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A Halloween Counting Book
In this Halloween counting instructional activity, students cut out and staple pages together to create a counting book of Halloween art. Each page has a different Halloween icon such as a witch, spiders and jack-o-lanterns.
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Using and Paying for Electricity: Talking About Your Bill
Students practice using vocabulary associated with an electric bill. They conjugate verbs into the different tenses. They participate in a role-play in which they practice pronouncing the words.
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What Do Salt Trucks Do?
Students predict what will happen to ice when salt is put on it. They make observations and discuss what actually happened to the ice. They relate their experiment to the salt trucks they see on the street.
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Weather -- Snowmen in May
Students are read the story "Snowballs" and discuss what the conditions must be for it to snow. They make snowmen out of snow when it snows outside. They discover what happens to their snowmen when they take them inside.
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Senses -- The Touching Game
Students practice making educated guesses about objects in their hands. They guess what the object is without looking at it and choose a word that describes it. They practice using new vocabulary as well.
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Polite, Neutral, or Rude Language 1
In this types of language worksheet, students decide which type of language is most likely to be used in a situation. Students choose between polite, neutral, and rude language for 4 situations.
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Let's Party!
First graders identify similarities/differences of celebrations and list ways to celebrate. They investigate celebrations from around the world.
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Compare and Contrast Culture
Fifth graders compare and contrast the cultures of American culture with that of the other cultures of North America. Using traditional and Internet research, 5th graders gather data on one element of culture for comparison. Data...
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Geotagging in school
Students create a digital photo map of the world. In this digital photo map lesson plan, students pick topics such as the Olympics, natural disasters, or trip planning and create a photo map on the computer.
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Maori Stick Game
Students explore Maori culture in the New Zealand area and play the Maori Stick Game.
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Practice Problems: Correlation and Linear Regression
In this correlation and linear regression activity, students examine data to determine the statistic mean. They compute the percent of the variability. This three-page activity contains 16 problems. Answers provided.
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World Climate Growing Zones
Young scholars create a map showing where crops would be grown around the world. In this crops lesson plan, students show how the world climate would produce different parts of the world at different times. Young scholars fill out...
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How You Use Credit Cards Should Determine How You Choose Them
Students explore the concept of credit cards. In this credit cards lesson, students read an article about credit card spending. Students discuss different ways in which people use credit cards. Students determine what kind of spender...
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I am, and this is what makes me special
Young scholars design a PowerPoint presentation using six slides that include a title, a picture and five positive attributes about the student. They include the specified pictures and describe how they relate to themselves.
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Buggy Addition
In this addition and bugs worksheet, students practice adding together certain types of bugs together and place their totals in the boxes provided. Students complete five addition math problems and then color the bugs on the worksheet...
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The Art of Growing Things
Students discuss how the Pilgrims brought seeds, from England, into the new settlements and explore the history of seed nurseries. After observing packets of seeds and their contents, students list information found on the packets and...
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W. Atlee Burpee and the "Seeds" of Becoming an Entrepreneur
Pupils research the components of W. Atlee Burpee's mail-order business. For this Pennsylvanian history lesson, students analyze three business components for Burpee's mail-order business. Pupils create a plan implementing the components.
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As Simple as Beans: Canada's Population
Students gather facts about Canada from various maps. In this Canada activity, students use beans to relate the populations of the U.S. and Canada. Students create population distribution maps based on the placement of the beans.
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Cemetery Mapping Lesson
Eighth graders explore historical records. For this cemetery mapping lesson, 8th graders analyze local community data as they examine gravestones and read epitaphs.
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A House for Hermit Crab
Engage young marine biologists in a reading of Eric Carle's A House for Hermit Crab with a fun hands-on activity. Given a set of clipart images of the different aquatic animals that appear in the book, children identify each one...
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Hospitality Habits
Students identify the six most important hospitality habits and use them in their own jobs and communities. In this hospitality lesson, students identify the top hospitality habits and create a map of their town to use the habits in the...
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The Inuit Society-- The Importance of Tradition
Young scholars conduct research at the Inuit perspective website to explore the life and culture of the modern day Inuit.
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Artifact Ethics
Fourth graders examine their own values and beliefs about archaeological site protection and evaluate possible actions they might take regarding site and artifact protection.
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Music in Japan - Fine Arts
Second graders discuss various types of music. They identify and explore Japanese music, and instruments. They make a koto.