Classics for Kids
Instrumental Sounds
What sound does a piccolo make? What's the difference between a violin and viola? What family does a timpani belong to? Take a tour through the different sections of an orchestra with an interactive reference tool.
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Broadway and The American Dream
Considering a unit study of American Musical Theatre? What better way to start than at the very beginning. Eight pairs of cards provide class members with background information about the genre from 1893 through 2004. The cards are...
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ELA.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11-12.5
If you allow the space for your class members to be creative with technology as they make a presentation, they will make you proud with their inventiveness. The resource suggests an open research project for which pupils look up...
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Bulleted Lists: punctuating items in vertical lists
What is easier to read: a bulleted list or a block of text? Look at different examples with your class and then go over the style guidelines for vertical lists.
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Lesson Plan 2: Good Novel, Bad Novel
What are the characteristics of a good piece of writing? What makes a story interesting? Give your pupils a chance to define the qualities of good novels and what they see as the qualities of bad novels. Class members record these...
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Piece by Piece
Put an insect together piece by piece with a fun and artistic puzzle project. To increase small group collaboration, learners use photos of insects cut into one-inch squares to create an enlarged puzzle version of the image. Extension...
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Figurative Language: Simile and Metaphor
What is figurative language? Introduce your young learners to the most popular forms of figurative language: the simile and the metaphor. Start by reading "Willow and Ginkgo" by Eve Merriam, and identify where similes are used. Then look...
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Final Consonant Sounds: Review - ft, ld, lt, mp, nd
These are challenging phonics review sheets. On the first page, learners match the end sounds to the pictures and write a rhyming word for each word. For the second page, pupils choose an end sound to complete a series of incomplete...
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Problem and Solution: By Jove, I Think You've Got It
Through grand conversation, help scholars identify issues that harm the Earth and find solutions on how to solve them. After voting—on what your class deems the most important problem—stretch writing muscles with a problem-solution...
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The Houdini Box: Compare and Contrast
How did Houdini do it? After reading a short passage about magicians and their tricks, readers are asked to compare and contrast some of the illusions these prestidigitators create.
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Deconstructing an Advertisement
Ethos, logos, and pathos. Class members use an inventory analysis to deconstruct the effects of an advertisement. They identify the target audience, the persuasive and color appeals used, as well as the diction, images, and tone.
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ELA.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.9-10.5
High schoolers know how to use technology, but they often need more training on how to use it effectively for educational or professional purposes. Try out the activities described here to get your pupils thinking about interesting ways...
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Discriminating Phonemes
Develop the fluency of beginning readers one sound at a time with this phonemic awareness lesson. Through a series of whole-class instruction, independent practice, and collaborative learning activities, children practice...
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Letter Concepts (M, K, L, T, U, H)
In this language arts worksheet, students learn to recognize the upper case letters M, K, L, T, U and H. Students examine 5 letters in a row and circle the letters that match the first letter in each row.
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Drawing - Changing Pictures
In this visual art worksheet, students see a pair of scissors on a page. They attempt to make a drawing that changes the pair of scissor into something else. They can turn the printed page any way they want to.
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Object Grids For Pre-Entry Activities
In this Language Arts instructional activity, learners analyze symbols from Wingdings font. Students answer questions about the symbols and locate specific ones.
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Mirror Trees
In this painting worksheet, learners fold a card in half and following the instructions, paint a tree and its mirror image. There are no visual clues on the page; students read each step to follow. This page is from Northern Ireland.
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Painting Sheep
In this painting craft worksheet, students follow the directions to use paint and flour or wallpaper paste to create a sheep. Students use a cardboard "comb" to make whorls in this art project from Northern Ireland.
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Images as Messages
Your class watches a video about Chris Jordan, a talented photographer and activist who tries to get an environmental message out by his work. As a cross-curricular project, have your class imitate his style of art with an object that...
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Describe and Draw Worksheet
In this visual arts instructional activity, students examine clip art pictures of 16 faces and are provided with 8 empty boxes in which to draw their own examples. There are no directions given with this wordsheet.
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Be an Artist
In this visual arts worksheet, 3rd graders will use a grid to recreate a given image. Using similar line segments in each box of the grid, students will recreate the image of a fish in the boxes provided.
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Be an Artist: Frog
In this visual arts worksheet, students will use a grid to recreate a given image. Using similar line segments in each box of the grid, students will recreate the image of a frog in the boxes provided.
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Be an Artist: Lobster
In this visual arts worksheet, learners will use a grid to recreate a given image. Using similar line segments in each box of the grid, students will recreate the image of a lobster in the boxes provided.
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Be an Artist: Dragonfly
In this visual arts worksheet, pupils will use a grid to recreate a given image. Using similar line segments in each box of the grid, students will recreate the image of a dragonfly in the boxes provided.
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