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Yearbook Project for ESL Students
High schoolers in an ESL classroom are introduced to the American tradition of creating a yearbook. Using previous yearbooks, they note the various components and practice using new vocabulary. They brainstorm a list of items they would...
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TEACHING STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES
Students are introduced to teaching strategies for meeting the needs of students with disabilities in general education settings. Teachers become familiar with the various modifications, interventions, accommodations and strategies that...
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Computer aided Teacher
Students compose an abstract work of art on the computer, enlarge it, and paint (or draw) it. They seek out inspiration from their natural world. Students find and photograph a picture with interesting visual imagery. They load the photo...
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American Students in Spain
Students compare and contrast American and Spanish cultures. In this culture lesson, students listen to a guest speaker talk about Spain and then participate in a simulation featuring Spain's culture.
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Student Power Use
Students calculate the energy usage in their bedroom. In this physics lesson, students compare their energy consumption during school days and weekends. They recommend ways to save energy.
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Finding Your Story: Helping Students Begin Their Memoir
Students write their memoir. In this memoir lesson, students study the differences between an autobiography and a memoir. Students construct an outline as the basis for their memoir.
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Secret Student
In this writing activity, students fill out a brainstorming graphic organizer about a secret student of their choice. They are then prompted and guided through writing a first and final draft of a paragraph using their ideas.
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Affluenza Teacher's Guide
Affluenza will expose students to the problem of overconsumption and its effects on society and the environment. The one-hour program takes a hard, sometimes humorous look at the American passion for shopping, and how it leads to debt...
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Teacher: Japanese Relocation/Internment
Fourth graders determine how executive orders affected individuals and families of mixed parentage. They relate evacuation to own life experiences.
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Familiarizing Students with the 5 Food Groups
Students review a variety of foods and classify them into food groups. They identify the benefits of each food group to our bodies and consider how deficiencies of these groups affect humans. They sort pictures, view a video and write...
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Student Writing Skills Checklist
In this literacy worksheet, students use the checklist in order to complete writing projects without the stress of not fixing the details required.
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T Is For Teacher
In this printing letter T instructional activity, students learn to form both upper and lower case Zaner-Bloser letter Tt. Students trace dotted examples of the letters before practicing on their own on the blank primary lines.
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Amelia's Road: Teacher's Guide
Learners complete pre reading, writing, during reading, and interdisciplinary activities for the book Amelia's Road. In this reading lesson plan, students complete journal entries, answer short answer questions, have discussions, and more.
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Zora Hurston Teacher's Guide
Students explore American culture by reading classic literature in class. For this African-American history lesson, students read the story Zora Hurston and the Chinaberry Tree while identifying the work and contributions of the real...
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Meat Pies: Teacher's Guide
Students complete pre reading, writing, during reading, and interdisciplinary activities for the book Amelia's Road. In this reading lesson plan, students complete journal entries, answer short answer questions, have discussions, and more.
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The "Very Testing" Teacher
In this math activity, students find the solutions to the problems by converting the numbers into the exponential equivalents.
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Mathematics Teacher September 2002
In this algebra lesson, students analyze and play with a trimagic square. They play a game through addition and squaring and cubing.
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Students Exploring Cyberspace (SECs) Project
Students study AIDS and other current topics in a multinational, interdisciplinary fashion. They communicate with students from other countries throughout e-mail to find out how AIDS impacts other societies.
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A Book a Day Will Keep the Teacher Away
Students work in cooperative groups to read a book in a day. Each group is assigned a portion of the book to read and uses the jigsaw learning strategy to review the book as a whole class.
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Theatre History: "Student presentations of eras and styles."
Students examine eras of theatre history using a multi- media approach.
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Preparing Students for the College and Work Worlds
Students brainstorm information needed on a job application. They join groups of college bound, work bound and undecided. They compare applications in a Venn diagram. They research employment questions by interviewing mentors, teachers...
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Student Survey
Young scholars create questions they would like to ask another class of Students, send the questions by email, examine results, and create slideshow illustrating results.
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Student Created Murals
Students, over the course of an acedemic quarter, paint a mural on a wall in their school. They decide on a theme, measure wall space, design images, decide on the amount of paint they need, designate teams, schedules, etc.
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Summer Research Program for Science Teachers
Students analyze the optical region of the electromagnetic spectrum.