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Gazing At Cosmic Pinballs
Students explore the world of stars. They see that the color of a star tells how hot or cold it is, that stars come in different sizes. and that stars are moving through space. They draw lines connecting start to star.
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Test Your Vocabulary Skills
In this vocabulary instructional activity, students answer 20 short answer questions based on the picture dictionary and their knowledge of vocabulary words.
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Respect, Cooperation
First graders listen to the Rainbow Fish and sing the song We Are Crayons and list. In this respect and cooperation lesson, 1st graders answer questions about things that make them special. Students write something that makes them...
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Crazy Chemistry Lesson Plan
Students study water molecules, cohesion and surface tension. In this molecule cohesion lesson students create chemical reactions that cause a balloon to inflate and another one that results in soap suds.
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Dolch Word List - Alphabetical
Sight words are listed in alphabetical order for preschool through third grades on this language arts workshet. There are at least 50 words for each of the grade levels, and some have more than that. This would be a good, general...
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Can You See Beyond the Rainbow?
There's more to light than ROYGBIV! An enlightening laboratory investigation has learners explore the world of infrared light. When they use goggles that take away visible light, they experience how things look with only infrared light.
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Human Obstacle Course
Students are in a group - half of them be an obstacle and half be moving around them, and then they switch. This engaging game promotes lots of movement.
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Thanksgiving Turkey Napkins
Students explore painting. In this Thanksgiving art lesson plan, students trace their hands on 4 cloth napkins sent from home and use fabric paint to decorate them as hand print turkeys.
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Could You Elaborate on That?
Fourth graders engage in a lesson which teaches the parts of an expository essay and how to organize and write an expository piece from a given topic. After a lecture/demo, 4th graders utilize a worksheet imbedded in this plan which...
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Boxed In Words 1: Pre-Primer Dolch Words
In this words worksheet, learners write Dolch words in boxes. The five pages of this worksheet increase in intensity on each page. Page one begins with one to three letter words, and page five contains up to six letter words. Each...
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Worksheet 10: Parts of the Body (Animals)
In this vocabulary skills worksheet, students examine 7 animal body part words in the word bank and use them to fill in the blanks in 4 questions.
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Mixing Colors
Students listen to a story about mixing colors. They explore color using cups of water, color and coffee filters. They use sight word vocabulary to describe the colors.
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Measurement
First graders participate in various activities dealing with measurement, length, volume, and temperature. They identify the need for standard units of measure, sort and classify objects, measure distances, and use a thermometer.
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Paint a Wet-Into-Wet Watercolor
Students demonstrate the technique of painting wet-into-wet. In this painting lesson, students create colors to paint with by mixing two or more colors together. Students use water color to create various images.
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Butterfly Eggs
Students make butterfly eggs. In this butterfly lesson, students discuss the differences between butterfly eggs and other eggs. Students learn how butterflies lay their eggs and then make butterfly eggs out of clay.
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Magical Leprechaun Pudding
Students make a snack for St. Patrick's Day. In this art and science lesson, students put some vanilla pudding in a ziploc bag, add drops of yellow and blue food coloring, and mix it with the pudding changing the color before the...
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Clay Planets
Students create scale models of the planets out of clay and compare them to the real planets.
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How the Ear Receives Sound
In this biology worksheet, students identify how the ear receives sound by using the information given to cut and paste each section to complete a flow chart that illustrates this. They lightly color each section of the flow chart to...
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First Grade Reading
In this reading worksheet, 1st graders read 1/4 page passages and answer multiple choice questions about them. Students answer 25 questions.
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Apple: Bare to Pick
Students investigate the seasons of the apple tree. In tree seasons lesson plan, students use a sun model and a globe to study the tilt of the Earth to create the seasons. Students discuss the tilt and the seasons. Students discuss...
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Puzzled?
First graders practice identifying simple geometric shapes. As a class, they discuss positional words and review the words for simple shapes and their characteristics. They work together to create their own puzzle using the shapes.
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Seaweed
In this painting technique worksheet, students use paint to create pieces of seaweed. They mix primary colors to produce brown Students drag a sponge across the outline of a piece of seaweed. They use their fingers to create the effect...