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What is April Fool's Day?
Students explore humor by creating their own practical joke. In this April Fool's Day activity, students read different situations in which practical jokes were taken too far. Students discuss their reactions to the jokes and identify...
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Daily Routine English Exercises - Simple Present Tense
For this English verb tense interactive worksheet, students fill in the blanks in 6 sentences using vocabulary associated with daily routines. They choose between two words and tick the box in front of the correct answer.
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All About Me
In this All About Me worksheet, students fill in blanks in a paragraph to tell about their morning routine, favorite school subject and wishes they have. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Fighting Obesity with Footsteps
Analyze the influence of culture, media, technology, and other factors in health through the use of pedometers and daily walking/jogging logs with this activity. The key focus is in dealing with obesity and how small steps can help...
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Sunshine and Shadows
Students measure their shadows early in the morning, record direction of shadow, make marks in ground with chalk or tape, measure with ruler, and record results. Students repeat process at noon, and then later in afternoon. Students...
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Elephants Enjoy Eating Eggs
Students recognize the short vowel e in written and spoken language. Through listening and matching activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /e/ from other phonemes. Students practice using the phoneme and letter in words by writing...
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The Daily News
Students use headlines to recall and write about important events in the school day. This activity can be done with the whole class at circle time, at the beginning or end of the school day, individually in daily news journals. Students...
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The Case of the Missing Water
Students examine the major concepts related to the water cycle in this lesson. They recognize and define evaporation, condensation, precipitation and the natural cycles that occur as weather. They also participate in an activity of...
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Good Relationships
Students explore ways to empathize with others. They read a story and discuss how it reminds them of real live events. students sing a song about love. In a group activity, students trace a picture of their hands. On each finger and...
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Air Quality and Transportation
Second graders study about air pollution and the effects it has on our Earth. Students tally cars on a sheet that has been categorized as follows: One person in car, two persons in car, or three or more persons in car. Students go to...
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Who Wants to Win Millions: Days of the Week and Time
Love this idea for practicing time and the days of the week! Learners engage in a game in which they answer questions relating to the days of the week, time, and elapsed time.
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Homophones Crossword Puzzle
In this crossword puzzle worksheet, students solve a crossword puzzle by choosing the correct homophone. For example, "Mark threw/through the ball to his friend."
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Clocks and Time
Second graders observe and demonstrate how to tell and write time. They discuss different ways and things that tell time, then listen to a teacher-led lecture about the hands on a clock. Students complete a worksheet along with the...
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Graph Those Stickers!
Students graph fruit. In this graphing lesson students create a graph using fruit label stickers. Students place a sticker on the graph when the fruit has been consumed.
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Right to Equal Opportunity
Students investigate the concept of equal opportunity in school. In this equal opportunity lesson plan, students participate in a discussion about the fairness of certain situations in school. They listen to a story entitled, "Left Out",...
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Making Grading Manageable, Efficient, and Purposeful
Maintain your workload through focused assignments, expressed objectives, and clear rubrics
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Effective Coping Strategies through Multiple Intelligences
Help your pupils develop coping strategies to get them through the most stressful part of the school year.
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Verb Tenses
Discover how to use proper verb tenses with context clues. Five sentences help first graders decide if they should use -ed or -ing to end simple verbs. Each sentence provides context clues to indicate the time. Use the resource in...
Super Teacher Worksheets
Reading a Timeline
Practice reading a timeline with this two-page worksheet that illustrates a fun week at summer camp and tests comprehension with seven questions.
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A Now Thing: Present Tense Verbs
Present tense verbs are the focus of this language arts worksheet. Students review verb tenses, and identify present tense verbs in 22 sentences. Some good, solid practice can be found in this fine worksheet.
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Daily Journal
Keeping a daily journal is fun. It builds strong writing skills and provides an expressive outlet. For children with visual impairments, it's even more important. It provides a way for them to connect written word with real events,...
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Weather Proverbs
Define and write proverbs! Learners define proverbs, use the Internet to find weather-related proverbs, and talk with their parents to learn other proverbs. There's a well-structured worksheet included here.
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Tactile Journals
I absolutely love this idea. Children with visual impairments create tactile journals which describe an event from the previous week in an artistic way. They verbally describe one event from the previous week and then use a wide array of...
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Language Experience Stories
Here is a great way to bring core content to your special education classroom. Included is a set of instructional ideas intended to help learners increase their verbal and written expression through storytelling. Tape recorders, story...