamlet. They read again and hunt for a word that appears 4 times. They identify the word "like" and define it. Volunteers act out the scene and they discuss the uses of the word like. They discuss the senses and...
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Scatterbrained Soliloquies

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students reconstruct a famous soliloquy from Romeo and Juliet which the teacher has cut apart and scattered. They piece the soliloquy back together making sense of the passage.
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That Sums It All Up!

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars review the concept of silent reading. They listen to a story and create a story map of what they hear. Then, they read their own story and map it the same way. This time, they use this story map to write a summary of...
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Time Capsule

For Teachers 1st
First graders collect data in the fall and again in the spring. they use the data from both seasons to compare and contrast changes over time. They put the data from the fall into a box or "time capsule." The teacher encourages students...
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Descriptive Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Learners practice descriptive writing. For this unique writing lesson, students hear a story about a mitten. Then three grade levels come together to first, create a mitten on KidPix; second, describe the designed mitten; and third, try...
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Test Your Patience: Nonsense Quiz

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this testing patience worksheet, students read through the quiz that doesn't make sense. Students then try to answer the 20 questions to taste their patience.
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A Whale of a Story

For Students 3rd - 4th
Does sound travel faster in water or in the air? Put the question to the test with a science experiment. After reviewing a table of data, third and fourth graders decide which statements are true and which ones are false. The bottom of...
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Georgia CRCT Online: 8th Language Arts Quiz

For Students 7th - 9th
Review word choice and grammar skills with this practice test for the Georgia Criterion-Referenced Competency Test (CRCT). Fifteen multiple-choice questions prompt eighth graders to recall writing strategies, grammar skills, and...
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Songwriting Skill - Elaboration: Jesse McCartney - “How Do You Sleep?”

For Teachers 5th - 10th
The practice of developing lyrics by elaborating with sensory details and examples continues in the third lesson on songwriting. This time class members examine Jesse McCartney's "How Do You Sleep?" Using procedures established in the...

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