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Polynomials
Eighth graders investigate the concepts and combining them into polynomials. The teacher uses direct instruction for delivery. They can use Algebra to make this lesson hands-on for the benefit of kinesthetic learners.
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Pilgrim's Progress- Get on the Boat
Students investigate the Pilgrims and their journey. In this history lesson plan, students role play the journey of the Pilgrims and discuss the conditions of the Mayflower. Students record their feelings about the "journey" in a journal.
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Place Value: Metric System
In this metric system learning exercise, learners read about metric and place value relationships, examine some sample problems, and then complete 5 conversion charts.
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Twelfth Night: Thrusting Greatness Upon the Television 1
High schoolers create skits based on pairs of words. In this Twelfth Night instructional activity, students create a cluster map in which they brainstorm a dialogue/scene based on their word pair. High schoolers perform and record their...
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Relay Races
Students, in groups, race to the board drawing the music symbol, tagging the next person while SAYING THE NAME OF THE SYMBOL THEY DREW! (everyone draws the same symbol)
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Place Value Popsicles
Students play a place value game using popsicle sticks and dice. They investigate units and tens.
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ESL Vocabulary Lesson Plan - Opposites for Beginners
Students work on vocabulary lesson plans.
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Pass for Points
Students participate in offensive and defensive strategies in flag football and work on passing, catching, and defending.
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There's More Than One Way to Get to St. George!
Fourth graders explore alternative ways to do the four operations.
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Detectives of the Past: Dr. Archaeology Travels Back in Time
Students watch a video and complete a webquest to gain a better understanding of the historical significance of the first known civilization, Mesopotamia.
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Fantastic Journeys
Students design a theme park attraction based on a fantastic journey from literature, film, or their own imaginations. They plan a multi-million dollar attraction based on a fantastic voyage from popular culture entertainment.
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Whatsit?
Students create something useful and/or decorative from throwaway items brought in from home.
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Packing for a Transcontinental Expedition
Students investigate what kinds of supplies would be needed for a trans-continental expedition. They watch a video about the Lewis and Clark expedition, develop a list of supplies, create a graph, and compare/contrast their list with...
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Group Rope Squares
Students study how to better their cohesion and communication skills. In this investigative lesson students work in teams and learn how to communicate better as they help to solve problems and communicate their needs.
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Aviation
Students explore aviation. In this physics lesson, students work cooperatively to construct kites, paper airplanes, and paper plate discs. Students launch the object created and observe characteristics and length of flight. Students...
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How Green Are You?
Young scholars investigate environmental care by listing ways they preserve the Earth each day. In this green living habits lesson, students collaborate in groups to brainstorm ways they can "be green" more often in their communities....
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How Many Strips?
Second graders investigate the measurement of 1 meter. They predict and measure how many strips of paper it takes to make exactly one meter. Students devise and use problem solving strategies to solve the problem.
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Survivor
Seventh graders investigate changes in the ecosystem within the school year. They see that ecosystems, communities, populations, and organisms are dynamic and change over time. They, in groups, collect data in quadrants in the fall,...
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Briefing Book
Middle schoolers prepare a briefing book highlighting important twentieth century events in Europe. The book lists and explains the major events of the twentieth century that caused separation and unification in Europe.
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But They Never Told Me!
Students investigate how government legislates the protection of citizens from natural disasters such as earthquakes in California. They read the Alquist-Priolo Special Studies Act and debate its pros and cons. They discuss how much...
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How High?
Fourth graders play an estimation game to guess how sheets of paper are in a pile and then guess who high a stack of one million would be. They work in small groups to explore ideas for working out how high the stack would be.
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ADULT ESOL LESSON PLAN--Concepts of Time and Money
Students, after reviewing the vocabulary words on the board and being shown several examples, in pairs practice naming the months, days of the week and their abbreviations in order.
Homeschool Math
Homeschool Math: Long Division With Remainder
This fourth-grade complete lesson with instruction and exercises concerns long division with remainder. Students work on division problems and word problems and check their answers.
Primary Resources
Primary Resources: Long Division and Multiplication
Here are some resources to assist the instructor in teaching students to do long division or to multiply large numbers. Includes worksheets, PowerPoint presentations, Smartboard lessons, and Flash presentations.