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Traditional Writing vs. Collaborative Writing
Students examine language arts by completing a group activity. In this writing styles instructional activity, students define and discuss the differences between collaborative writing and traditional writing while answering questions in...
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Describe It with Adjectives
Put children's descriptive writing skills to the test with these fun collaborative writing activities. Presented with the picture of an object, young writers are are tasked with creating a description that provides enough detail for one...
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Your Attention Please: Iatmul Orator's Stool
Students investigate art by observing historical sculptures from New Guinea. In this art history lesson, students observe pictures of the "Orator's Stool"from Papua New Guinea, while identifying the small details that make it unique....
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Friends Mural
Students discover the art of Keith Haring by creating their own artwork. In this art analysis lesson plan, students identify the artist Keith Haring and discuss his artistic works. Students create their own murals similar to Haring's...
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Earth Day ABC Order (No Repeating Letters)
What's more fun than a barrel of monkeys? Putting words in alphabetical order! Included are three sets of simple words and a worksheet with three lists. The class needs to sort the words by image (each set has a different image) and then...
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Student Mad Libs
Students investigate the different parts of speech by participating in a fill in the blank activity. In this Mad Libs lesson, students define the different parts of speech and discuss how they are used appropriately in sentences....
New York City Department of Education
Theater Units for Lower and Upper Elementary Levels
Introduce middle schoolers to playwriting and the elements of drama with a six-session storytelling unit that encourages kids to expand their acting and writing skills. The 12-page packet includes overviews of the lessons, assessment...
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Learning Life Lessons through Fables
Explore a variety of fables to learn life's lessons through engaging stories. Add rigor to the learning process with activities that include matching a a fable to the story's moral, short answer exit slips, and a three-column graphic...
Smithsonian Institution
Autobiography through Objects
Show youngsters how objects can tell a story! Here your class will learn about Cuban salsa dancer Celia Cruz by analyzing pictures of her dress, her shoes, and her marriage certificate. After describing Cruz's items and imagining what...
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Create a Book with Student Treasures
You can't publish a story until after it has been revised and edited! Budding authors investigate the writing process while drafting an original story. They select a topic, complete a rough draft, edit it, revise it, and finally publish...
Collaborative Learning Project
Punctuation Games
It might not be "Conjunction Junction" but your school room will rock with this punctuation game. Game rules, templates, and background information are all included in the packet.
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Compounding the Problem
Pupils sharpen their dictionary skills and their understanding of compound words in this plan. Tailor it to the grade level you teach by honing in on specific skills. For older learners, the plan suggests providing a word and having them...
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Earth Day Lesson
Students analyze Earth science by answering environmental study questions. In this Earth Day instructional activity, students read the book The Lorax and identify the themes within it. Students define several recycling vocabulary terms...
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Amazing Animal Alliteration Book
Young scholars understand the meaning of alliteration. In this alliteration lesson, students write sentences using alliteration and recognize how it changes the writing in a story.
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Understanding Characters
Students analyzing characters from a story by creating an article about one. For this story analysis lesson, students read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl, and pick one character to write descriptively about. Students...
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Under Pressure: How Deep Can They Dive?
Learners explore geography by conducting an in-class experiment. In this deep sea exploration lesson, students identify the different zones of the ocean and utilize water bottles, masking tape and scissors to conduct a water pressure...
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Adjectives
Young scholars are encouraged to think about the adjectives they choose and to steer away from adjectives that have become meaningless through overuse, such as "nice" and "good." They then add meaning and interest to sentences.
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Pronoun Party
Students collect pronouns to replace nouns in sentences together and on paper. Students review nouns with each other. Students identify the pronouns in a variety of sentences provided by the teacher. The Pronoun Party continues.
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This Land is Your Land: Volunteering in the Community
Young scholars discover what a Relief Office does. In this volunteer lesson, students investigate what a Relief Office does, and who helps run it. Young scholars discuss ways he/she could become a volunteer.
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Developing Kids with Character Through Service Learning
Students discover service learning and how it can help them build character. In this community instructional activity, students brainstorm ways they can assist their classmates with problems, and write about it in their journal....
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Wild, Wild Weather: Severe Storms
Second graders research dangerous weather and how they can stay safe. In this environment lesson, 2nd graders view video clips and research the Internet to identify the different types of severe weather storms. Students complete a...
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