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Diagramming Sentences
Show this presentation to demonstrate how to diagram sentences. Meant for more advanced grammarians who know the difference between indirect and direct objects, this PowerPoint adds on new elements to each slide. The graphics and sound...
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Mt. Saint Helens
In this Mt. Saint Helens worksheet, students read the passage about Mt. Saint Helens and answer true or false questions. Students answer 10 questions.
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Sum Stuff
Students are introduced to informational text. Students explore nonfiction as a genre. They identify the components and text structure of text nonfiction. Students read a nonfiction passage and write a summary of the passage.
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Volcanoes!
Learners study the Mount St. Helens eruption and how it occurred. In this experimental lesson students complete a lab that shows the eruption of Mount St. Helens.
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Eyewitness Accounts
Students role-play to show the eyewitness accounts of the eruption of Mt. St. Helens. In this volcanic eruption lesson, students act as reporters, eyewitnesses, and scientists to dramatize the eruption of Mt. St. Helens. They discuss the...
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The Mountain Blows its Top
Students replicate a volcanic eruption. In this volcanoes lesson, students follow the provided procedures to show and describe how the inflation of a bulge led to the eruption of Mount St. Helens.
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Competing For Food
Students examine the hunting and gathering aspects of the Washoe culture. They are assigned roles, and participate in a simulation of surviving through the seasons by competing for food with other people and tribes.
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Help I've Fallen And I Can't Get Up
Students examine how natural disasters impact humans and how to develop a disaster relief plan. They develop a list of natural disasters, and in disaster relief teams, create an emergency plan for their families to follow if a selected...
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All About Me
Students are introduced to the characteristics of an autobiography. After reading excerpts from "The Diary of Anne Frank", they discuss how two people can see the same event in different ways and write about the event in the journals...
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Science Italian Style: Eruption!
Students explore ways scientists prepare for a volcanic eruption. They observe films of earthquakes, oil spills, volcanoes and hurricanes. Students perform activities to demonstrate the relationship of viscosity to lava flow. They...
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Examining Conflicts At Camp Green Lake
Young scholars complete an essay documenting a conflict present in the novel Holes. They define the six types of literary discussion as a class. After identifying one of these types of conflicts in the novel, students write a five...
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Mount Everest Reading Landmarks
In this science worksheet, learners read a content passage concerning facts about Mount Everest. Then they answer 6 questions and the answer sheet is on page 3.
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My Spelling Words: Spelling List #180
In this spelling activity, students practice reading and spelling words dealing with winter. They use at least two words in a sentence and alphabetize all spelling words. The words are one, two and three-syllable words.
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A/An
In this grammar worksheet, 3rd graders use the articles a and an. Students complete 18 fill in the blank sentences and 4 short answer questions using the correct word where appropriate.
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One Word Substitution 7
In this online interactive vocabulary skills worksheet, students match the 10 vocabulary terms in the word bank to the appropriate definitions. Students may submit their answers to be scored. All of the words begin with the letter A.
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Science Quizzes: Weather Quiz
In this weather science quiz worksheet, students respond to 20 short answer and true or false questions regarding weather and extreme weather.
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Carving Mountains
Students explore geography by participating in an illustration activity. In this land-form lesson, students define vocabulary terms associated with glaciers and forests. Students utilize pens, cardboard and pottery clay to draw and...
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Hudson Canyon Expedition Let's Bet on Sediments!
Students investigate and analyze the patterns of sedimentation in the Hudson Canyon students observe how heavier particles sink faster than finer particles. They study that submarine landslides (trench slope failure) are
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What a Disaster!
Pupils identify the causes of major natural disasters in a written response and on a poster. They explain with a written response, on a poster and to peers in an oral presentation, how people adapt to living in an environment that may be...
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Geography: I Spy Environments
Fourth graders examine nature paintings from a Utah museum for their physical characteristics. In small groups, they observe museum postcards and discuss the season, precipitation, temperature, and geometric shapes pictured. Focusing...
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Reading Comprehension: Weather
In this comprehension worksheet, students read a selection on the weather, then complete 3 short answer questions related to the selection.
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Winter Wonderland
In this word search worksheet, students read the 50 words related to winter. Students find the words in the word search puzzle to enhance their understanding of winter.
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The Fossil Record
Young scholars research about the animals found in Burgess Shale. In this earth science instructional activity, students evaluate the significance of fossils in human history. They create models of their chosen animal.