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The Shadow Knows: Student Worksheet
How can you measure the height of a tree or telephone pole with only a short measuring tape? It's not a problem when you start by measuring your shadow and your height to create a ratio to use with taller objects. Additional...
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The Shadow Knows: Student Worksheet
Pairs of pupils get together in order to measure the heights and lengths of their shadows. They use these measurements in order to predict the height of other friends in class. A good activity to practice measuring things that cannot be...
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Alphabetize For A Reason
Students organize information by using the alphabet. Students organize materials alphabetically. Students alphabetize with the first, second and third letters of a set of words. Students discover applications for alphabetical order.
Perkins School for the Blind
Personal Information
"Hi, how are you? My name is___." Seems simple enough but it's not always that easy to recall and relate factual information about yourself. Learners with multiple disabilities practice memorizing and relaying personal information about...
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Stars and Slopes
More of a math lesson than physics or space science, high schoolers take a set of data and plot it on a log-log coordinate system. The write-up for day two was never completed, but day one, "Stars and Slopes," is complex and cohesive....
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Remote Sensing and Landsat Satellite Imagery
Learners comprehend how satellites use remote sensing to produce images. They use supervised classification with Landsat images. Students recognize that the earth's surface has different basic land surfaces that reflect/emit different...
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Random Statistics
Seventh and eighth graders solve and complete 20 various types of short answer problems. First, they write a brief description of themselves including those as stated. Then, learners categorize the type of sampling used in various...
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Conventions - Punctuation Research
Study unusual punctuation marks in this punctuation lesson plan. Young grammarians work in small groups to research one of the unusual punctuation marks (semi-colon, colon, dash, comma, ellipses, or quotation marks) and discuss how the...
PBS
Inventions
Use this lesson plan to discuss inventions that have changed your class's world and have impacted society. Middle schoolers investigate important inventions of their time and design an invention in a simulated business atmosphere. Modify...
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Lesson 2- Spanish Greeting
Break down a quick conversation in Spanish. After the teacher presents the vocabulary, the class heads to the computer lab, where class members can watch a brief interactive video. The visual is one clip separated into four clearly...
New Jersey Historical Commission and New Jersey Council for the Humanities
Thomas Edison: The Wizard of Menlo Park
What would change in your daily life due to a power outage? Here, learners explore the inventions brought to us by the one and only, Thomas Edison, and imagine a day without them. Scholars take part in a grand conversation and write a...
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Spelling Activity
Sometimes you can add an s to a word to form its plural. Sometimes you can't. Help your class learn how to pluralize irregular words like calf, woman, and half. After, have them study the prefixes un, de, pre, dis, and re in the colorful...
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Glossaries
Explore text structure with a focus on the glossary feature in informational texts. Learners read a brief introduction before examining a glossary from a text about plants. They reference it while completing four comprehension questions....
Western Illinois University
Activities for Supporting Oral Language Development
Support young scholars' oral language development with the use of four early childhood activities. To reinforce proficiency, pupils read with an adult, play a game of telephone with their peers, put on a play with puppets or stuffed...
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ESOL Telephone Communication
Students discuss the importance of leaving an appropriate message on an answering machine or voice mail system. They write a message for a friend and in pairs take turns reading their message while their partner writes it down.
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ADULT ESOL LESSON PLAN--Level 2-- Telephone Communication
Students, after reviewing an extensive vocabulary list on the board, practice, after seeing the teacher model an example of dialogue, requesting operator assistance or 911 with a partner.
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Making a Doctor's Appointment Over the Phone
Students listen to a sample phone call making an appointment for a doctor's office. They complete a worksheet in which they fill in the missing words. They role-play a telephone conversation between a patient and a receptionist.
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ESL Lesson Idea: Reporting Emergencies
Students examine how to access community emergency services including calling 911. They study vocabulary associated with emergency situations and write emergency 911 conversations with at partner.
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Pronoun Party
In this parts of speech instructional activity, students replace the nouns in 10 sentences with the appropriate pronouns from the word bank. Students also write 2 original sentences using pronouns appropriately.
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Worksheet 9: Vocabulary Review
In this vocabulary skills worksheet, students complete 8 sentences by selecting the words from the provided list that are closest in meaning to the boldfaced words in the sentences.
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Grandparents’ Day Interview
In this interviewing skills worksheet, students read tips for conducting interviews as part of the research process and then use the tips to interview their grandparents about their life experiences related to economics. Students write...
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Telephone Etiquette & Procedures
Young scholars are introduced to the proper way to talk on a telephone as an administrative assistant. In groups, they practice with one another in what to do in different situations. To end the instructional activity, they watch a...
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The Shadow Knows - Measuring A Telephone Pole
Third graders attempt to determine the height of a telephone pole or tree without climbing to the top.
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The Use Of Satellites
Students use the Internet to do research. They organize information and make a presentation on a satellite to the class. They discuss the capability of the leading edge of technology for a given time.