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Two Vowels Making one Sound
First graders become word detectives and find words with the vowel combinations: "ee" and "ai". In this phonics lesson, 1st graders read the words they find and create pictionaries of the words read.
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Jeopardy Game
Young scholars review terms that relate to ships and shipping to be prepared for a trip to a ship building company. They demonstrate how many terms, and their meanings, the students remember from the presentation earlier in the week.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Phonics: High Frequency Words, Word Baseball
Scholars play high-frequency word baseball, pretending to be a pitcher and a batter. Players take turns choosing baseballs with high-frequency words printed on them. If they read the word correctly, they move to the next base until they...
Pearson
Articles: Indefinite
When do you use a or an before a noun? What about the? Learn about indefinite and definite articles with a brief grammar presentation, which focuses on using context clues to determine proper article usage.
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Let's Play Mancala
Students study the best strategy for winning at the game Mancala. They research the ancient African game and its history and then make one of their own (both with the instructions, game board and pieces) to play with their classmates to...
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A Lesson in Vocabulary with El Bronx Remembered
After reading El Bronx Remembered by Nicholasa Mohr, learners complete a KWL graphic organizer based on vocabulary from the novella. A SMARTboard presentation is a good resource for reviewing the vocabulary, as well as the triple-entry...
Random House
Go Fish!
"One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish." Kids color, cut out, shuffle and deal a set of cards to play Go Fish!, use hams and green egg cards to play tic-tac-toe, and engage in other activities connected to books by Dr. Seuss. Oh, the...
Science 4 Inquiry
The Monster Mash
Young scientists create monsters by applying their knowledge of transcription and translation. They randomly find the DNA, assign it a codon, and build monsters piece by piece.
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Prefix Power
Students examine and discuss root words, prefixes, and suffixes. They play a game called Prefix Power, determining if the root word in a sentence needs a prefix or a suffix.
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Identify and Generating Rhyming Words, Bingo
Students play a bingo card game to to build accuracy with rhyming words. In this rhyming words lesson, students identify rhyming words with a picture card. Students continue to practice game until there is a winner.
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Hungry Hungry Hippos
Students play a game in which they use scooter boards to impersonate hippos. They gather balls and place them into a bucket while remaining on the scooter boards.
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Domino Practice
Students are given organizing boards and play domino and cube games. These simple games provide fun and practice in categorizing, using dominos and unifix cubes.
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Wheel of Fortune for Students with Multiple Disabilities
Students play Wheel of Fortune. In this Wheel of Fortune lesson, students with disabilities play an online version of the game to earn rewards and small prizes. Students must solve math problems correctly in order to win.
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Money Makes the World Go 'Round
Learners examine what a basic unit of currency means and how it affects world finances.
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Verb Baseball
In this verb game learning exercise, learners follow instructions to play a game using irregular verbs correctly. Players make correct sentences using verbs shown on circles and tense shown on a spinner.
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Heads & Tails Data Collection
In this data collection worksheet, students use a penny and a dime to play a math game. Students flip the money in the cup and then record the number of heads and tails showing marking the coins in the box.
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Around The Town
Students participate in alphabetizing letters, coming up with questions and concepts, and show the rules of phonics by playing a game for a unit opener. In this language arts lesson plan, students also come up with thinking maps.
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Place Value Partners
In these place value game worksheets, students pair with a partner and use the game boards to place number tiles on the place value strips that list place values from ones to millions. Students place the tiles and name the digit and...
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Landform Bingo
Students review landform terms and review fact and opinion. They make fact and opinion statements and play landform BINGO.
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Shaving Cream Snow!
Students spray shaving cream on a table and then play with it. In this art lesson, students make lines with their fingers and can even use other objects as well. Students attempt to make a snowman, snowflake or anything related to...
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Valentines Wreaths
Students cut different sizes of hearts out of red and pink paper. In this art lesson, students create a valentine wreath by cutting the middle out of a paper plate and gluing the heart shapes to the plate. Students make bows out of yarn...
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Electric Gameboards
Young scholars explore the properties of electricity. In this electricity lesson, students construct an electric game board circuit using their knowledge of a series electrical circuit. Young scholars develop game ideas based on...
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Father's Day Hug
Children create a Father's Day card. In this art lesson, students paint and decorate a card. Students make their hand print on paper, let it dry and decorate.
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Prime Time
Fifth graders complete activities related to prime and composite numbers. In this prime instructional activity, 5th graders make a hundreds chart with all the prime numbers. They create their own card game which deals with prime and...