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Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters - Mapping the Story
Young scholars listen to John Steptoe's story, "Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters" and create a story map.
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Visual Arts - Portraits and Paintings
First graders examine portraits and paintings. They create their own self-portrait.
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The History of Silk
Sixth graders study the history of silk-making in China. They investigate the silkworm and follow the trade route of the Silk Road. They research other Chinese inventions.
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The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks
High schoolers are introduced to the time of the samurai warriors using the guided reading of "The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks". The teacher reads the story to the students and they make connections from the text about the history of the...
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Rosie's Walk
Young scholars use maps and globes to locate and describe locations, directions and scale. Using the maps, they identify man made or natural features of different environments. They practice using geographical terms to describe a...
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Water/Agua
Third graders complete water activities including vocabulary, visualization and performing activities. They study water vocabulary words in both English and Spanish. They listen to a read aloud of Jane Yolen's, Letting Swift River Go,...
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Bird Binoculars
Students create binoculars using empty toilet paper rolls, yarn, and glue in this Art instructional activity for the early-elementary classroom. This Art project could be combined with a Science unit on Birds or nature, and could...
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Light Bulb Decorations
Students create light bulb decorations for the holiday season in this Art lesson for 4th through 12th grades. Emphasis is placed on creativity and artistic expression. Also a great activity for older students raising money for...
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Japanese Fan
Young scholars discuss Japanese culture and the functional and artistic uses of fans and create paper fans using watercolors, popsicle sticks, and tape in this Art lesson for the elementary classroom. Can be used as an introduction to...
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Understanding Prepositions
Students receive instruction on the definition and the role of prepositions viewing the board for examples. They then complete the worksheet on prepositions; locating it in each sentence and writing it on the line.
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K-W-L Chart of Seasons
Students think about what kinds of clothing they are currently wearing and then think about why they are wearing these particular articles of clothing. They write what they already know about seasons and generate questions about what...
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Ready and Action! Reading Time!
Students work to improve their reading fluency and oral expression while reading aloud. With a partner, they read sentence strips and reread them to make the sentence more fluent and meaningful. They 'perform' their sentences for the...
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Ready, Set, Let's Read
Young scholars increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing chunking and rereading, students complete an initial read of a novel text. Working with a partner, they read complete a timed assessment...
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Lessons from The Lorax
Students read and watch a video of The Lorax by Dr. Suess. As a class, they answer a set of questions about how the environment was affected by industries. They also brainstorm a list of possible solutions to help curb the pollution.
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Monet's Garden
Fourth graders review impressionism and one of the well-known artist of this period, Claude Money. They explore "en plein air," an outdoor painting technique that Monet employed to create his work. They also experiment with warm and...
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Rhyming Fun
In this rhyming fun worksheet, students practice adding certain letters to other letters to strengthen their skills on rhyming words. Students fill in forty-six blanks with rhyming words from directives given on the worksheet.
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Exercise 1: Subject-verb Agreement
In this grammar worksheet, students choose the appropriate verb in parentheses in twenty-eight sentences that makes each grammatically correct.
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Amazing Aztecs
Students research information about the ancient Aztec culture. In this Aztec lesson plan, students conduct Internet research about Aztecs to find the answers to questions about their language, jewelry and tools, and the Aztec calendar. ...
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Health Education: Body Fluids
Second graders take part in a germ experiment. In this personal health lesson plan, 2nd graders summarize appropriate measures to prevent contact with the body fluids of others.
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Health Education: Opinions
Third graders consider the opinions of others. In this personal health lesson plan, 3rd graders demonstrate how to effectively and respectfully express opinions that differ from others as they create and follow rules for productive...
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Lesson Six Where People Live
Students investigate where people live. In this early geography lesson, students read Make Way for Ducklings! by Robert McCloskey and then discuss what neighborhoods are as they identify them on landscape picture maps.
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This Land is Your Land: Volunteering in the Community
Young scholars discover what a Relief Office does. In this volunteer lesson, students investigate what a Relief Office does, and who helps run it. Young scholars discuss ways he/she could become a volunteer.
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What Building Used to Be There?
Students examine how their city has changed and examine building preservation. In this building preservation lesson, students listen to a reading of Virginia Lee Burton's, The Little House, before making a time line of how their own city...
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Circle the nouns
In this nouns worksheet, students circle the nouns they see in the sentences. Students have 48 sentences to find the person, place, or thing.