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Earth Day Lessons With The Right Stuff

For Teachers 2nd - 12th
Earth Day lessons provide a great way to teach students about the significance of the event, and how they can make a difference.
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Ed Tech

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders practice writing complete sentences and sequencing three or more events. They interact with technology, demonstrate effective communications skills via writing and analyze all the ways that one might make informed decisions.
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Performance Event

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students examine the media by writing a compare/contrast paragraph. In this mass communications lesson, students identify and discuss the main sources of information for Americans in today's age. Students analyze pictures of people...
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My Memory Book

For Students 2nd - 5th
Look back on the school year by spending a few days putting together books that learners can reflect on in the coming years. Learners note down personal information and their favorite things, respond to questions with goals, stories, and...
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Preparing for the Great Escape

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students investigate the importance of a home escape plan in the event of a fire.  In this emergency lesson, students discuss what needs to happen in the event of a home emergency and they analyze floor plans of their own homes....
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Writing a Story: Planning

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this rewriting a familiar story worksheet, students choose a familiar story and fill in the squares of a graphic organizer with new information about the characters, setting, story starter, ending. and/or main events. Students write 5...
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Extra! Extra! Hear All About It!

For Teachers Pre-K - 5th
Learners summarize their weekly class activities by writing a newsletter.  In this journalism instructional activity, students create a multimedia presentation for their parents based on the classroom events that took place during the...
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Cloud Types and Formation of Clouds

For Teachers K - 3rd
Learners observe and photograph clouds. In this cloud lesson, students make a cloud scrapbook by photographing and completing a worksheet describing the clouds.  Learners record other sky events such as rainbows.
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Anansi and the Tug O' War

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students read the book Anansi and the Tug O' War. In this folktale lesson, students read the book and discuss the sequence of events from the text. Students create a written response to the story, focusing on their favorite part.
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Writing Process

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders listen to a story and use the story for ideas about writing.  In this writing process activity, 2nd graders listen to Ron Morgan Goes to Bat.  Students discuss the story and write a story about one of the events.
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Changing the End of a Story

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders re-write a story. In this alternate endings instructional activity, 2nd graders read Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse, by Leo Lionni, stopping to discuss the events and predict what will happen next. Students work in groups...
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Time & Itineraries Two

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young scholars explore time management by participating in itinerary activities. In this time telling lesson, students identify how to read a clock, how to communicate the time to others and how to plan for events in the day. Young...
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Snapshot Autobiography

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students write an autobiography. In this autobiographical writing lesson, students discuss the important events in their life and write about them on a worksheet. Students illustrate each event in their autobiography.
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A Colony is Born : Lesson 2 - Sez Who?

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders increase their baseline knowledge of primary and secondary sources and the likenesses and differences of them with regard to a selected historical event.
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Stretching It

For Teachers K - 12th
Students recognize the use of exaggeration and understand how it may enhance the story, painting, conversation or event. Students transfer their understanding of exaggeration as it is used in many places, ie., daily life, paintings,...
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Accordion-Book Summary

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students explore summarizing. In this book report lesson plan, students follow directions to make an accordion book, including illustrating and summarizing important events in the story.
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Ahimsa in Writers Workshop

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students investigate nonviolent lifestyles by researching the life of Gandhi.  In this journalism activity, students define the word ahimsa and how important nonviolence is when solving conflicts.  Students create a timeline of personal...
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Jean Fritz's American History Series

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students explore children's literature by reading biographies in class. In this history analysis activity, students read books written by Jean Fritz about the Revolutionary War and discuss the events that led up to the critical moment....
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Insects

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
It's a fact: kids love bugs! With this instructional activity, young learners explore reading informational texts and conducting research while learning about their favorite insects. Spark learners' interest by reading a book about one...
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An Imaginary Trip

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Young scholars use their imaginations to write about an imaginary trip. In this creative writing lesson, students write about an imaginary trip. Young scholars brainstorm writing ideas as a class and use past tense words in their...
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Making Inferences Something Special (13)

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
Work on making inferences with a reading passage and comprehension questions. After kids read a short paragraph about Jalisa's birthday, they infer why she would be excited about receiving gifts from her brother.
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Oops!

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Teach safety, as well as cause and effect with one worksheet. Kids cut the bottom boxes on the page and paste them in the correct places to show what happens when you don't follow safety rules. Though it's designed for Officer Buckle and...
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Book Creator

For Teachers K - 12th
Build beautiful books in whatever style you'd like with an intuitive and adaptable app for constructing books. Kids can add images, drawings, text, and audio to make books about any subject. When complete, learners can wrap up the...
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The Five W's and How

For Students 2nd - 7th Standards
Here is a great graphic organizer for ensuring that young researchers and writers cover all their bases when brainstorming a topic by considering the five W's (who, what, where, when, and why) and how.

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