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Focusing activity to begin novel: Hatchet by Paulsen: Students will visualize how Brian Robeson will feel when he crash lands on the deserted island at the beginning of the novel, Hatchet. This whole class period will be spent using prior knowledge of survival skills.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6 English Language Arts); By Robin Simmons.

Fraction/Decimal War: This lesson plan introduces a game that will reinforce fractions and decimals. This activity is best played in groups of 3-4. You may choose to use as an activity when work is completed or as a center activity.; Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Mathematics); By Christine Sisco.

Friendship addition: This lesson introduces students to the concept of basic single digit addition.; Format: lesson plan (grade K Mathematics); By Jennifer Barbee.

Futuristic airplane and the blind landing: A lesson plan, divided into two exercises, that teaches students techniques for communicating and observing both detail and directions using written, oral, and visual sources.; Format: lesson plan (grade 9 English Language Arts); By Elaine Cox.

George Washington's obituary: The following lesson will introduce students to the research process -- formulating questions, choosing resources, fact finding, and note-taking. After completing their research, they will write a short obituary for George Washington. Activities will integrate Reading, Language, Social Studies, Writing, and Computer Skills.; Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts, Information Skills, and Social Studies); By Kathy Blades.

Getting down & dirty with soils: In this lesson, we will explore different kinds of soil (humus, sand, clay). The students will plant seeds in the different soils as part of further exploration.; Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts and Science); By Amy Rhyne, Paulette Keys, and Sarah Carson.

The Great Chaucer Challenge: A cooperative learning game to review the Prologue: This game employs the cooperative learning group format to review thoroughly Chaucer's Prologue to The Canterbury Tales and "The Pardoner's Tale" and "The Nun's Priest's Tale."; Format: lesson plan (grade 12 English Language Arts); By Julie Shaw.

Great endings: Sometimes authors end their stories with a memory, a feeling, a wish, or a hope. Other times they end the story by referring back to the language of the beginning. In this lesson, students will examine the characteristics of good endings by reading good endings of narrative picture books. They will then practice writing good endings for their own narratives.; Format: lesson plan (grade 2–4 English Language Arts); By DPI Writing Strategies.

Home renovation: Working with area: In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 2.9; In this lesson for grade six, students will work together in cooperative groups using the internet to calculate the cost of finishing a basement.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Mathematics); By Kim Abrams, Mike McDowell, and Barbara Strange.

How do I look to you?: In this lesson, students will evaluate public service posters and a grooming pamphlet to determine if and how propaganda was used to improve the health of children, and define acceptable appearances for young women in the 1930s.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts); By Loretta Wilson.

How ironic!: This lesson will introduce students to the concept of irony. Verbal, situational, and dramatic irony will be defined, but the focus of the lesson is situational irony. This lesson can be used prior to teaching longer, more complex short stories that contain situational irony. This lesson is modified for an English Language Learner (ELL) who reads at the Intermediate Low (IL) level.; Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and English Language Development); By Ann Gerber and Tericia Summers.

Improving student essay writing: English II teachers are constantly searching for strategies to improve students' analytical responses to literature. This lesson is designed for all types of learners, offering various activities for all learning styles. Individual, small group, and whole class activities on essay writing culminate with the student writing his or her own formal response to literature.

This generic writing activity may be used with any literary unit and at any point in your students' development of the writing process.; Format: lesson plan (grade 9–10 English Language Arts); By Shawn Parker.

An integrated poetry unit: My students have always disliked poetry. The different ways in which this lesson approaches poetry and the connection it makes to their "March Madness" studies seems to make poetry more enjoyable, fun, and relevant for my students. In order to integrate with the sixth grade math and social studies teachers, I teach this unit during the ACC tournament to coincide with the "March Madness" unit that is covered in the math classes.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6 English Language Arts); By Nancy Guthrie.

Introducing simple machines: A machine walk: This is an integrated lesson exploring simple machines. The poetry response part of this lesson serves to spark the students' interest as well as allow the teacher to identify students' prior knowledge of machine concepts and vocabulary. The machine walk gives a baseline assessment of students' understanding. The majority of students originally focus on complex machines; this will be evident by the types of machines they identify on their list.; Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts); By Terri Fannin.

Investigating evaporation: Students will investigate evaporation as a cooling process. They will witness that temperature is affected by moisture content and the process of evaporation. Next, they will explore websites related to the processes of evaporation and condensation. Students will apply gained knowledge to real-life situations, and will share their new knowledge with a person outside the classroom.; Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Science); By Jessica Bohn.

Is ATP worth the investment?: In this lesson plan, students learn about ATP using an economic analogy. Students use simple financial tables to explore the concepts of cost, revenue, and return on an investment as it applies to ATP in aerobic and anaerobic respiration.; Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science); By MaryBeth Knight Greene.

Is Mr. Wolf really a bad guy?: This lesson is intended to show children the importance of evaluating information as they read. The author's point of view is limited in that it only truly shows one side of the story. There is always another perspective. How the author views a subject colors everything that he or she writes about.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts)

Learn to communicate: Students will try to duplicate a pattern based on verbal directions from a partner.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Healthful Living); By Danetta Samuels.

Let's become chefs!: The following is designed to teach students the characteristics of a recipe. The characteristics to be taught about this genre are: the step-by-step directions, ingredient words and numerical measures.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts); By Sarah Ann Parker.

Light, camera, action! Shadows?: This lesson will demonstrate how the position of a light source or direction of light and the time of the day will affect the shadow images that are depicted in our environment over a period of time.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics and Science); By Alta Allen.

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