Foundation for Water & Energy Education
What is the Water Cycle? Activity A
Hydrologists create a concept map about how water is used and a sentence strip defining water and describing its unique properties. Small groups work together to fill a small milk carton and compute the mass of water inside. The next...
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Hidden Words
For this long vowel E (ie) instructional activity, learners print the word for each of the five pictures that contain a long vowel E on the lines provided and then locate and circle each one in a word search puzzle.
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Fr ie n d s h ip, Self-esteem
Students brainstorm examples of activities that show friendship and illustrate them and explain below each picture what is happening. They hear a poem about friendship, watch a commercial about it, write a book about it and now they are...
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Verbos con cambios radicales
Stem-changing, or radical changing, verbs are fairly common in Spanish. Provide your Spanish class with this reference guide to discuss the stem changes that occurs in the yo, tú, él, ella Ud., ellos, ellas, and Uds. forms.
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Easily Confused Words: E.g. and I.e.
In this easily confused words: e.g. and i.e. worksheet, students read definitions and examples of both words, then interactively answer 3 multiple choice questions with immediate online feedback.
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8th Grade Spelling: ie, ei Spelling Patterns
For this 8th grade home connection spelling practice worksheet, 8th graders examine 20 spelling words that feature "ei" and "ie." Students write the words 1 time each.
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Spelling: "ea," "ee," "ie"
In this spelling worksheet, students copy a set of 20 words with "ea," "ee," or "ie." Parents are given suggestions for helping students study and learn the words.
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Add "ies" to Words
For this worksheet on adding ies to words, students find 15 hidden plurals and review the rule: drop Y and add ies. Words are in a word box at the bottom of the page.
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Spelling: ie and ei words
Fourth graders practice spelling "ie" and "ei" words. In this review of spelling, 4th graders discuss different "ie"/"ei" words and the old saying "i before e except after c" and it's accuracy. This lesson includes a worksheet for...
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Same and Different Through Music and Art
This lesson is intended for a music class but would be a great way to teach compare and contrast to any class. Kindergarteners dance the Hokey Pokey to four different styles of music and examine two paintings of Humpty Dumpty, then...
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Multicultural Music: Israel
Do a grapevine to the left, lift your hands in the air, and sing out, "Hey!" These are the steps second graders will do when they sing and dance the Israeli folk song, "Achshav.” They will explore the concept of multicultural music...
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Multicultural Music Connections
Native American music is fun to listen to and great to play. Third graders get multiculturally inspired as they discuss musical sounds from around the globe, then play a few traditional Native American instruments.
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Four Corners Locomotion
A simple P.E. activity will get young athletes running, jumping, hopping, skipping, and crabwalking! These locomotor movement exercises are a great way to build up aerobic endurance. Your students will ask you to play this game again and...
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Tener
What does tener mean? Introduce your Spanish novices to this important verb. First, they fill out the conjugation chart. Next, they read the examples and explanation as a whole class. There's a short practice activity at the end to...
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El verbo tener-Explanation
Introduce your beginning Spanish speakers to the verb tener. The chart at the top of the page details the basic present tense conjugation, and the examples that follow show the different ways that tener is used. While no practice...
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Van Gogh's Starry Night
Learners create representations of Van Gogh's "Starry Night" using the main artistic elements of color, line, balance, movement, and space. The class is then asked to discuss the creative process.
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Number Patterns/ Odd and Even #2
What's odd? What's even? And what is the pattern? Learners explore addition problems to answer this question, deciding if the answer to each equation is odd or even. They then draw a two-column table to illustrate the outcomes of the...
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Learning Refrain and Verse
Instruct your young musicians on the terms verse and refrain. They listen to two songs, and point out the verse and refrain as they occur. Students then play drums when they hear the verse and the refrain. Note: Song lyrics, sheet music,...
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Spelling Rules for "IE' and "EI"
In this grammar worksheet, students identify and locate vocabulary words that apply to the spelling rules for "ie" and "ei." There are 30 words located in the word search.
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Using the Newspaper to Teach Division and Time Conversion
Students use classified ads to select a career. In this math lesson, students convert the listed salary to an hourly, yearly, weekly and monthly rate. Students explain the process they used to find the various rates.
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Form and Observation
Use a familiar song and adorable baby animal pictures to teach youngsters about genetic variation. Begin by listening to "Twelve Variations on 'Ah vous dirai-je Maman,'" which you will need to find online (there are several versions...
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Typical Numeric Questions for Physics I - Motion
Seven pages with 33 multiple choice questions about motion make up this worksheet. Calculations must be performed in order to choose the correct answer. Physics majors will solve for angles, displacement, acceleration, speed, and time...
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Bright Mice
Kindergarten through second graders explore the long i sound. In this phonics lesson, they read The Mother's Day Mice, sing "Farmer in the Dell," and play I Spy with long i in order to explore the target sound. Additionally, there is a...
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Lunar Plant Growth Chamber
Would astronauts be able to grow their food on the Moon? Teams research plant growth in order to design and build a growth chamber that will function on the lunar surface. They narrow down plant choices based upon their...