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Adverbs
In this adverbs learning exercise, learners circle adverbs in sentences, and state which question they answer for how, when, where, or to what extent. Students complete 34 problems.
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Countable Nouns and Uncountable Nouns
In this noun learning exercise, students read about countable and uncountable nouns, the determine whether underlined nouns in sentences are countable or uncountable. An answer key is included.
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Night Sounds
In this activity, children will discuss the different sounds they hear at night, sounds that they don't usually hear during the day. Then they will write and record a poem about these night sounds.
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Things Are Heating Up!
Third graders study how heat is produced from mechanical and electrical machines and human activities.
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Technology and the Great Depression
Learners examine how technology affected the Great Depression era. They view a video, conduct Internet research, and write articles for a class technology magazine.
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SOS!
Students examine natural and man-made threats to sea turtles. They create sea turtle mobiles while studying the range, environment, predators of and threats to sea turtles.
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Parliamentary Newsroom : Developing Media Literacy
Students explain and examine the selection, development, sources, transmission and impact of news on the public. They write a brief essay on the topic: "The Public Must Be Critical In Their Assessment of the News Before Drawing...
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Ballad Blast
Students write epic poems, songs, or ballads to describe adventures of their own. They discover that storytellers often told stories as epic poems, songs, or ballads. They share and discuss some of Homer's Odyssey and Iliad.
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Night Sounds
Learners listen and discuss the sounds they heard at night. They write a class poem about those sounds at night. They keep a chart on their desk for ideas. The poem is read aloud to the class when it is finished.
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Black Music: Its Message and Meaning
Students develop an appreciation for modern black music from a historical, political and lyrical perspective. They examine the political and the historical surge of the civil rights movement of the 1960's and how this surge directly or...
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Wire Maze
Students investigate what causes electrical circuits to work. They construct a wire circuit and pass a paperclip through the maze, trying not to touch the wire, and answer discussion questions.
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GarageBand Orientation
Learners create short percussion pieces using the computer program GarageBand. Emphasis is placed on student feedback and discussion after performances of the songs are complete.
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Creating a Travel Brochure
Pupils use the internet to research a country of interest to them. Using graphics, they create a travel brochure about the country encouraging people to travel there. They present their information to the class while showing their...
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School Day
Students participate in a instructional activity that involves writing a persuasive essay. They use the prompt of "extending the school day". The paper should contain correct elements of sentence structure with clear purpose that is...
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Cold Enough?
Young scholars read and record temperatures and display the data. They represent the temperatures on an appropriate graph and explain completely what was done and why it was done. Students display the data showing differences in the...
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An Iñupiat Weather Report
Students communicate in the Inupiat language using weather related vocabulary, numbers, and days of the week. They prepare a weather forecast and present it as if they were on a television news program. The forecast must be entirely in...
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Giving Them the Business
Students work in small groups of 4-5 students to form a business, create, market and sell their product, and track their expenses and profits. They experience the roles of the producer, distributor, and consumer of goods.
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Exploring the Poetry of Pablo Nueruda
Students read selected poems by Pablo Neruda. They also read short biographies of the author online to gain a better knowledge of the types of adversity Neruda faced throughout his lifetime. They begin to explore the concept of imagery...
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Operation Iraqi freedom
Students explain the term "public agenda' and identify the characteristics and components of the media. They read newspapers, watch and listen to newscasts to determine the media's position on the war in Iraq.
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Communicator Webelos Activity Workbook
In this social studies worksheet, 5th graders answer the questions concerning communication for the obtaining of a merit badge.
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Rr is for Rain
In this literacy instructional activity, pupils look at the formation of the letter and practice creating it. Then they use the pictures to make cognitive connections to help with spelling.
Starfall
Rr is for Rain
In this printing practice worksheet, learners learn to form both upper and lower case letter R. Learners trace several examples before forming their own letters in the unlined boxes.
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Nouns as Subjects Worksheet 1
In this grammar worksheet, students review and discuss how nouns are known as the subjects of a sentence and then practices underlining the subjects in fifteen sentences.
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Singular and Plural Subjects
In this grammar worksheet, students circle the subjects in twenty-five sentences and then write an S in the blank provided if the subject is singular and a P if the subject is plural.