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Fantastic Fractions

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students work in small groups to find pictures that represent the fractions 1/2, 1/3, and 1/4. They paste their examples onto bulletin board paper and share their results with the rest of the class.
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Chinese Dragons

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Learners use texture, line, shape, pattern and color to create their own dragons to celebrate Chinese New Year.
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A Dreamer's Cloak

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students listen to the teacher read "A Dreamer's Cloak." They examine the difference between squares and circles and create their own cloak by using a paper bag and different shapes.
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Tangrams

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore the context of how and when to use tangrams in geometry. They create and draw a number of different geometric figures using tangrams. Students work on their visual spatial skills.
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Fruit Color Wheel

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students create color wheels using painted pictures of fruit in this fun and decorative Art instructional activity about color mixing, primary, and complimentary colors. It is suggested that younger children be provided pre-drawn fruit...
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Showing Depth

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders examine and demonstrate how to create a middle ground, background, and foreground on a picture or work of art. They identify middle ground, background, and foreground on Michael Sowa's works of art, then create their own...
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Mirror Writing

For Students 4th - 6th
For this mirror writing worksheet, students follow the directions to decide which alphabet letters are symmetrical. Students use a mirror and a white light as they work in partners to trace simple shapes.
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Art--"Paper Pasting"--Doing Collage

For Students 4th - 6th
In this art worksheet, students read a 1 page article on the history or art, prepare their background to making a collage, gather basic shapes, create their collage and then add in the finishing touches to them.
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Sight Word Activity Pages

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this sight word learning exercise, students are given a calendar naming 4 weeks worth of sight words and their activities for each school day of the week. Activities follow on subsequent pages.
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Animal Adaptations: Focus on Bird Beaks

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders explore bird beaks as animal adaptation. In this bird adaptation lesson, 6th graders conduct an experiment to determine the connection between the shape of a bird's beak and the food it eats.
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Numerical Integration

For Students 11th - 12th
In this numerical integration worksheet, students find intervals and subintervals. They identify pictures and name the approximate integral. This two-page worksheet contains approximately 25 problems.
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Applied Science-Science and Math Lab

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students explore magnification. In this scientific observation skills lesson, students observe sea life items and draw pictures of what they observe. Students predict which lens will have the strongest magnification when given three...
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Insects

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students read books, learn about the letter i, and eat raisins that represent ants all to learn about insects. In this insects lesson plan, students also observe an ant farm and play follow the leader.
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Raccoons

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Learners read books, learn about the letter r, and eat trail mix all to learn about raccoons. In this raccoons lesson plan, students also use construction paper to make raccoon tails.
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Images of Slavery

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students analyze the ways slavery shaped social and economic life in the South after 1800, methods of passive and active resistance to slavery; escaped slaves and the Underground Railroad, and the ending of the Atlantic slave trade.
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Pollination Partners

For Students 6th - 8th
In this science worksheet, students look for the causes and effects of pollination through doing some arts and crafts projects that includes a collage.
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Zz is for Zipper

For Students K - 2nd
In this printing instructional activity, students form the upper and lowercase letter Z. Students also color in two pictures, follow a Connect-the-Dots picture, and count words.
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Animal Groups

For Teachers K - 5th
Young scholars explore animal groups. In this animal science lesson, students use pictures from magazines and classify the animals into five categories. Young scholars share why they categorized the animals the way they did.
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Autumn's Palette

For Students 1st - 3rd
For this Ranger Rick worksheet, students participate in a nature walk, observe the leaves, and sketch some of the leaf shapes they encounter. Students also respond to a question regarding the range of leaf colors they observe.
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Famous Bridges

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers explain how significant bridges are in our lives. In this technology lesson, students research the history and characteristics of their assigned bridge and draw it on butcher block paper. They write a short...
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Comparing and Contrasting

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Pupils practice compare and contrast skills. In this science and language development lesson plan, students complete a T chart generating traits of a snail and a clam. Pupils complete a related worksheet.
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Visualizing: Hill Fire

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students use visualization while reading Hill of Fire. In this language arts lesson, students read the story and draw a picture of what they see while listening to the story. Students use manipulatives to create the figures described.
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Totem Poles -- Storytellers of Long Ago

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders discover the main purpose for totem poles was to communicate with others. In groups, they compare and contrast the four types of totem poles and the various symbols used. They write their own stories based off of pictures...
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Parabolas

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students find equations of parabolas in real world scenarios.  In this finding equations of parabolas in real world scenarios lesson, students find the equations of parabolas of US landmarks.  Students put a grid on landmarks...