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Animals in Art

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students look at how animals are shown in literature and art as representing emotions, telling a story, or sending a message in this elementary school Language Arts and Visual Arts lesson.
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What is Life Without Water?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Pupils differentiate between how they use water in response to a need and how they use water for pleasure. They read books about water, participate in class discussion and illustrate their observations.
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Minting a New Mint

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students explore why the Founding Fathers felt it was necessary to have a solitary form of money used throughout the land. Students create their own money systems and have a class sale to simulate the confusion of multiple forms of...
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Red Ribbon Locomotor Stations (for Drug Free America Week)

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students are introduced to the Red Ribbon campaign. In groups, they travel between a stations to discover how to stay away from drugs and how to say no. To end the lesson, they practice their locomotor skills to reinforce the strategies.
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Chips - Beginning to Read

For Teachers K - 1st
Students practice writing, sounding out, and spelling words with the /sh/ digraph. They listen as the teacher says words with the /sh/ digraph. They then use Elconin boxes and letter manipulatives to spell /sh/ digraph words. They make...
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Where The Green Grass Grows

For Teachers K
Students recognize the phoneme /g/. Through matching activities, students discriminate the phoneme /g/ from other letters and phonemes. They associate the phoneme /g/ with its letter representation and identify the phoneme /g/ in various...
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Visual Elements in the Giant Kites of Guatemala: Shape, Rhythm, and Color

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Learners view pictures of and discuss geometric shapes included in kites from Guatemala. They discuss the repetition of shapes and how that creates a motif. Students draw three concentric arches across their paper. They create a design...
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Fun with Fish!

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students observe the phoneme and digraph /sh/ in spoken words. They discover a meaningful representation and practicie finding /sh/ in words. They read and spell words (using a letterbox lesson) that contain the phoneme /sh/.
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Sleuth Rays

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students conduct a close examination of the atom's electrons, and discover how to theorize the energy levels, observe the brightness of light, classify colors, and measure temperature.
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Let's Get To the Core!

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students practice analyzing ice core samples to discover climate changes. Using the samples, they identify and graph the gas amounts. They use these numbers to determine their effect on global warming. In pairs, they complete a...
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Sizing Up Sound

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders are introduced to the concepts of sound waves and frequency. As a class, they listen to the differences between different types of instruments. To end the lesson, they practice identifying low and high pitches and playing...
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Making Waves, Making Music, Making Noise

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders watch a demonstration on how talking cans produce sounds. In groups, they compare and contrast the sounds from different sized cans. They participate in a variety of activities to discover how sounds are made and how...
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Sham "rocking" Puzzle

For Students 6th - 8th
In this literacy worksheet, students find the words that are related to Ireland and the answers are found by clicking the button at the bottom of the page.
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Free Printables: Handwriting 2

For Teachers K - 3rd
In this drawing instructional activity, students copy a number of shapes and then practice drawing the shape in the box provided at the bottom of the instructional activity.
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Free Printables: Handwriting 1

For Teachers K - 3rd
In this tracing worksheet, learners practice tracing a specific shape or line a number of times on the page. They do not practice writing it on their own.
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School-Home Links: Compound Words

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this compound word worksheet, students review the definition and some examples of compound words. Then, students take three compound words apart by breaking them down into two smaller words.
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School-Home Links: Spelling Longer Words

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this spelling activity, students read ten different longer words. Students choose four of the words from the list and write them on the lines and then write a short sentence for each word.
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Noun Worksheet 4

For Students 1st - 4th
In this noun worksheet, students fill in blanks in sentences with a noun chosen from a list of 3 words next to each sentence.
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Using the Suffix 'ful'

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this suffix worksheet, learners complete a chart for words that contain the suffix 'ful.' Students then use the words to complete the sentences. Learners write the last set of words containing the suffix into their own sentences.
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Noah's Ark

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this Noah's Ark worksheet, students put a set of 4 pictures about the story of Noah's Ark in order, showing the correct chronology of events. A brief summary of the story is found on page 1.
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Leprechaun Rhyming Poem

For Students 2nd
In this St. Patrick's Day worksheet, 2nd graders read a rhyming poem about a leprechaun. They say the word that rhymes at the end of each couplet. They see and possibly color a black line picture of a leprechaun on the second page.
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Fun With Plants Brain Teaser-Find the Flower

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this plant brain teaser instructional activity, learners fill in blanks in sentences; the answers give a clue about a type of flower students name, 5 total.
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Translating Traditions

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students analyze art reflective of traditions and cultural heritage. In this art analysis lesson plan, students complete image based discussion.
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Picture Dictionary - Quiz 1

For Students 4th - 5th
In this picture dictionary activity, students read phrases and questions to complete the picture dictionary activity as well as improve their voacbulary skills.

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