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Schools

For Teachers 1st
First graders complete a unit of lessons on school and how schools have changed. They read a Laura Ingalls Wilder excerpt, view and discuss a Norman Rockwell painting, conduct an interview, construct a school map, and create an ABC book...
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Plan For The Discuss

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars explore how to hold, rotate, and throw a discuss using the correct teaching progression for discuss. This lesson plan describes how to set up a safe environment for athletes to learn proper grip/realease techniques.
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Rod, Penny, and Lightning: The Straight Story

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students review the concept of a movement story. As a class, they practice moving in straight, curved and zigzag pathways while making frozen body shapes of the characters in the story. To end the lesson, they must complete the same...
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I Read On My Own!

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students examine how to choose books to read on their own and how to participate in reading discussions. They practice the two finger rule for choosing an independent reading book and how to look at the book's topic for personal...
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What's In A Name

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders write a paragraph about their findings on what their name represents. For this writing lesson plan, 2nd graders will research their name and why they were named that. They will draw a picture that represents them along...
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The Hidden History of Egypt

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore daily life in ancient Egypt. In this ancient civilizations instructional activity, students research Internet and print sources regarding aspects of daily life in ancient Egypt. Students compose fictitious journals based...
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Stand Firm: Choice and Consequences

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the Holocaust. In this world history lesson, students research Nazi oppression under Hitler's rule as they read Holocaust and Human Behavior and Facing the Lion: Memoirs of a Young Girl in Nazi Europe.
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The Declaration of Independence

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Learners explore the Declaration of Independence. In this civics instructional activity, students read handouts regarding the document as well as the document itself. Learners respond to discussion questions regarding the handout....
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Ecosystems

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine biodiversity in plant life and what an ecosystem is composed of.  In this ecosystem lesson students go around their school and collect specimens and examine the plant species they encounter. 
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Multiplying and Dividing Integers/Relay Race

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Give your class a list of multiplication and division sentences that contain both positive and negative integers. Have them analyze them to see if they can discover the pattern with the signs. From these patterns, help them develop the...
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Playing Dirty

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students consider the effects of video games on students. In this current events instructional activity, students visit selected websites to study video game ratings, their effects on children, and the violence in the games.
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Applied Science - Science and Math Pre - Lab (Scientific Method)

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students examine science. In this scientific method lesson, students are introduced to what every experiment contains (hypothesis, critical thinking) and how an experiment is conducted. They watch a demonstration and then work...
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Women in the War

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students make decisions about how best to deal with or resolve dilemmas during the Civil War. In this women in war lesson, students word in groups to discuss how a given dilemma could be handled. Groups elect a spokesperson to report to...
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My So-Called Digital Life

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students create posters informing students on school technology services and rules.
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Fun with Heredity

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students explore basic concepts of heredity and collaborate to see genetics in action through several activities provided in the lesson. Inherited traits are examined and identified as dominant or recessive.
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Where The Wild Things Are

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders brainstorm where they think wild things exist. Then using the same strategy they discuss natural surroundings from using prior life experience. This part of the lesson can also be done with using a nature hike. Students...
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Beginning At Home

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars participate in activities that increase awareness of environmental stewardship. In this stewardship lesson, students discuss solutions to environmental problems and apply the solutions to ways they can keep their...
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Brown v. Board: Where are We Now?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore  the concept of resegregation. In this civil rights instructional activity, students research the impact of the Brown v. Board of Education ruling in their community. Students define and...
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Identifying Shapes and Matching

For Teachers K
Students recognize shapes and repeating shapes can make a pattern. In this patterns lesson, students identify pictures of shapes as patterns or not patterns. Students describe how the pattern is made.
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Here's an Instant Activity for February 15, 2010

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders complete a spelling activity to learn how to spell plural words. In this plural words lesson, 2nd graders complete an oral spelling activity with their teacher and then a worksheet to spell plural words.
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Adding Suffixes- ly, ful

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders practice adding suffixes. In this word endings lesson, 5th graders identify examples of suffixes, practice adding the suffix "-ly" and "-ful" and then complete a worksheet to practice.
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The Development of Antitrust Enforcement

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers analyze antitrust enforcement. In this American economics lesson, students listen to their instructor present a lecture regarding the details of the free market system and antitrust laws. High schoolers respond to...
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Keep It Academic

For Teachers 6th - 11th
Students study various methods to learn about religion in the classroom. In this religion study lesson, students read and visit links to learn about various ways of teaching religion in schools. Students learn the model world religion...
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Criminal Activities

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students investigate Justice Week in Britain. For this current events lesson, students visit selected websites related to law and order in the U.K. Students may create their own anti-social art as a culminating activity.