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Using Opening Lines as Writing Prompts

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Help your writers get started with these hooks! Twenty-five opening lines from the "Lives" column in the New York Times Magazine act as prompts for creative writing. Have your learners choose one prompt and write an original essay....
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Vocabulary Bingo: Fever 1793

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Prior to reading Fever 1793, class members are introduced to vocabulary drawn from the text of Laurie Halse Anderson's novel with a bingo-style activity. The vocabulary list, a teacher copy with definitions, and the bingo template are...
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QAR for The Color Purple

For Students 9th - 12th
Have you heard of the QAR strategy? If your class is reading The Color Purple, provide them with this two-page learning exercise to get them thinking. With the strategy, readers are introduced to four types of questions (right there,...
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US Fish and Wildlife Service

Endangered Species

For Students 6th - 12th
This handout goes along with the slide show linked at the top of the of the resource. Depending on the computer availability in your school, this could be a WebQuest in which learners go through the slide show at their own pace, or...
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Strategies for Organization and Elaboration of Personal Narrative

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Personal narrative writing is usually a favorite form of writing for youngsters because they get to write about a personal experience. The lesson here asks pupils to take a piece of narrative writing and improve it by following...
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Comma Usage

For Students 4th - 10th Standards
Sometimes it feels like young writers just place commas as they please! Ensure that your pupils uses these important punctuation marks properly by requiring them to study the information here and complete the grammar exercise....
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White Fang

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
White Fang gets into the mind of a wild wolfdog as people domesticate him. The story tells of trials with violent animals and humans alike. White Fang captures readers' hearts as the pup separates from his family.
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Entering The Twilight Zone

For Teachers 5th - 6th
For this lesson sixth grade students get into groups and research a given ocean habitat. The major features of cold-seep communities are the objective but plenty information is given about other habitats which could be assigned to...
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Reteaching Page: Equations with Fractions

For Students 6th - 7th
In this equations with fractions worksheet, students review inverse operations and reciprocals along with sample problems, then find the reciprocal and solve 3 equations with fractions.
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Growing Minds: Cucumber Exploration

For Teachers K - 4th Standards
After reading a picture book about planting and harvesting cucumbers, learners get a chance to examine some cucumbers of their own. First, they see photographs of a cucumber on a vine, and learn that it is part of the gourd family....
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ELA.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.1

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
All the Common Core standards are important, but they all build off the ability to cite textual evidence to support analysis. See how to scaffold this standard into three steps of development, along with assessment ideas with the ideas...
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Peter Nagy

Virtuoso Piano Free 3

For Students 3rd - 8th
This may be as close to playing a piano as it is possible to get without actually having a physical instrument in the class. Learn the names and sounds of keys, play a solo or a duet, and practice scales or any song you'd like–all for free!
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Percent Error and Percent Increase - Matching Worksheet

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Calculating percent change is a handy tool to understand sales, discounts, and other numerical changes we come across. Here, worksheet practices percent change and percent error with a variety of problems to let your learners see...
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The Bee

For Students 1st Standards
Early readers follow along as Lucy and her mother discuss why a bee is stuck in a flower then answer four reading comprehension questions. 
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Getting to Know Yourself: Developing and Accessing Intrapersonal Intelligence Among Early Adolescents

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students improve understanding of the concept of self-awareness by differentiating the internal from the external world. They develop a vocabulary to describe feelings and to understand the uniqueness and variations of people's inner...
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Cooperation Course

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Young scholars explain cooperation is vital in our relationship to the environment and with fellow human beings. They develop cooperation skills through group interaction.
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My Health Plan

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders discuss various ways they can help out at home. After exploring the various members of their families and how they are comprised, 2nd graders identify ways they can get along with their family members. They create an...
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Coming to America

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students examine the various cultures of the immigrants who came to America. Using the internet, they research various ethnic and cultural groups within the United States. They identify the reasons why people immigrated to the U.S. and...
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Party Planner Organizer

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this party planning worksheet, students complete a blank organizer, filling in details about type of party, refreshments, activities and "ways we get along." 
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ABC, I Believe - Beware of the Dogs

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd
Young scholars discover the importance of NOT getting involved in someone else's fight and NOT to getting others involved in their fights. In this beware of the dogs lesson plan, students read the Bible verse: Proverbs 26:17 and...
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Pizza with the Principal & Kindness Cash

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students understand how their words and acts affect others. In this acts of kindness activity, students were rewarded for kind acts by getting to have pizza with the Principal. Students also participated in a Principal's kindness day so...
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Two-Word Verbs

For Students 6th - 7th
In this verb form worksheet, students read 18 examples of possible two-word verb forms with "get." Examples: get around, get ahead, get in. There are no questions on the page.
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Fish Diseases

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students discuss sicknesses they have had or come in contact with. They discuss treatments for the diseases on the list. Students discuss illnesses that fish might get along with the symptoms, behavior and treatment.
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Treasure Hunt - Geography and Cultural Diversity along the Journey to the West

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students work in groups and use treasure cards and maps to go on a treasure hunt to several regions in China. They prepare a presentation on the geography and culture of the area that they are assigned to.

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