Texas Instruments
TI-Nspire™
We landed on the moon with less computing capabilities than you can find in this app! Here is a multiple function calculator that takes all the power you get from a handheld and adds the wonderful large screen that only a tablet can...
Playbooks
Reader's Theater Exercise
Here's a great idea for your Parent/Family Night—host a Reader's Theater! Everything you need to organize the night, as well as a K-3 and a 4-7 script, is provided in the packet.
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Passive Voice
The definition of passive voice is given along with tips to identify whether a sentence is written in this form. With one slide for the title and one for the end, the remaining four slides include the definition and a different tip on...
Will Steger Foundation
The Carbon Cycle - What are its Implications for Climate Policy?
The carbon cycle isn't a bike which produces carbon and this lesson explains why. Through reading and discussion, groups of pupils create visual explanations of the four parts of the carbon dioxide oxygen cycle. Activities...
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Basic Needs and Economic Sharing
Students explain that some foods must be imported and some foods are exported from where they live. They also informally define economic sharing and explain why it is important.
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Reach Into the "Caring Container"
Students examine the meaning of philanthropic behavior. In this philanthropy lesson, students read caring phrases on index cards and decide how to carry out the activity. They write or draw an example of a caring activity as an...
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Animal Shelters - Sharing Our Knowledge
Students arrange a service project for a local animal shelter. In this animal shelter lesson plan, students collect items to be given to a local shelter. They learn how to estimate the monetary value of the donated items. They can do...
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Sharing Love
Pupils explore the expansion of love. They read a story about showing love and sing a song. Students draw a picture describing love. In a group activity, pupils participate in a "Greetings Dance." Students may bring pictures of...
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"The Royal Raven" Activities
Students complete two activities related to their reading of The Royal Raven by Hans Wilhelm. In this interdisciplinary literacy lesson, students explore their own talents, interests and the external differences found in others based...
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What is Ride Sharing?
Third graders discover the concept of ride sharing. They discuss how it helps the environment. They use the internet to gather information as well.
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Current Connections
Many of us read our history books and take each word as truth. Show learners that history can easily be altered depending on who writes it. Your class will watch a series of videos, read a first person testimony, and discuss the...
Peace Corps
Community
What is a community? Find out with a lesson that sheds light onto the different types of communities—school, local, and global. Scholars read informational text detailing the life of a young girl from Cape Verde and take part in a...
Missouri Department of Elementary
What Is Important to Me?
Pupils complete an activity sheet to determine what values are most important to them. They then discuss their responses with partners before sharing the results of the discussion with the class.
Code.org
Canvas and Arrays in Apps
Scholars learn how to make a digital canvas and fill it with artwork by creating a drawing app using the canvas element. The activity requires learners to previous knowledge of arrays and return commands to draw images.
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Introduction to Arrays
How can you store lists in a computer program? The 16th installment of a 21-part unit introduces arrays as a way to store lists within a variable. Individuals program a list of their favorite things—adding interest to the activity.
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Hector's World - Lesson Plan Episode 1 - "Details, Details..."
Students examine the ramifications of sharing personal information. In this personal information in a digital world lesson, students establish their individuality in a classroom activity. They watch an episode of "Hector's World" that...
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Talent
Learners explore the concept of philanthropy. In this service learning instructional activity, students investigate what their talents are and consider how they can share those with others.
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Fair Shares
Learners investigate division by sharing food items with their classmates. In this division lesson, students are given a food item which they must equally share among the class using division. Learners predict how many portions people...
Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary
Learning the Printing Trade
Students explore U.S. History by reading biographical text in class. In this Benjamin Franklin instructional activity, students read about the famous American's first job and the transition he underwent from printing to politics....
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Extra! Extra! Hear All About It!
Students summarize their weekly class activities by writing a newsletter. In this journalism lesson plan, students create a multimedia presentation for their parents based on the classroom events that took place during the week....
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Word Search
Young scholars explore the alphabet by participating in a word activity. In this vocabulary review lesson, students practice manipulating letters in the alphabet to create five words and write them in their vocab journal. Young scholars...
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Alliteration Activities and Lesson Ideas
Alliteration is an entertaining literary device to utilize in reading and writing instruction.
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Who are My Sisters and Brothers?
Students explore religion by completing a cultural diversity activity. In this human compassion instructional activity, students identify all of "God's Children" as their sisters and brothers. Students read the book Frederick in class...
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Socialist and Market Economies in Tanzania
How did Tanzania transition from a socialist to a market economic system? This challenging group research project has scholars examining the change through these structural adjustment policies: trade liberalization, privatization, cost...