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Teaching Guide: Can You Make a Piggy Giggle?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore the book Can You Make a Piggy Giggle?. In this language arts activity, students focus on a variety of aspects within the book. Students study the illustrations, listen for rhymes, and attempt the tongue twisters in the...
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Pond Water

For Teachers 3rd - 9th
Students explore a creek environment. They make observations, identify the living and nonliving factors in the environment and collect a plankton sample to take back to the classroom. In addition, they look at plankton under a microscope.
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Prince William's Oily Mess: A Tale of Recovery

For Students 5th - 7th
For this environment worksheet, learners explore the effects of the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Students read and study text and photographs about the 1989 spill. Learners answer 6 essay questions.
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"The Face in the Trees" Lesson

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this illusion worksheet, students look at the picture and read the poem about the face in the trees, answer multiple choice questions about it, and complete a word search. Students complete 3 activities.
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Waves

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students identify the different parts of a wave. For this physics lesson, students explain how animals communicate using sound waves. They discuss the effect of Navy's sonar on dolphins and whales.
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"Ca...Ca...Ca...Caterpillar Blending"

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students improve blending skills. They produce many individual short utterances and mouth moves (phonemes) into one long utterance (words) and create their own blending caterpillar. They draw a picture of a caterpillar with three...
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Fish

For Students 2nd - 4th
This short activity, with a reading passage and questions, could be part of a test preparation activity. Through answering the 10 questions students practice comprehension and vocabulary skills.
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Make a Rain Stick

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students construct a rain stick. For this weather lesson, students make a rainstick from toothpicks, paper towel tubes, and tape. Students demonstrate the different sounds rain can make.
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Withdrawing Money From The BAnk

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discuss the various options for withdrawing money from the bank. Students recognize the importance of keeping accurate bank records and personal banking information secure. This lesson is intended for students acquiring English.
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Reading Comprehension

For Students 5th - 8th
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read a passage called The Law of Life and answer multiple choice questions about it. Students complete 24 questions total.
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Sh! Sh! Stop that Noise!

For Teachers K - 1st
Students practice reading, writing, and spelling words that contain the /sh/ digraph. Students participate in a chant using /sh/ digraph words. They then use Elkonin boxes to spell words containing the digraph. They complete a worksheet...
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Poetry Immersion

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students explore the genre of poetry through centers. They listen to the sound of poems being read aloud, visualize individual poems and observe and apply line breaks in poetry.
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The Fastest Pig in the West in the Classroom: Chopstick Tax

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Learners explore Chinese culture by reading a story with their class. In this Chinese economics lesson, students read a chapter from the story The Fastest Pig in the West and define the chopstick tax that was enacted in China. Learners...
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Temperature Conversions

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discuss the different between the English system of measurement and the metric system. Working ins mall groups, students read the weather map. They convert temperatures from one measurement system to another.
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Music in Nature

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students research the Incan civilization. In this Incan civilization lesson, students study the geography of the Andes mountains and play an Andean siku. Students discuss how the sounds of nature influenced their musical piece.
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Beaver Ecology

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Students explore the lives of bgeahvers. They identify the physical and behavioral adaptations that help beavers survive in their environment. Students compare and contrast how beavers influence the ecology of both forest and aquatic...
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Using Forms of the Verb Be

For Students 7th - 9th
In this grammar instructional activity, students cross out the incorrect form of the verb found in the parentheses and then write the correct form of be right above it.
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Why Your Ears Pop

For Students 6th - 10th
In this ears worksheet, students read about what causes your ears to pop when you change altitude and about equalizing air pressure. Then students complete 3 short answer questions.
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Onomatopoeia

For Students 5th - 7th
In this figurative language worksheet, students read about onomatopoeia. Students then respond to 25 questions that require them to identify and write their examples of onomatopoeia.
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Sense-sational

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students investigate the five senses. They participate in the lesson for one week with each day devoted to one sense being sight, taste, sound, smell, and touch. They also cover the concept of being part of a global community where one...
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Monkey Reading

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students work to gain fluency and become successful readers through repeated readings. They use the cover-up method to help them decode new words and chart their progress as they complete one-minute timed readings with a partner.
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The Scary, Creaky Door

For Teachers K - 1st
Students recognize the short vowel e in written and spoken language. Through listening and matching activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /e/ from other phonemes. Students identify the phoneme and letter in pictures using a...
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Letter E Word Search

For Students Pre-K - K
In this letter e worksheet, students will focus on words beginning with the letter sound. Students will complete a word search and locate 8 words going across and down in the puzzle.
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Boeing Bets That Faster is Better Than Bigger

For Students Higher Ed
In this ESL spelling and editing worksheet, students will focus on error correction and editing. Students will read a short passage correcting any spelling mistakes or omissions from the article.