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Work, Lyddie! Work!

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students research links concerning early factory labor, child labor in today's world, and diseases on young laborers. They work on a loom, analyze a mill bell schedule, read a mill girl's diary, and write a poem or song exhibiting empathy.
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Polar Bear Literacy Activity

For Teachers K - 1st
Students generate vocabulary words synonymous or related to "noise." In this literacy lesson plan, students listen to the book Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What do You Hear? by Bill Martin and Eric Carle and discuss the meaning of vocabulary...
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What's That Tree?

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders identify trees along a nature trail. Using a dichotomous key, 5th graders answer questions to aid in their identification of trees along a specified nature trail. Observations are recorded in their science journals. Sample...
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Words with sh, ch, tch, wh

For Students 4th
In this blending of consonants instructional activity, 4th graders complete a story by filling in sixteen blanks from a spelling list of words with ch/sh/tch/wh. Students find and circle each of their answers in a word search puzzle.
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Sharing Compliments- King Day

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students research Martin Luther King Jr. In this African-American history lesson, students read the book A Picture Book of Martin Luther King, Jr. and discuss how he was a philanthropist. Students use kind words towards each other...
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Graphic Organizer Lesson

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students investigate how to use graphic organizers. In this literary elements lesson, students are introduced to several types of graphic organizers and their purpose. Students read a book of their choice and complete a graphic organizer...
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Intermediate Sentence Completion 16

For Students 3rd - 4th
Although this worksheet is labeled for intermediate English language learners, I'd argue the vocabulary is more appropriate for advanced learners. The pupil reads each sentence and selects the appropriate word to complete the sentence....
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Tell Time With Your Feet

For Teachers K - 8th
Pupils discover what the latitude and longitude of their location is. They start walking and measure their shadow. They fill in a chart to discover the approximate time.
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Vocabulary: Basic Vocabulary Builder-2

For Teachers 7th - 8th
In this foreign language worksheet, students select words from a box to complete each sentence. Words are commonly used English words.
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Use Parts of Speech to Improve Sentence Beginnings

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students demonstrate the parts of speech in sentences. In this grammar lesson, students highlight and identify the parts of speech in sentences.
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Walk That Line

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders, in groups, practice outdoors with communication skills, leadership, trust, respect and creativity.
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School Daze - Remembering First, Best, Worst

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students gather and record information in interviews with adults discovering their first, best, and worst school memories, and transfer interviews into memory pages containing the interview information.
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Dinosaurs 1: Where Are the Dinosaurs?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore dinosaurs and their extinction. In this dinosaur activity, students view dinosaur websites and videos to gain an understanding of the world long ago. Discussion questions follow. Students create a paper mache dinosaur...
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Using Map Skills

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders study maps. In this U.S. geography lesson, 3rd graders explore directions on a compass rose and use a map scale to determine distances between two points on a map. They listen to a lecture and use their own maps to practice...
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Move it Like An Animal

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students investigate how animals move. In this animals lesson, students use pictures of animals and demonstrate how each of them moves from place to place.
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Bearings

For Students 5th - 6th
In this online bearings worksheet, students complete a variety of online exercises involving traveling in different directions. Students check their twenty-one answers as they go and the computer computes their final overall score at the...
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Let's Play Musical Shapes

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students practice recognizing shapes while using gross-motor skills. For this early childhood math movement lesson, students explore shapes as music plays and they walk the perimeter of large cut-out paper shapes by playing musical squares.
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Memory Uses

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students discuss importance of memory, identify products that have memory, explain difference between three stages of memory, including immediate, short-term, and long-term, watch video, and use short-term memory to play memory game.
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Angles, Bearings and Maps

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students review what they comprehend about angles. They name the differnt types of angles and define them. Students use their protractors to answer questions, the teacher walks around to look at the positioning of the protractors. ...
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Counting Money Activity

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explore commerce by practicing monetary transactions. In this consumer math lesson, 2nd graders practice using math functions to add and subtract different amounts of money. Students identify the different monetary units...
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Finishing Unfinished Sentences

For Students 9th - 11th
For this grammar worksheet, students finish each unfinished sentence by joining it to a finished sentence next to it with an expression like to see, to walk or to give.
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Maps- Looking at Map Scales

For Students 8th - 9th
For this map scale worksheet, students examine how to convert measurements on a map. They read 5 examples before completing 8 multi-step conversion problems. They insert the answers in an online version of the worksheet to determine if...
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Power Totem

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students investigate the important symbols to Native cultures by writing a poem.  In this animal totem lesson, students discuss animal spirits and their relation to the Native American lifestyle. Students write a cinquain poem about...
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Prepositions of Direction

For Students 6th - 12th
In this prepositional phrase worksheet students are given twenty sentences and asked to fill in the blank with the correct preposition. Students can trade and grade or self correct using the answer key provided.