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Famous People

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils create a database with information about famous people. They develop a custom word-processing template. They practice merging fields into their template.
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Mrs. Perkins' Dolch Words: #3 Dolch Silly Sentences

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students practice word recognition skills. In this dolch sight word lesson, students arrange sight words to create silly sentences that are grammatically correct.
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Create Flash Cards

For Students 5th - 6th
In this flash cards worksheet, students create flash cards with their vocabulary words on them. Students create 10 flashcards total.
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Junkyard Wars: Air Movers

For Teachers 6th - 11th
Students study Rube Goldberg machines.  For this investigative lesson students design and build a machine that uses several steps to move an aluminum can. 
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Canada's Climate: Temperature and Rainfall Variations

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students analyze data about various climates in Canada. In this data analysis and climate instructional activity, students use Canada Year Book 1999 to complete a worksheet and make connections between precipitation and temperature in...
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Act it Out

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discuss racial stereotypes.  For this racial stereotypes lesson, students develop a character from information given to them on an index card.  Students give their character a race different from their own and write a...
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Pennsylvania Department of Education

Writing with Beans

For Teachers Pre-K
Students become familiar with the letters in a word by pasting beans on it.  In this Bean writing lesson, students make words using navy beans. Students color or paint the beans.
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Track Stories

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students identify animal tracks. For this animal track lesson, students look at "track stories" and identify the animals that made the tracks. Students discuss if they believe the animals are predators or prey. 
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Golden Door Book

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students use the Golden Door as a theme to search for historical and aesthetic content. They create a paper collage containing relevant images, text and expressions.
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Perplexing Patterns

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders identify and find missing patterns. In this algebra lesson, 7th graders investigate numbers and sequences and complete the pattern. They make a chart and discuss similarities and differences.
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Database

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders collect daily weather information and introduce them to databases.
Interactive
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Negative Statements

For Students 5th - 8th
In this negative statements worksheet, students make negative statements with the words and phrases given to them. Students complete 8 sentences total.
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Picture This!

For Teachers 1st
First graders watch the teacher model how to draw pictures and write words in a First, Next, Then, Last - 4 block graphic organizer. They write and draw in their own 4 block papers.
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iChat AV and iSight Camera

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Young scholars interact with science and math classes around the world by doing the same experiment and communicating their results. They use iChat AV and an iSight camera to share relevant information about their area, decide on the...
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Fractals, An Inquiry

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students observe and discuss several different fractal drawings and relate them to patterns they see in nature. They use an online fractal tool to create and modify a fractal image and then create their own fractal image with paint.
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Speaking Skills - Asking Questions

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars focuses on the question form and helping students gain skill while switching tenses in the question form. They improve speaking confidence when using quesion forms.
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Introduction to Melodic Notation: Sol-Mi

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders sing melodic sol-mi songs for teacher and student assessment. Emphasis is placed on drill and practice while developing melodic singing skills. Students evaluate performances and activities using pre-determined rubric...
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Using Multiplication to Solve Word Problems

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students explore math functions by solving word problems in class. In this multiplication lesson, students utilize colored cubes and base blocks to visualize multiplication problems. Students identify the multiplication values within...
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Harry Potter: Early Grades Activity

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Young scholars analyze labels and explore the social hierarchy found in Harry Potter. They expore inclusion and exclusion in social groups.
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Venn Diagram Lesson Plan

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners use Venn diagrams in order to classify different objects and numbers. They then use "Venn Diagram Shape sorter" applets on the computer.
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Observing Fruits and Seeds

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders discuss what they think the word "observation" means and discover different ways that we observe. They observe as the teacher demonstrates how to use a hand lens as a tool for observing tiny details. They then use hand...
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Chasing Shapes

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders sit in a circle and are given geometric attributes, i.e. four equal sides, etc. They run around the circle when a shape is called that corrolates to their attributes. They try to tag other students also running around the...
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: American Romanticism: Parts of the Sentence

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on parts of a sentence including simple subjects and predicates, direct and indirect objects, predicate nominatives and adjectives, subject compliments, and complements. It also provides examples of each and a...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Complete Subject

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on how to find the complete subject of a sentence; it defines simple and complete subject with examples, provides sample sentences with both the simple and complete subjects identified, and offers tips for how to find...