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In the Winter

For Teachers K
Students are read a book about winter activities. They create a drawing of their favorite activity to do in the winter and practice copying a sentence telling what it is.
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Relationships, Rules, and Responsibilities

For Teachers 1st
First graders identify jobs in the environment. In this social justice lesson, 1st graders describe rules to protect the environment and the roles specific jobs play. Students construct environmental rules for an imaginary town.
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Lenses and Telescopes

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine telescope construction. In this telescope lesson, students examine the lenses used in telescopes by exploring with convex and concave lenses.
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Dolch Number Booklet

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students create a sight word booklet for number words, "one" through "ten."  In this sight word lesson, students write and read number vocabulary.  Students write Dolch word sentences to create a booklet.
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Fraction Strips: Adding Fractions

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders problem solve using fraction strips. In this adding fractions lesson, 3rd graders create fraction strips to help identify fractional sizes (fourths, eighths, thirds) and to solve word problems.
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Starlight, Star Bright

For Teachers 1st
First graders read books and use the Internet to identify several constellations and stars in the night sky. They make star pictures and write a class report about the night sky including a title, complete sentences and a cited reference.
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Verbs & Tenses

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students illustrate known tenses with tense clue words. They select a range of verbs. Teachers divide the class into teams. The idea is for each team to make the longest and perfectly constructed sentence. Words and scores are tallied on...
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Using "Four-Square"

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders use a four-square graphic organizer to help a third grade writer organize thoughts and clarify thinking to write a simple expository paragraph, a workshop summary paragraph.
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Combining Words with Art

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders make an accordion-fold book, review the vocabulary of visual art and are introduced to calligraphy. They plan a story using a sequence of words and sentences.
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Verbs & Tenses

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students in an ESL classroom practice using verbs and the correct tense. In teams, they work together to make a sentence using the same verb and tense clue word. They read their sentences aloud and gain points on the correctness of it.
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Up in the Sky

For Teachers 1st
First graders associate events and objects with day or night. They create a word bank and use is as a reference to create sentences about the sun. They conduct sun-themed experiments and art projects.
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"The Selfish Crocodile"

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners participate in various shared reading and writing activities related to the book "The Selfish Crocodile" by Faustin Charles. They identify descriptive words from the story, and write sentences describing how the crocodile...
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Organizing Writing/Composing a First Draft

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders access an organizer from an earlier lesson and transition sentences to begin a new essay.  In this organization and composing lesson, 7th graders work in small groups to create a draft of an article about...
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Easily Confused Words: If and Whether

For Students 6th - 8th
For this easily confused words:  if and whether worksheet, students read the explanations and examples for both words, then interactively complete 4 multiple choice sentences with immediate online feedback.
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Extra Word Worksheet 8

For Students 6th - 7th
In this ESL error correction worksheet, students read 8 sentences that contain an unneeded word. Students identify the word that does not belong.
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Magnifiers

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students describe how several different objects magnify a provided sentence and decide if they are good magnifiers or not. They then write a sentence describing two properties an object must have in order to be a good magnifier.
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Idioms and What They Mean

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this idioms worksheet, students match the meanings with nine common idioms. Students then use the idioms, filling in blanks in 9 sentences. Some may be unfamiliar to students in the U.S.
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Populations and Ecosystems

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders examine the factors that influence the stability of ecosystems. They construct a miniature ecosystem in a jar that includes plants, small fish, and snails, record the population changes over a period of four weeks, and...
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Liquids in Bottles

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate different liquids to develop their concept of a liquid. They work at a center to tip, swirl, shake, roll, and otherwise investigate seven liquids in small, clear plastic bottles: plain water, corn syrup, liquid...
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Holidays

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders use a wide range of strategies to interpret, evaluate, appreciate, and construct meaning from print materials. They use appropriate reference sources with assistance for a variety of purposes and use the writing process...
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Forget Fragments

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students identify and correct fragments in writings. Students perform activities to write incorrect and correct fragments. They create puzzle pieces from fragments. Students participate in fragment activities.
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Still More Lollies

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders listen to the problem to the class and think about how they solve the problem and to discuss it with their friends using number sentences in their written record of the solution.
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Actions

For Students 6th - 8th
In this vocabulary worksheet, middle schoolers answer 8 yes or no questions about the action in the illustrations. Questions are simple in construction, illustrations are black and white.
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Dia de Los Muertos

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students construct concept maps after reading an article. In this Dia de Los Muertos activity, students read about the celebration in Spanish and create concept maps explaining what they learned. Students share with their peers.