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Diamonds Are Forever Fueling Civil Wars

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore the failures of the UN embargo on conflict diamonds from Sierra Leone. They participate in a trading game to explore the international trading system and the ways in which it rewards and punishes countries.
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Collaborative Drawings

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students create a collaborative drawing. In this cooperation skills lesson, students are divided into small groups and are given art supplies. Students decide on a topic for their illustration and create the drawing on large paper....
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The Magic School Bus Goes to Seed

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students learn along with Ms. Frizzle's class. In this Magic School Bus lesson plan, students get a bugs-eye view of the flower world and find out how seeds are created, how they travel, and how they grow into plants.
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Banking for Your Future

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students get a handle on their own personal finances. They discover how banks work, how to plan and stick to a budget, and other helpful tips on managing money. They study the Federal Reserve System, which oversees the nation's banks.
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Our Changing Community

For Teachers K - 5th
Students investigate how communities grow and change. In this communities lesson, students discuss how their community has changed and construct a model of a community.
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Seems Like a Million Bucks

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore philanthropy. In this service learning lesson, students read Sam and the Lucky Moon, identify the elements of the story, and examine the benefits and costs of giving.
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Third Grade Social Studies-Multiple Choice Activity

For Students 3rd
In this grade 3 social studies worksheet, 3rd graders complete a set of 25 questions about a variety of topics including geography, types of communities, map and questions about the environment.
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Activity Plan 2-3: Baby Animals

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students get to be creative in learning about baby animals. In this early childhood lesson plan, students develop fine motor, math, and science skills as they sing, read, and share about baby animals.
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Classifying Pyramids

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students study pyramids. In this prisms lesson plan, students explore the attributes of pyramids. Students will explore the lateral surface area of pyramids and be able to distinguish pyramids from other space shapes.
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Throwing It All Away?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students read a New York Times article as part of their investigation as to what happens when an item is thrown away or recycled. They analyze the relationship between a product's ingredients and its effect on the Earth and healthful...
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1st Grade Vocabulary

For Teachers 1st
For this vocabulary words worksheet, 1st graders answer multiple choice questions about opposites of words, root words, meaning of words, and more. Students complete 15 questions.
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Americas Idols

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students engage in a lesson that is concerned with the concept of American Idol and the controversy that surrounds the broadcast. They conduct research using a variety of resources and write paragraphs that state opinions about the...
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GALIMOTO

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders identify Malawi, Africa on a map of Africa and demonstrate their resourcefulness and creativity by making their own galimoto.
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Story Bears

For Teachers 1st
First graders study different teddy bears featured in stories. In this lesson on popular story characters, 1st graders are provided information on the authors who wrote famous stories with bears as the main character. Students create a...
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Genitive Case

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this genitive case activity, students choose the correct way to show ownership in sentences and rewrite sentences showing ownership. Students complete 3 activities total.
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Trash or Treasure?

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students identify things that can be reused. In this environmental lesson, students read the poem "Hector the Collector" and discuss the difference between junk and treasure. Students complete a reflection about what they read by...
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Marbles in Motion

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore how to play marbles while learning the scientific concepts of force, motion, mass, acceleration, friction, and inertia.
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Fun with Food: Hola Jalapeno

For Teachers K - 1st
Students engage in an at-home lesson on language. It contains components that address Adult Education/ESOL, and age appropriate activities for Toddler, Preschool and School aged Students. Adults reinforce steps to prepare tacos in...
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Matryoshka, The Nesting Doll

For Students 4th - 6th
In this Matryoshka doll worksheet, students read about the doll and then answer short answer questions about it. Students answer 8 questions.
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Making Memories

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students write reflective essays discussing some of their most poignant holiday memories. They illustrate their writing with original artwork and photographs to contribute to a class-designed holiday memory book.
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Adjectives: Finding Adjectives in Sentences

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this grammar worksheet, students read the definition of adjectives at the top of the page. They find the adjective in each of 12 sentences, and print the word on the blank line next to the sentence.
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Intermediate Sentence Completion Exercise 2

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this online interactive grammar skills worksheet, students examine 10 sentences that are missing words and select the appropriate words to complete each of the sentences and match them to the sentences. Student answers are...
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Getting to Know 2 Presidents

For Students 5th - 10th
In this Presidents worksheet, students answer short answer questions about George Washington and Abraham Lincoln by looking on the websites given to them. Students complete 7 questions each.
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ESL: Possessive Adjectives with "To Be"

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this ESL possessive adjectives worksheet, students fill in blanks with correct adjectives, complete multiple choice questions, and rewrite sentences using possessive adjectives.