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Animal Encounters
Young scholars use their visualizing and interpreting skills to produce original writings and artwork.
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"For The Birds" [part II]
Students examine how Chinese and Japanese artists used different kinds of birds
as representations of ideas that were important in both cultures and create their own birds using the technique of origami.
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How Weather Affects Our Lives
English learners practice basic weather terms from listening to two books. They keep a daily weather record for two weeks to record the type of weather, as well as the high and low temperatures for each day. Next, they complete a simple...
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Explore the Written Word with National Postcard Week
Develop writing and analysis skills with a celebration of the postcard pastime.
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A Panel of Survivors
Students role-play real-life survivors in a panel discussion. They read a mini-biography about a survivor.
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Presenting Your Case
Students research a famous person of their choice in this lesson. They research the person's life, feelings, and character through a series of written activities. They compile their research into a creative project called a character's...
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Descriptive Writing
Students write a one-page description of a postcard received from the teacher. After finishing, they tape postcards to the blackboard and number them. They read their descriptions, while other students guess which card the student is...
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Paradox Worlds
Young scholars view and analyze "Still Life," by Cornelis de Heem. They answer discussion questions about the painting, write similes, discuss symbolism, create a still life sketch, and create a paint box poem.
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To Whom It May Concern
Fourth graders produce and peer edit typed rough drafts of the business letters following the guidelines illustrated in the Eight Essential Parts of a business letter and save to disks. They complete the Where's the Math? scavenger hunt...
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From These Beginnings
Students prepare a bulletin board that shows the changing identity of their state before and after statehood.
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It's About Time
In collaborative teams, students create individual autobiographical presentations that help them investigate their historical background. As they collaborate and create their projects they discuss and come to realize how current...
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How Grouchy are YOU!!!!!
Pupils read "The Grouchy Ladybug" by Eric Carle. With this selection, they encounter how to read with different voices. Students keep a reading journal in this class as well.
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Safe from the Storm
Fourth graders read the poem "Snowbound" after brainstorming what a place of refuge is and why it's needed. They, in pairs, meet and write a list of ten attributes that describe a refuge. They write a paragraph describing the look, feel,...
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Picture It!
Students, through teacher modeling and guided practice, explore the concept of visualization and how it works to help them comprehend what they read. They read a story, visualize what has happened in the story, and then draw a picture...
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Crossword- Basic Vocabulary Review
In this vocabulary acquisition worksheet, students read 11 clues and determine the word they describe. Students fit their answers in a crossword puzzle. There is no word bank.
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Worksheet 14 Crossword
In this vocabulary crossword puzzle worksheet, students read ten clues and fit their answers in a crossword puzzle. There is no theme to this puzzle and no word bank.
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Crossword- Read the Clues and Fit the Answers in the Puzzle
In this crossword puzzle learning exercise, students read 8 clues and fit the answers in a crossword puzzle. The learning exercise has no word bank and no theme.
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December Holidays Vocabulary Decoder Activity
For this December holiday worksheet, students match letters of words to definitions, decoding December holiday words. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Most Wonderful Gift
Students discover that folktales reveal a great deal about the place in which they originate. They identify physical and human characteristics of a place and explain how culture influences the way people think. They illustrate cultural...
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Homophones
In this homophones worksheet, students rewrite the passage by finding the 25 spelling mistakes and replacing them with the correct homophone.
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Reading Comprehension: Simon Bolivar
In this reading comprehension/biography worksheet, students read 2 pages of information about Simon Bolivar. No comprehension questions are included, worksheets are for informational reading only.
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"The Secret School" Chapters 13-14
In this "The Secret School" comprehension worksheet, students complete 10 short answer questions about chapters 13 and 14, being as detailed as possible with their answers.