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The Broken Car
Young scholars recognize the phoneme /b/. Through listening and matching activities, they discriminate the phoneme /b/ from similar looking letters and phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and identify...
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Spellbound No. 2
In this spelling instructional activity, students answer twenty eight short clues from a word list of answers to fill in all the spaces on a crossword puzzle.
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Painting Like an Impressionist
Students demonstrate knowledge of the Impressionist style by showing complementary colors, a variety of types of brushstrokes, and a specific time of day or weather condition.
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The Coral Reef
Fourth graders discuss life in a coral reef, and view photographs and a computer program about coral reefs. They design and create colorful watercolor, ink, and crayon drawings of coral reefs.
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Egyptian Profile Portraits
Second graders design Egyptian style portraits. They use the correct proportions while drawing and painting the facial features.
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Ben Franklin Half Dollar
Students research contributions to American culture and technological progress through Benjamin Franklin's quotes and inventions. They also analyze research in order to design a coin honoring Ben Franklin's contributions.
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The Call to Greatness: A Search for Moral Integrity in the Urban Classroom
Eleventh graders read a variety of novels surrounding the theme of "greatness." In groups, they discuss various aspects of each novel and create a group bulletin board to identify and display the most important information from the...
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Color
Pupils locate something in the classroom that is the same color that is written on the card they were given and go stand by it. They share what they found and place their card on a color posted next to the correct color. Finally,...
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The Color of Money
Young scholars explore the success of members of racial and ethnic minorities in the business world through discussing a related New York Times article. They interview successful people in various professions who would be considered...
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The Kissing Hand
Pupils listen to "The Kissing Hand," by Audrey Penn to calm their fears of the first days of preschool or kindergarten.
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COOPERATION BLOCKS
Students follow oral instructions in order to make a pattern with wooden blocks.
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Focus on Fathers
Students view excerpts from the video, Hardwood, and discuss the positive and negative attributes of fathers. They write letters to people who have been an important influence in their lives.
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WINNING STITCHES
Pupils use Elsie's tips and techniques for hand quilting in one day-long session or two shorter sessions. You'll mark intricate quilting designs, discover a tried-and-true basting method.
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Write All About It
Fourth graders use research skills and the writing process to create a newspaper. Although students work in groups to complete the final draft of the newspaper, each student is responsible for doing his or her own research and writing...
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50th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education
Students examine the Brown v. Board of Education case that ended segregation. They role play to re-enact the case and discuss why it was important. They discover its impact on public education.
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Unscramble the Letters - Music Terms
Students receive a worksheet on music terms. As a class, they unscramble a couple before attempt them on their own. They then write the meaning of each to research the meaning of the musical terms.
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Dolch List 1 Vocabulary
For this literacy worksheet, students read the list of vocabulary words in order to increase literacy and spelling abilities because they are sight words.
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Spellbound
In this crossword worksheet, students complete a crossword puzzle by solving a variety of clues. For example, "Rome is the capital of this boot-shaped country."
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Dolch Basic Sight Vocabulary
In this Dolch Basic Sight Vocabulary worksheet, students review the Dolch Basic Sight Vocabulary words that are listed in alphabetical order. Students review 220 words.
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Describing Environments
Fifth graders describe environments using position words. For this description lesson, 5th graders practice using adjective, comparatives and superlatives in partners and on worksheets.
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Animal Poetry
In this animal poetry worksheet, students gather information about an animal and follow a sample to write an animal poem. Page has links to additional activities.