Channel Islands Film
Magic Isle: Lesson Plan 4
After watching West of the West's documentary on Catalina Island, The Magic Isle, class members research how Walt Disney's and William Wrigley's different visions impacted the island.
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Mechanism of Our Eyes
Students study the eye as the organ of vision, They look at a drawing of the eyes and study the names of the parts. While working with a partner, they observe what happens when the lights are turned lower and lower. Finally, they look at...
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Introduce Vocabulary: Cows Can’t Fly
Students explore language arts by reading a story book in class. For this tier two vocabulary lesson, students read the book Cows Can't Fly and identify the use of certain vocabulary terms. Students define the selected words and utilize...
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Don't Say "Said," Say . . .
In this word choice learning exercise, students read the various alternatives for the word 'said.' Students then brainstorm alternatives for another over-used word.
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Math Maven's Mysteries: The Case of the Incredible Shrinking Garden
In these math word problem worksheets, 7th graders help solve the mystery about 'The Case of the Incredible Shrinking Garden.' Students find the new length and width measurements of the shrunken garden using the area of rectangle.
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Keyboard and the Grand Staff
Students explore the treble and bass staffs, naming the lines, spaces, and locating middle C. Individually, students complete a word game and then compare their answers with a partner. They sight-read the grand staff and explore ways...
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Identify letters and sounds
In this letters, words, and sounds instructional activity, students say sounds, identify letters, read sentences, read words, and read -ed and -en words. Students complete 6 activities total.
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Alphabetize: Grade One Vocabulary List Two
In this alphabetizing worksheet, students analyze 15 sight words in a list. Students alphabetize the words in the list. Some words begin with the same letter.
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Vocabulary Quiz
In this vocabulary instructional activity, students complete multiple choice questions on what the bold words in the sentences mean and fill in the blanks. Students complete 15 questions.
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PreK 2/28
In this printing letters practice worksheet, students trace and print 10 sight words of only three or four letters in length. Students must write the words on their own on the blank lines provided.
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Complete the Sentences 5: Intermediate Level
In this complete the sentence worksheet, students read 10 sentences and select the appropriate sight words to complete each of the sentences.
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Table Placemats
In this desktop place mat worksheet, students refer to personalized resource sheets. The sheets include months, 3D shapes, 2D shapes, numbers, the alphabet, days of the week, and sight words.
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Reading the book
Third graders use individual student letter cards to practice vocabulary and sight words. In this vocabulary lesson plan, 3rd graders quiz themselves and practice their fluency using these cards.
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Visions of Liberty
Young scholars explore the concept of Lady Liberty. In this Statue of Liberty lesson, students discover what she stands for and why she looks the way she does. Young scholars also discover how copper oxidizes and changes color.
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Using Words to Work Things Out
Students explore classroom community building. In this character development and community building lesson, students listen to Hands Are Not for Hitting and generate a class list of positive ways to handle classroom conflicts. Students...
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The Letterbox Lesson
Students analyze phoneme sequence in a word. They spell words using phoneme analysis and read new words using phoneme analysis.
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Cloze Passage: Our Sense of Sight
In this cloze instructional activity, students read a passage and fill in blanks with words from a word list. The passage is about the sense of sight.
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Word Search-Spelling Grade 7
For this spelling worksheet, student complete a word search of 20 spelling words given at the bottom of the page. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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My Book of Winter Words
In these mini-book activity, students add to their vocabularies and practice printing when they create a mini-book about winter words. Students print the winter words on the blank lines, color the pictures, write their own winter word,...
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Pictures in Words: Poems of Tennyson and Noyes
Students analyze poems by Tennyson and Noyes. They identify examples of alliteration, onomatopoeia, personification, metaphor, and simile. Students create examples of alliteration, onomatopoeia, personification, metaphor, and simile.
Perkins School for the Blind
Where Shall I Put It?
Position and positional phrases are concepts that need to be constructed for learners with low or no vision. Help them gain competence and a conceptual understanding of words like on, in, and under with a funny game. After gathering a...
Mathematics Vision Project
Quadratic Equations
Through a variety of physical and theoretical situations, learners are led through the development of some of the deepest concepts in high school mathematics. Complex numbers, the fundamental theorem of algebra and rational exponents...
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Imagery: Show, Don't Tell
A vampire, the beach, a bedroom, the school cafeteria. Writers are encouraged to add sensory details (sight, touch, taste, smell, sound) to bring these things to life.
Foreign Policy Research Institute
Islam and Islamic Culture
Whether democracy will ever take hold in Islamic nations continues to be a topic of great debate. Here, a series of questions, research, and discussion provide a foundation for class members to come to their own conclusion which they...