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Organisms and Their Environment
Learners observe elements of a local ecosystem and gain an understanding of what elements make up an ecosystem.  In this ecosystem lesson students create a class food web that shows the interactions among the elements of the...
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TAKS Quiz-Homophones
In this TAKS quiz learning exercise, students take an online quiz focused on homophones. Quiz may be graded online by clicking a link.
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Garden Guard
Students design and create scarecrows. They write descriptively about the scarecrow for a classroom scarecrow show.
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Cardinals
In this cardinals worksheet, students explore facts about cardinals and practice their number reasoning. Students read about cardinals and solve word problems involving cardinals.
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LIVING WITHOUT WASTE - USE OF TIME
Students investigate the concept of time and how it is used. There are key words that can be used to stimulate thinking about how each is related to time. They take an inventory of how time is spent in a single day. Then students can...
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Studying Fossils: Dinosaur Tracks From Stride to leg Length to Speed
Students explore dinosaurs.  Students determine the relationship between leg length, stride length, and speed in humans and bipedal dinosaurs.  Students analyze collected information.  Based upon the data, dinosaur tracks, and fossils,...
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Tick-Tock Goes The Clock
Young scholars examine the letter 't'. Through instruction and modeling they explore the sound the letter makes, how to make the sound with their mouths, how the letter is written, etc. They say tongue twisters with the /t/ sound in...
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Bless You
Students practice recognizing the phoneme /a/ in spoken and written words as well as by symbol. They interact with the book, "The Cat Nap," from Educational Insights and the Dr. Seuss book, "ABC's Book." Each student also plays a memory...
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4 Different Ways to View Our City
Seventh graders make magnificent abstract paintings based upon their realistic photographs.
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Bald Eagle Basic Skills Math Practice
Students solve basic skills math problems involving eagles. They read and discuss facts about eagles and view a video. They complete the Eagle Math worksheet and check their answers. They create additional problems and solve them.
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Color Your Summer
Learners explore different artistic media and techniques used to capture, express, and share summer memories. They research art history and view video clips online to create a piece of online art.
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How Many Lemons Does It Take?
Students discuss and explore different methods that can be used to estimate from the video. They practice estimation skills by recreating a sample problem from the video. Web sites containing other estimation activities are included
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Weather Predictions
Fourth graders explore meteorologists. They explore symbols on a weather map and make five day forecasts.
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Grasshopper Plague
Students study grasshoppers and Mormon crickets by visiting website to view images and listen to sound. They research the issue of serious insect infestation. They read about students who eat the insects as snacks and read insect recipes.
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Everyday vs. Extreme Relationships with Nature
Students examine the interactions with nature and the environment. They discover where water comes from and ways to conserve water. They also examine energy sources and consumption.
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Drawing as a Foundation - Activity 1
Students create sketches of animals in preparation for canvas paintings in this introductory instructional activity on Drawing.  This week-long instructional activity includes a video and research ideas for students.
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Geese and Sandhill Cranes of Nebraska
Students gather information on the geese and cranes found in Nebraska.  Students explore ways they can help save their habitats.  Also, students use additional general information they connect artwork to their research topic.
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This Stuff Makes Me Sick
Students participate in a lab showing the effects of pesticides on Lumbriculus variegatus. Several extensions and variations are also included in this lesson including one which relates the experiment to how pesticides enter our drinking...
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Creating a Multimedia Presentation
Students are divided into teams to make a presentation about their state. Each team is responsible for making one part of the presentation. At the end, all parts are combined to make one complete presentation. While creating the...
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Sentence Sequencing
In this multiple choice worksheet, learners read three sentences and determine which sentence should come first second and third.
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Math Maven's Mysteries: The Case of the Incredible Shrinking Garden
In these math word problem worksheets, 7th graders help solve the mystery about 'The Case of the Incredible Shrinking Garden.' Students find the new length and width measurements of the shrunken garden using the area of rectangle.
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Celebrating Thanksgiving
In this Thanksgiving worksheet, students use 18 clues given at the bottom of the page to solve a Thanksgiving Day crossword puzzle.
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Arbor Day
In this Arbor Day instructional activity, 4th graders use a short passage and dialog for ESL skills. Students read about two people planting a tree and create a dialog and conversation about what they have read.
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Easy Garden Birdbath
Students create a birdbath. In this art lesson, students take string and criss-cross it in between the rungs on the tomato cage and paint it all green.