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Party with Plants

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students watch a video on plant parts and identify the function of plant parts. In this plants lesson plan, students identify the parts of plants they eat and relate it back to the food pyramid and perform math problems as they do this.
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Understanding the Roots

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners investigate the parts of a flower. For this earth science lesson, students read the book The Magic School Bus Plants Seeds and identify various plant parts. Learners construct a model of a flowering plant from various art supplies.
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Fossils and Dinosaurs

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore fossils and dinosaurs. In this science instructional activity, students discuss how fossils are created. Students draw muscles and skin on a stegosaurus.
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Adverb Practice

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this adverb worksheet, students underline adverbs in sentences and tell whether it tells when, where or how. A web site reference for additional activities is given.
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Activity Plan 5-6: What's In a Name?

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students use family names to gather and analyze data. In this counting lesson, students use graph paper to help organize their data and then, in a staircase fashion, organize the names from longest to shortest so they can answer...
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Demonstrations in Guinea

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students explore demonstrations held in Guinea. They discuss the definitions of vocabulary words related to the demonstrations. They read a text about demonstrations in Guinea and answer questions. They identify parts of speech as they...
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Adjective Antonyms

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Easy or hard? Fast or slow? Invite your class members to practice with antonyms. They identify each adjective and then use provided antonyms to rewrite the sentences.
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Tree Cookies

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students identify heartwood, sapwood, and a tree's annual rings, infer from a tree's rings what damage or stress might have occurred in its life, and make a time-line of human history that coincides with a tree's rings.
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Prepositions Can Show Positions in Time

For Students 6th - 8th
Who knows where or when? The preposition knows! Young grammarians are asked to identify the preposition and the connecting prepositional phrases in 16 sentences. An answer key is provided.
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The Power Of Possessives

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
The whole class with get when to use an apostrophe after this activity. They use apostrophes to show possession or ownership. This activity includes a discussion starter, a practice exercise, a story activity, and a practice...
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Dream Kitchen

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
Advanced ESL students can engage in this lesson designed to practice compiling lists, adding costs, and describing why they chose a particular item. They will choose items from a magazine that they'd like in their dream kitchen. Next,...
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Exploring First-Person Narrative

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed Standards
If you really want to know, this is a terrific lesson all about narratives, which is just a fancy way of saying telling stories. And you get to do it without being phony or anything. My favorite part is that you get to read a passage...
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Pollination

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders discuss pollination and how bees pollinate flowers. In this pollination lesson plan, 3rd graders draw the pollination process on a piece of paper.
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Adjective, Noun, Verb, Adverb

For Students 4th
In this grammar activity, 4th graders focus on the parts of speech.  Students complete the given table, filling in the spaces for 17 adjectives, nouns, verbs, and adverbs.
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Cut the Fraction

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this fraction worksheet, students draw a line on the picture of a piece of wood to show where a carpenter would make his fractional cuts. They tell which piece of wood is the longest and shortest.
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Where are Grandma's Teeth?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students practice using prepositions and deductive reasoning. In this preposition game, students work in groups to determine where Grandma has lost her dentures. Students eliminate places as clues are revealed.
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Born, Bread and Buttered in London

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
Learners map points of interest and listen to an interview to become familiar with London.  In this London lesson, students pair share what they pictured from the interview.  Learners discuss specific vocabulary and points...
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Sam and the Lucky Money

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders read the story "Sam and the Lucky Money". Individually, they identify new key terms from the story. In groups, they examine the setting and discuss how it relates to the plots and characters. To end the lesson plan, they...
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Ear Parts

For Students 3rd - 12th
In this ear parts worksheet, students match parts to definitions and label an ear diagram. Students complete 12 problems on this worksheet.
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Verbs

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students complete verb worksheets. In this verb lesson, students complete two worksheets to help them identify and then use action verbs.
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Nouns

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this nouns worksheet, students complete 10 problems where they read sentences and identify the underlined nouns as either being a person, place, or thing.
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Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students study prokaryotes and eukaryotes and compare and contrast them. They review the parts of the cell and define th eterms prokaryotes and eukaryotes. In pairs, they identify the organelles in a prokaryotic cell and a eukaryotic...
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Exploring Citizenship: Me, My Family and Friends

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars explore citizenship and identify their interests, families, and friends. They work in groups to discuss each others' interests, friendship, and ways to reach out to others. After discussing their neighborhoods and...
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Globe Skills Lesson 4 The Colonial Period

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students practice their map skills. In this Colonial geography lesson, students complete an activity that requires them to locate English colonial locations using latitude and longitude coordinates.