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Alphabet Letters Aa-Zz
In these alphabet letter worksheets, students color in the uppercase and lowercase letters from Aa through Zz. Students color 26 worksheets.
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Ancient Greece Across the Curriculum
Sixth graders explore Ancient Greece using resources in literature, math, social studies, and science.
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Be the Spell-Checker 4
In this spelling instructional activity, students read a short text about school. Students locate 20 misspelled words and write them correctly above.
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Popcorn
Students discuss the properties of popcorn. They explore the connection between corn, popcorn and Thanksgiving. As a class, students sing a popcorn song and create a popcorn craft. They practice writing the word popcorn. As a...
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Faces of the Family
Middle schoolers and teachers share their individual concept of families to begin the instructional activity. As they read different pieces of literature, they keep a journal of the activities and problems each main character gets into....
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Compare and Contrast
In this compare and contrast graphic organizer activity, students choose 2 different topics to compare and contrast using the graphic organizer to organize their information.
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The Letter Ww
Students explore letter Ww. In this letter recognition lesson, students participate in country, state, food, literature, physical education, colors, careers, music, and game activities that are linked to the main lesson page. Students...
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Ocean Animals vs. Humans
Students use critical thinking skills to solve word problems using ratios that allow them to compare humans to ocean animals.
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Around the World With Multiplication
Students play Around the World, recalling basic multiplication facts.
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Tallies Tell It All
Students explore data collection through the use of tally marks. After a demonstration of the use of tally marks students complete various inquires where they create a chart documenting the number of times a desired result happens. They...
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"The Giver" by Lois Lowry
Young scholars predict results, design a model, and carry out trials to determine probability based on their experimentation.
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Probability
Third graders conduct experiment, collect data, predict, record, and discuss outcomes, and analyze data for probability.
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Routines and habits
Students tell time to the hour, half hour and quarter hour. They practice vocabulary of daily routines. They match word cards with a picture representation of the card. They graph classmates schedules.
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Who Hid the Milk Products?
Students study milk products and learn their health benefits. For this milk products lesson, students discuss dairy products. Students participate in a game of milk product identification. Students also discuss categorizing milk by their...
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The Largest Volcano on Earth
Pupils create time-lines of tow major eruptions and use this information to determine what happens during an eruption. In this volcano lesson students read information about previous eruptions and create a time line.
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Let's Play Scrabble!
What do Alfred Mosher Butts, James Brunot, and Jack Straus have in common? They were all instrumental in the development of Scrabble. Class members will discover these facts and many more as they conduct a WebQuest to gather, organize,...
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Spellbound
In this crossword worksheet, students complete a crossword puzzle by solving a variety of clues. For example, "The direction where the sun sets."
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Jumping Patterns
Second graders count by fives and tens to 100 as they jump rope. They share ropes and one counts as one jumps. They may be asked to count by twos and even ones or double jump.
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Good Advice 2
In this language arts worksheet, students match questions with logical answers and advice. Students read 20 questions and match them to the good advice answers.
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Using Numbers 2
In this language arts and math activity, learners read 12 mixed operation problems which are expressed in words. Students write the answers to the equations in words. Example: five plus eleven equals (sixteen).
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A Lengthy Shake
Third graders practice measuring skills by cutting paper strips of varying lengths. They place them on a parachute and shake it until all the paper strips fall off it. They collect the paper strips and measure them with rulers.
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Instructional Software Resources for Grades K-3
Students become familiar with teh selection, evaluation, and use of instructional software for 4-8 classroom. They download software demos from the web and discuss critiquing software. Students browse software evaluations on web sites.
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Where is Triangle?
Students listen to songs to discover different shapes. They tape the shapes to their fingers and when they sing about that shape they are to show the shapes to each other.
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Part Two: A Truly Inspirational Book List for Teachers
The second article of my two-part series on terrific books for teachers.