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Create a World

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students combine imaginative powers with known map-making techniques to create a whole new world.
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Froggy Fun

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students use downloadable pages to sort the stages of the frog life cycle into the correct, labelled sequence.
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Dangerous Road: A Letter of Complaint

For Teachers 7th - 11th
Engage your English learners with this resource. To begin, learners describe a map to a partner. After a vocabulary exercise and a jumbled letter activity, pupils are asked to write their own letter. The letter reading and writing...
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Cloze Instruction And Herringbone Technique

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students sort out important information and create a visual framework for reviewing in the future. They organize a large quantity of information thus helping with learning and remembering details, cause and effect, comparison and...
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The Clever Monkey Rides Again

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students read and explore a West African folktale. In this folktale lesson, students read the book The Clever Monkey Rides Again and examine West African proverbs. There are several related multi-subject extensions on this lesson which...
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Who's Responsible - You Or Your Parents?

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students watch a news clip about people who think bad parents are to blame for bad kids. They then take a quiz about legal age and responsibility. Finally they design a series of parenting lessons.
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Rocks and Soil Changes lesson plan

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students recognize objects around their school made of rocky materials. In this changes in rocks and soil lesson, students use a website for a virtual experiment of rocks.  Students group rocks based on their properties....
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Anansi Goes To Lunch

For Teachers K
Students read and explore a folktale from West Africa. In this folktale lesson, students read the book Anansi Goes to Lunch and discuss facts about spiders. Students sing the song "The Itsy Bitsy Spider" and complete several included...
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Let the Pyramid Be Your Guide

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students chart foods on the food guide pyramid and design nutritional food plans that include all the food groups.
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"It's a Serious Game"

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students explore online safety by viewing an educational video. In this online identification lesson, students discuss the importance of keeping personal information private and when it is appropriate to enter personal information on the...
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Harry Potter Debate

For Teachers 6th - 11th
Students read a short article about the upcoming release of the new Harry Potter novel. They debate the issues surrounding the marketing of students's books and films after internet research to support or oppose the topic.
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Shapes Galore!

For Teachers 1st
First graders create two-dimensional shapes. In this shapes lesson, 1st graders learn about different two-dimensional shapes. Students have many hands-on experiences with these shapes including the use of geoboards, shaving cream, yarn,...
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When Turtle Grew Feathers

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students explore the Choctaw Native American tribe.  In this cross curriculum literacy and U.S. history lesson, students locate where the Choctaw Indians lived on a United States map.  Students listen to When Turtle Grew...
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Modals and Idiomatic Expressions

For Students 6th - 8th
This activity provides a good review of idiomatic expressions. Not only do students have a chart detailing the different types of meanings, they also are given 25 questions to practice this skill.
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Classification of Intertidal Organisma

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students categorize animals. In this animal classification lesson plan, students group animals by their characteristics. Students break into groups and work together to classify the animals. Students fill out a graphic organizer with...
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Them Bones

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students learn the correct names of various bones in the human body by using locomotor skills. They, in groups, move to the "pile of bones" to get the specified piece of the skeleton and the label required and return to the group.
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Internet and Mobile Safety

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students watch a video and ask questions about internet usage and mobile safety. Students chart out scales on why young people chat to others on the internet and on mobiles. Students determine the main difficulties that young people...
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Personal Pronouns

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students make a list of personal pronouns and their purposes. They use pronouns appropriately to enhance their writing and present their pieces of descriptive writings in front of the class. In addition, they utilize a variety of...
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Building the Foundation

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners understand the purpose of the judicial branch of government. In this judiciary lesson, students participate in exercises to understand how the court system works. Learners complete activity sheets to develop understanding of...
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Even and Odd Numbers Closure Activity

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students practice the concept of mathematical closure as it relates to even and odd numbers. In this math lesson plan, students perform 4 different tasks to  understand the number closure concept. Students identify, explain,...
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Schoolyard Ecology

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Keep your students engaged with some outdoor activities this spring!
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Total English Upper Intermediate: Does Everyone Agree?

For Students 6th - 8th
Learners choose the appropriate pronouns needed to fill in the blanks of six sentences. They then practice correcting the pronouns in five different sentences.
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Magnets and Springs

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students explore magnetic attraction. In this magnets lesson, students participate in an interactive whiteboard activity in which objects are dragged onto a virtual table and categorized as to whether they are "repelled" or "attracted"...
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Ladybug Addition

For Teachers K
Students engage in an interesting lesson on addition that encourages class participation through role-play and concrete hands-on activity. They utilize the fact that ladybugs have dots on their bodies to create a fun, hands-on lesson in...