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Improvisational Setting - "Where are You?"

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explore setting through improvisations.  In this theatre lesson, 2nd graders perform a variety of improvisations in different settings and chart how they established the setting in the different environments. 
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the biggest Plates on Earth

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students understand the movement of tectonic plates. In this tectonic plates lesson, students access prior knowledge of convergent, divergent, and transform boundaries.  Students discuss energy transfer involved in plate motion. ...
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Not Just for Gods and Goddesses:

For Teachers 2nd
Students use dictionaries, encyclopedias, art, computers, and books to study the Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Greece. In this Ancient Greece lesson plan, students research maps, stories, Olympic games, and more about Ancient Greece.
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A World of Symmetry

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students identify lines of symmetry.  In this symmetry instructional activity, students create objects and identify their lines of symmetry.  They answer questions about lines of symmetry.  Students cut shapes out of cookie dough and...
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Food Chains

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders study food chains, producers, consumers, and decomposers. They play a food chain game and create food chain mobiles or posters. They take a nature hike around the school and observe various parts of a food chain.
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Language Arts: Plotting Stories

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders read the story, "The Foolish, Timid Rabbit," as part of a unit on appearances. After reading with partners, they write their own stories that include elements about some forms of matter from their science studies. Students...
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Companion Animals

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students identify ways companion animals are used to assist humans. Students identify zoonoses and list several types of. Students identify several aspects of responsible companion animal ownership. Students design, distribute, and tally...
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Freckle Juice- Lesson 7

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students review the book Freckle Juice.  In this comprehension lesson, students review what they've already read in Freckle Juice using sentence strips, take a comprehension test, and complete a book review activity with a partner.
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Of Mice and Men: Viewing Guide

For Teachers 8th - 12th
In this Of Mice and Men viewing guide worksheet, students study movie terminology as they read brief descriptions and respond to 26 short answer questions as the watch the film based on Steinbeck's novel.
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Kindergarten Exploration Tubs

For Teachers K
Students identify their names as a symbol for themselves. They describe characteristics of organisms. They utilize tools to gather data and compare size.
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Writing

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Learners write poems and a narrative story.  In this writing activity, students read stories and poems written by other learners and read examples of haiku's and diamonte's.  Students write an acrostic poem and a diamonte poem.  Learners...
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The Declaration of Independence

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students empathize with the colonists. In this lesson on the Declaration of Independence, students collaborate to problem solve a school dilemma that enables them to understand the issues and difficulties that occurred in the creation of...
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Osprey Journey

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students investigate the migration route of one bird, Osprey B4, using information gathered from satellites to track birds over a two-year period. They coimpare their graphs with maps of B4's migrations that have been plotted by...
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Geologic cross section of Manhattan, NYC

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students draw an accurate geologic cross section by using a given data table. They relate the features of the cross section to geologic processes. Students then relate the characteristics of the bedrock to the architecture.
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Grow, Grow, Grow

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students listen to literature selection, describe life cycle of silkworm, discuss what they know about growth in living things, observe silkworms for one week and record observations in science journals, and review stages of growth.
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No More Money Trouble

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Young consumers explore money identification and counting. In this cross-curricular money instructional activity, they participate in comprehension and writing activities prior to and after reading the book Money Trouble by Bill Cosby....
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The Cherokee: Trail Where They Cried

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students read the Trail of Tears about the Cherokee Nation removal and write a letter pretending they are the grandparent of a Cherokee child. In this Trail of Tears lesson plan, students understand the changing of boundaries.
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Using Holiday Songs to Enhance Lessons

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Holiday songs can be fun and educational.
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Santa Claus Around the World

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students investigate how students in various countries celebrate their winter holiday traditions, locate various countries on a map, and draw and tell about various Santa Claus legends.
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Play Doh Color Wheel

For Teachers K - 1st
Students identify primary and secondary colors, and construct color wheels, using Play Doh in the three primary colors.
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Muslim Arab/Spanish Connection

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders watch the video, 'El Cid.' They participate in teacher-led discussion about the beliefs, customs, goals, and heroes of both Spaniards and Moors. They create and present an artifact to the class showing the results of their...
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Filling in the Picture

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Young scholars study archaeological sites. They discover some of the problems inherent in choosing sites and what parts are chosen for excavation. They evaluate and explain their choices for study and articulate the process of...
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Teaching and Learning Through Objects

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students identify and interpret the function, usefulness or utitlity, form, beauty or aesthetics, and meaning, context or story, of objects and how they learn new skills and make things that they learn traditionally, by observation and...
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Lights, Camera, Action!

For Teachers K - 4th
Students explore various images and recognize that in order to make a visible image using a camera or using our eye, light is required. In small groups, they observe how the eyes respond to changes in light and record their observations...