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Prairie Voices...Making a Living

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students explore the many ways people support themselves and their families. In this economics lesson plan, students review newspapers and compare types of jobs. Students create daily schedules for an adult worker and role play job...
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Eating for Your Future

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars brainstorm ways to live healthy. In this health science activity, students recipes that are healthy and appealing. They compile all recipes and develop a class cookbook.
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Count the Apples & Color the Trees

For Students K - 1st
In this counting and coloring activity worksheet, students count the apples on each tree. Students color the tree brown that has the fewer number of apples and color the tree green that has more apples.
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Hawk in Flight

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students use information gathered by satellites to explore the migration of the Swainson's hawk from the western border of Minnesota to the southern portion of South America.
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Away We Go!

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students study types of transportation. In this transportation lesson, students survey several classes to gather data on how they get to school. Students create a transportation graph.
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Seventh Grade Social Studies Quiz

For Students 7th
For this Georgia social studies assessment worksheet, 7th graders respond to fifteen multiple choice questions based on seventh grade social studies skills.
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Critical Thinking & Writing: Brainstorming

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Have your young writers organize their thoughts before writing. They generate ideas through various brainstorming activities prior to writing a mock feature news story for USA Today. A series of USA Today articles debating the level of...
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Bats: Need Nectar, Will Travel

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Beginning wildlife biologists become adult bats, baby bats, snakes, owls, bobcats, or land-clearing developers in a grand role-playing activity. In a large open space, they play a game in which they move to designated areas based on what...
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Reading Comprehension 2: Level 10

For Students 9th - 11th
Are you a friggatriskaidekaphobic? An excerpt from an article about the fear of Friday the 13th is used as the basis of a reading comprehension exercise. The five questions require readers to employ several strategies (drawing...
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Bottleneck

For Students 6th - 10th
In this paper clips worksheet, students solve a word problem where they move paper clips around in cups. Students complete 1 complex problem.
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Hold Your Own Ice Cream Election!

For Teachers 5th
Use ice cream to represent Presidential candidates in this mock election.
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Exploring Subtraction

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
For this math worksheet, students take away two crayons from five crayons. A series of questions is included on the worksheet to guide students through the process of taking away. Students tell their coach a subtraction story.
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Phonemic Awareness: Segmenting

For Teachers 1st
You ever feel like your going in circles? Because this lesson plan seems very much like others I've seen. First graders put up a finger as they count each phoneme the teacher emphasises as she says a series of words. 
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Double Bar Graphs - Practice 7.1

For Students 4th - 5th
In this double bar graph worksheet, students make a double bar graph from given information, then solve related problems in addition to 2 test prep problems. Houghton Mifflin text referenced.
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Phonics: Segmenting Words with two or three phonemes

For Teachers K
Kindergarteners build phonemic awareness by segmenting words with two or three phonemes. As the teacher says each word, the kids put up a finger for each phoneme they hear. This can also be done with manipulative such as blocks or tally...
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Finding a Chair

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
Here is an activity that incorporates subtraction in word problems. Youngsters are provided with six word problems that essentially deal with the same numbers in each problem, yet use different comparison language. These problems are...
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Tables & Data

For Students 4th
In this subtraction worksheet, 4th graders problem solve 8 sentence subtraction word problems involving different types of birds. Students write their answers on the lines provided.
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Picturing Hats

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this pictographs learning exercise, students examine a pictograph then solve 11 problems related to the data in the pictograph. Students cross out problems that do not relate to the pictograph.
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Executive Government: Executive Decision Making

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore executive decision making in the federal Cabinet. They are able to explain the need for executive decisions. Students explore how executive decisions are implemented through government departments.
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Problem-Solving Strategy: Use Logical Reasoning Practice 13.4

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this problem solving strategy worksheet, students read 3 different story problems. Students use logical reasoning to solve.
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Cartoons for the Classroom: Explaining Social Security with a Metaphor

For Students 8th - 12th
In this current events worksheet, students analyze a political cartoon about Social Security. Students then respond to 4 short answer questions.
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Kameshi Ne Mpuku: An African Game

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students demonstrate an understanding that games reflect the environment of those who play them by creating their own games with the resources provided.
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Cookie Mining

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students start with $19 of Cookie Mining Money with which they must buy his/her own "mining property" or cookie. After cookies are bought, students give their "mine" a name, record it, along with the price of their cookie on the sheet.
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Size Them Up

For Teachers K - 6th
Learners arrange containers by their capacity. In this volume lesson, students place containers in order by increasing capacity. Learners discuss how the tallest container doesn't necessarily hold the largest amount.

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