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Getting the Local Scoop

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders practice interviewing professionals in their area about their careers at a local watershed. They identify at least three careers that depend on the watershed and discuss its history. They write a composition to end the...
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Social Studies: All about Me

For Teachers K
Students collect information about themselves and their favorite things. Each month they add information in the form of reflections demonstrating growth in self esteem and self evaluation. At the end of the sachool year, students...
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Through The Looking Glass

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students examine the time period of westward expansion. In groups, they use the internet to research the reasons why people moved west during the 1800s. They write their own narratives playing the role of a member of a pioneer family...
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Sharing Our World

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
In this science related worksheet, students explore how we share the planet with a variety of different animals. Students then write the first letter of each of the five animals shown in the blanks next to each picture.
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Long Vowel Free-Writing Activity: Long A

For Students K - 2nd
In this long vowel writing worksheet, students say the name of pictures that have the long a sound, then write about the pictures. Worksheet has links to additional activities.
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1960 Election

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Students examine the election of 1960. In this US politics lesson students listen to a teacher driven lecture, take notes, engage in a class discussion and write a response to what they have learned regarding the 1960's presidential...
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This is Your Life!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create an autobiographical timeline that be shared with a classmate. They write a one paragraph biography based on the timeline.
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Anne Frank: Everything Changed for Us

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students write about a time they were made to feel different, and when they were on the other side of the equation. They read other first hand accounts of times in history when people were made to feel like outsiders.
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Chinese Politburo Simulation on Uyghur Terrorism

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students are assigned a member of the Chinese Politburo and research this person's background, position, and political beliefs. Based on their position on the Politburo, their personality, and their background before coming to power,...
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Economy Or Environment: Which Comes First?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students compile a portfolio of work from a unit on Maine's natural resources and economy. They choose four of their best assignments from the unit then synthesize the ideas in each to write an essay or construct a visual history on the...
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Probability

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders predict future outcomes with an investigation of the mathematical principle of probability using spinners constructed by them. The spinner is a hands on application an they combine it with writing a ratio for the...
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Proud To Be Latino

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers examine and research their Latino heritage. As a class, they read a poem and write their own individual poem about their pride in being Latino. To end the lesson, they read their poems to the class and discuss their...
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Numbers 0-25 -- Tracing

For Students K - 1st
For this writing numbers worksheet, students follow the dotted lines to trace the numbers from 0 to 25 eight times each. Numbers are small in size.
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Nouns and Adjectives

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this noun/adjective worksheet, students read 6 sentences and write all adjectives, nouns used as adjectives and nouns in a graphic organizer.
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Vocabulary Worksheets: Using Be

For Students 2nd - 3rd
For this word scramble worksheet, students unscramble the letters to make words and write the words in the blank spaces. Students spell 11 words.
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Scrambled Letters- Expressing Future Time

For Students 5th - 6th
In this scrambled letters activity, students unscramble the letters in 12 words and write the words in the blank spaces. The words will belong to one of these groups: flying, jobs, expressions in business.
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The Same Shapes

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this shape activity, students complete a chart, writing words or phrases from a word pool in its correct row, according to its shape.
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Verbs: Present Progressive

For Students 3rd - 5th
For this verb tense worksheet, students complete sentences, using verbs from a word pool at the top of the worksheet, writing verbs in the present progressive.
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Completing Conversations

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this completing conversations worksheet, learners write the letter of the phrase that correctly completes a brief conversation. Phrases appear in an alphabetical list at the top of the worksheet. Appropriate to ELL but not exclusive.
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Create Opposites: Antonyms

For Students 4th - 5th
In this antonym worksheet, students write the opposite of a word in bold type in a sentences, choosing a prefix of "dis", "in" or "un" to begin each antonym.
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Notes on Cell Organelles

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils record information and write journal entries on the structure and function of cell organelles while viewing a Powerpoint presentation.
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Coming to California

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders read excerpts from Juan Bautista de Anza's diaries. They analyze the impact of primary sources. They write journal entries for characters in stories they have read during the year.
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Brother Against Brother

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders read Across Five Aprils and correlate it to a unit on the Civil War. They culminate the unit by writing a a piece of historical fiction in the first person entitled "Brother Against Brother."
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Freedom Now

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students watch a short video on colonial rule. They discuss how lives were changed once independence was granted in India. They create mock interview sessions acting as political figures involved in an independence movement. They...