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Paper Mache Globes
Third graders create a paper mache model of the earth. At the conclusion of a discussion about the earth, they are given paper mache materials, they create their globe and appropriately draw and label landforms, bodies of water and the...
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Heartfelt/Handmade Activities: Genre Painting
Students examine genre painting. They explore the Illinois State Museum website, identify how genre paintings were composed, analyze the activities of an Illinois farm in the 1850s, and create a genre painting of current everyday...
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Indian Meets Colonist - Role Play
Students role play as colonists and Indians. They are assigned a specific colony and Indian group, and write a script and then role play in front of their classmates.
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Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Words: Art, Art History, Language Arts, Creative Writing
Students write a story inspired by Vincent Van Gogh's "Starry Night" and then try their hand at their own rendition of this famous piece of art. In a twist, students incorporate the stories into their paintings.
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Nonprofits in our Community and World
Students discover the functions of nonprofit organizations. In this service learning instructional activity, students brainstorm questions for use in an interview with a nonprofit representative.
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Water Conservation
Students investigate water conservation. In this water conservation instructional activity, students list the uses for water and record their water usage for one day. Students graph the data and create a water conservation poster.
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Identifying Important Ideas in Expository Text
Pupils identify the main ideas from expository text. In this main ideas lesson, students read a piece of text and practice identifying what is most important. Pupils complete another sample reading with a group then discuss as a class.
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Prejudice and Discrimination
As a group, students read a story about prejudice and discrimination. They answer questions and discuss the topic. They accept everyone.
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Come Fly with Me
Students identify rhyming words from the book A Fly Went By by matching words written on index card with same endings, eliciting word when prompted by teacher, and by identifying rhyming words in the text.
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Delicious Descriptive Adjectives
Students write out recipes with different adjectives then share them with the class.
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Looking at Body Language
Learners examine Dorothea Lange's photograph of a migrant mother and consider how artists express emotions, ideas, and physical conditions through gesture, pose, clothing, and expression.
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Journal Writing
Students investigate the life of Martha Wayles Jefferson. In this American history lesson, students examine excerpts of the journals kept by Thomas Jefferson's wife. Students infer what life at Monticello may have been like....
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Families and Neighborhoods
Pupils explore the concepts of family and community. In this diversity lesson, students read Bear About Town and then design and build their own classroom neighborhood homes out of individual shoeboxes.
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Arthur Meets the President
Students read, Arthur Meets the President, and review the story using sentence strips and complete a book review activity with a partner. In this reading skills lesson plan, students work on fact and opinion and...
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Fitness
Third graders practice exercise. In this physical fitness lesson, 3rd graders participate in a variety of activities at fitness stations. Students run laps, jump rope, perform chin-ups, sit-ups, etc.
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Trail Mix
Third graders, given the price of different ingredients, make a trail mix of five different items without exceeding their budget of five dollars. They choose between pretzels, M&M's, twizzlers, popcorn, etc,. Each student practices...
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Listening Well
Learners demonstrate good listening skills. In this listening skills instructional activity, students identify the signs people give when they are actively listening, such as eye contact. Learners practice good listening skills in a an...
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There's No Business Like Bank Business
Learners participate in a role play where they see how a bank works and how interest is paid by having money in the bank. In this bank lesson plan, students operate a bank and learn about saving, accounts, deposits, withdrawals,...
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Total English Intermediate: Would You Change It?
In this intermediate second conditional tense worksheet, students write questions using prompts and finish 8 sentence starters.
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Genre Jeopardy
Young scholars play a Jeopardy game in which the questions are about different genres. They can use this activity as a review before a test.
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"Architexture": Exploring Architecture Through Clay Tiles
Young scholars explore and analyze the architecture of San Antonio, Texas. They watch a video about tiles created by Harding Black, and discuss pictures of architecture found in San Antonio, Texas. Students then design a clay tile...
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Animal Groups
Students explore animal groups. In this animal science lesson, students use pictures from magazines and classify the animals into five categories. Students share why they categorized the animals the way they did.
