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Weather and Water in Ghana

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students research the rainy and dry season to investigate Africa's weather. In this African weather lesson, students use the given websites to research the rainy and dry seasons of Ghana in Africa. Students then read stories about life...
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Writing Prompt

For Students 1st - 4th Standards
Guided by a picture of children engaging in winter activities (building a snowman, sledding, etc), young writers compose three sentences about the picture. They are prompted to use three specific words provided in a word bank. The...
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¿Qué significa el dibjuo? Halloween

For Students 2nd - 3rd
What is happening in the picture? Your native-Spanish speakers look at the five pictures and choose the best sentence to describe each. This worksheet has a Halloween theme.
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Poetry Appreciation – "The Raven"

For Students 7th - 9th
Introduce your class to "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe with this series of activities, exercises, and worksheets. Class members examine an image, analyze a movie trailer, read a prose version of the poem, look up vocabulary, and pick out...
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Work Patterned on Mondrian

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students study and describe aesthetic properties in art. They use criteria to participate in critiques.
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New to School Student Booklets

For Teachers K
Students complete a booklet that describes their experiences in school. They read books about going to school and complete pages about themselves, their teachers and the types of activities they most enjoy.
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SCIENTIFIC ART

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students cut out pictures from magazines and create collages that demonstrate the five senses.
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Exploring Hawaiian Mountain Zones

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders watch a video that describes the climate and vegetation zones of Hawaii. They describe the different physical conditions that create vegetation zones from the sea to the mountains. In groups, they create an illustrated...
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DNA Diagnosis

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners describe the fundamentals of DNA such as structure and replication. Given a picture of a gel, they circle the band that represents the smallest DNA, the largest DNA, and show which DNA sources are the same.
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Pass It Down

For Teachers 1st - 11th
Students in varying grades work cooperatively to create a living museum of items that have been "passed down" through generations. They give a brief oral presentation showing their object (or a picture of it) and describing its history...
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The Landscape of France

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students create a nature journal for an imaginary trip around France. They Identify animals and plants that live in France and describe its landscape. In addition they research a period in France's history and prepare a brief summary of...
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Sweden: The Landscape

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Pupils imagine they are taking a trip around Sweden. They create a nature journal for their trip including the description of the landscape, climate, animals and plants. They are to give details to make it seem real. Students may use the...
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Sports and Hobbies

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students explore vocabulary related to sports and hobbies. They consider their interests in sports and hobbies in relation to other students. They discuss music and describe a piece of music using simple adjectives.
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Colors

For Teachers K
Students explore various colors. They research information on the primary and secondary colors. Students research the colors of the rainbow and they create a picture of a rainbow using Kid Pix.
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Euro-Tourism

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers design a tourist brochure using Publisher. They research an assigned European country. Students describe tourist attractions in their country and other interesting characteristics.
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Everybody Needs a Little Sunshine

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Three activities introduce upper elementary ecologists to photosynthesis and food webs. In the first, an experiment is set up to determine how plants respond to different types of light. In the second, they connect organism cards with...
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"Inside Parts of a Computer Project" WebQuest

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils participate in a role play situation in which they act as a private investigator to determine the parts found inside a computer. They complete web based research. They create a slide show that describes inner workings of a computer.
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Clown Accordion Book

For Teachers K
Students investigate the letters that form the word "clown". They draw the pictures that coincide with each letter. Students use construction paper for a background and then insert the pictures. Then they write the dialogue for the book.
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Being the Boss: Entrepreneurship

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Pupils describe the meaning of entrepreneurship and list three characteristics of entrepreneurship. They discuss the disadvantages and advantages of being an entrepreneur. They identify potential entrepreneurship opportunities in the...
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K-5 Integrating Character Education/A Lesson on Responsibility

For Teachers K - 5th
Students demonstrate traits of responsibility. They explain that accepting responsibility is more rewarding than avoiding responsibility. Students bring pictures of responsible and irresponsible situations or behaviors. They explore the...
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Worksheet 1

For Teachers Higher Ed
In this math worksheet, pupils give examples of functions that will satisfy given conditions. Students tell the tabulations for a given function. Pupils use the definition of a derivative to compute the inverse of a function. they state...
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Sports and Exercise

For Students 4th - 6th
Use prepositions to explain what the people in the picture are doing. For example, the man is swimming in the pool, and the woman is sitting on the edge of the pool. Learners write seven sentences. 
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How Do We Use Water Everyday

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
In this water conservation worksheet, students complete a chart telling 4 daily uses of water. They fill in a second chart describing two ways water is wasted, and make a poster persuading others not to waste water.
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Everyday Mathematics: Coins

For Students 2nd - 3rd
For this counting coins worksheet, students receive help from an adult to find the total value for the pictured coins. The objective is to enhance students' counting money skills and skip counting skills.