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Create a Creature
Students design, build, draw, or bake a creature of their choice and present to the class. They write a paper including the creature's habitat, method of getting energy, their creature as a producer or consumer, predator or prey species...
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Classifying Conundrum
Fourth graders identify plant characteristics from different environments and communicate that information in different ways. They use a simple scheme to classify Utah plants and animals and make observations and record them in a...
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Rock Cycle Project
In this rock cycle worksheet, students design a project to describe the life of a metamorphic rock. They can write the project as a diary, a comic strip, a comic book or a children's book.
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Junie B.'s Time Out!
In this time worksheet, students read about how a clock can better help you manage time, then follow directions to make and color a clock to help schedule a given list of activities.
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Comic Book or Comic Strip Design
Students design an original cartoon character. They explain the creative process and development of a cartoon from brainstorming to final draft and study different types of cartooning. Use the correct terminology associated with cartooning
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Two Vowels Making one Sound
First graders become word detectives and find words with the vowel combinations: "ee" and "ai". For this phonics lesson, 1st graders read the words they find and create pictionaries of the words read.
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Making Singular Nouns Plural
Third graders complete worksheets and participate in interactive activities to classify plural words based on their singular form.
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Techno Book
First graders explore language arts by utilizing educational software. In this storytelling lesson, 1st graders utilize Microsoft Word to create their own children's story incorporating images as well. Students proofread their creation...
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Color Picture/Word Match
Students match colors to the color words that they represent and complete a matching puzzle to go with it. In this colors lesson plan, students put the puzzle together to match up the colors.
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Making Stained Glass Windows
Students, in groups, research several European cathedrals from the Middle Ages. They design stained glass windows and decorate a school window with their design using black construction paper and cellophane.
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Mapmaker, Make Me a Map!
Students are introduced to the state quarter program and examine the Colorado state quarter. They locate Colorado on a map and create a map with a key. They discuss the state motto and examine pictures of the state's geographical features.
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Making a Water Filter
Fifth graders draw a plan that they think will clean the sludge in a jar. Students construct the treatment system they designed, take a bottle of sludge to the system and try it out, writing down what happened.
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Mini Books/Texture Collage
Students, in groups, create a minibook with simulated textures using crayons and a rubbing technique. They create a cut paper collage from crayon rubbings.
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Make a Snowflake
Learners study the design of snowflakes. In this snow lesson, students discover the different shapes of a snowflake, and their similarities. Learners study snowflakes outside, then create their own with popsicle sticks...
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MAKE A PINATA
Students create a sculpture with a theme using a balloon and flour and water paste.
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MAKING THREE DIMENSIONAL PLANT AND ANIMAL CELLS
Students create two different cells, one plant and one animal. In this plant and animal cell lesson students form groups and construct a part of a cell. Students then put them all together to form one plant or animal cell.
Seussville
Oh! the Places You'll Go!
Honor Dr. Seuss on his birthday with a read aloud of the story Oh! the Places You'll Go! and a variety of activities that inspire scholars to dream of their future endeavors. Readers take part in conversations, research the...
August House
The Magic Pot
The Magic Pot by Patricia Coombs is the theme of this multidisciplinary lesson plan. Early readers first take part in a read aloud and grand conversation about the story's details. Then, they get to work practicing their skills in...
US Department of Veterans Affairs
Veterans Day
Teaching class members all about the importance and meaning behind Veterans Day with an informative resource. Pupils complete a classroom activity guide and individual research to learn more about the brave men and women who defend the...
Disney
Earth Day Guide to Being Green
Have fun completing Earth Day related activities while learning about simple ways to preserve the Earth. Implement some of the ideas for going green as a class, like cleaning up a local park or planting a tree at school.
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Story Spinners
Learners read a book orally using a "Snaking It" technique. The students make a curvy path around the room and take turns reading a sentence orally. They then create a project using paper plates and colored pencils to identify the main...
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Yummy Metric Measurement
Students investigate the use of the metric system within the context of cooking and reading a recipe. They make conversions with the recipe ingredients and then work in groups to create a book of recipes with colorfully designed pages.
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The Plane
Prepositions are the focus of this grammar activity. Kindergarteners view the positional words over, under, behind and beside. They make a book about planes and read the words. Students color the pictures.
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Travis The Train Visits the Farm in Spring
Travis the Train has made his way to a spring time farm and your special ed class gets to meet all his new friends! Each colorful page features an image of a baby animal and the sound they most commonly make. Print out this book or show...