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Play Me a Story - Sorcerer's Apprentice

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Young scholars explore the story taht accompanies the musical composition, The Sorcerer's Apprentice. Using the 5W-how questions, they explain what is happening in the story as they listen to the musical.
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International Jazz Day

For Students 5th - 10th
In this International Jazz Day instructional activity, students complete activities such as reading a passage, phrase matching, fill in the blanks, correct words, multiple choice, spelling, sequencing, scrambled sentences, writing...
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We're off to see the Wizard!

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students explore the process of play and movie making from books. They study the basic elements of drama and write and produce a play based on a chosen theme. Students explain the basic elements of a play by looking at "The Wonderful...
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World Heart Day

For Students 5th - 10th
In this World Heart Day activity, students complete activities including reading a passage, matching phrases, fill in the blanks, correct word choosing, multiple choice, sequencing, unscramble the sentences, write questions, take a...
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The Story of an Old Piano

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students read excerpts from The Story of an Old Piano. They choose a personal object and write paragraphs from the object's point of view. Their stories can be bound for the class library.
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Kalahari Explorations

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students research the area of the Kalahari Desert. They use the online and print resources and evaluate the information they find. They present their information to the class.
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Idiom Quizzes - Clothes

For Students 4th - 6th
For this online/interactive worksheet, students choose an idiom to replace the expressions in parenthesis. Students write 15 multiple choice answers.
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Oceans: A Sensory Haiku

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students create an ocean haiku. In this haiku activity, students use their five senses to write a haiku. Students watch videos about the ocean, make a sensory portrait, and create a class haiku.
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Glastonbury Festival

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students read about the Glastonbury Festival and then have to plan their own summer festival. In this festival lesson plan, students fill out worksheets and create a presentation for their festival.
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Beginning Paragraph Correction #12

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this paragraph correction learning exercise, students read a passage and determine the types of errors that are numbered in sentences. Students choose eight multiple choice answers that correct the errors.
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Master Spy

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explain that a code is a system of symbols, letters, words, or signals that are used instead of ordinary words and numbers to send messages or to store information. They practice deciphering a variety of secret codes used in...
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Blowin' In The Wind

For Students 4th - 6th
In this song lessons worksheet, students listen to the song by Bob Dylan, "Blowin' in the Wind." They search for key phrases that use the words, "How many," and list each one with the noun that follows the phrase. Students listen to the...
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Phrasal Verbs: Crime

For Students 4th - 6th
In this filling in the blanks online/interactive worksheet, students read incomplete sentences and choose the correct verb phrases to complete them. Students choose 10 multiple choice answers and check them by clicking on the answer box.
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Coffee Houses

For Students 4th - 6th
In this online/interactive recognizing vocabulary usage activity, students use the words and phrases bank to fill in the blanks and complete the sentences. Students write 10 answers.
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The First Certificate

For Students 4th - 6th
In this grammar worksheet, students choose the correct prepositions and verbs for sentences and then rewrite sentences. Students complete 35 questions total.
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The Burglary - Past Progressive Exercise

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this verbs worksheet, learners fill in the blanks with the passive progressive forms of words when they look at pictures and write what people were doing while a burglary was taking place. Students complete 12 sentences total.
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Self-acceptance

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students assess the importance of acceptance of self and others via the development of self-worth and the looking for the good in others not the bad. They explore the task of looking at the world through the eyes of others. In addition,...
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Aaliyah Biography

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this biographical reading / writing worksheet about the singer Aaliyah, students first read a one page biographical essay. Students then compose 11 short answer responses to the following questions.
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Vocabulary in Sentences

For Students 4th - 5th
In this completing the sentences worksheet, students use the words in the word pool and context clues to fill in the blank spaces. Students write 10 answers.
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World Theatre Day

For Students 5th - 10th
In this World Theatre Day worksheet, students complete activities such as reading a passage, matching phrases, fill in the blanks, choose the correct word, multiple choice, unscramble the words, sequencing, unscramble the sentences,...
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Introducing Elections Unit

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students discover the political parties of our country by participating in a role playing activity.  In this U.S. Government lesson, students visit several different classrooms that each represent one of the political parties in the...
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My Secret War: The WWII Diary of Madeline Beck: Lesson 11

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore world history by participating in a class game. In this propaganda lesson, 5th graders identify Madeline Beck and the role women played during World War II. Students create fictitious propaganda posters and...
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Multiple Intelligences Survey

For Students 3rd - Higher Ed
For this multiple intelligences worksheet, students complete a survey asking them about different ways they like to learn. Students complete 24 questions. This should be a very enjoyable activity for students.
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A Few, Few, A Little, or Little

For Students 4th - 5th
In this word usage worksheet, students fill in the blanks to complete sentences with a few, few, a little, or little and create additional sentences using the words and phrases. Students finish and write 18 sentences.