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Launching Your Ship with Citizenship Lesson 4: Hoisting the Flag

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discuss the U.S. electoral process and brainstorm solutions to increase voter turnout in their community. For this democratic citizenship lesson, students identify keywords in speech and video related to freedom of speech and...
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Winter Song Photo Story

For Students 6th - 8th
In this winter songs worksheet, students create a winter song photo report about their favorite winter song. Students include 4 items in the report.
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The Letter Ff: Alphabet Theme

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students complete several cross-curricular activities to learn the letter Ff. In this letter recognition lesson, students complete activities that include geography, music, physical education, science, seasonal, space science, and online...
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Heart Shaped Mice

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students create mice using heart shapes, construction paper, yarn, markers, scissors, and glue in this Art lesson for the early-elementary classroom. The activity is an excellent alternative for use during the Valentine's Day season.
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Minding Your Body

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore the benefits of yoga and meditation by studying baseball players who incorporate them into their pre-season training. They investigate a variety of mind-body techniques and create a presentation for the class.
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Plant Classification

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students participate in an experiment that involves plant classification. They identify and are able to employ three methods of classifying leaves. Each student classifies leaves by each of the following methods: K-I 4.b, d, & e;...
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Vivaldi's Storms

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students listen to two selections of Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" symphony. In groups, they identify and describe the mood and musical elements used to represent each season using correct vocabulary. They write their observations in a paper...
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Haiku

For Teachers K - 12th
Students write haiku poems on leaf paper.
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Christmas Songs Puzzle

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this Christmas crossword worksheet, students complete a crossword puzzle by answering questions or filling in the blanks of items related to Christmas songs. There are 41 word blanks on the puzzle to solve.
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Arts of Asia in Reach

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students explore the traditions and celebrations of another culture and research a city or community in Japan. They then examine traditional Japanese music as well as practice several dance steps and discover their significance in...
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AC/DC - Rock On!

For Students 4th - 6th
In this day and age, the answer to most questions can be found using a click of a button. Learners can practice their research skills using an online quiz focusing on the band AC/DC. They can use the Internet to answer questions about...
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Mother's Day Craft

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners create a flower pot for their mom on mother's day. They use pictures found in magazines to create a collage on the flower pot. They are to follow instructions to complete this lesson.
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Common Adaptation Patterns

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students become familiar with common categories of animals and discover adaptation patterns and structures in animals that help them survive in different environments. Students identify major structures of common animals.
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Pop Up Card

For Teachers K - 8th
Students design and create pop-up greeting cards for a special occasion in this art lesson for Kindergarten through 8th grade classrooms. The lesson includes resource links for pop-up "arm" ideas and can be accomplished in one day.
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Wiggly Spiders

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students create "wiggly spiders" using black paint, construction paper, yarn, and their hands in this fun, messy, art lesson for the early elementary classroom. An ideal lesson for the Halloween holiday or for a lesson/unit on spiders.
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Fragments, Comma Splices, and Fused Sentences

For Students 7th - 8th
Identifying when to use commas, semicolons and other forms of punctuation can be difficult for students. This 10 question activity which relates to sentence fragments, could be used to help students identify correct use of punctuation.
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The Many, Varied, and Unusual Places and Things on Earth

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students discover how energy flows through communities because of the relationship between producers, consumers and decomposers. Examining various ecosystems, they identify the materials that cycle continuously through them. They label...
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English Vocabulary Skills: AWL Sublist 8 - Exercise 2c

For Students 9th - 12th
In this online interactive English vocabulary skills worksheet, students answer 10 matching questions which require them to fill in the blanks in 10 sentences. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Puttin' On the Hits

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore "summer songs." They compose a list of songs that they would put on a summer CD and write an essay that explains the images they would choose for the cover for this CD. They also create collages that represent their...
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Winter Through the Arts

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students read the book The Snowy Day and discover various winter themes. In this winter lesson plan, students develop movements to express the feeling of a snowstorm. Students also construct winter-themed art pieces.
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Taking a Stand

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students make connections with cultures (their own and others'), their identity, heritage, traditions, and symbols and examine the richness that diversity brings to communities.
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Families and neighborhoods

For Teachers K
Students create their house to add to a class "neighborhood". In this lesson plan on family and community, students read the book Family by Todd Parr and discuss how all families and houses are different. Then, students create their own...
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Tree Friends

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students are introduced to tree structure and use. They identify their special tree using all senses except sight. Students identify six different internal parts within a cross section of tree trunk (bark, phloem, xylem, cambium,...
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Past/Participle Verb Forms 1: Irregular verb forms

For Students 5th - 10th
In this past and participle worksheet, learners write the past and participle form for each verb in the sentences. Students complete this activity for 25 sentences.