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Main Idea
For this main idea worksheet, students complete the sentences by choosing the best main idea based on the pictures given. Students complete 8 problems.
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Cindy's First Job
In this jobs worksheet, students look at a picture of a girl as a grocery bagger and write down things she should do to make a good impression with her boss. Students write down 7 things.
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Mystery of the Loch Ness Monster
In this Loch Ness Monster worksheet, students read the description and look at the picture of the Loch Ness Monster and find things that are wrong with it. Students find 7 mistakes.
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Match Front and Back
In this matching boxes to numbers activity, 1st graders look over 6 boxes with miniature boxes inside each one. Students count the miniature boxes and then draw a line to the number that matches how many miniature boxes are inside of...
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Same Things
In this recognizing objects worksheet, learners look at a rocket and an astronaut in a box and then circle the rocket and astronaut that is the same on the right. Students cross out the differences on the others
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Looking Through Time
Second graders research their local history and create a books program.
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Learning Sight Words with Picture Me Reading and the Document Camera
First graders identify sight words. In this learning sight words instructional activity, 1st graders view flash cards to practice the words and identify them in a poem.
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Look Out Below!
In this number order worksheet, students will connect the dots, 1 to 20, to complete a picture of a cat parachuting out of an airplane.
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Story Starter-- Looking Into the Water
In this writing worksheet, students examine a picture of some children peering into the ocean. Students read the story starter and finish the story.
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Beyond Planet Earth
Scholars take a journey through space with 16 eye-catching images. Along the way, learners read captions starting with the moon, then move onto asteroids, Mars, and Jupiter.
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Visualization: Cricket in Times Square
After reading The Cricket in Times Square chapter titled "Caught in the Kitchen," learners list three describing details about the characters and setting. Groups collaborate to find sensory details to support their character assertions....
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Zoom Out - Terry Winter's "Rhyme"
Students predict and draw what a picture would look like if a camera zoomed out on it. For this visual arts lesson, students listen to a reading of Istavan Banyai's, Zoom before looking at an image of "Rhyme" by Terry Winters. They...
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Onomatopoeia
Some words actually sound like their meaning. When this happens, it's known as onomatopoeia. Learners look at a series of pictures, and match up a bunch of words with the pictures they sound like. For example, the word buzz would go with...
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Foods and Friends Quiz
Quiz your middle schoolers on Spanish food vocabulary. To start, they match names of food to their pictures and then categorize them into the following categories: plato principal, entrada, acompañamiento, postre, and bebida. Then, they...
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Using Photographs to Teach Social Justice | Affirming Our Commonalities and Differences
Photos can challenge stereotypes. To gain an understanding of the big picture, groups examine a series of photographs and analyze how a photographer's choices can shape a viewer's reaction to an image. For the first set of photographs,...
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Ecosystem Lesson Plan: Food Chain/Food Web
Students discuss ecosystems, eliciting their current knowledge of an ecosystem. Students receive an Ecosystems document and look at the picture. Students brainstorm connection between the cover picture and ecosystems. The indicated...
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Magic Mountain Mansion Lesson Plan
Students think about and discuss what their personal dream mansion in the mountains would look like. They decide on adjectives that would best describe their building which they write on a chart with markers. Using art supplies, they...
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Vocabulary Packet: Multiple Approaches
Looking for a complete vocabulary and spelling packet focused on high frequency words? Look no further. This printable packet includes six worksheets with activities to reinforce spelling and vocabulary competency. Learners complete a...
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Imperial China: Qin to Ming Dynasties
Looking for a way to supplement a unit on ancient China or world cultures? Look no further than this presentation, which combines rich information with entertaining pictures of Chinese artifacts. China's glorious dynasties provide a...
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Industrialization Spreads: From Britain to the World
Looking for that perfect slide show, the one that makes your day so much easier? If you're teaching a unit on the spread of Industrialization, its causes, effects, and key players, then look no further. This is a text-driven presentation...
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Surveys and Estimating Large Quantities
Looking for an estimation activity a bit more involved than the typical "guess the number of jellybeans in the jar" game? Here, learners use a picture to estimate the number of people at a large event, look for potential problems with...
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Acute and Obtuse Angles
Take a look at these angles: What kind are they? Give mathematicians practice identifying obtuse, acute, and right angles in this categorizing activity. Each type is pictured and explained at the top, and scholars examine nine sample...
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Fewer Than
Which one has fewer? There are three sets of pictures here for young counters who determine which has fewer of a given detail. They look at apples on trees, cupcakes on plates, and spots on dogs, checking off the one with fewer....
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"Warm and Cool Picasso"
Here is a really neat looking project that explores warm, cool, and neutral colors. First the class talks about color families, then they check out Cubism, and finally they get busy making some chunky art. They trace a shape, draw lines...