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Common Prepositions
Have you ever heard the phrase, "Anywhere a mouse can go?" It is often used to identify a preposition! Provide your class with a list of prepositions, and then have your young grammarians complete the 10 sentences provided.
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Line Up Balls
At times special needs or Autistic children have a difficult time disengaging from a lesson to line up at the door. This brief strategy overview employs mini-porcupine balls and a pocket. It was developed to help pupils...
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Compound and Complex Sentences
Does your class need to work on compound and complex sentences? Consider this worksheet! This fine worksheet has learners use connecting words to join 8 sentences, so that simple sentences become compound and complex sentences. They also...
Freeology
Get to Know You - Bingo
Who has a pet fish? Bingo! Meeting classmates just got a whole lot easier with this colorful template that asks individuals to find 16 classmates who meet the criteria defined in the matrix boxes. Consider extending the activity by...
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The French and Indian War (1756 to 1763):
Take your class through the lead-up, strategies, and effects of the French and Indian War of the mid-18th century. The dynamics of American patriotism is put to the test in the vital years before the American Revolution, and the ongoing...
Concord Consortium
Detective Stories
The truth will always come out. A short performance task has learners considering a witness statement given to a detective. They apply special line segments in triangles and Ceva's Theorem to prove that the witness is actually lying.
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Find Somebody Who...3 - Icebreaker Game
Get everyone speaking! Giving your youngsters a time limit, encourage them to walk around the room and ask their classmates if they have done any of the 30 items on the provided list. They write down the names of each person in the...
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The World of Amelia Bedelia
Get ready to laugh with your class by reading the book Amelia Bedelia's First Day of School. After they read the book and do activities comparing their first day of school with Amelia' they will then have conversations around the story....
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Introduce Vocabulary: My Chinatown: One Year in Poems (Mak)
Beautiful illustrations and tender memories of cultural identity make Kam Mak's story My Chinatown an ideal resource for budding readers learning four vocabulary words in context: fortune, scraps,...
American Museum of Natural History
What's This? Feeding
Some species have pretty creative methods for catching food. Young scientists learn about some interesting ways organisms get the nutrients they need by navigating an online interactive lesson that would be suitable for a remote learning...
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Choose the Homograph
Practice homographs with this fun activity! Learners choose the meanings of ten homographs based on the sentence's context clues. The activity has a picture of bats - one flying mammal, and one used in baseball. Use this resource as a...
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Maniac Magee: A 5th Grade Literature Guide
There's no need to run around trying to plan a unit for the book Maniac Magee, the work has already been done for you. Through a series of whole class, small group, and independent lessons and activities, students practice...
Illustrative Mathematics
Cooking with the Whole Cup
Whoops! Travis accidentally put too much butter into the recipe. Your bakers must find out how to alter the recipe to accommodate different changes by using unit rates and ratios . The activity has multiple parts and calculations with...
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Test Yourself: Sentence Scrambles
In this writing sentences worksheet, students unscramble 4 sets of words to compose 4 sentences and then fill in the blanks in 4 sentences with have got or has got.
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Religion in Social Change: What's God Got To Do With It?
Young scholars determine how religion influences social change. For this religion and social change lesson, students examine how the religious beliefs of Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. were inspirational as they worked to...
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Understanding Theme with Fables
What is the moral of the story? Ask your class to read a series of fables from which the last line has been removed. After supplying this concluding statement, they must justify their responses. This could be used as an individual or...
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Mentally Add and Subtract 10 or 100
Here are some number lines that need to be completed. There are two number sequences, one to test addition skills and the other for subtraction. Both sequences include counting by 10, but the subtracting question has scholars count...
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Who Has Denser Fur?
In this mathematics worksheet, learners identify and solve who has the denser fur, either the Sumatran tiger or the sea otter. They calculate the number of hairs for each per inch or per meters and compare them.
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We've Got the Power
Students examine how power can be generated and the advantages and disadvantages of each method. In this investigative lesson plan students divide into groups, research the Internet and present it to the class.
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Stuck Like Glue 4 - Wall Line Dance
Heel, toe, heel, toe, grapevine, stomp. Put some basic dance steps together and get moving. Teach this 32-count series to your class and when they've got the steps down add some music. "Stuck Like Glue" by Sugarland has a great beat and...
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The Water Cycle - Main Components
Present the water cycle to your middle schoolers with this lesson plan. After an anticipatory set, they participate in a Q & A session about the terms associated with the water cycle: evaporation, transpiration, condensation, and...
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Spelling Review Game
Pupils play a fast-paced game to review spelling words. This quick spelling practice game can fill a 2-minute transition time or serve as a 20-minute review activity. It can be used in a class which has the same, or different spelling...
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English Exercises: Schoolhouse Rock
"Conjunction, junction, what's your function?" The lyrics to the classic Schoolhouse Rock episode "Conjunction Junction" accompany what was once a link to the video. Video has been "removed by the user," but it would be a snap to find...
Illustrative Mathematics
Voting for Two, Variation 1
The votes are in and your mathematicians are going to calculate how many votes each candidate received. Three different solution choices are given, depending on which method is taught. Have your learners set up a table, compute parts, or...