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Create A Texas City Brochure
Fourth graders use the Internet and other sources to research a Texas city. They create a Texas city brochure with the information they gather. They transfer the information to the brochure template, and illustrate it.
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Funky Illuminated Fairy Tales
Students create a nameplate and an original fairy tale book using an illuminated manuscript format. They create a personal nameplate using a decorated or historiated initial, a border, and illuminations.
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Managing Your Finances
Students practice the skills involved in managing their finances. The steps in balancing a checkbook and matching expences to a bank statement are practiced and written in detail. This lesson is intended for students acquiring English.
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What's the News?
Students investigate current events. In this current events lesson, students identify current events from newspaper articles and place them on a timeline.
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Narrative Cartoons
Pupils compare and contrast the traditional superhero cartoon with a narrative cartoon. Students research water resources and usage in Africa and create original narrative cartoons showcasing their findings.
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Graphing Data Brings Understanding
Students collect, graph and analyze data. In this statistics lesson, students use circle, pie, bar and lines to represent data. They analyze the data and make predictions bases on the scatter plots created.
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Definition Poems
“Hope is a tissue, wiping away your problems and fears.” Use a Definition Poem Web worksheet to model for your class how to craft a free verse poem based on an emotion. After brainstorming topics, groups use the sheet to make comparisons...
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Grade 4 Science Test
In this fourth-grade science test, young scientists answer 44 multiple-choice and 14 open-ended questions in a standardized format.
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Gerunds and Participles
Young grammarians are asked to demonstrate their ability to identify gerunds, gerund phrases, participles, and participial phrases. The resource could be used as an assessment or practice review.
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Tell Me A Story -- Feelings
Practice using feelings as a way to reflect on past experiences. The poem The End and the text Tell Me a Story Mama are used to identify feeling words. As an extension, pupils participate in a service learning project and...
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The Election Connection
Learners participate in a mock election. In this election lesson, students vote online in a mock election, graph the results, and compare their results to the nationwide results.
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Angry Feelings (Responsible Personal Conduct)
Students review proper classroom behavior and anger management techniques.
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Check My Writing
Use this resource as an evaluation tool, or have your class assess their own letter writing skills. They will use a checklist that they create during some interactive writing sessions as criteria for their self-evaluation. Teachers can...
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Newspaper Fact Treasure Hunt
Students explore the newspaper. In this research lesson, students search for answers within the newspaper. Students collaborate with classmates to find the answers.
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Estimating Concrete Volume
Pupils identify rectangular volume calculations, and calculate using formula, concrete table, and calculator.
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Government
Second graders run for various offices. They dress up like a politician, pretend to be running for an office, and tell the students why they should vote for him/her. They explain why it is necessary for a community to have a government
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NY State Exam
In this algebra worksheet, 6th graders prep for the NY state exam. They review basic information about geometry, algebra and to her sixth grade math. There are 25 questions in this booklet.
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El Menu
Students, in groups, create a menu in Spanish. Then each group must present their menus to the class.
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Permutations and Combinations
For this permutations and combinations instructional activity, middle schoolers complete word problems and pattern problems dealing with permutations and combinations. Students complete 14 problems total.
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Deception and Advertising: When is it Misleading and when is it Puffery?
Eighth graders explore advertisements and deception in advertising. For this marketing and advertising lesson, 8th graders write cause and effect paragraphs describing products, promises made, deceptions caused, and the immediate...
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Epidemic Proportions
Students research epidemics that have devastated world population at various points in history. They share and calculate statistics obtained in their research and develop graphs comparing and contrasting how different epidemics affect...
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Stardust Delivers Comet's Clues
Students explore the NASA test center and comet facts through an interactive program. They examine the idea if comets are predictable. They finally analyze the materials that combine to make a comet.
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Adding Mixed Numbers 1
For this adding mixed numbers worksheet, learners write addition sentences using pie charts, add mixed numbers with the same denominator, and write mixed numbers as fractions in simplest form. Students solve nine problems.