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Math & Science

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students are introduced to techniques to help with with math and science. In groups, they use a worksheet to discover how to count money. As a class, they watch a PowerPoint to define terms associated with science. To end the lesson...
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Music and Movement

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students demonstrate how to instruct a Pre-K class in singing and creative movement. Once they are grouped according to several nursery rhymes, they practice singing the songs and coordinating appropriate movements with the rhythm. The...
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How to Interpret a Map

For Students 5th - 6th
In this social studies worksheet, learners find all the important facts on a map. Students find any map and fill out the chart and answer 12 questions about what they find.
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Find Somebody Who...3-- Icebreaker Game

For Students 5th - 6th
In this icebreaker game worksheet, students talk to classmates and find someone who fits each of the 30 descriptions. Students write their name in the blank if the description fits.
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Challenging Discrimination

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Young scholars explore discrimination. In this character education instructional activity, students define discrimination and discuss instances of it. Young scholars brainstorm methods of encouraging diversity.
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Body Language

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Young scholars practice communication skills. In this body language lesson, students compare verbal and nonverbal communication as they analyze body language and learn how it conveys emotions.
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Asking for Help

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students consider calls for help. In this personal health lesson, students design advertisements meant to motivate reluctant people who need help to go ahead and ask for it.
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Rallying to the Cause

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students study the role of volunteering during the Civil War, the Reconstruction, and today. In this volunteerism lesson, students work with a partner to read biographies of volunteers while looking for their Core Democratic Values. They...
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Rocket Mice

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore air. In this air activity, students create a paper mouse and observe how the force of air can move objects.
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Ice Balloons

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students explore the properties of ice. In this states of water lesson plan, students examine the properties of icebergs and ice cubes as they participate in an activity that requires them to freeze a balloon half-filled with...
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Spaghetti Challenge

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars use materials like marshmallows, spaghetti, and chocolate to build structures. In this building structures lesson plan, students use these materials to construct a building and compare different structures. Young scholars...
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KS2 Forces and Motion

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students participate in a variety of activities of scientific principles.  In this science instructional activity, students experiment with spaghetti and marshmallows to build a strong structure, balance nails on a nail, and use...
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Beatrix Potter

For Students 5th - 8th
In this Beatrix Potter worksheet, students research Beatrix Potter and answer short answer questions about her. Students answer 14 questions comparing her life then and life now.
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Open and Closed Circuits

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Young scholars distinguish between open and closed circuits. In this open and closed circuits lesson plan, students use their bodies as electric conductors and understand how electricity is a form of energy.
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Lesson Plan XII

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders research the problem of homeless youth. In this homelessness lesson, 7th graders read the worksheet 'Kids Who Can't Go Home.' Students discuss the reading and the social services in place to help homeless youth. Students...
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Elapsed time

For Students 3rd - 5th
For this time worksheet, students answer questions about elapsed time. Students complete 10 multiple choice questions about elapsed time in word problems.