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The Phantom Tollbooth: Novel Study
Milo, a character in Norton Juster's The Phantom Tollbooth, was bored. When a tollbooth showed up in his room, he went through it simply because he has nothing else to do. Scholars read about his adventures and complete worksheets...
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Subject and Object Pronouns: Challenges
Enhance problem solving skills while refining grammar proficiency with a learning game focused on subject and object pronouns. With playing cards in hand, class members create a dialogue in which one presents a problem while the other...
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Scientific Method Experiment: Factors Affecting How Ice Melts
Young scholars demonstrate the scientific method by conducting an ice cube melting experiment. They make predictions and observations, and conclude what factors make ice melt more slowly or quickly than normal.
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The Lewis and Clark Expedition
Students explore the challenges of the Lewis and Clark Expedition through a physical education simulation. In this cross-curriculum physical education lesson, students work in groups of three to log 8000 steps, stopping to participate in...
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The Backpack Travel Journals
Strap on those backpacks, it's time to travel through history with this literature unit based on the first four books of The Magic Tree House series. While reading through these fun stories, children create story maps, record...
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Put Your Best Facade Forward-Lesson 1
Students are introduced to the applied arts and focus on the applied art of architecture. They examine how architecture communicates messages about the people in a community who use a building. Students study the facade of their school...
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Lesson Plan for Cricket's Supper
Interested in a special folktale to read with your class? Then this lesson might be for you. Readers will build an understanding of the food chain while creating a storyboard that includes the characters, setting, and plot of the story....
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The Witches: Novel Study
Are witches like lions in sheep clothing? A boy and his grandmother in The Witches thinks so. They have even discovered the secret to recognizing these evil beings that disguise themselves as sweet ladies. Scholars use the resource to...
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Who am I Mobile: Ceramics
A getting-to-know-you activity that is perfect for the beginning of the year! Kids craft their portrait out of clay, then make a mobile by dangling ceramic representations of things they love. This project builds self-awareness, motor...
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Here's an Instant Activity for November 5, 2007
Students improve their spelling skills by completing activities for homophones, antonyms, and synonyms. Students complete a spelling worksheet for 'ie' and 'ei' words. Students then identify 12 homophones, 12 antonyms, and 12 synonyms.
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The Chalk Box Kid Lesson 4 The Burned Building
In this language arts learning exercise, students learn 45 new vocabulary words from Chapter 4 of The Chalk Box Kid. The words in the list are arranged by phonograms. There are no questions for students to answer.
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Reading a Map
Third graders become familiar with the vocabulary and skills related to mapping. In this guided reading lesson, 3rd graders find proper nouns on from the map. Students read Goldilocks. Students make a map...
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What Room Do I Belong To?
In this ESL rooms in a house vocabulary instructional activity, students analyze 7 pictures that depict common objects. Students match each picture to the room in the house where it might be found.
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Complete the Sentences
In this sentence completion worksheet, students read ten sentences with a missing word. From four choices, students select the word that would best complete each sentence. This worksheet is from the UK and contains phrases and vocabulary...
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Fire Safety Spiral Puzzle
In this fire safety vocabulary worksheet, students answer the clue with a fire safety word and plug it into the crossword puzzle. Students complete this for 8 words.
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Plan The Interior of a House
Students study how electric wiring runs through a house, name plumbing, describe insulation, and demonstrate how wallboard is hung. They select flooring and fixtures for the house.
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Vocabulary Building: "ai" Words
In this identifying words spelled with "ai" worksheet, learners use definition clues, unscramble letters, and create sentences using the words main, hail, straight, trailer, remain, railroad, and maintenance. Students write twenty-one...
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Vocabulary Building: Final-e Rule
In this recognizing words with the final-e spelling worksheet, students write the words from dictation, unscramble letters, and create sentences using the words name, home, here, like, and some. Students write fifteen answers.
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Vocabulary Building: Fine-e Rule 2
In this recognizing words spelled with the final-e rule worksheet, learners write words from dictation, unscramble letters, and create sentences using the words five, gave, take, came, and come. Students write fifteen answers.
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Vocabulary Building: Words with "OR"
In this spelling words with the "or" pattern worksheet, students write words using definition clues, unscramble letters, and write sentences using the words or, for, more, before, and color. Students write fifteen short answers.
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Vocabulary Words: ar words
In this recognizing words spelled with "ar" activity, students write the words from dictation, unscramble letters, and create sentences using the words are, car, far, dark, and orange. Students write fifteen answer.
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Vocabulary Building: AR and UR Words 3
In this recognizing words spelled with "ar" and "ur" worksheet, students spell from dictation, unscramble, and create sentences using the words March, market, marble, farther, further, and burnt. Students write eighteen answers.
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Vocabulary Building: One Consonant Rule 3
In this recognizing words with one consonant worksheet, students write from dictation, unscramble, and create sentences using the words lazy, safety, recess, below, using, and receive. Students write eighteen answers.
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Vocabulary Building: -aw, -au Words 3
In this recognizing -aw and -au words worksheet, students write from dictation, unscramble, and create sentences using the words paw, straw, August, taught, law, and crawl. Students write eighteen answers.