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Halloween Fine Arts Activities
Third graders demonstrate their understanding of crescendo. They achieve dramatic effect in singing the Halloween Song. They sing this song with a gradual crescendo from beginning to end.
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Pond Exploration
Pupils take a hands-on approach to explore the world beneath the water in this activity. They examine the creatures they catch to study about the adaptations these animals have that allow them to survive in this harsh environment. They...
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How tall are you?
Students review different units of measurement that would be used to measure height. They compare their height to that of Abraham Lincoln by working with a partner to make a life size tracing of each other and measuring their height.
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Resolving Situations
Students listen to the problem situation included in the lesson and discuss how they would resolve this situation. They then complete the "Resolving Problems" worksheet independently.
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Going Beyond the Screen
During Screen-Free Week, help your pupils develop media literacy through analysis of their favorite shows.
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Classifying Defending Information about Main Idea
Learners read and highlight important information gathered from text. In this reading strategies instructional activity, students define classify and then classify the important information they find. Learners share and reflect on...
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Conflict Resolution in the Classroom
Conflicts that happen on the schoolyard or at lunch can provide a learning opportunity for students.
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Every Day Edit - The Big Wind
In this everyday editing worksheet, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about the strongest wind ever measured. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and spelling.
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Cuisenaire Chefs
Students study the fractional values of Cuisenaire rods while working with favorite family recipes.
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Protest Music of the 60's
Students demonstrate their knowlege about protest music of the late sixties by creating miniature protest signs.
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The Changing Me
Third graders study the human body. In this health lesson plan, 3rd graders discuss that everyone's body is growing, measure body parts using a tape measure, and color the body worksheet.
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Poison Play Scenarios
In this real-life scenario worksheet, young scholars posing as campers act out six short scenarios that involve situations that campers may indeed find themselves in one day in the future.
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Make Sense of Nature
Students participate in this program that heightens their awareness and curiosity of nature as well as their sense of adventure and exploring new surroundings. They identify and choose an object from nature after exploring it with other...
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In the Kitchen
Students practice speaking and using vocabulary associated with the kitchen. In this speaking and vocabulary activity, students answer teacher questions about the kitchen and the items in the kitchen. Teacher evaluates student...
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Cookie Sharing
Pupils create a cookie that is inspired by their holidays. They write a paragraph explaining why the shape represents their holiday.
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Step by Step
Students measure the rise and run of steps from a place that holds meaning for them. They write a reflection (in the form of a journal entry, poem, or short story) regarding this significant place.
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What We Know About Dinosaurs?
Third graders determine what can and cannot be learned from fossils. In this fossils lesson, 3rd graders discuss what can and cannot be learned from fossils, then students create and observe their fossils.
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Select the Tense
In this verb tense worksheet, students practice their grammatical skills as they identify the action verbs in 15 sentences and label each as present, past or future tense.
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Maps! Maps! Maps!
Third graders examine and identify different types of maps. They review the types of projections and which maps are better for different information. They answer comprehension questions at the end of the activity.
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Fact or Opinion?
Third graders design a political cartoon. In this fact and opinion lesson, 3rd graders examine political cartoons and distinguish fact from opinion. Students create a political cartoon on the topic of their choice.
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Lincoln's Birthday
Students in and ESL classroom discover and discuss the importance of Abraham Lincoln and why we celebrate his birthday. They study vocabulary associated with Abraham Lincoln.
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Track Stories
Young scholars identify animal tracks. In this animal track lesson, students look at "track stories" and identify the animals that made the tracks. Young scholars discuss if they believe the animals are predators or prey.
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Verb Tense
In this verb tense worksheet, students fill in the blanks with the word that is in the correct verb tense and then label the tense of verbs given. Students complete 16 problems.
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Learning Short a and Long a sounds
Learners recognize the difference between the short a sound and the long a sound, then compile a list of words containing short a and long a sounds.