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American Indians Heritage Series: The Inuit's
Students become aware that people lived in America before Columbus came. In this Inuit culture lesson, students discuss lives of the Inuits. Students listen to Mama Do You Love Me, A Promise is a Promise and The Polar Bear Son: Inuit...
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Brain Awareness Week
Middle schoolers explore human anatomy by completing a list of activities over five days. In this brain science lessons, students examine images of brains and identify the different parts. Middle schoolers complete an in-class quiz...
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Decoding Machine
Students are introduced to the concept of variables and their uses. In groups, they are given a code in which they must find the value of the missing words. To end the lesson, they find the value of words over ten letters long and their...
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"Newsinary"
Here is a good way to use newspapers in the classroom and build a functional vocabulary. Learners are given 26 cards, they write one letter of the alphabet on each. They search the paper to find a name, place, or word for each letter,...
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Studying the ABC's of the Environment
Third graders choose a letter of the alphabet and find an environmental topic to research that begins with the same letter. They prepare an article and illustration about their topic and compile them into a class environmental alphabet...
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Musical Instruments
In this word scramble learning exercise, students choose a letter from each box to create a word about musical instruments. Students complete 8 examples.
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ESL: Non-Countable Nouns
In this non-count nouns worksheet, students choose letters from boxes to create words, then click on an answer button to check answers.
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Vegetables
In this word scramble learning exercise, students choose a letter from the box to create a vegetable word. Students spell 11 vegetable words.
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ESL: Words about the Bank
In this ESL worksheet, students choose letters from boxes to form a word about going to the bank/banking. Students may click on an answer button for immediate feedback.
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Exploring Michigan
Students create and present an itinerary for a trip. In this travel lesson, students list ideas of travel experiences for their country. Students then pretend they are taking a trip to Michigan and read an example letter for their trip....
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Lesson: Living With the Farm Next Door
Discuss with learners why farms are growing in size and why there is sometimes conflict between farmers and their non-farming neighbors. Read the article, "Living With the Farm Next Door," and then craft letters to the editor from the...
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Computer Words
Here is a set of cards explaining the meanings of a variety of different parts of a computer. While not exactly a lesson per se, these cards could be printed out and used quite easily in a formatted lesson. In this time of computers,...
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Getting Here from There
Students role-play early 20th century immigrants on their way to Indiana. They consider the methods of travel available to them and write a letter to a friend outlining their travel plans and adventures during the trip.
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Studying Checks
While on-line banking and electronic payments seem to be the way of the future, next-generation wage earners still need to understand the details of check writing. Here the focus is on the details of the check including what the...
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Food Safety Unit Exam 1
Students complete seventeen question test about food safety which includes matching vocabulary terms, short answer questions and fill in the blank questions. Test is part of the Food Safety Unit produced by the College of Agricultural...
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Building a Better Sentence
Sentence construction is both a science and an art. This bare bones lesson ties an analysis of earth's geology to sentence formation. Although referenced as a major part of the activity, there are no links to the technology or resources...