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Learning a New Environment
Students review a school map with color-coded markers and use it to locate classrooms, bathrooms, library, principal's office, etc. They color a school map, cut it into puzzle pieces and then reassemble the pieces.
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Express Yourself!
Students explore reading with expression. They practice reading fluency and changing speed, pitch and volume while reading. Students read Di and Mice, Bo and Rose, Stu's Tune. They practice reading using expression and fill out the...
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Catch those Butterfly Facts!
Discuss the importance of comprehension and the use of summarization with your class. Through guided practice, they follow three steps in finding and highlighting important information, deleting information that is not needed and...
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Visual Sum and Difference Word Problems - Independent Practice
The ten prompts on this instructional activity are intended for independent practice with addition and subtraction of numbers up to 3000. Space is provided for pupils to illustrate their work. The confusing wording of some the problems...
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Mice are Nice 80
Students complete a variety of mouse-themed activities. They listen to stories, recite poetry, identify rhyming words, write sentences, create art projects, take a survey and design an original mousetrap.
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Sarah, Plain and Tall
Third graders experience what life was like during era in which "Sarah, Plain and Tall depicts using modern technology.
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Our Five Senses
Students explore the five senses through hands-on and Internet activities.
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Geography of the English Settlements
Third graders locate several important American colonial cities on a map and research how their proximity to water and nearby arable land affected the rate and success of settlement.
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Estimating and Measuring Amounts
Third graders explore measurement. In this estimation and measurement lesson, 3rd graders examine visual examples using standard units to measure length. Students also practice solving problems that their instructors model.
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Let's Just Dialogue
Fourth graders listen to the story, The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish" and complete a cartoon drawing containing dialogue that shows an understanding of conventions used in dialogue by using the bubble form.
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Very Important Points-Determine Importance
Fifth graders investigate very important points in stories. In this reading comprehension lesson, 5th graders read a story and determine what the very important points are within the story by using notes and discussing what they feel the...
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A death in the Royal Family: Dealing with Loss
Students read and discuss the story "Prince Talks About Magical Grandmother." They list ceremonies of traditions associated with emotional times in their lives. Students prepare a script for a video message to Prince Charles designed to...
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Granny's Flower Pressing Adventure
Young scholars review the rules of a classroom garden. In this gardening lesson, students review the rules of a classroom garden and are given the opportunity to pick a few flowers to keep. Young scholars are taught how to press the...
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Bear Multiplication
In this multiplication facts worksheet, students use small plastic bear manipulatives to solve 8 basic multiplication problems.
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Metamorphosis
Students select organic object and transform it to an inorganic object in five or six steps, and complete value rendered drawings.
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Draw, Pardner!
Learners explore how to draw in 3-D. In this visual arts lesson, students use newsprint and a yard stick to construct three dimensional drawings of objects.
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The Water Cycle
Students conduct experiments involving different parts of the water cycle. In this water cycle lesson plan, students conduct five simple experiments to demonstrate how the water cycle works. The results of each experiment is discussed as...
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The Wonderful Pigs of Jillian Jiggs
First graders compare fictional and real pigs. In this pig comparison lesson, 1st graders read a fiction text then a non-fiction text on pigs. Students complete a K-W-L chart and fill out a Venn Diagram.
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Cooking a Few of my Favorite Things
Second graders publish a class cookbook of their own recipes. They explore the nutritional value of foods, calculate the measurements, and prepare a healthy recipe for the class.
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What is Good Writing
Students identify the qualities of good writing. In this writing lesson plan, students use the 6+1 Traits of Writing and use a rubric to discuss samples of writing on the overhead. Students discuss the strengths and weaknesses of each...
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New York State Testing Program English Language Arts Test
In this New York State Testing English Language Arts worksheet, students listen to an article, and answer comprehension questions. Students listen to the article twice and take notes. Then they answer comprehension questions.
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Survival Under a Rock
Students investigate ways that animals adapt to their environments through hands-on activities using isopods and an interactive video.
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Wet Chalk Drawing
Students create original works of art using chalk, tempera paints, and paper in this art activity for elementary and middle level classrooms. The lesson includes ideas for displaying or mounting finished works of chalk art in the...
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Magnetic Discovery Bottle
Students examine how to conduct simple investigations and use simple equipment to gather data. For this magnet lesson students decide what types of objects are attracted to magnets.