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Sight Words

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students practice sight word recognition using dolch word lists, or high frequency words. They' mastering of these words helps with reading skills, and builds reading confidence. This worksheet combines sight words with money recognition.
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Jack and the Beanstalk

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this comprehension worksheet, students answer short answer and discussion questions for the story Jack and the Beanstalk. Students complete 14 questions.
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"The Nightingale" Story Comprehension

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this story comprehension worksheet, students answer a set of comprehension, discussion and extension questions about the story The Nightingale. A suggestion for research is included.
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Firstgov for High Schoolers

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers inspect the FirstGov.gov website to complete a worksheet about Federal sites and organizations. They increase their practical use of Internet research skills.
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From Molecules to Mole Day Do's

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students recognize methods used to define the mole. After converting various quantities to the mole, students provide a context for understanding the usefulness of scientific notation and the mole.
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Aquatic Exercise - Object Retrieval

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students are introduced to a variety of exercises to do in the water. In groups, they swim in the deep part of the pool to retrieve objects at the bottom. To end the lesson, they practice techniques to help them breathe and grab the...
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Writing Freely in the Elementary Classroom

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Once a week, students are given free time to write on a topic of their choice. When they have finished writing, they have a small conference with their teacher about their writing for that day.
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You Are Uniquely You

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students discover their unique attributes and complete a group service project. In this service project lesson plan, students work in groups to define an audience, create a service project based on boosting the audience's confidence, and...
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Growing Up Online

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders participate in an activity as a web designer.  In this technology lesson plan, 9th graders explore how the choices made by web designers affect how people use a site.  Students analyze effective and ineffective...
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Giving Second Graders the Write Skills

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders analyze the steps taken in writing a paragraph in the ten lessons of this unit. Writing for a particular purpose is developed as the conventional grammar skills utilized.
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Descriptions

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students describe things using sensory words.  In this adjective lesson, students practice conversations describing items they touch.  Students use words to describe properties of items such as size and texture.
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Neighborhood Rubrics

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use a rubric to analyze their neighborhood and write a persuasive essay about changes that should be made. In this writing lesson plan, students use a rubric to grade their neighborhood and brainstorm improvements. Students...
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Hobbies

For Teachers 6th - 9th
How many different hobbies can you name in French? Using this question, French classes are asked to list as many hobbies as they can. Although the activities themselves are not included in this teacher guide, you could create them...
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Decisions, Decisions!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Introduce young learners to the conscious process of making decisions. Guide them through a scenario where a boy is going to a sleepover and is trying to decide whether to take his teddy bear or not. Use the included worksheet to write...
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Standing Review - A Learning and Assessment Technique

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students review information covered in class through participation in action activities. The class begins standing as the teacher asks a question. Students may mingle to obtain assistance. Students sit when they are confident they...
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Worm Posters Presentations and Worm Box Part 2

For Teachers K
Students work in small groups to investigate the topic, make a visual aid, and present to the class. They are given the following four topics: Worms and other decomposers, taking care of a worm box, waster and recycling, and...
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Animal Electronic I.D.

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Learners discover ways to keep the animals in our environment safe by examining electronic I.D. tags.  In this animal safety lesson, students participate in a role-playing activity in which they are monitored by an electronic I.D....
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Plants Under Attack

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders will identify the four needs for plant survival and gain skills and confidence in using scientific measurement tools, probes as well as the spreadsheets and graphing capacity of a computer to represent and analyze data.They...
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Connecting Letters and Memory

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Elementary learners with mild to moderate mental disabilities use a variety of tools to connect letter sounds to images. They use flash cards, posters, and writing while saying to connect letter image to phonemic equivalent. Then, they...
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Easy Bias-Covered Curves

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students watch a demonstration on how to make easy-bias covered curves. Using that information, they practice making their own with different types of materials. They share their creations with the class to end the lesson.
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Fraction Strips on Excel

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders create three different sets of fraction strips using Excel by following a packet of instructions that taper off as the students gain confidence in their knowledge of Excel. They copy and paste the strips into Word so that...
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Fractions

For Students Higher Ed
For this mathematics worksheet, students read, write, order and compare fractions and mixed numbers. They identify that there are various strategies for finding fractional parts and use fractions to order and compare amounts or quantities.
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Reading Shakespeare

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers rebuild the a portion of the text of Twelfth Night by reordering lines of text to create meaning thereby gaining confidence when in their ability to gain meaning when reading Shakespeare.
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Freedom of Expression in Special Places

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars analyze the judicial decision making process, and identify three places presenting First Amendment problems. They analyze how the 1st Amendment applies to school newspapers, and argue for and against limiting 1st Amendment...