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TRB 5:2 - Activity 3: Earthquakes
Young scholars watch a classroom demonstration, and experiment to discover the five ways that Earth's crust shifts along a fault.
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The Perfect Gift
In this writing practice worksheet, students read the beginning of the story, "The Perfect Gift", and then finish the story in their own words on the lines provided.
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The Case of Similar Substances
Middle schoolers solve a crime mystery using chemical tests. They review the crime scenario and then become familiar with the procedure and results for two tests used to identify unknown powders. They perform the tests on the crime...
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The Case of Similar Substances
Middle schoolers perform tests in the lab to identify an unknown substance. In this physical science lesson, students observe the physical and chemical properties of substances. They formulate a conclusion based on experimental results.
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Solar Heat: Building and Testing a Solar Oven
Building a solar oven is always an enriching and engaging activity when your class is studying forms of energy or alternative and renewable energy sources. This lesson plan refers you to the re-energy.ca home website for specific...
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Pronouns
In this pronoun worksheet, students explore the definition of a pronoun. They read sentences, identify the nouns in the sentence, and write a pronoun that can take the place of the noun. A list of six pronouns is listed for students to...
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Action Verbs
In this recognizing correct usage of action words in sentences worksheet, students read sentences and identify the sentences that use the correct subject verb agreement. Students identify 10 answers.
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Friendship Day
In this Friendship Day worksheet, students complete activities such as read the passage, match the phrases, fill in the blanks, choose the correct word, multiple choice fill in, correct the spelling, put text in correct order, unscramble...
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Beanie Baby
Students will explain the importance of soybeans. In this science activity, students participate in making a "beanie baby" necklace. Additionally, students observe their soybeans for germination and growth for 7-10 days. Students record...
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How Do You Spell That? Jeopardy
This spelling PowerPoint enables students to spell words that end in -s, -ed and -ing. In this PowerPoint, students play an interactive jeopardy game where they must spell each root word correctly and add the given endings.
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Sparky's Birthday Surprise
Fire safety is a hot topic for kids! With this resource, little ones will read, color, draw, and play as they are learning about prevention and, as an added bonus, practice naming shapes, counting, and adding numbers! Reading, math, and...
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Moving to the Five Paragraph Narrative Essay
Your class just completed a graphic organizer as a prewriting strategy, but how do they take what they've recorded on their sheet and turn it into a five-paragraph essay? Help your novice writers with this 23-slide PowerPoint. An example...
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Real-Life Problems: Time
Combine word problems, telling time, and the four operations. Six problems prompt third graders to write out and solve word problems involving time and timing. Can they finish all six on their own or with a partner?
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Create Your Own (Math) Problems
Math word problems are the focus of this presentation. Learners view slides that have a variety of word problems on them. In addition to solving those problems, they are invited to make up similar problems on their own. The last slide...
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Bread in a Bag
Could the history of bread really be interesting? Yes, it could! An informational text gives scholars wheat production background from 8,000 years ago, discussing different types of bread and the current industry in Oklahoma. Learners...
K-5 Math Teaching Resources
Adding Mixed Numbers (Unlike Denominators)
Mix things things up in your elementary math class with a series of problem-solving exercises. Presented with a series of mixed number word problems, young mathematicians are asked to solve them by using either visual fraction models or...
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Eating Up Idioms
Ah, food idioms! Now that sounds tasty. Class members read and discuss various food-related idioms, create an illustration of a food-related idiom, and develop a class book or bulletin board to celebrate figurative language and National...
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International Day of Peace
To recognize the International Day of Peace, pupils complete activities such as reading a passage, phrase matching, fill-in-the-blanks, correct words, multiple choice, spelling sequencing, scrambled sentences, asking questions, take a...
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Subject-Verb Agreement
Subject-verb agreement is featured in this activity. Middle schoolers answer 10 questions, making sure that the subject and verbs agree in each example.
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Addition Word Problems
These word problems are a medley of addition practice; scholars add prices, chew toys, pages read, miles, and more. For each, there is a box for learners to show their work. Remind your class to read the question carefully- some of the...
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Phonological Awareness: Rhyme, Rhyme Closed Sort
A rhyming activity challenges scholars to sort picture cards according to their rhyme. Four picture cards line up across the top of a pocket chart. Learners take turns choosing from a face-down stack of picture cards and sort them...
Perkins School for the Blind
Wheel of Fortune Game
Games are great for practicing any number of basic skills. Here is a set of wonderful instructions for making a braille version of a spinning game, where children win points by correctly reading/identifying the high-frequency words the...
Reading Resource
/ae/ Word List
As part of a program to develop phonemic awareness, beginning readers are asked to identify and highlight the /ae/ sound in a list of 54 words. The exercise is the second in a series of 16 resources designed to develop the awareness...
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Complete the Story
In this story worksheet, students fill in the blanks to a story about a sister's birthday with words from a word bank. Students fill in 12 blanks total.