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Things You Find in the Classroom: Alphabetical Order
This back-to-school instructional activity requires alphabetizing typical school and classroom vocabulary. A word bank and space for writing is provided.
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Spiffing Up Text
Students change the size and color of specific portions of text in a web page. They create superscripts and subscripts for text in a web page. They specify the font for portions of text on a web page.
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Pre History through Modern Day Timeline
Students explore the historical sequence of cultures throughout history. They demonstrate the ability to organize events in chronological order and demonstrate how time is measured and annotated.
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We're Gonna Have A Party
First graders explore map skills. They discuss the map vocabulary and use directions to find a location on a map. Students discuss and use the components of a map to answer a variety of questions. They use the map and directions to find...
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Interactive Timeline
Students examine the development of ragtime music and its relation to jazz. They participate in an online Interactive timeline and read about the history of ragtime music, listen to examples of music, and in small groups create short...
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Health Education: Sports Protection
Fourth graders look at personal protective equipment. In this personal health lesson plan, 4th graders identify personal protection equipment needed for sports and recreational activities.
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Professional Development Made Easy
Online professional development sources are economical and offer flexible scheduling.
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Back to School Word Jumbles
In this Back to School learning exercise, students unscramble the letters in 20 words to spell vocabulary pertaining to school supplies. Students write the words on the lines. There is a word bank.
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School Subjects- Alphabetical Order
In this school subjects worksheet, students read 16 words pertaining to subjects studied at school. Students put the words in alphabetical order.
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School Supplies: Alphabetical Order
In this alphabetizing worksheet, students read 16 words in a word box that pertain to school supplies and Back to School. Students put the words in alphabetical order.
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Back to School Word Jumbles
In this school words worksheet, learners unscramble the letters in 20 words to spell vocabulary pertaining to Back to School. There is a word bank.
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School Subjects Word Jumble
In this school subjects instructional activity, learners unscramble the letters in 20 words to spell the names of subjects in school. There is a word list.
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Fossils
Pupils act as paleontologists to discover who a mystery guest to the classroom was. They do not know the identity of the guest but infer the identity from items left behind in the classroom. They make inferences from dinosaur fossils.
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Science: Suddenly Snow
Students engage in snow-related activities during the first winter snowfall. After explaining the elements needed for it to snow, they preserve snowflakes on frozen slides and observe them under a microscope. Then, they write diamante...
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Moving Rhythms
Students explore the elements of tempo, beat and rhythm. They create rhythm patterns and an original dance. In groups, students perform their phrases for their peers. As a class, they explore choreographic principles, processes and...
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Predator-Prey Relationships
Students explore the interrelatedness of predators and prey in four different activities. They simulate an aquatic insect, fish, and osprey food chain during a poker chip game, play an M&M game to simulate the relationship between...
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Aa is for Apple
In this literacy activity, learners practice writing the letter a and color in the pictures related to it. Then students write a sentence.
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Aa is for Apple
For this printing worksheet, students form 11 upper and lowercase letter A's. Students color in pictures of words beginning with the letter and write two rows of A's on their own.
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Gingerbread Baby
Young scholars explore gingerbread stories. In this poetry lesson, students read the folk tale "The Gingerbread Man" as well as Gingerbread Baby by Jan Brett and identify rhyming words. Young scholars also make art projects, dramatize...
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Wildlife Sampling
Seventh graders use paper bags and crackers to simulate a wildlife sampling of salmon. They record data on spreadsheets and determine a formula to estimate salmon populations.
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Spell Race
Students work on their spelling skills and word recognition skills while using different locomotor movements.
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Self Portrait, What Nerve!
Students conduct an experiment to determine the distance between touch receptor fields in parts of the right-hand side of the body. They enter data into the data table.
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Learning to Give
Students design advertising posters for a snack sale. They study the concept of philanthropy and write friendly letters asking for volunteers.
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Meet You at the Midden: Map Game
Students examine sketch map of Burrets' Trail at the Nightengale Archaeological Center, interpret map symbols to play game, and identify reasons people modify environment to meet their basic needs.