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Television: Comedy Vs. Drama

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Young scholars investigate the world of Television by contrasting specific programs.  In this visual storytelling lesson, students compare and contrast the differences between comedy and drama by making a Venn Diagram.  Young...
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Adjectives or Adverbs

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this adjectives or adverbs worksheet, students fill in the blanks to the sentences with either the adjectives or adverbs. Students complete 35 problems total.
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Simple Past Tense: was/were

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this simple past activity, students rewrite sentences using the simple past forms, write adverbs, fill in the blanks with was and were, and more. Students complete 5 activities.
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Picture Story

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this story instructional activity, learners put pictures in order to tell a story and fill in the blanks to 2 different stories to complete them. Students complete 3 stories total.
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Animal Story: An Informational Narrative

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students use the computer to research information and publish creative narrative stories about the life of a specific Everglades animal. This instructional activity uses many educational, computer programs including the iLife suite,...
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Primary History Extension Activity- Stories and Pastimes

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this Anglo-Saxon stories learning exercise, students choose one or more of the 4 possible extension activities pertaining to the storytelling and pastimes of the Anglo-Saxon period.
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Convincing Characters

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners create vivid, active characters for a story. In this character lesson, students discuss the characters in books they are familiar with. Learners create a list of novels they have read and discuss the character types. Students...
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Resilient Voices

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students select a fictitious obstacle to overcome as an analysis of their own resiliency. In this resiliency lesson, students discuss the meaning of resiliency and watch a video about the concept. Students work in pairs to trace...
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Create a Parts of Speech Newspaper

For Students 4th - 6th
In this parts of speech worksheet, students write articles and include pictures about parts of speech to make a newspaper. Students write 8 articles about parts of speech and include examples.
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Spelling List 1: Sight Words, Suffix "-ant," and Academic Vocabulary

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this spelling worksheet, students practice their spelling words that include sight words, suffix -ant, and vocabulary. Students practice spelling 21 words.
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Kitano Takeshi

For Students 4th - 8th
In this Kitano Takeshi worksheet, students read a passage about Kitano Takeshi and then complete worksheets such as spelling, a listening gap fill, synonym matching, scrambled sentences, and more.
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Hooray for Harry

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students examine the Harry Potter series of books and read about charitable endeavors of J.K Rowling. They explore various websites and look for newspaper articles about charitable giving or charitable service.
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Tezuka OSAMU

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Pupils engage in a lesson to research the life of Tezuka Osamu. They examine his life and writings looking for the answer to essential questions to guide the work. They complete several activities as part of a unit study.
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Terms of Office

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students use election related words to create a dictionary page for each of them. They use the internet to research the definitions of the words. They combine all of the pages and put them into a book.
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Chlorine-Bleached Paper

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Young scholars analyze the effects of pollution and other types of ecosystem devasation caused by chlorine. They examine alternative technologies that allow for the bleaching of paper without using chlorine. They discover what they can...
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World-Water Hero

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore why clean water is essential. In this environmental activity, students identify the "powers" we need to improve the quality of water. Students share their descriptions of world-water superheroes.
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"NSN, Fractions/Decimals" Investigations

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders engage in a "layered" unit of discovery. There are three levels of potential learning opportunities, in the spirit of the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver (bronze, silver, gold). The lesson plan is based upon fractions.
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Plastic Poison

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore the processes used in the making of polyvinyl chloride (PVC). The types of pollution caused in the manufacturing and use and the problems in the disposal of this product is examined in this lesson.
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Fish Food for Thought

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students examine the role of the US Environmental Protection Agency and the Federal Clean Water Act of 1970 after reading Lynne Cherry's, A River Ran Wild. They decide if the goals of the act were met and create a fish cartoon that...
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Interpreting a Story from a News Article

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students read and retell a story form out of the newspaper. They write to communicate ideas, stories, letters, simple explanations, and short reports. They edit and perfect their projects for homework, and they share their work with the...
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Tennis Word Scramble

For Students 4th - 6th
For this tennis terminology worksheet, students review and explore nine key terms associated with tennis and then complete a tennis word scramble worksheet.
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Christmas Theme

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this holiday worksheet, students take part in a variety of activities that are part of the theme of Christmas. They solve word searches and other puzzles.
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Abraham Lincoln Word Search

For Students 4th - 5th
In this social studies worksheet, students work in order to identify the correct vocabulary words. The skills of spelling are also worked upon.
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Tennis Word Search

For Students 4th - 5th
In this literacy activity, students find the words that are part of the vocabulary list for the theme of the word search puzzle.