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Take Home the Bear
Pupils take home a suitcase with items from the classroom to help them feel safe. They work with their parents to write in their journal about the things they did while the suitcase was home with them. They read their journal entries to...
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This Lesson is Totally Trippy Man
Third graders interview parents, friends and neighbors to find examples of slang terminology from previous decades. They write slang words and their definitions and chart current and previous appropriate slang on a poster.
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Community Celebration
Sixth graders invite members of their community to a celebration in which they present information about what they have gathered during the Aqua Pure project. Using art, they unveil their projects to the community and extend their thanks...
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Technological Developments
First graders discuss household tasks, and identify differences between how things are done now, and how they were done when their parents and grandparents were little. Students then predict how tasks will change in future, and visit...
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We Know About Tonsils
Young scholars engage in a lesson that is concerned with the use of tonsils in the human body. They brainstorm in small groups to review the location and purpose of having tonsils. The teacher uses a poster to help students in the class...
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The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear
For this language arts worksheet, students respond to a literature book called The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear. Students complete an at-home comprehension activity with parents. Parents read each of 10...
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School-Home Links: Gathering Information
In this gathering information worksheet, learners practice gathering information and writing lists. Students ask their parents or a family member to help them create their list about what they've read and written that day. Parents or...
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School-Home Links: Three and Four Letter Words
In this phonics worksheet, students follow directions and practice saying a list of 6 three and four letter words. Students first say the word, then say each sound each letter makes. Worksheet is designed to be signed by parent and child...
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Using Our Talents for the Common Good LESSON 2: How Can Our Talents Be Used Together?
Students decide what talents are and how they can be used to help others. They recite a poem and write journal entries about using their talents.
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Welcome Back, Carrie!
Students use the Internet and create questionnaires to determine how to help seriously ill students to function optimally at school. They find ways to accomodate the needs of those students and create a weblet to help them.
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Community Voting Habits
Learners prepare a survey about voting habits in the community. Students give the survey to parents, teachers, business owners, and other voting age members of their community, and analyze the data.
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Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Students create and perform short skits, based on teacher provided scenarios, dealing with sexually transmitted diseases in order to reinforce the fact that STD's may be present but may not be symptomatic and how to communicate with...
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Adventures along the Oregon Trail in Nebraska
Students discover how the land and people we develop relationships with in Nebraska affect our survival--past, present, and future. They write about and interview their grandparents, parents and peers and compare them with people on the...
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Ethics and Reproductive Issues: The Dilemma of Choice
Students research various websites to answer questions and take part in class discussion regarding Prenatal testing. Students listen to an audio file and complete student worksheet. Students discuss different roles of people and...
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I Appreciate You
Students listen to stories about the time before they were born. After listening to their parents, they choose a special day in which they are king or queen. They work with their parents to create something unique to them. They give...
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Community Connections
Eighth graders with a number of disabilities visit people and places in their community while using digital cameras to record their visits. They take digital pictures which they include in books, posters, and other publications which...
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Can't You Sleep Little Bear? Activity Card
In this language arts worksheet, students respond to the book Can't You Sleep Little Bear? by completing an activity card at home with their parents. Students draw a picture to represent something he or she is afraid of. Students talk to...
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School-Home Links: Writer's Notebook
In this writing journal worksheet, students find a notebook to keep track of their writing ideas. Students decorate the notebook and begin writing down their thoughts. Parents or guardians must sign the worksheet.
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PE Activity: Sneaker Reminder
In this PE instructional activity idea worksheet, teachers download a handout/letter for students to help them be prepared for PE. Worksheet includes links to other PE activities.
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Spelling: Short I Words
In this plurals spelling worksheet, students copy a set of 6 short i words. Parents are given suggestions to help student study and learn the words.
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Spelling Words-Short u
In this short u word spelling activity, students copy a set of 6 short u spelling words onto lines beside each word. Parents are given suggestions to help children study and learn the words.
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Spelling: Short Vowel Review
In this spelling activity students copy a set of 6 short vowel words. Parents are given suggestions to help students study and learn the words.
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Spelling: Long A Words
In this spelling worksheet, learners copy a set of 6 long a words. Parents are given suggestions to help students study and learn the words.
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Spelling-Long E Words
In this spelling worksheet, students copy a set of 6 long e spelling words. Parents are given suggestions to help students study and learn the words.