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Refugees
Students investigate the affect of refugees have one their host country. They examine where refugees go and decide on things that might be affected by their influx such as medical care, moral issues, economic issues, and language barriers.
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Electricity and Magnetism
Make oral presentations electric and magnetic! As the conclusion of the study of electricity and magnetism, class members are assigned to bring to life items or people associated with these topics. Speaking as the person or object,...
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Tree Identification - Up Close And Personal
Fourth graders go to an outdoor area and are assigned a specific native plant to observe. They read about and answer questions about their tree. They draw the tree. Finally, 4th graders teach the rest of the class about their tree.
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Parts of Speech Review
Assign this PowerPoint to your students, in order to review parts of speech, including: noun, verb, adjective, and adverb. Students must read a definition and choose the matching part of speech.
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Reading Fiction - Character
The goal of this lesson is to have learners understand how character is created through a combination of what they say and do, and what others say about them. In pairs, learners construct a short dialogue between a parent and child after...
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Clerihew Dances I
Third graders demonstrate locomotor movements and define non-locomotor movement. They discuss a story and perform a "name" movement.
Lesson Snips
Is It An Adverb?
Adverbs are one of the more-difficult parts of speech to understand and master. In this adverb worksheet, students review adverbs as modifiers and identify their purposes in sentences. Students answer 18 questions about adverbs. Excellent!
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Demonstrate! Using Demonstrative Pronouns
In this demonstrative pronouns worksheet, students identify demonstrative pronouns in sentences. In this fill in the blank and underline worksheet, students answer eleven questions.
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Pump Up the Curriculum With Pumpkins!
Students complete a variety of activities as they examine "pumpkins."
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The Mystery Box
Students design a mystery box to hold an object related to the timeline of life studies. In this timeline of life lesson, student play a game with fossils and other remnants of past times and guess the era it comes from.
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The Civil War as Photographed by Mathew Brady
Learners gain historical background on the Civil War era from textbooks, encyclopedias, or supplemental material. Assign at least two photographs for each student to analyze using the Photograph Analysis Worksheet which is imbedded in...
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Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
Fourth graders participate in a play to work on seeing events from a different perspective. Some of them are reporters, some cameramen and women, and others are interviewed. They put themselves in the shoes of the people in the book...
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Did You Say Adverbs?
In this adverb worksheet, students identify and produce adverbs in sentences. In this fill in the blank and short answer worksheet, students complete eleven sentences.
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Combating Corrosion
Students perform an experiment to show the chemical reactions that occur when metal corrodes. They apply the results of the experiment to the conservation efforts of art curators trying to restore an ancient Greek bronze. This...
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Adverbs - 6 Foolproof Steps
Students review rules of grammar, specifically those that help find adverbs in a sentence. They practice finding the adverbs in a worksheet of sample sentences.
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Snack Search
Students make maps to show where the agricultural products used to produce various packaged snacks are grown. They bring in snacks from home and utlize a worksheet imbedded in this plan.
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Toma Rivera Mad Lib
In this mad lib instructional activity, students fill in blanks with designated parts of speech to complete a "story." Words to use are categorized and appear on page 2.
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Let's Compare Adverbs of Degree
For this adverbs of degree worksheet, students fill in the blanks to 8 facts about adverbs of degree and change 3 words into comparative degree and change 3 words to use the superlative degree to compare those words downward.
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Guess Who?
First graders write riddles about each other using descriptive words. They try to guess who the person is when the riddle is read aloud.
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Looking at Portraits: Reading Poe
Students study the poetry of Poe. In this integrated arts lesson, students draw comparisons between the daguerreotype of Edgar Allan Poe by an unknown photographer with Poe's poetry.
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Poems Have Shapes, Too!
Students explore the world of geometric shapes by writing poetry. They use the Diamante Poetry worksheet. They select one geometric shape and, using the template, create their own poem.
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Learning About Adverbs
In this adverbs instructional instructional activity, students read about adverbs and then respond to 17 fill in the blank and identification questions.
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Dogfighting Unit Lesson One--The Game Show
Young scholars explore the implications of dogfighting. In this animal welfare lesson, students participate in a game that helps them to consider the harmfulness of dogfighting.
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Pond Water
Students explore a creek environment. They make observations, identify the living and nonliving factors in the environment and collect a plankton sample to take back to the classroom. In addition, they look at plankton under a microscope.