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Underground Travelers
Students are introduced to new vocabulary associated with the Underground Railroad. Using primary sources, they evaluate the railroad's impact on society in the past and today. They also make a judgment about the morality of the railroad...
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Math: Musical Patterns
Students employ their five senses to interpret and duplicate instrumental patterns. Following the teacher's patterns, students clap their hands and later use instruments such as bells, triangles, or cymbals to create their own "songs."
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Celebrating African Americans and Coins
Students examine the Booker T. Washington commemorative coin and listen to a biography of Washington's life. They develop a list of reasons why his life was commemorated with a coin. They examine other coins and the lives and work of...
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Sailing Vessel Postcards
Students research a sailing vessel. They create sailing vessel postcards which include research information they located. Students also include any experiences they may have had on a sailing vessel.
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Health
Students increase their awareness of issues that are related to accommodating students with health impairments. In this health lesson students participate in a class discussion and answer questions.
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The Emperor's New Clothes
Young scholars read The Emperor's New Clothes. In this language arts lesson, students reconstruct the story. Young scholars play a game to recall words they heard in the story. Students discuss how the story might end.
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Marc Chagall
Second graders identify the characteristics of the artwork of Marc Chagall. They paint a Chagall-like picture
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What A Woman...The Silver Queen
Fourth graders realize that women have played a strong role in the history of Utah. They explain that the study of individuals can give glimpses of the life and times of the era. They experience their personal histories.
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What Smells?
Students read the poem "Light" together and then discuss how poetry can come from anywhere.
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Learning About the Shape of the Earth
Seventh graders investigate ways of telling the shape of the Earth and its position in the Universe both historically and today.
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Equivalent Fractions
Students study the concept of equivalent fractions using naming concepts.
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Tall, Dark, and Handsome
Seventh graders determine the characteristics of insect families after comparing human family characteristics. They categorize insects by looking for similar characteristics on image cards.
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Taking a Page From Franklin
Students analyze sentences from Benjamin Franklin. They use their notes to state the same ideas in essay form. They compare the new work to Franklin's orginal work.
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Mystery Box
Fourth graders engage in a icebreaker activity that is meant to introduce curriculum areas at the beginning of the school year. The teacher prepares several different boxes filled with items that are to be studied during the year. Then...
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Alphabet Activities
In this literacy worksheet, students complete a variety of activities involving the alphabet. They also practice putting words into alphabetical order.
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Free Printables: Expression Cards 2
In this facial expressions activity, students evaluate the 10 faces on the activity and determine which facial expression is being displayed. Teachers can print large, labeled pictures of each expression or a activity with small cards...
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Free Printables: Expression Cards 1
For this facial expression worksheet, students cut out 12 facial expression cards, 6 positive and 6 negative moods. Teachers can print off a large picture of each expression that is labeled.
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Ask Personal Questions: Worksheet 1
For this conversational English worksheet, students practice interviewing skills as they role play using the 20 personal questions provided.
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Arthur Meets the President - Lesson 5
Pupils type acrostic poems. In this poetry lesson, students read stories and poems written by other children and use a word processing program to type their own acrostic poems.
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The Bracelet
In this The Bracelet learning exercise, students read the book The Bracelet and answer short answer questions about it. Students complete 12 questions total.
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Historical Presents
Young scholars research events, trends, and phenomena of specific years in the twentieth century, then design "time capsules" to commemorate those years.
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Picture Your Numbers with
Learners create pairs of cards with numbers and pictures. Encourage students to use a different color to represent each number/picture pair; this help them with visual association in the "Concentration" game.
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Meet the Children of the Getty: A Set of 8 Activities
Students participate in eight activities designed to examine the many students represented in artworks at the J. Paul Getty Museum. They draw, identify shapes and patterns, analyze paintings and make personal connections with their own...