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Buh, Buh, Buh B!!
Students complete a variety of activities related to the letter "B." As a class they recite a tongue twister, then trace and write the letter "B." Students identify the words in the poem that contain the /b/ sound and draw a picture of...
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The Evolution of Arkansas Elementary Education
Fourth graders interview older citizens to discover earlier educational history. They write essays based on their interviews.
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Steamers Lesson 1: Routes
Students are introduced to the useage of steamboats in North Carolina. In groups, they research the routes of steamers and discover how they were used. They draw an illustrated map and a timeline of the routes. As a class, they...
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The Broken Car
Students 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 the...
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Spiritual Qualities We Wish to Have
Students begin with identifying the meaning of each word and how to say a prayer with their whole body. They create something with clay to make a nice gift for someone or something that would help someone else. Finally, the students...
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At the Dinner Table: A Foreign Language Lesson
Students name dinner-table utensils in the foreign language being taught. In this foreign language vocabulary lesson, students create a restaurant table setting with labels to learn vocabulary of the table in the language they are studying.
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Potential Effects
Pupils use the Internet to reserch the effects of climate change. Using that information, they relate those effects to specific items in the environment. They discover how climate changes affect their lives now and in the future.
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Transportation Types
Students answer questions after listening for details that identify many different kinds of transportation.
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Predicting the Route of the Monarch's Spring Migration
Young scholars consider the habits of the monarch butterfly and predict the path it take as it migrates in the spring.
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Choice Not Chance
Students examine diets from another country and compare it to the US Food Guide Pyramid. They study the effect the diet has on an individual's health.
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What's in a name?
Learners learn the history of their name, and create a biopoem. Students learn the pronunciation of native language names, cultural identify and pride in home language and culture.
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OK...Just Whose Water Is It, Anyway?
Students recognize that each person has a right to clean, safe drinking water. They explain that changes in behavior may be necessary when considering water usage. They role play a water rights courtoom dispute.
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Women Judges and Justice in Washington State
Young scholars learn of the barriers women have faced in becoming lawyers and judges and identify strategies women use to become successful.
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Charlie Chose Cheese
First graders identify the digraphs in written and spoken language. After a brief discussion of the combinations of /c/ and /h/ that comprise th /ch/ digraph, 1st graders practice identifying initial and final placement of the digraph...
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Civil War Soldiers
Students investigate the concept of having a draft for obtaining military forces. They conduct research in small groups using a variety of resources in order to answer key questions. The ideas of having a volunteer army instead is shared...
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Favourite Things Bingo
In this ice breaker game activity, students will find other students with the characteristics listed on the bingo card, such as favorite color and food. A teacher guide is included.
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Using the Verb "Be"
In this verb worksheet, students use the correct form of the "be" verb to complete sentences. Verb forms are given in a word box.
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Valentine's Day Booklet
Students create a Valentine's Day booklet. In this creating a book instructional activity, students write and illustrate their own book describing love.
Math Is Fun
Math Is Fun: Colorable Number Chart
Use this chart to explore counting and number patterns up to 100. Choose from thirty different colors for your paintbrush as well as five different versions of the hundreds chart, or start with a blank chart. There is also an auto color...
Other
Graphic Organizers: Compare and Contrast: T Chart [Pdf]
This PDF resource is a blank T-chart graphic organizer which would allow for two topics to be broken down by how they are alike and different. Requires Adobe Reader.
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: I Can Locate and Classify Information [Pdf]
A blank T-Chart is provided for students to use as they sort facts into two categories. Students will classify science information with this aid.
Other
Freeology: Free Graphic Organizers
Blank templates of all types of graphic organizers from Venn Diagrams to Vocabulary Sketches are available for free at this resource.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Poetry Analysis Tp Castt [Pdf]
This two-page PDF includes a Poetry Analysis format using the acronym TP--CASTT. It explains how to evaluate a poem. It is followed by the blank form for students to use when analyzing a poetry.