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At Home: Safe Landing Activity
A parachute is probably a good idea. An engaging lesson has pupils brainstorm ways to slow the descent of a falling object to minimize the impact when it lands. They decide on a design, build a prototype, test it out, and then make...
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Math Mammoth End of Year Test - Grade 2
Assess your second graders with this end of the year test. Originally meant for home school, this assessment could also be used in a larger setting. Learners complete 35 problems based on their knowledge of the second grade math...
Reed Novel Studies
Wonder: Novel Study
Beauty is more than skin deep. Auggie, the main character in Wonder, has a facial defect, but his inner beauty shines. Taking a cue from Auggie, scholars learn how a person is more than outer appearance. To finish the resource, they...
PBS
Stories of Painkiller Addiction: Myth or Fact
Are opioids the most abused drug after marijuana? How hard is it for young people to obtain painkillers without a prescription? Middle and high schoolers explore the growing epidemic of opioid addiction with a lesson that prompts them to...
Mathalicious
Out of Left Field
A baseball trajectory and a parabola seem to make the best pair in real-world quadratic applications. Here is a current baseball resource with questions, discussions, and explorations regarding a quadratic function and home run...
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Stories of Painkiller Addiction: Learning About Opioids
Feeling high is not the only side effect of abusing prescription opioids. Middle and high schoolers learn more about specific painkillers, including Fentanyl, Oxycodone, and Clonazepam, as well as their common brand names and extensive...
Baylor College
Dust Catchers
In class, your emerging environmentalists construct dust catchers. They take them home for a week or two, and then bring them back into class to examine under a magnifier. From this activity, they learn what makes up dust and that...
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Weekly Progress Report
When we have learners with behavioral or special needs in is extremely important to be able to communicate effectively with parents at home. Here you'll find an A to Z checklist for you to fill out during the week. As behaviors occur,...
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Safety at Home
First graders identify safety hazards in the home and learn ways to prevent home accidents. In this home safety lesson, 1st graders discuss ways to keep a home safe by brainstorming and then reading a story about home safety. They make...
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Houses and Homes Activity Card- School-Home Activity
In this school to home literacy activity card worksheet, students work with an adult to locate the pictures of different types of homes that are found in the book, Houses and Homes. They complete a chart in which they find and record the...
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Taxi: A Book Of City Words
First graders engage in a literature study that helps them to focus on the concepts of goods and services. They describe the various skills people may need at home, school, and work. Students create a map of businesses found in the city.
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School-Home Links/Book Links
In this reading a book at home worksheet, 1st graders choose a book to read at home with a family member and then answer 2 short answer questions about the book.
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School-Home Links/Book Links
In this reading a book at home learning exercise, 1st graders choose a book to read at home with a family member and then list 2 things they remember most about the book.
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School-Home Links: Book Links
In this school-home book links worksheet, students and their caregivers select a book to read together, share the name of book and the author, and write about how the book is like other books they have read.
Michelle Guppy
I Am... the Teacher
Parents often feel as nervous as their children on the first day of school. Help to assuage their worries with a sweet letter by Michelle Guppy, assuring them that you are taking care of their children and thoroughly engaging in their...
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School-Home Links/Book Links
In this reading a book at home worksheet, 1st graders read a book at home with a family member, draw a picture of what they story is mostly about and then write. in their own words, what the story is mostly about.
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School-Home Links/Book Links
In this reading a book at home learning exercise, 1st graders choose a book to read at home with a family member and then write what was the first thing that happened in the story, what happened in the middle and what happened in the end...
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School House Rock Teaches about Pronouns
In this pronouns learning exercise, students watch the School House Rock pronouns video and then replace words with pronouns in sentences. Students complete 6 sentences.
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Back to School Word Unscramble
In this school word unscramble worksheet, students unscramble 10 words associated with school. They write 2 sentences using words which they unscrambled.
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Mathematics: Steps to purchase a home
Learners are partnered as couples who have a variety of financial realities, and must complete a real-life financial analysis to see what it would take them to purchase a home.
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Back to School Patterns
In this pattern worksheet, learners cut out the 10 objects from the bottom of the page. Students then use these cut-outs to complete each of the 5 patterns on the worksheet. This is a back to school activity.
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School-Home Links
In this sharing information worksheet, 1st graders share with their families 3 things that happened at school that day and then write them down as a story on the lines provided.
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Help the School Bus Driver
In this school bus driver maze learning exercise, students assist a school bus driver to route the most efficient way to get through a maze to get the children to school.
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Which Way to School?
In this going to school maze worksheet, students help pupils walk to school by tracing a path from home to the school building in a maze puzzle.