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Making Friends With Franklin

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students will reflect upon the life of Benjamin Franklin in order to understand his place in history. Emphasis is placed upon the development and contributions he made to modern science inquiry. The learner uses readings to do various...
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What Is A Raptor?

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students examine the special characteristics of raptors and discover what separates them from other birds. Students look at different photographs from the Internet or magazines of several different birds and identify the raptors based on...
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American History Review

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine how people have contributed to American history, regardless of culture, race or religion. They develop a sense of pride for their own efforts, as well as for the efforts of others. They also study how to work both...
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Model Sails: Investigating Sails of Tall Ships

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students investigate the dimensions of a full-rigged ship and a schooner. Using the dimesions, they calculate and compare the area of the sails. In groups, they create model sails that require modeling and estiminating using the...
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Hawks Migrate

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students examine the types of hawks found in Illinois and compile a list of them. Using different species of hawks, they compare and contrast their characteristics. They work together to create their own hawk model for the classroom.
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Shopping for Shoes

For Teachers K - 1st
Pupils recognize that when the letters /s/ and /h/ are combined, they make the /sh/ sound. They listen for digraphs in spoken words. They practive writing the letter that makes the /sh/ sound on primary paper. They complete a worksheet...
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Racing Through Reading

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students increase their reading fluency through rereading selected text. They review the rule for a vowel-consonant-e spellings which are used during the fluency assessment. Given a grade level appropriate text multiple times, they...
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Excited about Expression!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students discuss what expression is and listen to the teacher read a page without expression. They give suggestions of how the reading could be more expressive and exciting and observe as they are written on the board. They then discuss...
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Read as Smooth as the Breeze

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Student increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing decoding strategies, students complete an initial read of a novel text. Working with the instructor, they complete a timed assessment of their...
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Penny the Pig Plays with the Letter P

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars practice recognizing the letter Pp in writing. They work with the Alphabet Chart, alphabet magnets and the chart with "Penny the pig puts on her pretty pink shoes," on it as well as an ABC coloring page with Dr. Seuss'...
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Sailing on to fluently reading

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Student increase their reading fluency using various strategies. After reviewing good reader strategies , students, working with a partner, complete an initial read of a novel text. With the instructor, they read complete a timed...
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Buddy the Bee Bats Balls with the Letter B

For Teachers K
Students recognize the /b/ sound in written and spoken words in this lesson. They say a tongue twister which contains words emphasizing the /b/ sound. They then listen to the story "ABC" by Dr. Suess (specifically the B page) and...
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Cracking Sticks

For Teachers K
Students explore the letter /k/ in this lesson, and identify the /k/ sound in words. They read a tongue twister emphasizing the /k/ sound, and discuss that two letters make the /k/ sound - c and k. They then practice writing k's and...
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Word Detectives!

For Teachers K
Students recognize the short vowel e in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, students discriminate the short vowel e from the long vowel o. They associate the phoneme with its letter representation and identify the...
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Fluency is Freedom!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students read orally in groups of two to increase reading speed and fluency in this lesson plan. They read provided books which emphasize the short vowel sounds. The pairs time each others reading and offer encouragement and support as...
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3 Branches of Governement

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders use the "Making the Grade" books, citizenship packets, and the "Ben's Guide" website to create a poster and a report on their assigned government branch. They then present their poster and report to their classmates.
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Aye, Aye Captain

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students investigate how correspondences appear differently in different words. They also recognize the difference between long and short vowels. Students study how these correspondences are spelled and pronounced differently.
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Soaring High with Fluency

For Teachers 1st
First graders identify reading with speed, ease, and skill making it easier for them to comprehend text. They complete an activity using pseudo words, but first identifying what they are and how they are pronounced. Finally, 1st...
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CTBS Mechanics Practice #4: Punctuation Errors

For Students 5th - 6th
In this CTBS mechanics practice worksheet, learners identify and correct punctuation errors, in a multiple choice format, a total of thirty seven questions.
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Electrical

For Students 4th - 8th
In this electrical worksheet, students identify and locate vocabulary words in a word search that are related to electricity. There are 27 words in the puzzle.
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Alphabet Worksheets

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
In this literacy worksheet, students match the letter to the object that correlates to that letter of the alphabet. The cards can also be cut out to create a matching game.
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Solids, Liquids, and Gases

For Students 7th
In this chemistry element activity, 7th graders complete three pages of activities that help them learn about solid, liquid, and gas forms.
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Nets and Surface Area - Mental Math

For Students 6th - 8th
In this mental math worksheet, middle schoolers use mental math to find the surface area and determine nets of the given shape. They use an information sheet as an aide to find the answer to 30 questions.
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Motion and Gravity

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders make parachutes to learn about gravity and the science process. In this gravity lesson, 3rd graders create parachutes and observe their flight in air. Students discuss wind and gravity for the activity.

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