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Cardinal Directions
Students draw items on a map in specific places to show their knowledge of cardinal directions. In this simple map skills lesson plan, students draw a cloud, a tree, a house, and a lake to show North, South, East, and West.
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Cams
Students explore plate and barrel cams. They discuss the differences between the two cams. Students identify a base and prime circle and they draw a plate cam using the provided details.
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Where Can I See The Sea?
Students see how the pieces of the fossil puzzle fit together to allow the paleontologist to imagine the earth as it was millions of years ago. They draw a map showing what environments were present in a certain area more than 70 million...
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PLANTS LOVE AIR
Students identify that plants cannot develop adequately without air and predict what happens to the leaf of a geranium brought to class. They draw a picture of what they think the leaf will look like after a week of being covered....
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Potato Head
Students create a potato looking object. In this art lesson, students decorate hamster bedding with a face making it look like the potato. Students water the object causing the grass to grow making it look like hair.
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Mapping Human Rights in Our Community
Students work in groups to draw a map of their town or neighborhood. They include their homes, major public buildings and places. Students analyze their maps from a human rights perspective.
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Phonics Long Vowel 1
In this vowel sound learning exercise, learners review the words in the word bank and circle the words that have the long a sound. Students then draw a picture to show words that have the long a sound.
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Expressive Papier-Mache Masks
Students create papier-mache masks showing different human emotions. In this mask lesson, students choose what facial expression they want and sketch out their mask and background. They form the "face" in clay and then papier-mache over...
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Tessellation Lesson Plan
Students produce original tessellations, using equilateral triangles where three unique symmetrical faces rotate, use shape, pattern/repetition, and color to create a striking composition, and create "beasties" inspired by bestiaries of...
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Mood in Music
Young scholars portray the mood of a piece of music in a drawing. In this mood in music lesson, students discuss how music creates a mood. Young scholars listen to Vivaldi's "Four Seasons," "The Wreck of The Wreck of the...
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What Time Is It?
In this clocks worksheet, students first read a one page text about different kinds of clocks. Using a word bank, students label the parts of four different kinds of clocks: grandfather, wristwatch, digital and analog. Students write the...
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The Ups and Downs of Technology
Middle schoolers create a visual timeline of skyscrapers built in the past 20 years. In this physical science lesson, students research important facts about the building. They discuss the challenges architects face when building...
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Halloween Carnival
Students review previously taught movements of kicking, striking, throwing and catching while involving a Halloween theme. They go to workstations with names such as "Floating Ghosts," "Shadow Shapes," "Spider Web," &quo
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Experimental Probability (Practice 20.5)
In this probability worksheet, students make a set of cards with letters (instructions provided) and use them to solve 5 probability investigations.
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Portraits of the Artist
Students reflect on the different roles they have for themselves in a journal entry. After reading an article, they discover information on the life of Rembrandt. In groups, they examine the roles of Rembrandt in his self-portrait and...
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Number Up
Students explore the concept of order of operations. In this order of operations lesson, students play a card game where students in the group have 5 cards. Students must use addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division to make...
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Tall Tales
Students examine the characteristics of tall tales and how exaggerations are used. They create a character that is larger than life, they brainstorm attributes for their character, before writing a Tall Tale. They plan out their story,...
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Make Your Own Paper Bag Manatee Puppet
In this science craft worksheet, students learn about the Florida manatee by constructing a paper bag puppet with extra pattern pieces for the head and flippers. Students read the information and study the drawings about manatees, then...
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Math Fact Card Games
Students play card games as a way to strengthen their math skills. In this math facts lesson, students play UNO multiplication, greater than and less then and multiplication war.
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Underwater Hide and Seek
Students explain why color patterns that are easy to see above water may be difficult to detect under water and experience the problems predators face when searching for camouflaged prey.
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Unit 5 Probability Activities
Wow! Here is a 14-page package of activities to use when your math class is studying probability. There are a myriad of pertinent experiments for learners to try, such as rolling a self-constructed multi-faced three-dimensional...
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Characterization
Students read the book Sylvester and the Magic Pebble. For this character traits lesson, students read the book and identify character traits. Students draw pictures of a character from the book and describe the character traits.
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An Exploration of Leonardo da Vinci's Life and Work
The original Renaissance man, da Vinci is a wonderful subject through which to discuss history, art and science.
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The Chocolate War
Young scholars scrutinize the story, "The chocolate War" by Robert Cormier for examples of nonconformity in the face of power. The nature of the relationship between students in the story is compared to the associations of the reader.