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The History of Thanksgiving Day
Third graders study the history of Thanksgiving. In this holiday lesson plan, 3rd graders read about the history of Thanksgiving, complete vocabulary activities, and write a journal entry from the point of view of someone who lived...
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Homophone Practice
Fourth graders practice their spelling skills by completing a spelling homophone activity. In this homophone lesson, 4th graders discuss easily-confused word spellings. Students write sentences using homophones. Students complete the...
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Native Americans at Rose Bay
Students examine the Timken Native Americans of the 1400s and their culture of hunter-gatherers. They study the necessary vocabulary using a number of activities.
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Harvest the Facts
Students discover heath problems caused by tobacco. In this human health lesson, students identify the many diseases tobacco use causes and how to prevent such diseases. Students investigate the organs in the human body directly...
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December Celebrations
Students study customs of various winter holidays. In this holiday lesson, students read the book The Reasons for the Seasons and complete a winter glyph. Students use graphing software to create a chart of the holidays that are celebrated.
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How to Achieve Your Financial Goals
Learners explore economics by creating a budget. In this financial goal setting lesson, students investigate their use of time by completing a worksheet. Learners identify financial goals they would like to achieve in the next several...
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Incredible Integers!
There are three parts to this lesson on integers. In the first, learners explore positive and negative numbers on an actual painter's tape number line and by playing a "Hot Seat" game. In part two, they view a BrainPop video and work...
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Arkansas Wordsearch
In this Arkansas worksheet, 5th graders explore the state of Arkansas. Students complete a word search where they find ten words relating to Arkansas.
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Bats, Bees, Birds, and Blossoms
Youngsters use a paper bee to pollinate two paper flowers. They use hole-punch dots as pollen. Older learners dissect flowers and name the structures involved in pollination. The handouts mentioned in the lesson plan are not included, so...
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Sea Turtle Alphabet Activity
In this sea turtle alphabet activity worksheet, students examine the 9 words pertaining to sea turtles and list them in alphabetical order on the lines provided.
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History of Natural Resources in the U.S.
Students define conservation, exploitation and preservation, identify legislation related to conservation and environmental issues, and identify leaders and organizations that were key to the conservation and environmental movements.
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What Can You Do With Money?
Young scholars watch a Biz Kidz video about money, learn what they can do with money, and fill out worksheets on what they learn. Students learn about spending, saving, donating, and investing.
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Budgeting: You Can't Manage What You Don't Know
Students discuss budgets. In this mathematics lesson, students watch an episode of Biz Kid$ about budgeting, participate in a guided group discussion, and create a pamphlet to teach others how to budget their money. Extension activities...
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Income and Expenses
Students discuss income and expenses. For this lesson on money, students define income and expenses, after whith they keep track of their income and expense transactions on a basic ledger.
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Summer of My German Soldier
Students participate in a layered curriculum unit for a novel study. The teaching method allows for a student centered classroom that includes different methods of instruction and assessment.
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Jump Ship to Freedom
Sixth graders engage in a variety of activities in order to complete a layered unit in Social Studies. The class completes a literature study for the book Jump Ship To Freedom. The activities are graded and built into a portfolio.
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The Master Puppeteer
Learners write a diary from Jiro's point of view that includes dates and locations. Jiro is the main character of the book The Master Puppeteer. They role-play their favorite scenes from the book using dress-up, and correct accents....
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Bound for Oregon
Students engage in a novel study using the layered curriculum style of unit. The unit has many different types of activities that have different ratings of difficulty. This allows for a great deal of differentiation.
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Lupita Ma¿¿ana
Middle schoolers join Lupita and her brother Salvador, as they go on a journey to the United States in hopes of having a better life for their family. On their journey, they are doing activities that help them earn points. The goal is to...
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Arkansas Draw and Write
In this Arkansas worksheet, students explore the state of Arkansas. Students draw a picture of something that has to do with Arkansas and write about their picture.
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Sketchy Business
Students identify and describe characteristics of contemporary artwork. Then, they create gesture drawings, a drawing technique used to express the action of a subject in a short period of time.
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American Revolution
Learners view a PowerPoint presentation created by the teacher over a two week period about American Revolution and its causes and effects. They answer study guide questions, and participate in small and whole group discussions,...
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Martin Luther King Jr. Layered
Students identify African American and their contributions to American Society. They describe what African Americans did and explain how it positively changed our way of life. In essence, this lesson plan increases children's self-esteem...
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Cinderella
In this Cinderella worksheet, students complete many reading comprehension responses, based on the famous story. The actual story text is not included.