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Pet Care Adds Up

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students calculate the costs of properly caring for a pet. For this animal welfare lesson, students use pet supply catalogs and websites to gather information about the cost of caring for a pet. Students are divided into groups and are...
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Pets and their Homes

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students explore the space needed for an animal to live in. In this pets lesson, students view pictures of animals and decide which one needs more space or less space to live. Students discuss animals environments and why certain spaces...
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Classifying Animals - Farm and Pets

For Teachers Pre-K
Students explore the concept of classification. In this classification lesson, students collaborate in order to classify animals as pets or farm animals.
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Pets - A Mini-Book

For Students Pre-K - K
In this pets mini-book worksheet sets, students make a book, either in color or black and white, that includes names of pets such as rabbit, turtle, dog, cat, bird, fish, and hamster. They see lines under the picture of each pet but...
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Reed Novel Studies

Runaway Ralph: Novel Study

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Maybe the grass isn't always greener on the other side. Ralph, a mouse character in Runaway Ralph, thought that summer camp had to be better than dealing with his mother, uncle, and cousins. However, camp has its troubles, too. Worksheet...
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Observations of a Mammal

For Students 7th - 12th
Observations are a key step in the scientific method. In a fun activity, kids learn more about a mammal that they know, such as their own cat, a class hamster, or a friend's dog, through making detailed observations. In addition, they...
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San José State University

Parentheses and Brackets

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
Practice using parentheses and brackets with your class using this handout and short exercise. This could also be used as a reference sheet, since it lists several different proper ways to use parentheses and brackets, with examples of...
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Chomp Chomp

Word Choice - Exercise 12: To, Too, and Two

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
A twenty-question worksheet provides practice using the commonly confused to, too, and two. Meet Common Core standards with the help of this resource in your fourth grade classroom. Use as homework or an assessment.
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Poetry4kids

Alliteration and Assonance Lesson Plan

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Scholars analyze the poem My Puppy Punched Me in the Eye by Ken Nesbitt in order to locate examples of alliteration and assonance. After reading the poem, alliterative words are underlined and assonant words are circled. 
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Tally Chart: Favorite Names

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this data display worksheet, students analyze a tally chart of favorite hamster names. Using the information on the chart, students solve 8 word problems.
Worksheet
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Different Ways to Divide

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this division worksheet, learners use data about pet store animals found in a given chart to solve 6 division problems, telling which method of division was used.
Worksheet
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Category Puzzle

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this vocabulary and word study activity, students categorize 8 everyday words as they use the 8 clues to correctly complete the crossword puzzle.
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How Can I Help?

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students explain that people with asthma can stay healthy most of the time if they do these things: stay away from things such as furry pets or cigarette smoke that make their asthma worse, go to the doctor and take medicine.
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Jack of All Tails

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
After reading the book Jack of All Tails, learners complete vocabulary activities, play charades, consider a list of questions, and complete a list of verbs. There are also several suggestions for how to connect this language...
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First Grade Reading

For Teachers 1st
In this reading worksheet, 1st graders complete multiple choice questions about poems, letters, reading passages, and more. Students complete 25 questions.
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Hunt the Fact Monster Hunt #26

For Students 4th - 5th
In this internet research worksheet, students use the Fact Monster search engine to find the answers to ten unrelated questions.
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Logic

For Students 8th - 11th
In this logic worksheet, students read logic puzzles. They use tables and Venn diagrams to organize data and determine the answer to the question. This ten-page worksheet contains 16 problems. Answers are provided on the last half of the...
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Mapping Animal Behavior

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students discuss the value of sampling in science. They, in groups, map cricket movement in response to various stimuli and graph their results.
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Shiloh Chapters 7 and 8

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
In this comprehension worksheet, students read chapters 7 and 8 of Shiloh and complete multiple choice questions. Students complete 10 questions.
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Differences

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students observe and compare a variety of living things and pictures of living things to note their similarities and differences.
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Writing a Short Story - Weather

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use the information they wrote about on the topic they chose in studying About Weather. They then write a short story using the information choosing a theme, setting, characters, and the plot.
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Writing an Essay- The Circulatory System

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders write an essay. In this writing lesson, 5th graders research the circulatory system and organize their notes into an outline. Students write an informational essay on the circulatory system.
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Mapping Animal Behavior

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students use stickers and graph paper to map cricket movement.