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Health Education in the Classroom
Making a difference in the health of your students can be done with fun classroom activities.
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The Importance of Detailed Procedures in Science
Students examine the importance of clear communication in scientific exploration. In pairs, they write clear directions for an everyday activity for their partner to read and follow.
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May Fair Shopping- Estimation Worksheet
In this exact or estimate worksheet, 3rd graders examine the items they will need to plan a May Fair at their school. They decide whether they will be able estimate or whether they will need an exact count of each item. They plan what...
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Summer Fun Activity: Have a Picnic
Students celebrate the summer by preparing a picnic together. In this early childhood lesson plan, students word together to prepare a picnic and develop fine motor and cooperative skills.
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Sandwich Feast
Creative! Youngsters listen to the reading of "Recipe for a Hippopotamus Sandwich" by Shel Silverstein as a warm up activity for a lesson plan in punctuation. They use bread-shaped pages, one for each type of punctuation, to identify...
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Mental Money
Students access prior knowledge to round numbers and add decimals. For this mental math lesson, students share the book Betcha and calculate estimates for three jars based on the book. Students calculate money answers based on coins...
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Layers of the Earth: Plate Tectonics
Sixth graders participate in a lesson that is about investigating the different layers of the earth and defining how the plates move over the mantle. They engage in a variety of activities and use mathematics to create projects to...
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How to Make a Rock
Second graders watch demonstrations and conduct experiments that show the three different types of rocks: igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic.
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Vocal Awareness
Students explore the human voice through teacher-directed exercises and experiments in the Kindergarten or 1st grade general music classroom. Textbook references are mentioned and an assessment pattern is given.
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Odor Order
In this ordering an odor from the air to the brain activity, students read a passage, number sentences about how odor travels from the air to the brain in sequence, and write a paragraph comparing two items that smell good and smell bad....
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Consider Your Options-Plastics
Learners explore plastics and what plastics students use to pack a lunch. In this plastics lesson plan, learners observe each other pack lunches and take note of all the plastics used in packing the lunch. They discuss the impact of...
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Habitats
Second graders identify characteristics of various habitats. In this habitats lesson, 2nd graders read Where the Forest Meets the Sea and Swimmy to identify the settings of different habitats. Students construct murals of different...
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A Bit of Engineering
Students discuss the drilling process. In this engineering lesson, students get into small groups and drill their own core samples in a sandwich using a plastic tubing, a jumbo straw, a slim straw and a offee stirrer predicting...
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Esperanza Rising: Lesson 8
Sixth graders complete activities with the book Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan. In this literature lesson, 6th graders read Chapter 8 of the book and discuss the chapter. They practice putting events in sequence and record new...
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Chemical Reactions
In this science instructional activity, students use basic scientific concepts to complete the series of puzzles that are intended to increase science literacy and one activity has one name the type of chemical reaction that is taking...
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Edible Atom/Molecule
Upcoming chemists construct atom or molecule models out of candy. This is a classic idea that learners really enjoy; however, this lesson plan is vague. There is no instruction about the structure of atoms or molecules. Make sure you...
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More Details and Transitions
Provide young learners with the terrific transitions handout attached here. As a group, discuss the importance of putting ideas in an order that is easy to understand. Although this activity is designed to follow a writing activity from...
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The Shape of Things
In this family activity worksheet, students work with family members to discover the various shapes of objects around them. Students complete the presented activity and respond to 2 short answer questions about what they have discovered...
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Scrumptious Subs
Students distinguish between and convey needed items when speaking to get a desired result.
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New York State Testing Program: English/Language Arts Book 1, Grade 5
In this 5th grade English/Language Arts standardized test practice worksheet, students read 2 fictional selections and respond to multiple choice and open-ended questions regarding the pieces. Students also read 2...
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ESL: Count and Non-Count Food Partitives
In this ESL food partitives worksheet, students complete 20 multiple choice questions, filling in blanks with correct partitives of items, clicking on an answer button to check for accuracy.
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Using a Colon to Introduce a List
In this colon worksheet, learners form sentences with colons to introduce lists in the sentences. Students complete 9 sentences total.
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One Person's Trash: Breaking it down
Students research how trash is disposed of and make an edible landfill. In this trash lesson plan, students research proper trash disposal, and discuss how trash affects the community. Then they make an edible landfill.
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Giant Jellyfish Invasion
In this reading comprehension skills worksheet, students read a 1 page selection entitled "Giant Jellyfish Invasion" and then respond to 5 multiple choice questions.