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Rhyming Words

For Teachers K - 1st
Using endings, such as -it, -id, and -ip, learners practice reading and spelling words. This is a simple and motivating way to have your kindergarten or first grade class practice important skills. This could be done in a whole group, or...
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Phonemic Awareness: Syllables

For Teachers K - 1st
Count the syllables in your name, now count the syllables in your friend's name. Kids count syllables as they clap out and segment words. This activity is done as a whole class and has the potential of being highly engaging. The engaging...
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Identifying Persuasion in Media Literacy

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
As part of a study of media literacy, groups examine advertisements from Money, Fortune, The New Yorker, or Good Housekeeping and identify the types of rhetorical appeals used in the ads. After groups present their findings, the whole...
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Johnny Appleseed

For Teachers K
Students meet and delve into the life of the American Folk Hero, Johnny Appleseed through the activities of the eight lessons of this unit. Math and language activities offering whole and small group encounters.
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Scale Matters

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders study the meaning of the digits an any whole numbers with up to 3 decimal places. They order decimals with up to 3 decimal places and perform measuring tasks, using a range of units and scales.
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The Multiplier (larger 2-digit by 1-digit numbers)

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students utilize number sense applications to multiply two digit numbers. They use "The Multiplier" and Internet source to partition and solve 2 digit by 1 digit multiplications. Students describe how to solve 2-digit by 1-digit...
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Fractions in Shapes

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore fractions with manipulatives. In this fraction lesson, 1st graders use paper foods such as sandwiches and pizza in order to find halves, thirds, fourths, eighths, and more. This lesson is divided up into 3 tiers...
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Place Value on the Playground

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore ordering whole numbers through the millions place through a P.E. game on the playground. In small groups they form numbers while standing in hula hoops, telling the teacher what number was made by the combination...
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A Whole New World

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine a timeline of a sequence of events displaying how the colonies were founded. They analyze Jamestown and Plymouth recruitment posters, write journal entries, and play a Jeopardy game with questions about the colonies.
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Humpty Dumpty: The Whole Story

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders analyze a nursery rhyme to explore the writing process. In this writing process lesson, 5th graders recite Humpty Dumpty and chart the plot of the story. Students select their own nursery rhyme and write a creative story...
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Whole Lotta Shaking Going On

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students explore earthquake activity in California. They observe the historical data and create databases and graphs of the earthquakes. Students analyze the data and form a hypothesis about future earthquakes.
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Tantalizing Tangrams: Fractional Relationships

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students use tangrams to represent parts of a whole. In this fraction activity, students use tangrams to determine fractional relationships between different pieces. Students use the AppleWorks drawing application to demonstrate the...
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Percentages

For Students 9th
In this Algebra I worksheet, 9th graders solve percent problems in which they are given the part and the whole and find the missing percentage.  The one page interactive worksheet contains ten problems.  Answers and a hint are...
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Circle Graphs

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders participate in a lesson that covers the reading and interpretation of a circle graph. They review the part of a whole concept for percents and student observe and practice using the circle graph.
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The Part-adder 1

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders investigate the addition of whole numbers. They mentally perform calculations involving addition and subtraction. They make sensible estimates and check the reasonableness of answers.
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"th" numbers

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders practice the code in English for fraction is that the words end in "th." They write and solve problems involving halves, quarters, thirds and fifths as they realize that the meaning of fraction words one "x-th" is that it...
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Drawing Body Parts

For Students 1st - 2nd
For this ESL worksheet, students read the words for 9 parts of the body. Students draw a picture to illustrate each word. This is for ESL students.
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Understanding Fractions

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this recognizing fractions worksheet, students observe explanations and examples of pie charts and bars and use them to color, write the fraction of the shaded part, and draw and color pie charts. They will solve thirty-two problems.
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Traveling Through the Digestive System

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders learn about how the food is broken down in our bodies and the job of each body part involved in our digestive system. The utilize the CD ROM game, "Body Works." This wonderful game takes pupils through the human body's...
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Mummies in the Morning Egyptian pyramids, hieroglyphics

For Teachers 1st - 4th Standards
Visit the Magic Treehouse and take your class on a trip through time with a reading of the children's book Mummies in the Morning. Using the story to spark an investigation into Egyptian culture, this literature unit engages...
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The Numbers Game

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Learners examine how to calculate the part-per-million and part-per-billion units used to measure contaminant concentrations in the environment. They calculate ratios, take a quiz, analyze a sample chemical spill, and determine if...
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Ready, Set, Let's Dough! It's a Matter of System

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars will look at a complex system when they create their own play dough by taking several parts and creating a whole. The students will construct understanding that individual parts are used to make a whole.
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Fractions

For Teachers K
Students observe and demonstrate a variety of activities to identify the fraction parts and the symbols they represent. As a class they explore different fractions using unifix cubes, then use the cubes to build and discuss the...
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Fraction Conversion 2 (With Percents)

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders determine how to convert fractions, decimals, and percents. In this conversion lesson, 5th graders use an on-line applet to practice making these conversions. They review how to make the conversions in a whole class lesson...

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