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Uen: Trb 5:1 Activity 6: Chemical Change
For this fifth grade activity, students explore how matter changes during a chemical reaction.
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Uen: My Community Book
In this lesson students explore places in their neighborhood by using a variety of informational texts.
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Uen: Chicken Pox Math
Students will engage in a shared reading of Itchy, Itchy Chicken Pox by Grace Maccarone, Arthur's Chicken Pox by Marc Brown, or Turkey Pox by Laurie Anderson. Students will discuss the text and then engage in several math-related tasks...
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Uen: Manuelito's Role as a Leader
Manuelito's role as a leader can be discovered through this lesson plan as well as the treaty between the Navajo in Fort Sumner and the United States. This lesson explores the traditional Navajo life with our modern world's ways of living.
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Uen: Lesson Plan: I Am American!
Lesson that helps students understand the importance of the United States flag. Students discuss The Flag We Love by Pam Munoz Ryan and then work together to create a paper chain flag for display.
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Uen: Vocabulary Words in Context
For this lesson, 5th graders will use context clues as they learn new science vocabulary words through listening, reading and discussing the new content. The terms are associated with the reshaping of the earth's surface.
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Uen: Lesson Plan: Celebrating Family Traditions
This instructional activity helps students explore the traditions that their families have. Students discuss that there are many types of families, complete questionnaires about their families' traditions with a parent or guardian, and...
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Uen: Lots of Labels
This instructional activity gives ideas on how to use labeling within the classroom to help students connect print with a message.
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Uen: Tortoise and Hare Races
In this activity students use the fable "The Tortoise and the Hare" while learning basic mapping skills.
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Uen: Lesson Plan: Freedom Quilt
Lesson that reinforces the state and national symbols learners have learned. Students draw pictures of state and United States symbols and combine them to form a quilt.
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Uen: Lesson Plan: A Newspaper?
Hands-on lesson plan that helps students learn about fractions using a the content and layout of a newspaper.
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Uen: Colorful and Musical Feelings
In this lesson, students will communicate their emotions through drama, art, and poetry. Mouse Paint, by Ellen Stohl Walsh, Hailstones and Halibut Bones, by Mary O'Neill, and Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" will be used during this engaging...
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Uen: Manuelito
Teachers will appreciate this lesson plan to help guide two or three lessons on the early life of Navajo War Chief Manuelito which utilizes cooperative learning as well as internet resources. Includes a focus and a plan for assessment.
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Uen: Trb 5:1 Act. 4: Chem. Reactions Borax & Glue, Cream
For this experiment for Grade Five, students develop an understanding that chemical changes in matter do not affect the actual mass of the matter.
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Uen: Lesson Plan: I Grow
Lesson that helps students understand the concept of the passage of time. Students discuss the book When I Was Little by Jamie Lee Curtis, identify ways that they have changed since they were babies, and create books describing those...
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Uen: Playing the Stock Market
This Utah Education Network lesson provides directions for engaging middle schoolers in playing the stock market.
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Uen: Identify and Create Rhyming Words
In this lesson students will listen to poetry or rhyming books and recognize rhyming words.
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Uen: Expanded Notation and Scientific Notation
After middle schoolers listen to the story If You Hopped Like a Frog by David M. Schwartz, students will investigate expanded and scientific notation. Middle schoolers will practice writing large numbers in scientific notation. Then...
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Uen: Listen to Me Tell You the Story
Students will listen to familiar stories and choose their favorite story among them. Then students will make puppets for each of the main characters from their favorite story. Students will share a puppet show to a small audience.
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Uen: Expressing Thoughts & Feelings
Students will practice using vocabulary associated with feelings. Students will investigate discovery topics with the following categories: bad day discovery bucket, flannel board discovery bucket, dramatic discovery bucket, name...
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Uen: Goals
As a response to 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens by Sean Covey, students will select and write down personal learning goals that relate to their work based learning experiences. Several reproducible sheets related to goal setting are...
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Uen: 1st Grade Act. 08: Then and Now
This lesson engages students in understanding the concepts of "past" and "present" events. Students will sort objects and discuss to reinforce segmentation and blending skills.
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Uen: Name Bingo
Students will gain a sense of community during this lesson. Students will play School Bingo, engage in the shared reading of Chrysanthemum, and then play Name Bingo with the students' names featured on the Bingo cards.
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Uen: Dress for Success
Students will learn about the different types of attire necessary in a business environment. Interview attire and business casual are included in the content of the lesson.