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Speaking for the Trees
Students present a play based on The Lorax.In this environmental issues lesson, students read and discuss literature and complete activities pertaining to environmental stewardship.
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Our Class, Our Earth day
Young scholars understand the importance of participating in recycling and clean-up efforts in the community. In this recycling lesson, students respond to questions after reading "The Wartville Wizard" by Don Madden. Young scholars...
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Trash: Past, Present and Future
Students explore how much trash they create. In this recycling lesson, students define stewardship and conduct an experiment to see how much trash the class produces in a week. At the end of the week the students propose ways to...
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What Are Our Common Values?
Students make a poster. In this values lesson, students read the Preamble to the Constitution and discuss the core democratic values that are found there and in the Declaration of Independence. Students are each assigned a core...
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Water--Where Has It Gone?: Earth Day
Students explore the concept of philanthropy. In this environmental stewardship instructional activity, students consider the plight of water as they consider water use and distribution. Students listen to an excerpt from The Well and...
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Design of Our Own
Learners explore the concept of philanthropy. In this service learning activity, students recognize family, school, and local community leaders who have contributed to the common good. Learners also study community foundations.
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Cultural Connections
High schoolers explore the concept of philanthropy. In this service learning lesson, students examine the impact of the works of Cesar Chavez, George Washington Carver, Sunderlal Buhuguna, and Abdul Sattar Edhi.
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Avoiding Reality
Eighth graders examine the trait of perseverance. In this character education instructional activity, 8th graders discuss how to deal with reality. Students consider how to help others facing difficult situations.
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Math Maven Fractions
Students solve fraction mysteries. In this fractions lesson, students read Math Maven's Mysteries and use problem-solving and critical thinking skills to solve the mysteries.
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Dr. Seuss
Young scholars read books by the same author and compare what they find. For this Dr. Seuss lesson, students learn about Dr. Seuss' writing style, listen for the rhyme scheme in his stories, and create a KWL chart on Dr. Seuss. Young...
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Today is Monday - Calendar Math
Young scholars practice memorizing the seven days of the week and keeping them in order. In this calendar lesson, students read aloud the book Today is Monday by Eric Carle, and create their own calendar style book using educational...
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Responding to Literature
Fifth graders examine how to respond to literature. In this literature response lesson, 5th graders discuss how to respond to literature. They write a response in a literature log each night based on their reading and the connections...
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Officer Buckle and Gloria; How to Stay Safe
Students listen to the teacher read a book about a police officer and his trained dog and make connections to their own personal safety habits. In this safety lesson, students create a classroom bulletin board of safety tips, and then...
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The Three Little Pigs' Straw House
Second graders design and sketch a model house. In this technology lesson plan, 2nd graders construct their house using teacher provided materials. They present their finished project and explain their design in class.
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Cover To Cover
Young learners are introduced to the most basic elements and concepts of a book with this pre-kindergarten language arts instructional activity. Through modeling and discussion, the whole class explores how to read a book and how to...
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Final Topic Selection
Read The Quicksand Book by Tomie dePaola while taking notes about the story. Perform a read-aloud, and work your way through the text with your youngsters. With this plan, learners also write about ideas from a previous day, and detail...
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Strip-Teasers: A Collaborative Writing activity
Young writers engage in a fun writing activity. They write three different sentences on three strips of paper. Then they get into groups of three, and take a look at all nine sentences that have been written. Their task is to write a...
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Wonderfully Wild Unit
Young scholars explore the ethics of 'fair' in regards to humans relationship with wildlife. In this wildlife study instructional activity, students read the story starters about wildlife and then discuss how to finish the story. Young...
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The Joke's on You!
First graders share and create jokes to promote and enhance reading skills (fluency, emphasis, timing and sight word recognition), acquire vocabulary and recognize homophones. Students read their jokes aloud, concentrating on voice...
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Acting with Integrity
Students discuss the meaning of integrity. In this language arts lesson, students work in small groups to read scenarios and discuss how integrity applies to all scenarios. Students discuss what the benefits of having integrity are.
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Walk-a-thon
Fifth graders solve word problems. In this math lesson, 5th graders read the word problem and determine what is being asked. Students solve the problem and explain how they reached their solution.
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Mexican Version of The Night Before Christmas (Middle, Language)
Young scholars read a poem aloud called the "Mexican Version of the Night Before Christmas. They enact the scenes of the poem. They discuss variations of this poem both in English and Spanish.
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Monster Voices
Students create stories based upon the techniques of author Maurice Sendak in Where the Wild Things Are. They use a word processing program and the Apple software program GarageBand to create new voices for the story. This lesson is...
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Dino-Friends
Students learn about dinosaurs. In this dinosaur lesson, students participate in an interactive read aloud of The Giant Book of Dinosaurs. They make play dough dinosaurs and write a dinosaur story about their sculpture. They dance around...