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Say What?

For Teachers 5th
Students explore the literal and figurative meanings of twenty-nine phrases and sayings. This unit of nine lessons integrates written expression and convention to demonstrate the value of idioms to the language.
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Create Your Perfect Dog!

For Teachers K - Higher Ed
Young scholars create the perfect dog. They read and discuss Clifford's Sports Day and identify Clifford's personality traits. After listening to the story, they discuss their concept of a perfect dog with their families and draw...
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Table This!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create a table in Microsoft Word. In this word processing lesson, students create a table in Microsoft Word. They fill this table in as if it were a BINGO card, but they use their vocabulary words instead of numbers.
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Branding and Brand Names

For Students 5th - 8th
In this brand names worksheet, students write favorite brands, discuss questions, invent new products, and more. Students complete 5 tasks.
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Fool Proof Printmaking

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students explore historical technology by participating in a printing activity. In this printing block instructional activity, students identify how mass papers were printed in the past by using blocks repeatedly. Students create their...
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Dirt on My Shirt: Selected Poems

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this word recognition worksheet, students solve eight word jumbles based on the illustrations of each word. These word jumbles are based on Jeff Foxworthy's poems.
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Unit 1: Introduction to Biotechnology

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Biotechnology is big! Introduce the uses of biotechnology to science scholars with a fascinating, fact-filled unit. The first installment in a series of four biotechnology units covers the role biotechnology plays in human and...
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Fuzz and the Buzz

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students practice various strategies for becoming fluent readers. They review the skills of phoneme recognition, decoding, crosschecking and spelling in order to read with automation. Working in pairs, students complete a pair-share of...
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Making Words #7

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this word activity learning exercise, students color all consonants in a set of letters yellow, then cut out the letters and create as many words as possible, sorting by how many letters the words have.
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Making Words #6

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this making words instructional activity, students read a set of letters, color all consonants yellow, then cut out make and write as many words as possible.
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Wash Your Hands...they are icky sticky!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Learners engage in an emergent literacy instructional activity that focuses on phonemic awareness and they practice corresponding the letter "i" to its long or short sound. This type of recognition has been found to be essential to...
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O-o-o-oh, no-o-o-o!!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students engage in an emergent literacy lesson in order to practice the skill of phonemic awareness. They learn this skill using the phoneme for the letter "o". Students must recognize the letter as well as its sound.
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Spelling Halloween Words

For Students K - 1st
In this Halloween word worksheet, students practice tracing and writing a set of 4 Halloween words: jack o lantern, ghost, witch and bat. A reference web site is given for additional information.
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Spinning Short Vowel Game

For Teachers 1st
First graders, in pairs, use spinners to experiment with different combinations of letters. They combine letters and determine whether they have produced a word or not. They construct and record words choosing letters from designated tiles.
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Find the Alphabet!

For Students K - 1st
In this alphabet worksheet, students find the alphabet within a pictures, crossing letters out as they go. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Water

For Students 7th - 12th
In this water learning exercise, students compare and contrast elements and compounds. Students define chemical symbols, chemical formulas, and chemical properties. This learning exercise has 19 short answer questions.
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Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Young scholars examine the relationship between temperature and brightness.  In this astronomy lesson students will correlate the evolution of stars to the HR diagram plotted. 
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Grain Seeds and Food

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners observe the characteristics of different seed types. They classify, sort, name and write about the seeds.
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Art: Mirror Of History

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students show through art how major human events have changed American Culture. Students write in a journal to keep track of studying that is done during the unit. They also create an oral report.
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Be My Valentine, Amelia Bedelia Word Scramble

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students solve a word scramble based on Amelia Bedelia. For this word scramble lesson plan, students fill in the blank with the appropriate Valentine word. They have to unscramble the word to make the sentence make sense.
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Famous Authors Vocabulary Quiz

For Students 8th - 9th
Audience, novel, plot, style. Young readers are asked to match words associated with literature to the provided definitions. Might be fun to use as part of a literature review contest.
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Hi, My Name is A

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students distinguish between short vowel a and long vowel a. They are introduced to the vowel-consonant-e pattern that changes short vowel sounds into long vowel sounds. They practice decoding pseudo words with the vowel-consonant-e...
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Nothing But the Truth

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students write a response to: As a teenager, have you ever told the truth about something important and adults didn't believe you? How did you feel? Describe and explain a specific time where you told the truth to adults and weren't...
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Learning to Read With Jet Speed

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
not a lesson Student's success in school depends on the accuracy at which they can read their materials in the expected amount of time. If young scholars do not read accurately, quickly, and effortlessly they may fall behind their...