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Using Extrapolations
In this using extrapolations instructional activity, 6th graders use data analysis to answer nine questions about data prediction and extrapolation.
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Phoebe The Spy
Fourth graders read the book, Phoebe The Spy, by Judith Berry Griffin. They complete comprehension activities, make predictions about what happen next, and create a PowerPoint book report for the story.
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Push or Pull
Students examine a large box and determine how they may move the box to a specified point. After the class makes predictions, they test them and decide what worked and what didn't work. Through their tests, push and pull are introduced....
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The Hopi Indians
Fourth graders read and look at maps of the Hopi Indians and compare and contrast their lives with the Hopi Indians. In this Hopi Indians lesson plan, 4th graders learn about different cultures and answer short answer questions.
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Listening/Reading Transfer - Guided Reading
Students are read "Danny the Dinosaur" and explore alternate endings. They answer questions about the story to answer as they go.
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Sink or Float
First graders explore items that sink or float. They cut and glue pictures of objects that they predict will sink or float. Students place thir pictures on a picture of a bucket of water. Students then color the objects that they had...
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Radon Alert: Understanding Odds
In this radon alert: understanding odds worksheet, 5th graders predict results of rolling dice and record data in a chart, then compare odds of events and occupations, then compare that with radon exposure.
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Frog and Toad All Year: comprehension skills
In this comprehension skills worksheet, students read the book Frog and Toad All Year and complete comprehension activities. Students complete 5 activities including cause and effect, drawing conclusions, predicting, and character.
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Winner's Never Quit: comprehension skills
In this comprehension skills worksheet, learners read the book Winner's Never Quit and complete comprehension skills such as predicting, summarizing, making inferences, and author's purpose. Students complete 5 activities.
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Click Clack Moo Cows That Type: comprehension skills
In this comprehension skills worksheet, students read the book Click Clack Moo Cows That Type and complete comprehension activities. Students complete 5 activities including genre, cause and effect, inferring, and predicting.
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What Comes Next?
Students listen to various books that contain a sidebar of illustrations and practice making predictions about events in each story. In this what comes next lesson, students differentiate fact from opinion across various texts....
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Growth and Change as it Occurs in Plants and Flowers
Students work together to observe plants and flowers through their life cycle. In groups, they make predictions and record changes in a journal. Using this information, they create their own original artwork and discuss the plants life...
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Then What Happened?
Students complete activities about the story "Diary of a Worm", by Doreen Cronin. In this reading comprehension lesson, students make predictions and apply prior knowledge about the topic of the story. They actively listen as the book is...
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Heart to Heart
Students predict the outcome of a question and conduct a survey and record their findings on a bar graph.
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Testing a Hypothesis
In this hypothesis worksheet, students learn about the scientific method, particularly how to test a hypothesis by creating an experiment. Students complete 4 short answer questions.
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The Cleverest Thief
Third graders read the story The Cleverest Thief and complete language art activities to go along with it. Students complete activities including discussion, reading, writing, predicting, drawing, role playing, and sequencing.
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Night of the Twister
Students use reading strategies for Night of the Twister. In this reading strategies lesson plan, students name five major catastrophes and books about each. Students complete a vocabulary section, make inferences and predictions, read...
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Weaving Weather Maps with the World Wide Web
Students access the Internet and use real time data from the American Meteorological Society to create a detailed weather map. They make weather predictions based on the data collected.
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Planets
First graders study the planets in the solar system. In this planets lesson, 1st graders read Planets, then create a mobile containing all of the planets in the correct order. Students will label the planets with descriptive words.
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Lesson Three: Strategies to Infer
Third graders make inferences with a text. In this inferring lesson, 3rd graders read Town Mouse Country Mouse by Jan Brett and they discuss the differences between city and country life. They make inferences as they read on the...
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What Is It?
Students explore the likelihood of events. In this logical thinking lesson plan, 3rd graders are given several scenarios and determine whether the possibility of the described event actually happening is likely, unlikely, or...
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Do You Feel Lucky?
Students calculate simple probabilities using mathematics then roll dice to test their predictions.
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Mr. Peabody's Apples
Students read Mr. Peabody's Apples. In this reading instructional activity, students complete pre-and post-reading activities to improve comprehension skills. Students role play scenes from the story to analyze.
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The Secret School-Chapter 4
Fourth graders read The Secret School. In this language arts activity, 4th graders discuss the characters in the story and read aloud using fluency while reading. Students write a summary of the chapter.