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Social Studies Strategies: Terquain

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this worksheet on writing a terquain, students draw a picture of a subject matter and follow the directions to write a three-line poem about the topic. Students complete four activities.
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Chinese Instruments

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students explore Chinese instruments. In this Chinese instrument music lesson, students listen to a performance by Liu Fang and describe the sounds they hear. Students classify western and Chinese instruments according to their...
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Sea Turtles Underwater

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students discuss different types of sea turtles. They talk a about the characteristics of sea turtle anatomy. Students pretend to look over the edge of a boat in the ocean. They pretend to see a sea turtle. Students create their artwork...
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Learning to Use Painting Tools to Change a Drawing

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students practice creating abstract art using computer software.  For this painting lesson, students discuss how great fairy tale characters have the ability to transform, as do images.  Students utilize a painting software...
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Who Has Seen the Wind?

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students investigate the characteristics of wind. In this weather instructional activity, students use poetry and van Gogh's paintings to discuss the movement of wind. Students are introduced to the Beaufort Scale and use the tool to...
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Greece

For Students 6th - 10th
In this comprehension worksheet on Greece, students read the article presented and then answer the questions that follow. There are 12 short answer questions to complete about Greece, where it is located, the people, celebrations, and...
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The Kwanzaa Tradition: Pronoun Review

For Students 3rd - 4th
Celebrate Kwanzaa and reinforce grammar skills with one language arts activity. Learners add missing pronouns to sentences in a passage about the traditions and customs of Kwanzaa. Next, they answer four comprehension questions...
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Grammar Conventions Poetry-Use of Prepositions

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders study prepositions in poetry. In this language arts lesson, 5th graders create a personal preposition poem. Students underline the prepositions and share the prepositions they underlined with the rest of the class.
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Punctuation Review/Tic-tac-toe

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders play a tic-tac-toe game in pairs. In this language arts lesson plan, one student uses an X to show the correct sentences, while the other student uses an O to show incorrect sentences. Students use a T-chart to record the...
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Reading Restaurant

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders complete book reports. They are given the following jobs; chef, who organizes them into genres; maître d', who calls students to share the menu; and waiters/waitresses, who take orders for books from customers, pass out...
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Aaliyah Biography

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this biographical reading / writing worksheet about the singer Aaliyah, students first read a one page biographical essay. Students then compose 11 short answer responses to the following questions.
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"Tom's Night Out"

For Students 4th - 6th
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students complete a variety of short activities directly related to the reading of the poem, "Tom's Night Out."
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Parts of Speech- Worksheet 1

For Students 7th - 10th
For this grammar worksheet, students identify the underlined words in twenty sentences as one of the following parts of speech: noun, verb, adverb, adjective, pronoun, conjunction or preposition.
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Every Day Edit - Crater Lake

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this everyday editing activity, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Crater Lake. The errors range from capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.
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Every-Day Edit: White House Easter Egg Roll

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this everyday editing instructional activity, young scholars correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about the White House Easter egg roll. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and spelling.
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Every-Day Edit: America's Composer

For Students 3rd - 8th
For this everyday editing activity, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Aaron Copland. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and grammar.
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The U.S. Census

For Students 6th - 8th
In this U.S. Census Worksheet, learners read a passage regarding the U.S. Census and answer the following 10 multiple choice questions.
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Question Words Review

For Students 4th - 6th
This clever reading and writing instructional activity has students read a short newspaper story on Martin Luther King, Jr., then write 6 questions about the story using the following key words: who, what, where, when, why and how. A...
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Flags

For Students 3rd - 5th
Flags are a topic that students can find interesting. A short reading passage is followed by 10 comprehension and vocabulary questions in this reading activity.
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Prepositions - Sentence Maze

For Students 4th
In this grammar worksheet, 4th graders follow the words in a maze to form sentences that contain prepositions. They find their way from the beginning of the maze to the end by making sentences.
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Run-ons, Comma Splices and Fused Sentences

For Students 6th - 12th
In this sentence writing activity, students are given pairs of sentences with directions to form one new sentence using commas, semicolons and/or conjunctions. Students can self check or trade and grade using the answer key provided.
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Revolutionary War, Timeline and Causes

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore important events leading up to the Revolutionary War. In this Revolutionary War instructional activity, 3rd graders work in pairs to research dates and important events prior to the Revolutionary War. Class...
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Acting Up, A Melodrama: Performing Like Jo March and Her Sisters in Little Women

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Lights, Camera, Action! Pupils read Little Women and create, act, and direct a melodrama that Jo March and her sisters would enjoy. The lesson plan comes complete with resources for the educator on melodrama as well as examples...
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The Battle Over Reconstruction: The Aftermath of Reconstruction

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the Reconstruction Era. In this American history lesson, students explore the condition of the United States following the Civil War as they read statistical data. Students analyze the Reconstruction policies to...