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Free 8th grade unit plans for Microsoft Word
The World Where I Live...
This is a jam-packed, 40 page unit full of multi-sensory and multi-grade-level activities all centering on the relationships between the following concepts: city/town/village, county, state, country, continent, and community helpers. The following mathematical concepts are also explored: range, median, mode, and average (mathematical mean).
The following activities are included in this unit: Key vocabulary exercise, coloring Venn diagram activity, "Greater Than, Less Than" activity page, "My
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K - 8th
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Check out this complete unit plan for Charles Dickens' holiday classic, "A Christmas Carol"! This unit is designed for grades 7-12, and features a blend of traditional reading and kinesthetic classroom activities designed to maximize student engagement in a festive, immersive learning environment that's perfect for energetic teachers looking to engage students with hands-on, high-impact learning.
Five day unit plan includes interactive, hands-on activities for each of the staves (chapters) in D
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7th - 12th
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Teaching Sports: BASKETBALL UNIT
Basketball basics in 5 EASY LESSONS!This mini unit is meant as an introduction to basketball. It is broken up into five lessons but is designed to be flexible enough that those lessons can be spread out over more periods (every other day, for instance) depending on the abilities and interest of your class. Like most sports, basketball (and how to teach/coach it) is something that could be studied for a lifetime without a person ever feeling like they’ve seen it all. With that in mind, this unit
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6th - 12th
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Also included in:Â THE HEALTH & PHYSICAL EDUCATION CLASS BUNDLE
Backward Design Unit Plan Template
This is a basic unit plan template utilizing the backward planning design process. The template is in MS Word document format for easy manipulation to meet the needs of the district, school, grade-level team, or individual.
Grades:
PreK - 12th, Staff
Curriculum Map Template
Blank Curriculum Map Template ready to be filled in and used by any subject at any level.
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Staff
Fractured Fairy Tale Unit
Stories and non-fiction text are written from a particular point of view. The author positions the reader to respond to a story in a certain way through the use of language and point of view. Your assignment is to pick a familiar fairy tale and write a diary entry from the point of view of the antagonist.
Grades:
3rd - 12th
Memory Unit - Study Skills, Test Preparation, Long-Term and Short-Term Memory
Have students who need help with memorization? Teaching about test preparation? This unit on memory will help!
Included in this unit:
1. Learning About Your Memory
a. Information sheet about short term memory and long term memory
2. Types of Memory
a. Comparing types of memory (short term, long term, and working memory) to a desk and filing cabinet. Students are provided different memory scenarios, and must write the numbers of the scenario next to the type of memory needed in the scenario.
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6th - 12th
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Close Reading Lesson Plan: Declaration of Independence
This close reading lesson is the first of many to come! It is written using 4th grade CCSS, but can easily be adjusted for 5th or 6th grades. It includes a detailed lesson of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd reading of the the first section of the Declaration of Independence, vocabulary lesson that targets key words in the text, text-dependent questions, and an informational writing assignment. The lesson could span 2-4 days. Text-dependent questions are used to lead students to a deep understanding of the
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4th - 8th
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Learning and Understanding Poetry Unit
This Unit Plan includes individual poems, activities, guided questions, and all needed information for a two week unit on the different types of poetry. The worksheets are included and can be blown up or edited if needed.
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2nd - 8th
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Reusable Subsitute Art Lesson
This activity is for when you have a substitute in your art class.
It can be adapted as an art unit lesson as well.
With this lesson the students have the choice of creating one of 8 activities. If you have to have a substitute several times though out the year this lesson can be reused over and over again. The students will get to choose a new project each time they are presented with this activity.
It is a great and easy activity to go to in a quick emergency absence.
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PreK - 8th
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Christmas Carol, Mini-Unit
Let me make your job easier! I'll provide the tried, tested, and student-approved mini-units.
All you have to do is pop in the DVD and facilitate accountable talk about the questions I provide in the viewing guides.
This mini-unit on the film "A Christmas Carol" (the one with Patrick Stewart) comes complete with an anticipation guide about Kwanzaa, viewing guides, homework assignments, a summary quiz, and a final project.
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6th - 12th
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Teaching Sports: SOCCER UNIT
Soccer basics in 10 EASY LESSONS!This unit is intended to provide an introduction to the sport of soccer and is divided into 10 lessons. However, the lessons can be spread out and modified to fit the needs and skill levels of your class, allowing for more or less free gameplay as desired. Whether you are a seasoned soccer player or new to the sport, this unit is designed to provide a basic foundation of knowledge to help you teach or coach it. The video tutorials are specifically selected to cov
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6th - 12th
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Also included in:Â THE HEALTH & PHYSICAL EDUCATION CLASS BUNDLE
Family Tree Project in Spanish
This is a perfect project for learning family vocabulary in Spanish. It also allows students to be creative when they create their family trees. The rubric is an easy and fair way to grade the students.
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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Writing professional emails & letters- worksheets + WHOLE UNIT!
Ideal for high school students. This unit includes:
- A lesson plan for teachers for 1-4 days
- Student worksheet with email writing information and practice (based on the funny spam emails we get)
- Student email/letter writing assignment in which they write to a teacher in the school (very popular with staff and students!)
- A final email writing test with real-life scenarios
Teach them how to write a formal email from start to finish!
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7th - 12th, Adult Education
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Detailed Lesson Plan Template for Individual Lessons
Teachers and Teacher Candidates will save time when using this detailed lesson plan template. With an easy to use format that includes up to date teaching and assessment categories, your daybooks, unit plans, and supply lessons will be easy to complete. A great format to leave for your supply teachers.
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
The Writing Process Rubric
Do your students write for 30 minutes and then tell you they are all done? Mine used to.
Instead of grading their work on the final product....why not grade them on how effectively they incorporated ALL the parts of the writing process? Or give them 2 grades one for content standards and one for going through the motions of the writing process.
Start with backward planning. Here is a rubric I made for my students to get them thinking about HOW to incorporate all parts of the writing process a
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5th - 12th
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Music Lesson Plan Template (Orff, General, Elementary)
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This organizer for music lesson plans is based on the Orff-Schulwerk approach to music teaching. This flow chart allows music teachers to organize their their goals and objectives and then create short descriptions of the activities occurring in the three main phases of the Schulwerk process (imitate, explore, create) that lead to the creation of a final product showing student understanding and achievement. This template i
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PreK - 8th, Adult Education, Staff
Curriculum Mapping Template
Want a simple and easy way to plan out a curriculum unit? You've come to the right place. This Word Doc will help you outline what you want to teach and when to teach it. This template guides you from Standards to Assessments & Reflection. Enjoy this freebee and let me know what you think!
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PreK - 12th
Affective Unit for Gifted Learners
Developing Self-Understanding and
Resilience in Gifted Students:
A Unit for Upper Elementary and Secondary Gifted Learners, provides a series of lessons, each with a variety of group and independent activities, to assist teachers and specialists in gifted education in meeting the social and emotional needs of this special population of learners. Each lesson is centered around a common question of gifted students, such as "What is giftedness and what is it not?" and "How do I advocate for myself
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4th - 12th
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Creative Writing Course: Curriculum Schedule
This five-unit creative writing course which contains the following units with handouts, PowerPoint Presentations, Instructional techniques, Peer Critique forms, Rubrics for self- and teacher evaluation, and brainstorming activities. The Schedule outlines day-by-day lesson planning for each unit. Every unit builds upon the last unit's Learning Targets, and every unit ends with a lesson plan using a film to prepare students for the next unit. This high school curriculum can be taught at the mi
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8th - 12th
Also included in:Â Creative Writing Course
Art Lesson Plan Template K - 8 - Editable Microsoft Word
Editable in Microsoft WordThis lesson plan template has areas for your Objectives, Procedures, Assessments, Intergraded Technology, Core Curriculum Standards and Cross Curricular Activities. The template also has areas pre-filled for highlighting and selecting.Page one has directions on how to edit on Word.Page 2 is a PDF example of 3 filled out lesson plan.Pages 3-5 are for your customization. Instagram @artteacherk8
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PreK - 12th
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Unit Calendar Pacing Guide Template
This is my template for the unit calendar pacing guide that I use. It is a simple set-up and completely editable. You can also change colors, fonts, etc. I have it set for 24 days, even though we mainly use between 9 and 16 days for any given unit. This is free and editable through Microsoft Word.
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3rd - 9th
AVID WICOR Bingo for Teacher Planning
This is to help with your planning. At times we get stuck doing the same thing, switch it up a bit! You can have an entire school, or departments, complete the bingo sheet. Maybe even offer a prize. Who does not like a prize?
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PreK - 12th
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Nouns - Complete Upbeat, Offbeat Unit
Put some fun into your noun lesson with Super Noun. Make the abstract concrete! Have your students begging for the next part of speech lesson so that they can meet a new character. Or just utilize the step-by-step informational worksheets and well crafted notes that making learning nouns easy.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License.
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5th - 8th
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