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Make Your Own Quilt Square

For Students 4th - 8th
For this quilting squares worksheet, students follow the provided steps to create their own quilt squares. Diagrams are included as well.
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Textured Pottery using Self-Hardening Clay and Multicultural Design

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students create textured pottery. In this multicultural arts lesson, students follow step-by-step directions to create textured pottery with a multicultural design out of self-hardening clay.
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Making Puzzles

For Teachers K - 8th
Students create their own puzzles. In this visual arts lesson, students follow the provided steps to create their jigsaw puzzles made from card stock.
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Celebrating St. Patrick's Day with Dance

For Teachers Pre-K - 12th
Students perform Irish dances. In this Irish dance lesson, students learn a variety of dance steps and use these dances for physical activity, fun, and exercise.
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The Rabbit Problem

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students notice a number pattern in the book The Rabbit Problem by Emily Gravett. In this number pattern lesson plan, students represent and describe numbers appropriate to their grade level.
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New York State Testing Program: Mathematics Book 2, Grade 4 2008

For Students 4th
For this 4th grade math standardized test practice worksheet, students solve 18 multiple-step open-ended math problems based on New York academic standards.
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Floating Soap

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students use the Scientific Method steps to complete an experiment on various brands of soap to determine their floating capabilities. In this scientific method lesson, students write a hypothesis about the ability of various soap bars...
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Animals: Black-Faced Spoonbills

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students analyze the physical characteristics, behavior, distribution and migration patterns of the black-faced spoonbills.
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Does Santa Claus use the Coriolis Force to Travel East?

For Teachers K - 9th
Learners are given a visual demonstration of the Coriolis Force in the Northern Hemisphere. They are encouraged to find locations around the globe and try to predict what the weather circulation patterns might be like.
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Mental Math: Multiplying Multiples of Ten- Reteaching Worksheet

For Students 4th
In this mental math: multiples of ten reteaching worksheet, 4th graders review the steps of using a basic fact and a pattern of zeros to multiply mentally. They find the products in 16 examples, and use a table to answer 2 more.
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Crackin' the Musical Code

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students decode musical notation and then synthesize and apply by notating their own musical composition. Students draw various rhythmic examples which are equal in time duration. They notate and count rhythmic patterns. Additional cross...
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Puzzle Prints

For Teachers K - 5th
Students explore the basic techniques of printmaking in this introductory lesson for the elementary Art classroom. Included with this lesson are ideas for successful implementation and step-by-step directions for the teacher with no...
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Shamrock Man

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students create "Shamrock Men" using construction paper, pre-cut patterns, glue, and scissors in this instructional activity that celebrates St. Patrick's Day. The instructional activity was originally create for a Special Education...
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Properties of Soil

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students encounter various pieces of knowledge utilizing lessons that addresses a diversity of learners with multiple intelligences. They cover various concepts: science, Earth, scientific inquiry, geometry, data analysis, probability,...
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Family Stories and Personal Narratives

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders read various stories in their literature books about families. Individually, they make a timeline showing the most important events in their lives. They bring in one artifact from their lives and write a paper about it...
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Triple Meter

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students chant "Mabel, Mabel, Set the Table" in beats grouped in 4's using a percussive pattern. They repeat using 3's. Students sing a song in 4's and in 3's. they move to recorded music to practice threes. Students create Orff...
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Constellation Companions

For Teachers 3rd - 10th
Students research the star composition for a constellation after a brainstorming session suggesting why humans have organized the night sky into constellation patterns. They use the research to create their own constellation and myth...
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Rainbow Dream Catcher

For Teachers K - 6th
Young scholars design dream catchers. In this visual arts instructional activity, students follow the provided steps to create their own rainbow dream catchers.
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New York State Testing Program: Mathematics Book 2, Grade 5 2005

For Students 4th
In this 5th grade math standardized test practice learning exercise, students solve 48 multiple-step open-ended math problems based on New York academic standards.
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New York State Testing Program: Mathematics Book 2, Grade 4 2003

For Students 4th
In this 4th grade math standardized test practice instructional activity, students solve 48 multiple-step open-ended math problems based on New York academic standards.
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Cloze Instruction And Herringbone Technique

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Young scholars sort out important information and create a visual framework for reviewing in the future. They organize a large quantity of information thus helping with learning and remembering details, cause and effect, comparison...
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Animal Diaries

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students read Diary of a Worm by Foreen Cronin. In this journal writing instructional activity, students research an animal and write a diary by their animal. Students apply the research they've completed in their writings. Students...
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Time, Talent, Treasure and Economics

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars work cooperatively to create a quilt. They choose a pattern and determine the specific skills and steps needed to produce that quilt. Labor is divided equally between group members and a quilt is created assembly line...
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Social Studies: Personal Chronology

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders draw ten significant events from their lives on index cards, shuffle them, and trade sets with other students. Their classmates try to place them in chronological order. Next, 4th graders tape their index cards next to...