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What Do You Know About the Birds Around You?

For Teachers K
Students compare and contrast various species of birds. After participating in a brief discussion of the characteristics of birds, they view birds in their natural habitat and in pictures with a focus on the similarities and differences...
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Reading Comprehension Quiz

For Students 4th - 5th
In this reading comprehension quiz worksheet, students read 3 different selections, then answer a set of multiple choice questions for each. Answers can be submitted and scored on line.
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Gingerbread/Candy Houses

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students compare and contrast different versions of "Hansel and Gretel" and "The Gingerbread Boy". Using a software program, they color a gingerbread house design of their choice. Based on the house, they write thier own story making...
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Anty-Bodies

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars compare and contrast likenesses and differences to others by creating a life-size picture of themselves. In this character building lesson, students dictate a sentence about comments on sharing and display them with their...
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Isotopes of Pennies

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students demonstrate that isotopes of an element have different masses. They illustrate atomic mass and neutrons. The periodic table is examined in length. Display of a collection of atoms is surveyed.
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Our Cultural Classroom

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders are introduced to the cultural diversity within their own classroom and relate this diversity to community, country and world. They create a visual family culture poster containing different aspects of their personal culture.
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First Thanksgiving and My Thanksgiving

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this Thanksgiving worksheet, students complete a venn diagram comparing their Thanksgiving to the First Thanksgiving. Students write about similarities and differences.
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Which Herp Is Which?

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Learners research different kinds of herps. The teacher gives the student a particular herp and the student writes a postcard (as the herp) to an in-class penpal, giving hints about the herp, but not identifying itself.
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Frog Principal Lesson Plan

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd
Learners read the fractured fairy tale, The Frog Principal by Stephanie Calmenson and compare it to the original version in order to gain deeper understanding of the fairy tale genre. In this fairy tale activity, students identify and...
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Kate and the Beanstalk Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 3rd
Young scholars read the story Kate and the Beanstalk in order to compare and contrast this fractured tale to the original fairy tale of Jack and the Beanstalk. In this fairy tale reading lesson, students first discuss the plots of many...
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Sweet or Sour, Like or Different

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students watch a video on comparisons and discuss ways in which objects can be sorted. They play an identification game with a lemon and discuss identification characteristics.
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Special Protections-Session Six

For Teachers 1st - Higher Ed
Parents and children work together in a community circle to discuss caring for people with special needs. In separate groups, the children sing and listen to a story. They discuss ways people are alike, and ways they are different....
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Homonyms

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this homonyms worksheet, students read 6 pairs of words which sound alike but are spelled differently. Students draw a picture for each that shows the meaning.
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Homophones Activities 1-5

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this language arts worksheet, students discover that homophones are words that sound alike. Students complete 5 activities with homophones: matching words to pictures, completing sentences, explaining differences between words and...
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How Are Coins Different?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students use sets of circulating coins to determine the unique characteristics of each coin. They create paragraphs and illustrations to convey what makes each coin in our pockets special.
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Making Mittens with The Mitten Book

For Teachers K
Students read and discuss the different animals in The Mitten book and then try to make mittens that are alike.
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Horrid Homonyms

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners explore homonyms, which are words that sound alike but have different meanings.
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LESSON 3: The Many Shades of Our World

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students recognize that people have many different types of skin color.
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Landscape Picture Map

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students discuss differences between man made and natural features on the Earth's surface. In this natural and man made features instructional activity, learners brainstorm a list of features and categorize them on the board. Students...
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Matching the Globe with the Map

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students examine how to use a globe. In this globe and map comparison lesson, students discuss how the globe and map are alike when looking at Africa and Antarctica. Students investigate shapes and sizes of globes versus maps.
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Carbon: Structure Matters

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars read the Who We Are Section on Calfee Designs Webpage and discuss carbon usage. They work in pairs to look up the minerals diamond and graphite then create a chart on the properties of each mineral then compare how they...
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Homophone Jeopardy

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learners are introduced and practice using words classified as homophones. Individually, they participate in a Jeopardy game in which they practice using different sets of homophones in sentences. They discuss the different situations...
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Lesson One: Rock N Rhythm & Rhyme (Part One)

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders listen to poetry to find rhyme and rhythm. In this poetry lesson plan, 2nd graders listen to different types of poetry and find how they are alike. They look for rhyming words and create their own rhymes. 
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A Penguin is a Bird

For Teachers K - 5th
Students compare and contrast the ways that penguins are different to flying birds.

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