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Document Based Essay Question: World War II
In this primary source analysis worksheet, students examine 4 documents from World War II and then respond to the essay questions that accompany each of them.
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Identifying Points in the Coordinate Plane
For this ordered pairs worksheet, students identify 6 ordered pairs given a coordinate plane. Students list the ordered pair given the graph.
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Counting By 5s
Second graders count by 5's to 100. In this math lesson conducted on the 100th day of school, 2nd graders use picture stamps in the KidPix program to count by 5's and get to 100.
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Write It Short
Learners listen the books, "Today Is Monday," "Chicken Soup with Rice," and discuss how we use abbreviations for days of the week. This simple lesson plan is a good way to introduce the common abbreviations that young readers will...
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Sexual Stereotypes in Japan
Students are introduced to the various stereotypes faced by women in Japan. In groups, they discover the types of discrimination women received because of the stereotypes and how they have confronted them over time. They develop their...
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Friction- What a Drag
Students explore friction. In this friction lesson, students investigate that weight and surface type affect friction.
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Fractions of a Set
Third graders use fractions to describe part of a set. In this fractions lesson, 3rd graders are introduced to fractions through a book and use pattern blocks to describe a fraction as a part of a set. This lesson includes a scripted...
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Circles and Clocks, Shapes and Time
Learners work in groups to research clocks and practice telling time. In this telling time lesson, students use the computer program ProQuest to study circles, including radius and diameter, and practice drawing circles using a compass....
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Correlating Atmospheric Data Lesson Plan
Students make and test hypotheses about atmospheric data collected aboard the NOAA ship Ronald H. Brown research cruise.
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Buh, Buh, Buh B!!
Students complete a variety of activities related to the letter "B." As a class they recite a tongue twister, then trace and write the letter "B." Students identify the words in the poem that contain the /b/ sound and draw a picture of...
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Finding Prime Factors
In this finding prime factors activity, 6th graders read two strategies for finding prime factors, then practice using these methods by doing factor facts drills.
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Picture Match
Students match pictures with words that have specific phonics connotations. In this picture matching lesson plan, students have groups of words with the same phonics sayings.
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Writing With Environmental Print
Students develop literacy skills by exploring street signs, cereal boxes, and billboards. In this writing with environmental print instructional activity, students build word recognition in every day print. Students decode words and...
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Letter Recognition Flash Games for Kids
Pupils explore the alphabet by completing an on-line letter identification activity. In this phonetics lesson, students utilize the website www.literarycenter.net and listen to word sounds as they identify the spelling of the vocabulary...
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Color Recognition Game
Students study color words. In this math lesson, students complete a variety of activities on the computer in which they identify colors and color words.
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Piece of the Sky: Introduction for Making S'COOL Observations
Students observe and discuss cloud cover. They identify percent of cloud cover, calculate cloud cover by fraction and convert to a percent, and compare their models with the current real sky cloud cover.
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Go LEGO!
Young scholars utilize LEGO's to replace cards for a game that replicates "Go Fish".
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Timed Multiplication Test Graphs
Pupils use the tools of data analysis for managing information. They solve problems by generating, collecting, organizing, displaying histograms on bar graphs, circle graphs, line graphs, pictographs and charts. Students determine range,...
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Science-Unit on Matter-Gases
First graders understand that gases take up space even though you can't see or smell it. This is done through many experiments like trapping air in different sized bags, using balloons and plastic bottles, and blowing bubbles. They...
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Hidie Ho H!
Students become more familiar with the letter and sound of h by using the poem, Humpty Dumpty. They are given a sequencing sheet, a pair of scissors, crayons, and a piece of construction paper and told to put pictures in the correct order.
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Paint Plus
Using the computer and the Paint program, Students explore the different tools available in the paint program, and then create a picture showing two sets of pictures and an equation.
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Science: Liquid Matter
Second graders examine the properties of liquids and their classifications. They compare and contrast cups of different liquids and record their findings in journals. Students observe how liquids flow at various speeds and that unlike...
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Periodic Trends
Students identify the different periodic trends. For this chemistry lesson, students discuss how elements are arranged in the periodic table. They apply what they have learned in a Jeopardy team game.
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What Causes Irregular Temperature Patterns?
Students examine common trends in climate across the U.S. They identify the anomalies in hot-cold temperature differences in the U.S and locate them on the map using latitude and longitude coordinates.