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Tracing Practice
In this pre-printing practice worksheet, students trace along dotted lines and along lines shown on a picture of a drum and then color. Page has multiple links to additional activities.
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Who Wants to be a Poodle? I Don't
Students explore the book, "Who Wants to be a Poodle? I Don't" by Lauren Child. In this early childhood literacy lesson, students complete extension activities after reading the story. Activities include connect the dots, matching game,...
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Having Beary Much Fun with Core Knowledge
Students participate in a teddy bear themed unit to improve their social and reading skills along with other core knowledge subjects. In this social and reading skills lesson, students complete 8 units of activities to learn about social...
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Walk the State Line
Students practice balancing activities while learning the states in the USA.
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Artifact Bingo
Seventh graders participate in an artifact bingo game. Before beginning, they label the coordinates of a grid correctly along with symbols. They use the grid to place artifacts in their correct coordinates. They use primary source...
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The House of Lords
Students discuss the House of Lords and two chamber parliament of Britain. They imagine there are 600 places in the Lords to be given away, and discuss who they think should get the jobs and why. Students complete a worksheet about the...
Fuel the Brain
Hundreds Board Blanks
Have your young learners enhance their counting skills with this hundred boards worksheet! Your class will get excited when they realize they can write in all the numbers and fill this board up!
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Symmetry of the Southwest
Fourth graders examine mirror symmetry. In this symmetry lesson plan, 4th graders discover that symmetry is not always vertical or horizontal. Students cut and fold shapes along lines of symmetry.
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Palpating Pachyderms: How Do We Interpret Observations?
Learners interpret a poem before completing activities to distinguish observations and interpretations. They examine how personal background can influence how a person interpreters what they observe.
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Math: Are They the Same - or Knot?
Students discover the equivalence between knots and math through a manipulative exploration. In pairs, they select three sets of identical knots and change their forms without breaking the knots apart. Students pass them along to the...
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Flower Pounding
Students create wall hangings from fresh flowers using a technique called flower pounding. Wall hangings can be used to create a classroom quilt as well. This is an activity that can be adapted for many grade levels.
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Round Dance
Third graders will participate in a dance activity for physical fitness. The learn a social dance that has an origin with the Canadian Aboriginal People. The use of tribal music will make the instructional activity more culturally relevant.
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Turn Reading into Watching a Movie!
Young scholars practice visualization by imagining what their favorite person looks like, what they are wearing and doing. They share their imaginings with a partner. Next, listen to a poem while visualizing. Finally, they read along as...
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Elephants Enjoy Eating Eggs
Students recognize the short vowel e in written and spoken language. Through listening and matching activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /e/ from other phonemes. Students practice using the phoneme and letter in words by writing...
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Language Arts: Mississippi River Brochure
Young scholars create brochures about recreational activities along the Mississippi River. Focusing on points of interest, they research attractions and create maps of the surrounding area. Once students write descriptions of their...
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Writing a Comparison/Contrast Paragraph: Using Vivid Verbs
In this vivid verbs worksheet, students complete three activities that help them use strong, vivid verbs in the comparison and contrast writing.
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Music Time
Students explore several different music-related jobs by role playing activities that portray each job. In this music careers lesson plan, students plan a performance where all of them have a specific music related job.
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Do's and Don'ts of Teaching Black History
Students complete activities for Black History month. In this Black history month instructional activity, students complete assignments their teacher chooses after they have examined the do's and don'ts of teaching the subject.
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Tracing and Coloring Practice
In this pre-printing practice learning exercise, students trace along the dotted lines of a picture of a crown and then color. Page has multiple links to additional activities.
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Rock Stories
Youngsters pretend they are rocks sitting on a hill. They listen to the provided guided imagery script to conceptualize the process of how rocks change over time. They draw a diagram of what happened to them as rocks during the story. An...
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Class Tales
Students improve their reading comprehension by role-playing a bear hunt story. In this reading comprehension lesson, students pretend to go on a bear hunt and complete an art project for the story.
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Dynamic Wetlands
Young scholars construct and observe a model of two different types of wetlands. In this wetlands lesson, students create a model of a wetland with constant drainage and a wetland that maintains a well-saturated soil. Young scholars...
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Chapter-by-Chapter Journal Entry- The Outsiders
Learners can respond to each chapter of The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton by composing journal entries. This page lists several prompts for each chapter that pupils can choose from. The prompts are based on the content of the chapter and...
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Your Own El Nino
Students conduct an experiment. For this El Nino lesson, students learn where El Nino storms come from, what they consist of and what effects they have. Students also complete an experiment where they create a miniature El...