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How Do Artists Get Their Ideas? Culture and Environment as Sources of Ideas

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students share the difficulties they have in determining what to write or draw for a project. In groups, they view examples from three different artists and discuss how their personal experiences affected their art. They brainstorm a...
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Reporting Personal Information

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars practice the proper way to ask and answer questions pertaining to personal information. Students practice words pertaining to personal information by filling out an information card. This lesson plan is intended for...
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Market Simulation

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students explore the role of markets in Asian countries. They bring items from home to barter with to simulate markets. They discuss the advantages and problems of exchanging and how price is determined.
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Going by the Rules

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students examine George Washington's Rules of Civility. For this George Washington lesson, students investigate how rules influence people, and the roles of citizens in America. Students will discuss and reword rules and work in...
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Constructing a Phylogenetic Tree Using DNA Sequence Data

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students analyze DNA sequence differences between organisms in order to establish a reasonable picture of the evolutionary relationships between them. They take the role of molecular biologists and make genetic changes and constructing...
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The Shape of Things

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this family activity worksheet, students work with family members to discover the various shapes of objects around them. Students complete the presented activity and respond to 2 short answer questions about what they have discovered...
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Shh!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore how to read silently to help them read fluently. They discuss why it is important to read silently. Students read "Jane and Babe" as the teacher models how to read quietly and then silently. They write a story describing...
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Chef for a Day

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students make chocolate chip cookies. In this cooking lesson, students follow a recipe by doing each step in sequence.
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Bear Multiplication

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this multiplication facts worksheet, students use small plastic bear manipulatives to solve 8 basic multiplication problems.
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Fictional Hereos

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Learners are introduced to the definition of a hero. As a class, they compare and contrast the difference between non-fictional and fictional hereos they have read about. They read a story, create a story map of one of the heroes and...
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Why Not Come to North Amercia?

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Learners examine the motives for French expansion into the New World, they evaluate primary source documents to determine who, what, when, where and why.
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Alliteration

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore the use of alliteration. They discuss alliteration and examine various examples of alliteration in various stories. Students discuss the examples of alliteration and create their own examples of alliteration using...
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English Skills 6.206

For Students 7th - 12th
In this English skills worksheet, students complete 12 English skill activities of various topics. These topics include alliterations, rood words, vowels, consonants, parts of speech, anagrams, word meanings and proof-reading. Students...
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Language Arts: Solch Sight Words

For Teachers 1st
First graders recognize Dolch sight words on cards and texts. They practice the selected words by creating short sentences. After reading different fables, 1st graders create their own illustrations to accompany the stories. Once they...
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Eloquent Speech

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders discover that oral and written communication can be improved, and made to sound more eloquent, when the following questions are addressed; Who? What? Where? When? Why? students use word processing to copy a poem using clip...
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Homophones: Are/Our, There/Their/They're

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this homonyms/homophones worksheet, students read 10 illustrated sentences and complete them with the correct word: our, are, there, their, they're.
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Animal Research Paragraph

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students investigate animals. In this animal research lesson, students choose an animal to research online and record facts from at least 3 types of resources. Students complete a webbing tool, write a paragraph, and use MS word or...
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Ugly? Says Who?

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students explore biology by writing animal poetry in class. In this animal characteristics instructional activity, students research the Internet for facts about an "ugly" animal such as a bug or small critter. Students complete...
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Baseball Blending

For Teachers 1st
First graders practice blending sounds into words for reading decoding. Through guided practice, they recognize how they can blend together three phonemes to make one word. Students read a passage from a decodable reader with the...
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Changes in the Community

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders examine and describe a series of primary sources (mostly photographs) to observe and analyze changes over time. The focus is on the local community. The local community might be a city, township, county or surrounding area.
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Language Practice

For Teachers 4th - 6th
In this language module worksheet, students unscramble 7 words, complete a section of dialogue by filling in the word blanks, compose 8 questions using the provided information, and match the provided answers to the appropriate questions.
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The Interesting Iguana

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Learners practice the representation of i=/i/ in correspondence and spoken words. They study spelling and reading words with i=/i/ in letterboxes, circling words in pictures that show words containing /i/, and view a chart with "The...
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Mistakes That English Native Speakers Make 3

For Students 5th - 6th
In this grammar learning exercise, students analyze 20 sentences and mark the one error in each. Students look for errors in grammar, punctuation, spelling or writing style. This page is intended for ESL adults, but is usable for...
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Multivariable Calculus: Bonus Quiz 6

For Students Higher Ed
In this gradient operator and gradient fields learning exercise, students determine if two vectors are gradient fields. They solve for the appropriate scalar functions of a vector variable. Students show that the gravitation al force...