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The Last Day of Slavery

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students complete pre reading, writing, during reading, and interdisciplinary activities for the book The Last Day of Slavery. In this reading lesson plan, students complete journal entries, go over vocabulary, answer short answer...
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Configuration Station #10

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this vocabulary learning exercise, students study 6 words in a word bank and complete 30 activities such as alphabetizing, rhyming, sentence writing, and illustrating.
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configuration station #18

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this vocabulary worksheet, students analyze 5 words in a word bank and complete 30 questions. Although it is not clear what these words have in common, all are high frequency words which students will encounter in their daily reading...
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Working With Words

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
In this vocabulary worksheet, students analyze 8 commonly used words. Students complete 35 activities with these words including sentence writing, alphabetizing, word puzzles and a configuration grid.
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configuration station #2

For Students 2nd - 3rd
For this vocabulary worksheet, students examine 5 words in the provided word bank. Students write sentences, fit them into puzzles, alphabetize and illustrate the words.
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Configuration Station #9

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this vocabulary worksheet, students participate in 30 activities pertaining to the 8 short words in a word bank. Students complete a word search, find rhymes, generate sentences and fill in missing words. These are easy 2 or 3 letter...
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Configuration Station #19

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this vocabulary worksheet, students study a word bank of 5 commonly used words. Students complete 30 questions: sentence writing, missing words, word search, alphabetical order, and illustrating.
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School Life Today and in the Past at Freyberger School

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students compare and contrast school life today with that of Pennsylvania in the 1900's. For this school life lesson students create a description of a typical one-room schoolhouse. They think critically about attending school in a...
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Fraction Strips

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore number sense by participating in a class fraction game. For this number value lesson, students utilize strips of paper with fractions written on them and conduct a trivia game in which teams challenge each other....
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Open Cloze Worksheet 10

For Students 6th - 7th
For this ESL cloze worksheet, students read 8 sentences that contain missing words. For each space, students choose any one word that would make sense in the sentence.
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The Aliens are Coming!

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students create an alien and write a descriptive paragraph about it using all five senses.
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Kraut Lab

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students explore the process of fermentation through the process of making Sauerkraut. Students use their observational skills and their five senses to create an articulate description of their lab created sauerkraut. They discuss the...
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Growing Eyeballs

For Teachers 5th - 10th
Students investigate vision and the anatomy of the human eye. They complete a Webquest, watch a video about the structure of the eye, take an online quiz, answer discussion questions, and read newspaper articles about activities that...
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Praise for a Color

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students discover the 5 senses by analyzing poetry.  In this poetry lesson, students read a poem with their class and analyze how each sense plays into their understanding of the poem.  Students write a poem based on a specific...
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Come To Your Senses

For Teachers 3rd - 4th Standards
Write narratives that include ideas, observations, or memories of an event or experience, and be sure to use concrete sensory details! Groups utilize a few of the famous I Spy books in order to create narratives that utilize sensory...
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Measurement (Grades 3-5)

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Third, fourth, and fifth graders participate in measurement centers. They visit six different centers: standard and linear measurement, clocks, weight, volume, temperature, and converting measurements. They complete a data collection...
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Number Line Mathematics

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Young scholars translate problem situations into diagrams, models, and numerals using whole numbers, fractions, mixed numbers, decimals, and percents. They identify that numbers in different forms are equivalent or not equivalent using...
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Sensory Elements in the Environment

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students verbally and visually identify visual elements found around them everyday.
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The Holocaust: Valuing Creation

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students write a descriptive essay.  In this Holocaust lesson, students discuss what it must have been like for Anne Frank to stay inside for two years.  Students try to appeal to all five senses in their descriptions. 
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Math: Musical Patterns

For Teachers K
Students employ their five senses to interpret and duplicate instrumental patterns. Following the teacher's patterns, students clap their hands and later use instruments such as bells, triangles, or cymbals to create their own "songs."
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Easter Counting

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this Easter counting worksheet, students count Easter baskets, then circle the number counted. A reference web site for additional activities is given.
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Five Themes of Geography

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students conduct research to determine why geography is important and how it provides information regarding many aspects of the world. They investigate the hemispheres, longitude, latitude and absolute location.
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Listing Fractions in Increasing Size

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Increase the depth of your class's fractional number sense with this number-ordering activity. Given four fractions, each with different numerators and denominators, young learners are asked to place them in order from smallest to...
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It's Not All Greek to Me

For Teachers 3rd - 10th
Learners find out the meaning for prefixes used in math vocabulary. By dissecting words used in everyday math, they figure out what the prefix indicates and what the word means. A variety of well-organized worksheets and activities...