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Make a Farm

For Teachers Pre-K - 4th
After a class discussion about where their food comes from learners construct a farm from a print-out (embedded in the plan). They work in groups, and trace a food source from the beginning. For example, they discover how a farmer grows...
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Creating a Thematic Map

For Teachers 8th - 9th
Students create and analyze a weather-related data table and a thematic map based upon information provided.
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A Book About Me

For Teachers K
How big is your foot? How long is your arm? How big is your mom’s hand? After learning how to measure body parts, young writers collect their observations into an illustrated book. Instructions for crafting a 3D Tim Foil Man are also...
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Let's Have a Fiesta!

For Teachers 1st
First graders plan a Mexican fiesta, create a paper flower and cook a tortilla to eat with a fruit drink. They listen to Gary Soto's, Too Many Tamales and June Behrens', Fiesta! Cinco de Mayo.
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Create a Playbill!

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders explore the various elements found in the advertisement of a dramatic experience. Playbills are created that reflect the plot without revealing the climax of the play. Costumes, set construction, and character description...
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Ozark Karst: A Fragile Landform

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young geologists become familiar with the Karst Topography in the Ozark Mountains. They study how human activity has affected the cave ecosystem. They conduct a simulation in which a large development is proposed in the area, and they...
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Flat Stanley, a Literature Lesson Plan Transformed into a Multiculturalized and ESOL Strategy-Infused Lesson Plan

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders complete a variety of reading and writing activities related to the book "Flat Stanley." They create an illustration and write a short summary for each chapter, and write a letter and send a "Flat Stanley" to a friend or...
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The Candy Color Caper

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students explore the concept of probability. They calculate the probability of an event happening and graph their results. Students determine the probability of winning a sweepstakes. They construct a bar graph to represent all the...
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Energy Solutions; A Brochure

For Teachers 6th - 8th
By creating an energy brochure, teams of science learners inform others about the advantages of using alternative energy sources. An instructions page for your class and a grading rubric are provided. The lesson focuses on photovoltaics,...
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A Monster of a Metaphor

For Teachers 7th - 12th
What do Jeep advertisements and Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath have in common? They both employ the art of the extended metaphor! Using the Six-Trait Writing model, learners begin to work on their own extended metaphors. Development...
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A Tribute To Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
How much do your learners know about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.? Set up an opportunity for kids to learn about Dr. King while practicing reading fluency with a reader's theater activity. The script is for four voices and includes...
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Computer Language

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
A thorough and engaging slideshow presentation discusses all things computer, from artificial intelligence programs to text messaging lingo. Computer science students will get a kick out of the examples for ELIZA, Otto Jesperson's...
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Phonics: Letter-Sound Correspondence, Letter-Sound Bingo

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Young scholars build a strong understanding of medial sounds, vowels, and letter sound correspondence while playing Bingo. Taking turns, peers choose a card and say its name and medial sound; all players look for the vowel on their card....
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Take a Deep Breath: Air Today, Air Tomorrow

For Teachers 7th - 12th
This is the introductory lesson in a series about air quality. Why is it so important that we breathe clean air? How can we make sure we're keeping our air clean? A discussion is the central idea of the lesson, and example questions are...
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Bernardo and Sylvia Play a Game

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
This activity presents a game played by two learners whose solution is an exercise in creating and analyzing with algebraic inequalities. 
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Letter A Recognition

For Students K - 1st
In this letter recognition activity students practice identifying the letter A. This could be a simple and quick way to have students identify words that begin with A.
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Writing Exercise: Why Is One Color Better than Another?

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Compare and contrast why one color is better than another in a short-answer format. After kids finish their writing assignment, they can also draw a picture to illustrate why one color is better.
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Caps for Sale

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Bring to life a class reading of the children's book Caps for Sale with this printable set of manipulatives. Color, laminate, and cut out these pictures of the peddler, his caps, the tree, and the monkeys, using them act out the...
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Color by Numbers-Umbrella

For Students 1st
In this color by number worksheet, 1st graders use the numbered code under the picture to color the umbrella picture. This picture is in a hidden picture format. Neither the umbrella nor the large letter U are immediately obvious.
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Color by Number-Gingerbread Man

For Students 1st
In this color by the numbers worksheet, 1st graders use the provided code to color the picture. Each section of the picture is numbered. The gingerbread man may not be immediately visible to students.
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Introductory Activity for Color Unit: Edible Color Wheel

For Teachers K - 8th
Students use food coloring and frosting to make an edible color wheel. They identify the primary colors and experiment with mixing colored frosting to produce the secondary colors. Students then eat their color wheel.
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Color By Numbers: Nuts

For Students Pre-K - K
In this color by number worksheet on nuts students will identify the numbers one through five on a picture of different nuts and color each number a different color and reveal the picture of nuts and the letter N.
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Color by Numbers-Winnie the Pooh

For Students 1st
In this color by number worksheet, 1st graders color a picture of Winnie the Pooh. The ten colors listed at the bottom of the page, each with a corresponding number. Students use this code to color the picture.
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Color Blue

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this color recognition worksheet, students view a blank balloon and the word "blue." They must color the balloon blue.

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