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The Literature Curriculum Model
Parents looking for a summer alternative to regular schooling, should try a literature curriculum model.
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Stringbean Coes Vacation
Third graders first begin the activity by reading Vera B. Williams Stringbean's Trip to the Shining Sea. This book is a collection of postcards that Stringbean Coe and his brother Fred write to their family while they were on a summer...
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Night Here, Day There
Explore astronomy with a lab sheet for fifth grade scientists. After reading a short explanation about the earth's rotation, they solve a word problem about the differences in times across the world. Next, they make a model of the solar...
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Feel the Vibrations
How does sound travel in a string walkie-talkie? Third graders read about the way vibrations act between two cups and a string. Next, they put the steps in order, and experiment with their own walkie-talkies.
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Water/Agua
Third graders complete water activities including vocabulary, visualization and performing activities. They study water vocabulary words in both English and Spanish. They listen to a read aloud of Jane Yolen's, Letting Swift River Go,...
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ESL: Continuous Affirmative/Present Simple
In this ESL verb tense learning exercise, students read about simple present and present continuous tense, then use correct verb forms to fill in blanks in sentences.
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Knocking Down Fences
After reading The Other Side and guiding children through a picture walk, third graders investigate evidence of the civil rights movement. In the mini unit, 3rd graders analyze photographs of the past and make connections between...
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Puffin Patrol
Bird diversity and the majestic puffin are the topics of today's activity. Children discuss and look at images of puffins, and then they use felt to put a puffin body together. After that they talk about what and how puffins eat. They...
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The Wonderful World of Slugs
Examine a slug? Of course, what else would a 2nd grader do with it? Pupils use clues and go on a slug hunt, read a slug story, or make a cooperative group mural of a slug's habitat. While older learners catalog slugs, go on a slug hunt,...
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Do You Like Baseball?
In this language arts worksheet, students learn to answer questions about personal preferences according to the degree of like or dislike. Students read 20 questions such as "Do you like fruit juice?" Answer choices are: I love it, Yes,...
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Veggie Quesadilla Recipe: Possessive Nouns
Students identify nouns and pair them with a possessive noun. For this possessive noun lesson, students read a recipe and identify the nouns. Then, students pair each noun with a possessive noun and use them in a sentence.
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John Constable: artist
Students paint their own cloudy sky after studying paintings of the artist John Constable. In this John Constable lesson plan, students read and discuss the outdoor paintings of this artist and then complete their own painting of the...
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Beginning Sentence Completion Exercise 10
In this online interactive grammar skills worksheet, students examine 10 sentences that are missing words and select the appropriate words to compete each of the sentences and match them to the sentences. Students answers are...
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English Exercises: Present Simple Tense
In this online interactive English worksheet, students respond to 26 multiple choice questions about pronoun agreement. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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During and For Exercise
In this grammar skills worksheet, students respond to 15 fill in the blank and short answer questions regarding the use of the prepositions "for" and "during."
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English Exercises: Do or Does
In this online interactive English worksheet, students respond to 23 fill in the blank questions that require them to use "do" and "does" appropriately. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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English Exercises: Verb Tenses 2
In this online interactive English skills worksheet, students respond to 30 fill in the blank questions about verb tenses. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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ESL-Clothing Vocabulary
In this ESL clothing vocabulary worksheet, students learn a rhyme about clothing, name articles of clothing using the rhyme, complete a crossword puzzles and draw people according to descriptions.
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ESL: Past Simple/Irregular Verbs
In this ESL past simple irregular verbs worksheet, students fill in missing verbs in sentences, then use the words to complete a crossword puzzle.
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English Exercises: Past Simple Tense
In this online interactive English worksheet, students respond to 25 fill in the blank questions that require them to select "have" or "has" to finish each of the sentences. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
Law for Kids
General Election Activity Booklet
It's never too early to practice smart voting! Gain practice voting in a general election using a booklet compiled of an assortment of activities including a word search, maze, graphing, and more!
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Tree Friends
Young scholars are introduced to tree structure and use. They identify their special tree using all senses except sight. Students identify six different internal parts within a cross section of tree trunk (bark, phloem, xylem, cambium,...
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Beaver Ecology
Students explore the lives of bgeahvers. They identify the physical and behavioral adaptations that help beavers survive in their environment. Students compare and contrast how beavers influence the ecology of both forest and aquatic...
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Word Problems
Here is a very nice resource that presents 12 math word problems suitable for third and fourth graders. All four of the basic operations are used in these one-step problems. An answer key is provided on page two. This would make a very...