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Lesson Plans for Sweet Dreams: How Animals Sleep

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore the sleeping patterns and sleeping habitats of animals. In this where animals sleep lesson, students research different animal species. Students also write and illustrate an animal picture book, make connections...
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Why Do Art?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine the purposes of art and view examples of art created by artists, designers, and craftspeople. They write a report describing the various purposes for creating works of art.
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Monster Exchange

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students draw and describe their monster. They exchange papers with another student and recreate the monster based on the other student's description.
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Kindergarten Exploration Tubs

For Teachers K
Students identify their names as a symbol for themselves. They describe characteristics of organisms. They utilize tools to gather data and compare size.
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Teddy Bear Project

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students take home an Australian Teddy Bear home and draw pictures, photograph, write or verbalize stories of what the bear did at their home. They make a book that is sent to their partner class.
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We Like to Imagine - Animals

For Teachers K - 3rd
Young scholars describe a pretend animal. They read "The After School Monster." Students read other books and discuss whether or not the characters are real. Young scholars make a drawing of a pretend animal and of a real animal. They...
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A Bug's Life

For Students 6th - 8th
In this biology worksheet, students create a presentation for a museum about the children they encounter during their journey as an insect. They identify the types of food the insect eats and its habitat. Students also describe their...
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Match Ups

For Students 4th - 5th
For this Roald Dahl worksheet packet, students complete a variety of activities related to books by Roald Dahl. They match characters with their descriptions. Students describe a trick they'd like to play. They fill in the blanks with 8...
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Horsing around with Verbs

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students identify verbs in complete sentences. In this grammar and locomotor skill lesson, students rotate between ten stations, each with a designated sentence to be read. Students identify the action verb in the sentence and perform or...
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Making a Quilt

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students use vocabulary to describe the quilt making process. In this quilting instructional activity, students collect needed materials, sequence the steps for quilting and create an original peace quilt. Students write about their quilts.
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Adjectives Mastery

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this adjectives usage activity, students view a car, write adjectives to describe it, and create sentences using the adjectives. Students write 12 answers.
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A Salute to American Symbols

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore American symbols. In this reading and social studies lesson, students read literature regarding American symbols and describe the significance of the symbols as they research them in groups.
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Splish, Splash Poetry

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students write weather shape poems and sing weather related songs. In this creative writing lesson, students read the book, It's Raining, It's Pouring and list weather words they heard in the story. Students use the writing process to...
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Sticks and Stones

For Teachers Pre-K - 4th
Learners explore bullying.  For this character development lesson, students discuss verbal and nonverbal bullying. Using the "sticks and stones" adage, learners write a sentence describing a hurtful act on a gray piece of paper,...
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Times of Day

For Teachers 1st - 11th
Students practice telling time using a foreign language.  In this time telling lesson, students listen to a teacher tell them the time in their target language as they translate it while writing.  Students utilize their new...
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My Ideal Partner

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students write about their ideal mate.  In this ideal mate writing lesson plan, students listen and then help the teacher describe the characteristics of an ideal mate.  Students write about their ideal mate and share with a...
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Unit 13: Fashion Show - Day Four: Gallery Walk

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students practice the vocabulary associated with clothing that is worn to special events. In this clothing vocabulary lesson, students, who are ESL learners, practice using works that describe clothing items that are worn for a concert,...
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My Childhood Portrait

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students practice descriptive writing by viewing auto-portraits of young children.  In this art analysis instructional activity, students examine an auto-portrait of their teacher as a young child and ask him/her questions about...
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Look Up!

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Learners investigate the sky.  In this weather and clouds lesson, students observe the sky and write journal entries using their five senses to describe what they see.  Learners observe, identify, and write about the different...
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Conventions: Strong Verbs

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders practice using strong verbs. In this conventions lesson, 5th graders brainstorm words to complete sentences and list lively and exciting verbs. Students act out meanings of certain words. Students come up with new ways to...
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Solar System Differentiation

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students explore the solar system.  In this solar system science lesson, students choose 3 out of 12 centers to visit, each of which contains an activity related to the planets. The station activities are designed to address...
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Contributions

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students explore the history of Canada by analyzing the First Nations' citizens. In this Native Canadian contributions lesson, students research the geography of Canada and create a book about the First Nations' involvement in the...
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Identify the Element of Line

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students explore the element of "line." In this beginning art activity, students listen to the book Harold and the Purple Crayon, then describe the types of lines Harold drew. Students identify straight lines,  jagged lines, curvy...
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Missing Toy Writing Activity

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students listen to Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale, by Mo Willems. In this listening and writing lesson, students listen to the story and create a poster for their favorite toy if it were to go missing. They work independently to...