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It's Alive!! Or, Is It?

For Students 7th - 8th
In this cell worksheet, students complete 5 word scrambles and 8 true-false questions about the characteristics of living organisms and compounds found within cells.
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Worksheet 2/7 on Collective Nouns

For Students 4th - 5th
In this recognizing collective nouns worksheet, students use collective nouns in a word bank to fill in the blanks in sentences. Students write 7 answers.
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Know Your Polygons!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Shape shifters recognize characteristics of polygons. Embracing language arts skills in addition to math, they use a thesaurus to pinpoint specific attributes of a set of polygons. They also participate in a 21-question guessing game...
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Dinosaur Math

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students read How to Train with a T.Rex and Win 8 Gold Medals and solve math problems.  In this dinosaur math lesson, students write a math story to go with the dinosaur story.  Students discuss the needed strategies. Students...
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Smart- Counting Coins

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Learners discover the name and value of coins. In this counting money lesson, students identify heads and tails of coins and the value of each coin. Learners visit websites and play games. Students then write a poem about money.
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Using Multicultural Literature with Science

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders listen to The Great Ball Game and discuss the roots of the tale.  In this multicultural tale students identify the realistic facts about the Abnenaki Indians.  Students use the Internet to find out about the...
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Arranging Numbers in order up to 1,000

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders arrange numbers up to 1,000. In this arranging numbers lesson, 3rd graders play a game to try and build the biggest number they can using number tiles.  Students work in groups to draw number tiles from a jar and...
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Choose Your Toy

For Students 5th - 7th
In this decision-making activity, students choose 1 out of 6 toys for a young boy. Students match 7 vocabulary terms to their proper definitions. Students fill in 3 blanks in 2 sentences. Students complete a variety of assignments about...
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Counting Money

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students learn how to count money.  For this money lesson, students review the names and values for each coin.  Students learn how to count bills and coins and how to write amounts of money.  Students complete web...
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Talk It Out Lesson #1: Calm Down

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students study communication, feelings, and calming down. In this sociology lesson plan, students play a game about feelings and discuss how to use I-messages to calm anger.
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Where in the World? :Understanding Latitude and Longitude

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students play a grid-based game and devise clues to help classmates locate spots on the globe in order to recognize the value of using longitude and latitude for identifying locations.
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Doorbell Division

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students explore the concept of division using the book "When the Doorbell Rang." They listen to the book, role-play the dividing of the cookies from the story, and create their own story problem to solve using the stamp program from...
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Creative Writing Using the Senses

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders, utilizing a thesaurus to identify alternative word choices and meanings, eat a sweet treat and then list eight different adjectives for each of the five senses. They then describe a sweet with at least then adjectives...
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Draw a Picture

For Students 5th
In this math word problems worksheet, 5th graders complete 5 word problems. Students must use the strategy of drawing a picture to help them solve each problem. 
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Lesson on Proteins

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students examine the importance of proteins including their function and structure.  In this protein instructional activity students play a game to help them better understand proteins.
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What's the Weather?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore different types of weather and examine the elements in the sky that create weather. They create a class lift of weather words and examine and discuss a weather poster. Students then complete the "What's the Weather?"...
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Capitalization

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students investigate the concept of capitalization by reading relevant text and finding supporting details and facts.  In this capitalization lesson, students read chapter seven in Working With Words and share predictions about the...
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Deforestation, Fragmentation, and the Edge Effect

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students participate in an activity to demonstrate how deforestation, fragmentation, and habitat edges may affect native animal populations. Students accomplish this by playing a game from a provided worksheet and completing a graphing...
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I Spy Blends

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this phonics worksheet, students practice matching consonant blends, with a partner, in a game of I Spy Blends where they match a set of consonant blend cards to a variety of pictures.
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The Story of Kwanzaa

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Celebrate Kwanzaa with a game of Kalah, also known as Mankala or Owara. Using an egg carton and a set of beans, players take all of the beans out of one of his or her cups and move to the right, dropping one bean into each of the...
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You Either Know It Or You Don’t!

For Students 6th - 8th
In this research skills worksheet, students research the answers to fifteen questions that involve all the subjects across the board.
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Worksheet 3: Vocabulary Review

For Students 4th - Higher Ed
As a short review of vocabulary, this 10 question activity is a good way to have learners practice words rich in meaning. This activity would be appropriate for upper elementary and any older ESL student.
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Math Cubes

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice addition and subtraction while making and then playing a game. In this addition and subtraction lesson, students will make dice using a cube tracer and number and number sign tracers to make the numbers and number...
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Economics

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders write about a time they have experienced supply and demand affecting price. In this economics lesson plan, the students define basic economic words, then the teacher introduces a real-life example of supply and demand...