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Learned Behavior

For Students 9th - 12th
In this learned behavior worksheet, high schoolers review different types of learned behavior including habituation and trial-and-error learning. This worksheet has 7 short answer, 8 matching, and 10 fill in the blank questions.
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Stewardship

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore deforestation and cultural mandate. In this stewardship lesson plan, students complete a KWL chart about deforestation and discuss how stewardship relates to the cultural mandate after reading silently in...
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Why Thank You!

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders listen to a read aloud of Patricia Polacco's, Thank You, Mr. Falker! students examine the use of voice in the book, discuss the writing and theme ideas. They write a thank you not to their hero.
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Meet Lee, the Sleepy Bee

For Teachers 1st
First graders distinguish between the different ways to create the sound for long vowel e. They are introduced to the vowel patterns that comprise long vowel sounds. They practice reading and spelling a variety of words containing the...
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No Pain, No Brain!

For Teachers K - 1st
Pupils complete a variety of activities related to the /ai/ digraph. As a class they recite a tongue twister, then spell different words containing the /ai/ digraph using letter manipulatives. Students listen to the book "The Long Long...
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From A Bill To A Law

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Young scholars read about and discuss how a bill becomes a law and then propose a law themselves. In this law lesson plan, students learn legislative vocabulary and then brainstorm a law a write a letter proposing that law.
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Home Spelling Practice: Grade 1: Short E

For Students 1st - 2nd
For this spelling worksheet, students learn to spell a list of six words that all contain the sound of short vowel E. Students write each word one time. There are additional at-home activities.
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If You Were Katy: Let's Play a Game

For Teachers K - Higher Ed
Students simulate sound effects from Katy and the Big Snow. They read and discuss Katy and the Big Snow, create sound effects for the objects in the book and practice sounding out beginning sounds for words. After sounding out the words,...
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20th Century II: The 1940's - The War

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students watch the movie The Tuskegee Airmen. Write a one page typed paper that describes the obstacles the African-American servicemen, particularly these aviators, had to over come to defend their country. They use specific scenes from...
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Keeping Up With Capitals

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students engage in a class discussion where they identify the situations where capitalization is necessary. They complete worksheets embedded in the plan where they capitalize proper nouns such as names, holidays, and special events...
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Spill the Beans

For Teachers K - 1st
Students play an alphabet game with beans that asks them create simple short vowel words. They spill several marked beans onto a paper and separate those that have fallen face-up. They arrange the beans into words and read them aloud.
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Morning Message-Mystery Code

For Teachers K
Students copy and figure out the Mystery Codeword each day. They copy Mystery Code into journal. They match the number with the letter to decipher the code word. They draw a picture to match code word. At the end of the week, the...
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The Beautiful Bouncing Ball

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice recognizing a letter and its phoneme by utilizing the alphabetic principle while working with and identifying the sounds of /b/. They assess a big book, objects in the room, a timer and the tongue twister, "Billy...
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Letters of Recommendation

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students write letters of recommendation. They discuss uses for letters of recommendation including jobs, colleges, scholarships, and internships. They discuss who to ask for letters of recommendation and obtain two to three letters of...
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Numbers in a Name

For Teachers 7th
What's in a name? Pupils create a data set from the number of letters in the names of classmates. Each group then takes the data and creates a visual representation, such as a histogram, circle graph, stem-and-leaf plot, etc.
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Learning Opposite Words

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students explore words that are opposite such as hot/cold. Then, they complete a worksheet to see if they can match the words in Column A to the words that are the opposite in Column B. After that, Students write sentences for each of...
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Silent Letters

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learners know and apply methods to help learn and remember correct spellings. Students relate certain spelling of words to the Harry Potter knight bus story. Learners express what exactly silent letters are and how to identify them.
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Vocabulary: Learning Languages 1

For Teachers 4th - 5th
In this vocabulary worksheet, pupils answer 10 multiple choice questions about learning languages. Students are instructed to choose the best answer, as several responses may be acceptable.
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Name & Word Wall Activities, Building Blocks: Literacy, Letter Recognition,

For Teachers K
Students use the word wall to learn letters, their names, develop print awareness and many other literacy skills.
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The Scarlet Letter

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students listen to group reports and then individually research one of the other reports. Upon the completion of this second research activity students write a short story in the style of Hawthorn's writing.
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Learning to Alphabetize

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this worksheet on learning to alphabetize, students review the process, then alphabetize 4 simple words. Alphabet is given for reference. Worksheet is designed to be signed by student and parent when completed.
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Second letter Alphabetizing

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders complete a worksheet to help them alphabetize by first and second letter. In this alphabetizing lesson, 2nd graders use alphabetizing skills to locate books in the library.
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The Ballot Box Battle

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students practice note taking skills, study the life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and write a persuasive letter. They listen to the picture book biography of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and use the information from the biography to write a...
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The ABC’s of Kindness

For Teachers 1st
First graders practice random acts of kindness. In this character education lesson plan, 1st graders consider acts of kindness they can carry out and then identify them as they create ABC books of kindness.