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"How Tall, How Short, How Faraway" by David A. Adler
Students list in a journal what "measurement" is. They measure with standard and non-standard units and record data on a class chart. They also construct a meter tape.
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Yard Sale
Students complete activities to discover spending, goods, services, price, advertising, choice, alternatives, criteria and opportunity cost.
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Filling the Time
Pupils predict what sort of activities can be accomplished during the allotted time. For this time lesson, students record their predictions and perform the activities they predicted that they could accomplish within the 20 minute time...
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The Hundred Penny Box
Students recognize the pattern established year after year with the special coin dated appropriately
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Germs Make Me Sick
Young scholars work in pairs, first doubling each number with pencil and paper, and checking it with a calculator.
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Nested Requests
Learners apply the problem solving skill of Request-Response-Result in word problems where the requests are nested. They practice using the technique and determining when it is appropriate to be used.
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Integrating Science and Literature: Life as We Knew It
Supplement your science units with science fiction novels!
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Pondering the Perfect Pet
Cute, playful, mischievous pets will capture the attention of even your most reluctant learners.
Boys Town
More Tools for Teaching Social Skills in School
Put an end to wasted instructional time with this instructional activity on responsibility and preparedness. After completing this series of activities students will learn the importance of these social skills not only in the...
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Human Body Lessons
Students read "The Magic School Bus in the Human Body" and discuss the importance of maintaining a healthy body. They create a hinge and joint paper skeleton, follow the journey of a hamburger through the digestive tract, jump rope and...
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Home Living / Daily Living: Dressing for the Weather
What to wear? Help your special needs class make independent choices about what they should wear during various weather conditions. They'll discuss weather-appropriate clothing, dress dolls for the weather outside, and even put on a...
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Analysis of the Tuck Everlasting and The Birchbark House Text Exemplars
Looking to introduce some text-based questions into your ELA lessons? Practice the kinds of skills the Common Core demands with the seven text-based questions and the essay prompt provided here. Designed to be a three-day instructional...
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Sato and the Elephants
Students write a persuasive letter to the government of an African country that has elephants as a resource. Students research and debate the pros and cons of ivory use. Students identify the value of ivory products versus the lives of...
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Creative Homework Assignments Can Motivate Students
Teachers can make homework more meaningful by giving students interesting and motivating assignments.
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Growing Plants
Students grow plants and track their growth over time. In this growing plants lesson, students plant seedlings and chart their growth in a data analysis activity.
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Quiz 5A: Indefinite Pronouns / Some and Any
In this pronouns worksheet, students complete 22 sentences by inserting an indefinite pronoun in the blank. The pronoun choices are: some, any, something, anything, someone, somebody, anyone, anybody.
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Learn Under the Old Masters
Young scholars take a closer look at portraits. In this art appreciation lesson, students may visit the National Portrait Gallery, the Victoria Art Gallery, or the Scottish National Portrait Gallery online or in-person to discover works...
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Quiz 6A: Indefinite Pronouns
In this grammar worksheet, students fill in the blanks of the sentences with indefinite pronouns. There are 21 sentences to complete.
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Total English Intermediate: Have They Got the Ability...?
For this modals of ability worksheet, students practice their grammar skills as they respond to 16 fill in the blank and short answer questions that require them to use verbs.
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Is It Possible?
Students brainstorm ideas on how to a group of people could reach the highest together. In this possibilities lesson plan, students test their ideas and see how high they can reach.
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Where We Live
Students make a 'where we live' chart to find what's common and unique about where they live. In this living analysis lesson, students complete a chart about where they live.
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Past or Present Perfect
In this grammar learning exercise, students read the sentences and then write past or present perfect on the line to show the correct verb tense.
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Good Advice 2
In this language arts worksheet, students match questions with logical answers and advice. Students read 20 questions and match them to the good advice answers.
Books in the Classroom
Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: The Mud Flat Olympics
This site on the book "The Mud Flat Olympics" by James Stevenson, includes a review of the book, a listing of things to notice and talk about, activities related to the book, other related books, and links to other resources.