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American Museum of Natural History
What is Astronomy?
Go study the universe. Pupils learn seven aspects about astronomy and astronomers. They begin to learn about constellations; distance and motion between objects; gravity; the electromagnetic spectrum; dark matter and energy; and teams of...
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Keith Haring & Social Awareness
Young scholars view four sections of one of Haring's paintings. They describe the people and characters they see. Students participate in a variety of classroom art activities such as: Making a treasure box modeled after Keith Haring's...
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Cartoons for the Classroom: Dems and dat dang debt
Warm up the class with this political cartoon analysis. They use the provided guiding questions to analyze a cartoon depicting issues of debate regarding Federal debt. Critical thinking is a must with this worksheet.
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Explore the Written Word with National Postcard Week
Develop writing and analysis skills with a celebration of the postcard pastime.
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Double Exposure Lesson: Discussions And Experiments About Photography
Students explore photography. They compare/contrast the work of two photographers, create a paper viewfinder and experiment with focusing on topics, take photographs, and display photograph essays about the school.
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Return to Kangaroo Island
In this speaking and listening skills worksheet, students explore, participate and experience in groups of two a treasure map with a hidden treasure as they return to Kangaroo Island.
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Climate Patterns
Young climatologists explore the factors that contribute to a region's climate in this two-part earth science activity. To begin, learners are provided with a map of an imaginary planet and are asked to label global wind and...
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Far and Near
Students compare and contrast their life to that of children in Africa. In this multicultural lesson, students read the book A Country Far Away and list ways that their life is similar to the children in Africa.
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Modifying Adjective and Adverbs Exercise
In this modifiers worksheet, students fill in the blanks in 24 sentences by choosing the correct adjective or adverb modifier: far, just about, nearly, or slightly.
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World Map and Globe- Introduction to Symbols
Pupils investigate picture symbols. In this symbols activity, students define symbols and discuss symbols that they see in everyday life. Pupils identify symbols on maps by using post-it notes.
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Me on the Map: Homes, Neighborhoods, and Communities
Students read a book about maps and identify the differences between a picture and a map. In this maps lesson plan, students also label maps of their home, neighborhood, and community.
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Through the Forest and Home Again: Maps Help Us Find Our Ways
Learners read Little Red Riding Hood, focusing on her path home to Grandma's house. In this language arts and geography activity, students perform a reader's theater, re-creating the walk home and possible routes that could have been...
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Prepositions of Place Word Search
In this prepositions word search instructional activity, students use their problem solving skills to unscramble 10 words and then locate and identify them in the word puzzle.
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Modifying Adjectives and Adverbs
In this modifying adjectives and adverbs worksheet, students complete sentences by adding an adverb to modify an adjective or another adverb.
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The End of WWII and The Beginning of the Cold War
In this end of World War II and Cold War study guide worksheet, students fill in 44 blanks in a passage with the appropriate words to complete the sentences regarding the time period.
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Postcards from the Net
Young scholars take a closer examine the world just outside their doors and share their experiences with their classmates, near and far. They create postcards of their community and email them to pen pals in other school districts.
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Oh, What A Day
Students listen as the teacher reads A Country Far Away. They predict what they will do and what they think their partner student will be doing. Students create a KWL chart for Japan. They collect information about their activities on an...
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Where are you Spider?
First graders investigate the proximity of objects in space. In this proximity instructional activity, 1st graders place a felt spider in different locations on a teacher made book, and they describe its proximity to certain items in...
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View of a Comet from Earth
Students investigate comets. For this space science lesson, students study overhead transparencies of the orbits of Earth and a comet. Students identify various locations and times where comets would be visible from Earth.
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Transportation
Engage in an 8-day study of different modes of transportation. Your students explore the concept of location and define the physical characteristics of places, such as, land forms, bodies of water, natural resources, and weather.
Illustrative Mathematics
Pennies to Heaven
Even though pennies seem to be relatively thin, stack enough of them into a single stack, and you could have quite a high stack. Enough so, that the final result can be a surprise to you as well as your class. This activity centers...
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Mapmaker, Mapmaker, Make Me a Map
Second and third graders practice with basic map skills. They create their own map including a legend and a compass rose. This fabulous plan has many excellent websites linked which allow learners to explore maps of all kinds; including...
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Perspective
Students create oil pastel landscape paintings in this middle-level Art lesson plan on perspective, horizons, foreground, background, and middle ground. The lesson plan includes resource links to books on teaching art and perspective.
K12 Reader
Using Land in Different Ways
After reading about rural, urban, and suburban land use, readers respond to a series of comprehension questions using evidence from the provided passage.